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The Shannara Chronicles

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The Shannara Chronicles	comment	The Shannara Chronicles is an American post-apocalyptic fantasy drama television series created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. It stars Austin Butler as Wil Ohmsford, Poppy Drayton as Amberle Elessedil, Ivana Baquero as Eretria and Manu Bennett as Allanon. It was filmed in New Zealand using many of the same crew as The Lord of the Rings.It is a loose adaptation of the Shannara books by Terry Brooks, taking place in a separate continuity. The first season retells the events of The Elfstones of Shannara, chronicling the efforts of a group of heroes to save the Four Lands from the return of a demonic army from the dimension where they were imprisoned long ago. (Elfstones is actually the second Shannara book, but the rights to the first, The Sword of Shannara, are held by others; also, Elfstones is somewhat more popular). The second season continues the plot and diverges from the books. It also lifts characters from the novel First King of Shannara, a prequel to the original book.It premiered on MTV in the United States on January 5, 2016; the first four episodes were all released online at that time, and six more subsequently aired for a total of ten in the first season. It was subsequently renewed for a second season, which moved to Spike just a few months before its rebrand as the Paramount Network. In January 2018, Paramount Network opted to cancel the series.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
The Shannara Chronicles / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: The series adds a lot of sexual innuendo and even minor sex scenes that were absent from the source material (though Terry Brooks reportedly insisted the series not be an adults-only affair like Game of Thrones). Zigzagged in the second season. The sex is all offscreen, the romances are uncomplicated C-plots, and there are barely a handful of onscreen kisses, but it also featured Allanon and Wil getting tortured by the Crimson in a BDSM-style dungeon, with tons of tension between Allanon and the leader of the Crimson. And with Wil shackled, sweaty, panting, stripped naked except for his leather pants, and enduring a rather... penetrative sort of torture - all aimed at getting Allanon to talk, just like in the standard "we'll rape / kill your girlfriend in front of you" man-pain scene. And the next episode, Wil got assaulted by a tentacle monster that sprayed a white goo in his face.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Shannara Chronicles / int_113480b7	comment	Mareth is about 70% Canon Foreigner, but gets her name and some of her backstory from a character in First King of Shanarra (500 years before the main trilogy) and her illusion magic seems to be based on Wil's son Jair and his wishsong.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Shannara Chronicles / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Let's put it this way. At the end of Season 2, out of the twenty-odd named characters introduced throughout the entirity of Season 1, four remain alive, and that includes one that appeared in a single episode and was then Put on a Bus.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_1384ff11	type	Humans by Any Other Name
The Shannara Chronicles / int_1384ff11	comment	Humans by Any Other Name: Averted. In the book series, the Races are sometimes called human collectively and the ones who are like ordinary modern humans are referred to (as in Tolkien's legendarium) as Men. Here, what would be called Men in the books are called humans.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_13945ede	type	IAmAHumanitarian
The Shannara Chronicles / int_13945ede	comment	I Am a Humanitarian: Trolls are often mentioned to eat humans and Elves if they can catch them. The entire village of Utopia only survives by sacrificing foreigners to the local Trolls.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Shannara Chronicles / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: In Episode 6, Allanon is apparently killed and his body burned to ash. It's a powerful moment, but it would be more convincing if the trailer for the season as a whole hadn't featured him prominently.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
The Shannara Chronicles / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: While "romance" might be an overly... romantic word for what's between Wil and Eretria, there's clearly something there, and it all started with her saving his life. Bandon and Catania have a more straightforwardly romantic one, with her beginning to show interest in him after he saves her life from the Changeling.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
The Shannara Chronicles / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: The Elves seem to basically just be like humans with pointy ears (although Wil mentions differences in the placement of vital organs), subject to all the regular mortal frailties and follies. On the other hand, they are the dominant people in the Four Lands, having a rich and powerful kingdom with royalty and a standing army while all the Humans, Gnomes and Trolls we see in the first season are farmers at best, scavengers and outlaws at worst.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
The Shannara Chronicles / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Used quite extensively in "Wraith" to show off the prowess of the new seasonal villains (and one new Anti-Hero). If Jax defeating a bunch of Rovers effortlessly wasn't enough to establish him as a seriously tough customer, him laying Eretria out with a single punch should do the trick. She makes a slightly better showing of herself when they meet the next time, but he still proves able to get the better of her even when he starts out with her knife at his throat. Riga turns out to be skilled enough to take out Allanon on his own in only a few seconds. True, being immune to magic helps, but Allanon has always been shown to be a great fighter even without magic. Bandon deflects Wil's attacks with the Elfstones almost contemptuously. In this case, however, it's possible that Worf Had the Flu, since Bandon comments that Wil has gotten "rusty."
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
The Shannara Chronicles / int_18bf4326	comment	Riga turns out to be skilled enough to take out Allanon on his own in only a few seconds. True, being immune to magic helps, but Allanon has always been shown to be a great fighter even without magic.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Shannara Chronicles / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: The pilot shows Wil in a Bathtub Scene and a Shirtless Scene. He continues to have other scenes where he's shirtless and thus shows off his chest throughout the series.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
The Shannara Chronicles / int_1bf47ada	comment	Wil hurries home with new medicine to cure his mother, but she dies despite his best efforts and he is heartbroken.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_1d6ab0a8	type	HowDoIShootWeb
The Shannara Chronicles / int_1d6ab0a8	comment	How Do I Shot Web?: Wil's ability to trigger the Elfstones is a bit hit-and-miss at first.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
The Shannara Chronicles / int_1df37537	comment	Morag and Mallenroth, the Witch Sisters, are easily dispatched by a blast of the Elfstones' blue flames each. In the book, they far outclass the protagonists and only fall in a Mutual Kill that destroys their domain.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
The Shannara Chronicles / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: The violence in the show is quite more graphic than in the source material, with copious amounts of blood and people being literally torn apart by demons onscreen.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_208c4494	type	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
The Shannara Chronicles / int_208c4494	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Using the Elfstones during the War of the Races apparently gave Wil's father Shea some sort of brain damage. We don't get any details on what was wrong with him, but Flick says he was "never the same" afterward, and the general opinion in Shady Vale was apparently that he had become a lunatic. This later gets subverted in Season 2, where it turns out that what really drove Shea crazy was the guilt of having failed to kill the Warlock Lord Deader than Dead.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_21f19cfa	type	Fake American
The Shannara Chronicles / int_21f19cfa	comment	Several of the Fake American characters slip into their New Zealand accents on occasion, as does British Caroline Chikezie.invoked
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Shannara Chronicles / int_224f98fa	comment	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Allanon admits early on that even if Wil succeeds perfectly at a very dangerous, very difficult quest he is woefully unprepared for, using the magic of the Elfstones will likely fry his brain. No wonder he tries to leave at every opportunity in the beginning - though of course he never succeeds and eventually he decides to just go along with it. This is backed up by what happened to his father Shea, who saved the Four Lands but ended up a drunken wreck whose heroism was all but unknown. Allanon indicates this was at least in part the cost of Shea using magic. Amberle is told in no uncertain terms by the Ellcrys that being the last of the Chosen means that she has to do whatever it takes to save the Four Lands, no matter what it costs her. It turns out that the cost is her own existence as an Elf woman - she has to become the new Ellcrys, living out the following millenia as a sentient tree.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Shannara Chronicles / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In "Breakline", Amberle finds some old blue dice while exploring the human school and keeps them because they remind her of Wil (they vaguely resemble the Elfstones). They come in handy in "Utopia" when Cephalo once again tries to swipe the Elfstones and ends up with the dice instead.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Shannara Chronicles / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Eretria becomes close to Wil and Amberle as they battle Demons, Rovers and mad Elves. Ander hopes that a battle against the demons is what will finally end all the strife between the races. Sure enough, Season 2 shows that a lasting alliance has been formed between the Elves of Arborlon and the Gnomes who were previously their sworn enemies.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_25c7875f	type	Practically Different Generations
The Shannara Chronicles / int_25c7875f	comment	Practically Different Generations: Inverted. Amberle, the daughter and only child of King Eventine's late eldest son Aine, is Practically the Same Generation as her uncles Arion and Ander, especially the latter.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Shannara Chronicles / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: in Episode 6. Mag dies in a Heroic Sacrifice to save Wil from her crazy father. Also several times during Season 2, as various villains prove that they Would Hurt a Child.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Shannara Chronicles / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: In "Dweller", Allanon claims that Mareth can't be his daughter because he was told that the Druid sleep would prevent him from fathering children. Wil suggests that those who told him that might simply have been wrong. Which turns out to be the case - Mareth is eventually proven to be Allanon's daughter. In the books, Mareth initially believed Bremen to be her father, but he told her that it wasn't possible for that same reason, which in the books was true.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_26beee71	type	Taught by Experience
The Shannara Chronicles / int_26beee71	comment	Taught by Experience: After being robbed of the Elfstones numerous times by Cephelo and Eretria, Wil switches them out for dice and let's Cephelo see where he put the pouch, so when Cephelo inevitably steals it, he ends up stealing the worthless dice.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Shannara Chronicles / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: It turns out that Allanon is one to his daughter Mareth, whom he never knew existed.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Shannara Chronicles / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Eretria's mother died in her childhood, killed by a demon, and her father is unknown. She was adopted by Cephalo after that, who's a terribly abusive father to her. Lyria's father isn't mentioned or seen, while her mother kills herself rather than be killed by Riga.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
The Shannara Chronicles / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: So much so that they still work perfectly after 3,000 years.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_2a4e8051	type	Sexual Karma
The Shannara Chronicles / int_2a4e8051	comment	Sexual Karma: Good people tend to have healthy relationships and satisfying sex lives while villains are either perverts (Cephelo), sexual deviants (The Dagda Mor), or romantically frustrated (Bandon). Played With in the Betty and Veronica Love Triangle in season 1. "Bad" girl Eretria flirts and seduces Wil early on and they go at it for around an hour of great sex and he is completely spent the following morning, showing she's great in bed, but the scene is portrayed in a non-romantic manner as it happened almost entirely off-screen and she only did it to trick him, leaving him in the morning after while taking the Elfstones with her. Meanwhile, when "good" girl Amberle has her Pre-Climax Climax with Wil, this is portrayed in a romantic Idealized Sex manner, with the scene showing them making love while triumphant music plays and followed by them happily cuddling under the bedsheets in the aftermath.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Shannara Chronicles / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dagda Mor gets one when he enters Allanon's mind in Paranor and freaks him out. Anything that Allanon is terrified of is bad news.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_2bb06191	comment	Adaptational Sexuality: Eretria is bisexual in the show, flirting with Amberle at one point and shown to have a past relationship with Zora, a Canon Foreigner villainess. Later in Season 2 she is seeing Princess Lyria. She also had (satisfying) sex with Wil previously. In the books there was no hint of her being anything but straight.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
The Shannara Chronicles / int_2c628d38	comment	Bandon deflects Wil's attacks with the Elfstones almost contemptuously. In this case, however, it's possible that Worf Had the Flu, since Bandon comments that Wil has gotten "rusty."
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_2c7905cf	type	Spikes of Villainy
The Shannara Chronicles / int_2c7905cf	comment	Spikes of Villainy: Very much present among the demon army.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
The Shannara Chronicles / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Eretria, who's a tough Action Girl in masculine clothes, vs her girlfriend Lyria, an elegant princess who wears beautiful dresses.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
The Shannara Chronicles / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Downplayed at first. Eretria starts out as a ruthless bisexual thief who flirts with or seduces people regardless of gender solely to rob them blind, but doesn't do anything worse. However, over time her being with Wil and Amberle (who both appeal to her) transforms Eretria into a much nicer woman, subverting it. She has a lover in Season 2, Lyria, whom she's genuinely caring and loving to.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_2f52c0af	type	Accidental Pervert
The Shannara Chronicles / int_2f52c0af	comment	Accidental Pervert: When Wil finds Amberle taking a Waterfall Shower he actively attempts to avoid this by trying to get her attention from far away at first, but ends up slipping and making himself look like The Peeping Tom.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_30763ed8	type	Eternal English
The Shannara Chronicles / int_30763ed8	comment	Eternal English: By all appearances, English is still being spoken and read three thousand years After the End (though it is not the only language). The shot of the fallen Space Needle in the Pilot indicates that this area is a futuristic version of the Pacific Northwest, where English would have been the dominant language during the Age of Man. It's possible Translation Convention is also in effect.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Eretria refers to Wil as "short tips", as his Pointy Ears are slightly shorter than those of a full-blooded Elf.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Shannara Chronicles / int_319e4a2f	comment	Cephelo makes it clear what Amberle's fate will be as his captive. He probably shouldn't have been so open about it while Eretria was still within earshot.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_32d3397	comment	Wil first meets Amberle when he happens upon her taking a Waterfall Shower. He ends up making it look like he was peeping on her which infuriates her and starts their Belligerent Sexual Tension.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: Various ruins encountered in the show as the characters travel from place to place hint at the world of the Four Lands having been, at one time, present-day Earth. The Space Needle's appearance in the opening and first shot confirm this, as do the opening credits that suggest nuclear war or some other catastrophe wiped out civilization. We later get confirmation of exactly how long after the end it's been. We get more information about this in "Breakline", when Amberle and Eretria fall through a hole and find themselves in the remains of a human high school. Amberle explains that most human structures were sealed beneath the Earth when human society was wiped out, which kept them from rotting into dust. The human settlement Utopia, which appears in the episode of the same name, has technology from "before", including electric lighting and guns, with the goal of restoring what the human race achieved. Safehold, the target of the trio's quest, is revealed to be the former San Francisco.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Shannara Chronicles / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The King of the Silver River, who aided Wil in The Elfstones of Shannara, has his scene completely removed. Even though the climax of season 2 heavily involves the Silver River, he still isn't even mentioned, although there is mention of a historical human king associated with the river. Stee Jans and the Border Legion's Free Corps never show up to help the Elves.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Shannara Chronicles / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Several of the Fake American characters slip into their New Zealand accents on occasion, as does British Caroline Chikezie.invoked One particularly amusing incident happens when Erroll Shand's Valcaa starts a scene with what seems to be a Texan drawl, then halfway through switches to a more "regular" Midwestern one.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
The Shannara Chronicles / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: While Season 1 centers on a threeway Love Triangle between Wil, Amberle and Eretria without committing to any of the possible pairings, Season 2 has the two official couples of Wil/Mareth and Eretria/Lyria.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Shannara Chronicles / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The series can generally be found somewhere on the middle. Most people genuinely mean well or at least have sympathetic motivations for what they do. However, good intentions definitely do not always lead to good results, and heroic characters frequently make mistakes or let themselves be deceived by their passions. On the flipside, trying to be cynical and look to the greater good can also backfire terribly on you, making it never quite clear what the right thing to do is in any given situation.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_37f9376a	type	Barrier Maiden
The Shannara Chronicles / int_37f9376a	comment	Barrier Maiden: The Ellcrys shows itself to Amberle as a female Elf (indeed a doppelganger of herself), and her existence is what keeps the demons trapped in the Forbidding. Replacing her as this turns out to be Amberle's destiny.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
The Shannara Chronicles / int_381855db	comment	A Five-Second Foreshadowing example: Eretria warns Wil that a Rover would take one look at him and steal both the clothes off his back and the Elfstones. That's exactly what she does moments later when it turns out she is a Rover.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_3ae51e0	type	Resigned to the Call
The Shannara Chronicles / int_3ae51e0	comment	Resigned to the Call: Wil Ohmsford comes in for this as he has no idea that he is, in fact, the last known living descendant of magic users until he is informed that he is very necessary to saving the world by Allanon. His reaction is decidedly less than wholeheartedly enthusiastic, given the obvious dangers he will have to dodge.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_3bce9346	type	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing
The Shannara Chronicles / int_3bce9346	comment	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing: Several artifacts from the Age of Man are shown to still be operational after three thousand years, such as light-bulbs, film projectors and guns and ammo.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Shannara Chronicles / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Every time Bandon touches someone, he gets a vision of how they are going to die. As if that wasn't bad enough in itself, his abilities apparently scared his family enough that they kept him chained up in the barn. Amberle is blessed with the ability to see the future (thanks to the Ellcrys), swordfighting skills, and she is the first woman in ages to compete to become a Chosen. Plus she's a princess for heaven's sake. And she has not only a half-Elf boyfriend but, if she wants it a human girlfriend. Unfortunately, her destiny is to become a tree for the next untold number of centuries. Just generally, magic in the series always seems to be Cast from Hit Points, require a Human Sacrifice, bind you to a harsh and life-long (at least) duty, be prone to cases of Power Incontinence, make you vulnerable to possession... or just turn you evil, if you mess around with the wrong kind. "Magic always comes with a price," indeed.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
The Shannara Chronicles / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: As part of the After the End nature of the setting, there are a number of modern-day gadgets to be found even though the overall tech level is medieval. Most commonly, all Trolls seem to wear gas masks, though it's unclear if they still work or if they're just ornamental at this point.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
The Shannara Chronicles / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Amberle and Eretria both do a quick one on each other. Amberle notices that Eretria doesn't have a wedding band, so she cannot be meeting her husband as she claims. Eretria returns the favour by noting that Amberle bears the royal crest of the Elves, which could be worn by a princess but not the simple teacher she claims to be.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
The Shannara Chronicles / int_3f70415	comment	Eretria is initially brought along to the journey to Safehold due to her necessity to the quest there being prophesised, even though she has absolutely no interest in going and Amberle, for her part, would rather leave her to rot in a cell.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Shannara Chronicles / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Remo, the caretaker of Pykon, plans to torture the group after he captures them, just for fun. He straps Amberle to a torture device that starts to pull off her nails, but she's rescued by Wil before they're torn off.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
The Shannara Chronicles / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Wil constantly finds himself in situations that require him to take off his shirt, roughly Once an Episode. Bandon's shirt also comes off a lot, though the circumstances tend to be a lot less sexy.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_47ae290f	type	Let's Fight Like Gentlemen
The Shannara Chronicles / int_47ae290f	comment	Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Amberle proposes this to Eretria while she and Wil are Eretria's captives. Eretria responds by dismounting her horse and headbutting Amberle without loosening her restraints.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The Shannara Chronicles / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Dagda Mor and his army of demons are sealed away by the Ellcrys. The tree dying is slowly unleashing them on the realm.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Shannara Chronicles / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: While he didn't actually appear in the book, Shea (Wil's grandfather and hero of the first book) was still alive at that time. In this series, he is Wil's father, and is established as having died young. King Eventine is murdered halfway through the first season, while in the book he lives almost to the end. Ander Elessedil dies in Season 2, whereas in the books he survived to live a full life and had children.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
The Shannara Chronicles / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: The Ellcrys is dying, and there is only so much time before a very one-sided war will break out, leaving only demons who have been bent on revenge for a very long time.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
The Shannara Chronicles / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: The Elfstones of Shannara ends with Wil and Eretria getting together, following which they seem to have a quiet life until their daughter Brin and son Jair become the main characters of The Wishsong of Shannara. At the end of the first season, Wil and Eretria are seperated, and while they are reunited in the second season, if anything the way the season plays out makes this ending even less likely.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_4bc2095b	type	One Head Taller
The Shannara Chronicles / int_4bc2095b	comment	One Head Taller: Wil is considerably taller than Eretria. It becomes most obvious when they're riding a horse together.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Shannara Chronicles / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Season 1 did not end on a happy note; Amberle became the new Ellcrys, Tilton is dead, Bandon has fully fallen to the dark side, Eretria is captured, and Wil goes to search for her in what he knows is the calm before an even bigger storm. Season 2 is not much cheerier. Allanon is dead, Wil has ended up in what is either the Forbidding or somewhere equally as nasty, and Eretria has decided she can't be with Lyria until she has found a way to keep Lyria safe from her own demonic heritage.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_51567188	type	Cast from Hit Points
The Shannara Chronicles / int_51567188	comment	Cast from Hit Points: The spell Allanon casts to find the Codex in "Chosen" seems to cause him great pain and leaves him with some very nasty burns on his left hand. Using the Elfstones tends to leave Wil feeling, in his own words, like he's "been set on fire and beaten with a shovel." The way to the Bloodfire needs to be opened by a half-demon bleeding into a magical contraption in front of it, and it only stays open as long as more blood is added.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
The Shannara Chronicles / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Ander resorts to this after the apparent death of his brother Arion and the realisation that his father Eventine has been dead for a long time, with the Changeling posing as him without Ander noticing it. He's stated to have spent much of the time after the death of his eldest brother doing the same thing, too. Wil's father Shea drank altogether too much to try to get over his experiences in the War of the Races.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Shannara Chronicles / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: The different races that populate the Four Lands do not get along, to put it mildly, but of particular importance to the plot is the profound animosity between the Elves and the Rovers. Elves also don't like Gnomes - Arion initially believes that they, not the demons, are to blame for the murder of the Chosen (he is basing that belief partly on the fact that ten years ago, his brother was killed by a group of Elf-hating Gnomes). Also as shown in Episode 6, the Elves did themselves no favors by using the city of Pykon as a torture site during the War of the Races, then covering it up (allegedly by slaughtering those stationed there) instead of admitting any wrongdoing. Some of the Elves still resent humankind because of their role in The End of the World as We Know It, even though it has been 3,000 years since that happened. The humans of Shady Vale fear Gnomes and Trolls and Rovers, if Flick is anything to go by. They also gave Wil a hard time growing up, but it's unclear if it's because he was half Elven in particular or if it was just because he was different. In fact, the only race that is known to exist without anyone being known to hate them is the Dwarves - and that may be because we never really find out anything at all about them except that they exist. The humans of Utopia are happy to trade with "Elf hunters" and hiss when they see an image of the Elf-like Mr. Spock on a screen. Season 2 shows that many of the Elves have developed a widespread prejudice against magic users (of all races, including their own), whom they associate with the demons that attacked them last season. This is also not entirely a new thing, as shown by Bandon having been kept locked up by his parents for having inherent magic.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_58204b95	type	Magic Knight
The Shannara Chronicles / int_58204b95	comment	Magic Knight: While powerful combat magic exists, almost none of the characters rely on it exclusively but use it interchangeably with regular fighting skills. Even characters who start out as straight casters eventually make sure to pick up some training with a sword. The stated reason is that "magic always comes with a price" and so trusting in it completely is too risky.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_58962105	type	White-and-Grey Morality
The Shannara Chronicles / int_58962105	comment	White-and-Grey Morality: While there are a few truly black-hearted fiends around, most of the major characters have sympathetic motivations but also often conflicting opinions and desires.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_5963b221	type	Eviler than Thou
The Shannara Chronicles / int_5963b221	comment	Eviler than Thou: Season 2 has two main villains - Riga, a zealot who persecutes magic users for their supposed culpability in the demon invasion and who is himself immune to magic, and Bandon, a bitter magic user who has been both persecuted and exploited for his gifts and wants revenge on normal people because of it. While they avoid each other for most of the season, they eventually face off and Bandon's newly resurrected master, the Warlock Lord, is far more than Riga can handle and kills him without much difficulty.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Shannara Chronicles / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Eretria is initially brought along to the journey to Safehold due to her necessity to the quest there being prophesised, even though she has absolutely no interest in going and Amberle, for her part, would rather leave her to rot in a cell. Ander enlists the Gnome who killed his brother as a guide to the lands where the demons are believed to be massing, and later forms an alliance with the Gnome tribes to fight the demons. Cephelo and the heroes find themselves on the same side when the Reaper comes after them all.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
The Shannara Chronicles / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Zora, Eretria's old girlfriend who is now an obsessive and brutal Elf Hunter. She still clearly shows attraction to Eretria, which comes off as creepy under the circumstances because she's hunting her, but has zero hesitation at harming or capturing Eretria to sell her as a slave either.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Shannara Chronicles / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation / Adaptation Expansion: Various changes have been made to translate into the medium of TV, more drama has been added in places (such as making the selection of the Chosen a contest instead of just a matter of the Ellcrys touching those she wants), new characters have been created and relationships added, Eretria meets the other members of the main trio earlier than in the book, Amberle is more physically capable, Shea is now Wil's father rather than his grandfather, etc. The series also had to compensate for the fact the first book in the series, The Sword of Shannara, could not be adapted, adding some additional exposition about the equivalent events in the backstory.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_5fc3ab7f	type	Implied Love Interest
The Shannara Chronicles / int_5fc3ab7f	comment	A downplayed example: in the book, Wil and Amberle were only Implied Love Interests rather than explicit.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Shannara Chronicles / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: One year passes between the end of season 1 and the start of season 2.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_608b26d	type	Uniqueness Decay
The Shannara Chronicles / int_608b26d	comment	Uniqueness Decay: In Season 1, magic is so rare that most people don't think it exists anymore. In Season 2, it's so common that there's a fanatical crusade going on to stomp out its use. note Possibly justified in that it may be only the public perception of magic's uniqueness that's changing, and it's possible that there was always more of it around than people wanted to believe in Season 1, and that the fear and paranoia brought on by the war against the demons then caused people in Season 2 to persecute perfectly normal people as "magic users." Lampshaded by Jax at one point.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Shannara Chronicles / int_60eac4ba	comment	Off the Rails: The first season is a more or less straightforward adaptation of The Elfstones of Shannara, but the second one breaks with the book series and takes the story in a different direction, most likely because the following novel, The Wishsong of Shannara, takes place a generation after the previous one and shares almost no characters with it.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
The Shannara Chronicles / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: In the test to become the Chosen, a contestant already ahead of Amberle tries to trip her. Not only does he fall doing this, but she trips him when he tries to get back up, and two contestants cross the finish while they're struggling. This leads to her become one of the Chosen, but not him. Had he just kept running, they both would've made it.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_61881f59	type	Demoted to Dragon
The Shannara Chronicles / int_61881f59	comment	Bandon, who seeks to resurrect the Warlock Lord. He eventually succeeds and is Demoted to Dragon, while the Warlock Lord becomes the new Big Bad and also gets rid of his competition by brutally killing Riga.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
The Shannara Chronicles / int_61c7d589	comment	Bigger Is Better in Bed: Wil is apparently well-endowed, as Eretria comments "I'll never call you 'short tips' again" after they have sex, with a satisfied look on her face.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_627264e0	comment	Wil and Amberle are generally more straightforwardly affectionate to each other, but she still seems to spend an awful lot of time aiming Death Glares at him and holding swords to his throat, a lot of it due to the jealousy she feels over his relationship with Eretria.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: At the end of the last episode of the first season, Eretria has been captured by Trolls and brought before... someone whom she apparently recognises, Wil is heading back to Safehold to look for her, Allanon predicts that while the Dagda Mor is gone his actions have unleashed many unrelated evils, and Bandon has stolen the Warlock Lord's sword and is looking over the Dagda Mor's abandoned camp with scary all-black eyes. At the end of the second season, Wil is stuck in the Forbidding, or a similar place, and clearly needs saving.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_63cf9a3	type	Rage Against the Mentor
The Shannara Chronicles / int_63cf9a3	comment	Rage Against the Mentor: Wil and Bandon both spend most of Season 2 being absolutely furious at Allanon. Wil resents him for not revealing the fact that Amberle's quest would end with her having to make a Heroic Sacrifice to restore the Ellcrys, while Bandon blames him for pushing him too far and too fast in his magic studies and thereby getting him spiritually captured by the Dagda Mor, resulting in him being corrupted by demon magic - which in itself is implied to fuel his anger. In both cases, Allanon's defense is that He Did What (He Thought) He Had To Do.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Shannara Chronicles / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: In "Ellcrys": Eretria goes back to get a stuck gate to shut, trapping herself on the same side of it as a group of hostile Trolls to keep them from pursuing Wil and Amberle. She survives but ends up captured. Amberle has to give up her physical existence to rejuvenate the Ellcrys and banish the demons. While this isn't quite death - her spirit lives on within the tree, and Allanon claims that she will eventually be able to communicate - her life as a regular person is definitely over. In "Blood", Allanon dies to hold back the Warlock Lord and give the others a chance to escape, and towards the end Wil lets himself bleed out in Heaven's Well, knowing that his Shannara blood will undo the effects of the Warlock Lord's Blood Magic. However, the viewer sees him alive in the Forbidding at the episode's end.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
The Shannara Chronicles / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: The Reaper is silent, steady and absolutely relentless in its pursuit of the heroes, surviving crossbow bolts, sword blows, and at least one giant explosion. In the end it takes a point blank shot from the Elfstones followed by a fall from great height to get it to stay down.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_663b22d9	type	Dying as Yourself
The Shannara Chronicles / int_663b22d9	comment	Dying as Yourself: Arion shows up in the season 1 finale having Come Back Wrong and kills Commander Tilton. He manages to recover himself enough to tell Ander to kill him.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
The Shannara Chronicles / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Eretria and Amberle both get an eyeful of Wil's bare chest on separate occasions, but it's Eretria who ogles the most.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
The Shannara Chronicles / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: At one point, Eretria accuses Wil of being a typical man by seducing her and then throwing her aside after he got what he wanted. What actually happened was that she seduced him by claiming she wanted to change her ways (and implying strongly that having a good guy like him in her life would make that possible for her), then stole the Elfstones and sneaked out while he's still sleeping. When she got caught, she rubbed their night together in Amberle's face in front of Wil, ensuring that Wil's and Amberle's already rocky relationship got even rockier. She's probably just doing it to mess with his head, though. There's also an undertone of her being genuinely jealous of whatever's between Wil and Amberle and resentful of being treated like "the other woman" in that Wil lied to Amberle about how Eretria got hold of the Elfstones, as if he were hiding an infidelity from his girlfriend... but regardless, she really doesn't have the moral high ground in the situation.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Shannara Chronicles / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Not that the characters particularly care, but Safehold turns out to be the 3000 year old remains of San Francisco
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_6bf50080	type	Your Eyes Can Deceive You
The Shannara Chronicles / int_6bf50080	comment	Your Eyes Can Deceive You: The competition to become one of the Chosen involves racing through the forest between the Royal Palace and the Ellcrys blindfolded and with your hands tied behind your back, so the participants must rely on their other senses to complete the course. You might also have to fight the other competitors while you're at it.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_6c2e5e1	type	Slippery MacGuffin
The Shannara Chronicles / int_6c2e5e1	comment	Slippery MacGuffin: Wil cannot seem to hold on to the Elfstones for any amount of time without him dropping them or them becoming stolen. He does develop some Genre Savviness about this fact over the course of Season 1, though.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
The Shannara Chronicles / int_70f7063d	comment	While it's technically his second scene, Allanon's Unflinching Walk into the Elven palace during which he effortlessly flings a guard aside before striding up to the royal family and ordering them around tells just about all you need to know.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Shannara Chronicles / int_7241785e	comment	Allanon admits early on that even if Wil succeeds perfectly at a very dangerous, very difficult quest he is woefully unprepared for, using the magic of the Elfstones will likely fry his brain. No wonder he tries to leave at every opportunity in the beginning - though of course he never succeeds and eventually he decides to just go along with it.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
The Shannara Chronicles / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: The Royal Palace of Arborlon has serious security problems. Leaving aside the admittedly shapeshifting demon that is able to infiltrate it, the Gnomes have successfully carried out assassinations in its halls in the past and Eretria is able to waltz in with little effort. The Royal Palace of Leah isnâ€™t any better. Eretria also has little trouble getting in and the Crimson are able to kidnap Allanon right off the royal stables without anyone being the wiser. Queen Tamlin and her head guard had dealings with the Crimson so it's not hard to think the Crimson could kidnap Allanon.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
The Shannara Chronicles / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: In season 2 our heroes have to deal with two serious villains: General Riga, leader of the Crimson, an Elven extremist group that seeks to destroy all magic and exterminate all magic users. Bandon, who seeks to resurrect the Warlock Lord. He eventually succeeds and is Demoted to Dragon, while the Warlock Lord becomes the new Big Bad and also gets rid of his competition by brutally killing Riga.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_72ce3f54	type	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul
The Shannara Chronicles / int_72ce3f54	comment	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Shea Ohmsford was Wil's paternal grandfather in the book, his father in the series.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_734c5ed2	type	Masculineâ€“Feminine Gay Couple
The Shannara Chronicles / int_734c5ed2	comment	Masculineâ€“Feminine Gay Couple: Tomboy Eretria is with Girly Girl Lyria in Season Two.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_735b3587	type	Naked First Impression
The Shannara Chronicles / int_735b3587	comment	Naked First Impression Allanon first meets Wil when he finds him passed out naked in a bathtub after being drugged and robbed by Eretria. Wil first meets Amberle when he happens upon her taking a Waterfall Shower. He ends up making it look like he was peeping on her which infuriates her and starts their Belligerent Sexual Tension.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Shannara Chronicles / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Demon magic usually comes with a red light. Allanon's magic and that of the Elfstones tends to come with a blue light - except sometimes Allanon's magic is red too, showing that it's no different from the Dagda Mor's.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_75402a71	type	Shapeshifting Seducer
The Shannara Chronicles / int_75402a71	comment	Shapeshifting Seducer: The Changeling turns into Amberle and kisses Lorin to make him drop his guard before killing him.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Shannara Chronicles / int_75d6bf40	comment	Eretria saves Wil's life by killing a Troll with a single thrown knife and proceeds to snark mercilessly at him. In the next scene, she tricks him into stripping down before drugging and robbing him, all of which also turns out to be par for the course.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
The Shannara Chronicles / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The series never explains what it means that Wil is "a Shannara". In the books, it means he's descended from Jerle Shannara, a King of the Elves pre-dating the current Elessedil family and original wielder of the Sword of Shannara.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Shannara Chronicles / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Wil hurries home with new medicine to cure his mother, but she dies despite his best efforts and he is heartbroken. While it's technically his second scene, Allanon's Unflinching Walk into the Elven palace during which he effortlessly flings a guard aside before striding up to the royal family and ordering them around tells just about all you need to know. Eretria saves Wil's life by killing a Troll with a single thrown knife and proceeds to snark mercilessly at him. In the next scene, she tricks him into stripping down before drugging and robbing him, all of which also turns out to be par for the course. The Dagda Mor gets one when he enters Allanon's mind in Paranor and freaks him out. Anything that Allanon is terrified of is bad news.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Shannara Chronicles / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Between Ander and Lyria in Season 2, to cement the alliance between Arborlon and Leah. It's clear it's purely a political match, albeit between people on friendly terms, and neither will be expecting the other to be monogamous. Unfortunately, the Crimson crash the wedding ceremony and Ander is slain.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Shannara Chronicles / int_815556aa	comment	A partial one in that the Dagda Mor is still a demon, however in this adaptation he started off as an Elven Druid before he was corrupted by the Ildatch.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
The Shannara Chronicles / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The Four Lands are confirmed to be Western North America 3,000 years After the End, but the precise locations aren't made clear. The ruins of the Space Needle are visible at one point, placing Arborlon and Shady Vale near Seattle, but later episodes indicate Safehold is located in the ruins of San Francisco, even though the characters haven't been traveling long enough to cover the 850 miles between the two places. This is justified by the Great War having caused massive tectonic shifts, reshaping the world drastically.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_857d1626	type	Power Glows
The Shannara Chronicles / int_857d1626	comment	The Warlock Lord's sword is big, spiky and glows with a menacing red light when used.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_85c4ebe0	type	Bisexual Love Triangle
The Shannara Chronicles / int_85c4ebe0	comment	Bisexual Love Triangle: Eretria claims that there is one between her, Wil and Amberle as well, something both Wil and Amberle try to deny, while obviously pining for one another. Eretria meanwhile denies that what she feels for Wil is anything but lust, or that she actually cares what Amberle thinks of her, while flirting heavily with both.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_85e7c12f	type	Puppy-Dog Eyes
The Shannara Chronicles / int_85e7c12f	comment	Puppy-Dog Eyes: Amberle's big, dark eyes ensure that any scene where she's in pain is sheer heartbreak. Wil's baby-blues aren't far behind them when it comes to projecting beautiful misery.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_8605f0c0	type	Promoted to Love Interest
The Shannara Chronicles / int_8605f0c0	comment	Promoted to Love Interest: Amberle and Lauren (Lorin) were not a couple in the book. A downplayed example: in the book, Wil and Amberle were only Implied Love Interests rather than explicit.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Shannara Chronicles / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Amberle does not take it well when she finds out that the Elves used to torture prisoners of war during the War of the Races, especially since her beloved grandfather was already King back then and must have been the one to order it.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_8a0d290b	type	Conlang
The Shannara Chronicles / int_8a0d290b	comment	Conlang: Noalath, the language of the Druids that is spoken by Allanon, the Dagda Mor and the Changeling, was created for the show by linguist David J. Peterson.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
The Shannara Chronicles / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: In season 1, Wil loses Amberle when she performs a Heroic Sacrifice to restore the Ellcrys. In season 2, paralleling the above, Mareth loses Wil when he performs a Heroic Sacrifice to purify Heaven's Well. However, he is apparently still alive in the Forbidding (basically a Hell dimension), leaving open the possibility that they can be together. Also, Eretria turns down Lyria's proposal because she is worried about her own demonic heritage.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Shannara Chronicles / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Shea Ohmsford is dead by the start of the series, but he gets mentioned a lot for his actions in the War of the Races and the impact he had on Wil's life, making him a tangible presence throughout the series. In Season 2, he shows up repeatedly in flashbacks, visions and one incident of Time Travel.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_8b682bd5	type	The Magic Comes Back
The Shannara Chronicles / int_8b682bd5	comment	The Magic Comes Back: Magic is widely believed to have completely disappeared from the Four Lands by the time the series starts, but the imminent death of the Ellcrys triggers its sudden resurgence.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_8f70bc54	type	Self-Defeating Prophecy
The Shannara Chronicles / int_8f70bc54	comment	Self-Defeating Prophecy: Bandon sees visions of people's deaths, but it is possible for him to keep them from coming true. In episode four he sees Catania being stabbed to death by the Changeling, but when the time comes he pushes her out of the way of the knife and she lives.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Shannara Chronicles / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Tye and his blonde companion try to feed the heroes to the nearby tribe of Trolls to keep Utopia safe and try to gun them down when they make an escape attempt. By the time the Trolls show up to claim their sacrifices, they end up taking Tye and his girlfriend as food.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_93168fb1	type	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet
The Shannara Chronicles / int_93168fb1	comment	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet: In episode 5, Eretria is suddenly alarmed and asks the group if they hear something. They reply no, and she clarifies that's her point, she can't hear the birds anymore. They then encounter what appears to be a radioactive hotspot.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
The Shannara Chronicles / int_94680696	comment	While "romance" might be an overly... romantic word for what's between Wil and Eretria, there's clearly something there, and it all started with her saving his life.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Shannara Chronicles / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: While Amberle's Betty certainly has a rough streak, she is at her core a way more demure character than Eretria's Veronica. Poor Wil.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_967809be	type	Small Girl, Big Gun
The Shannara Chronicles / int_967809be	comment	Small Girl, Big Gun: This trope is unexpectedly played straight when petite Eretria is given a massive 3,000 year old revolver, which she proves very adept with.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_970b51b6	comment	Adaptational Diversity: Eretria, a straight woman in the books, is bisexual here. In fact, she's with more women than men. The people of Leah are described as white-skinned in the books. They're all played by black actors on the show (although two of the show's characters are original).
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_978b5f6d	comment	Screw You, Elves!: The Rovers' general outlook, which is also shared by Slanter and his Gnomes. In fact, when Wil is leaving Shady Vale, Flick warns him that this sentiment is just about the only thing the other races all have in common.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_9919369d	comment	Con Man: The Rovers' bread and butter is straight up robbery, but they can spin a con with the best of them if the situation calls for it.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_9c1f758a	comment	Necessary for dealing with the Changeling in a permanent fashion. It can be killed, but unless it's burned to ashes and the ashes placed in a sealed jar, it will eventually come Back from the Dead.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The first thing Dagda Mor does upon being released from the Forbidding is to recite the same words that Allanon does when he wakes up from his Druid's sleep. This is the first indication that Dagda Mor was once a Druid himself. A Five-Second Foreshadowing example: Eretria warns Wil that a Rover would take one look at him and steal both the clothes off his back and the Elfstones. That's exactly what she does moments later when it turns out she is a Rover.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning In "Utopia", Ander is crowned as the new elven king after both Eventide and Arion die. Ander does need some encouragement from Allanon to actually go through with it, though. In "Blood", Lyria is crowned as Queen of Leah after the Warlock Lord is defeated. Her mother had died several episodes prior and everyone had already been calling her the queen, but this made it official.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
The Shannara Chronicles / int_a18fda9c	comment	The Changeling and the Reaper: the former was described as spiteful and sadistic but never once spoke on-page and acted more like a loyal servant and the latter appeared as a stoic, voiceless but scarily competent tracker. In the series, the Changeling is much more talkative, while the Reaper turns into a roaring Dumb Muscle that can be distracted by the smell of fresh blood like a beast.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_a24495b8	type	Attack of the Monster Appendage
The Shannara Chronicles / int_a24495b8	comment	Zigzagged in the second season. The sex is all offscreen, the romances are uncomplicated C-plots, and there are barely a handful of onscreen kisses, but it also featured Allanon and Wil getting tortured by the Crimson in a BDSM-style dungeon, with tons of tension between Allanon and the leader of the Crimson. And with Wil shackled, sweaty, panting, stripped naked except for his leather pants, and enduring a rather... penetrative sort of torture - all aimed at getting Allanon to talk, just like in the standard "we'll rape / kill your girlfriend in front of you" man-pain scene. And the next episode, Wil got assaulted by a tentacle monster that sprayed a white goo in his face.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
The Shannara Chronicles / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Three half-Elves appear in the series: Wil (Elven father, Human mother), Mag (a Child by Rape with an Elven father and Human mother), and Mareth (Elven mother, Human father). Eretria is also revealed to be a descendant of a group called Armageddon's Children who were part-Demon.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_a5a6d7b3	type	Mutants
The Shannara Chronicles / int_a5a6d7b3	comment	Mutants: Trolls, Dwarves and Gnomes are actually mutated humans named after their resemblance to the Faerie creatures. Elves, on the other hand, actually are the Faerie creatures, having survived our present-day era before the Great Wars by hiding from humanity.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: Wil finds himself in a situation of being attracted to both Amberle and Eretria; Amberle and Eretria both are in love with Wil; Eretria is also sexually attracted to Amberle; Amberle also grows to become very attached to Eretria. As the three's relationship as a team deepens it is strongly implied that they're headed in this direction if not already there.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: The Warlock Lord's sword is big, spiky and glows with a menacing red light when used. Allanon's fold-up blade is pretty sweet as well. Subverted with the Sword of Shannara, at least according to Wil. He was expecting the ultimate weapon to be a lot more impressive-looking.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Shannara Chronicles / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: After finding some gnomes massacred by demons, Prince Ander unchains the imprisoned Slanter so he may give them the proper rites. It later proved to be a critical gesture to the Elf and Gnome alliance.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
The Shannara Chronicles / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: When facing demons in battle, elves seem to think it's a sound military tactic to take the perfectly good shield wall that's been marched into place to take advantage of a shallow but serviceable defensive ditch and, at the first sign of the enemy, have the elves in the unit jump into the ditch to fight individually against demons whose knees are now at the elves' eye level.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_a8a80e26	type	Fashion Dissonance
The Shannara Chronicles / int_a8a80e26	comment	Fashion Dissonance: For a show playing in an After the End Medieval Stasis society, somehow the main characters are managing to find jeans and other clothing that could have come straight from a modern mall. And are somehow stain resistant, no matter how battered the characters are.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_a9f2e259	type	Mole in Charge
The Shannara Chronicles / int_a9f2e259	comment	Mole in Charge: The Changeling eventually murders and replaces King Eventine himself, and tries to sabotage the Elves' efforts against the demons with the king's authority.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Alannon, Ander, and the Dagda Mor all give one in the first season finale.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
The Shannara Chronicles / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: Eretria's favorite trick is to offer her marks a goblet of wine or water with drugs in it, and rob them blind at her discretion while they're unconscious. Amberle doesn't fall for it and throws it on her instead.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_ac0f4761	type	Future Imperfect
The Shannara Chronicles / int_ac0f4761	comment	Future Imperfect: Most of the history of the Age of Man has been lost in the last 3,000 years, but even those who do remember have some things mixed up, like thinking Star Trek: The Motion Picture was history and Humans used to travel through the stars.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
The Shannara Chronicles / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Almost everyone who isn't one of the four main characters will die shortly after introduction.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_af2547c9	type	Informed Flaw
The Shannara Chronicles / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: Commander Tilton describes Ander as having spent the last ten years "lost in booze and anger and doubt." Yet with one exception - a single episode when he is seen Drowning His Sorrows after the loss of his father and brother - there is no onscreen portrayal of him having a drinking problem or anger management issues, and he probably does the most to galvanize others into action against the demons.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Utopia. The people there are happy, idealistic, productive, fun-loving and have all sorts of neat scavenged technology... and make a monthly Human Sacrifice to the local Trolls as part of a peace treaty with them. They also hate Elves an awful lot, but they don't make a secret of that part.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Shannara Chronicles / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: In the pilot Amberle has a Waterfall Shower with Shoulders-Up Nudity and Toplessness from the Back. "Pykon" has Amberle and Eretria bathing together in the castle, with Eretria flirting with Amberle, although it doesn't shown more than their bare shoulders and bare legs.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Shannara Chronicles / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Cephelo, who became Eretria's adoptive father, was anything but a good parent, and Eretria really resents him: She later reveals to Amberle that her birth parents sold her off early in her life. (In Season 2 it's discovered her mother actually left her with a friend.) There's also Bandon's parents, who kept him chained and muzzled in a tiny room in the family barn; though to be fair, living with him when he can see everyone's future deaths would have been fairly stressful; plus, given his Faceâ€“Heel Turn later in Season 1, they may have had good reason to lock him up. While he wasn't as bad as the above examples, Shea's alcoholism and shaky mental health made him a very poor father, and he physically beat Wil on at least one occasion that we know of.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_b709cf7	type	Ambiguously Absent Parent
The Shannara Chronicles / int_b709cf7	comment	Lyria's father isn't mentioned or seen, while her mother kills herself rather than be killed by Riga.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Shannara Chronicles / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: At the start of the first season, Commander Tilton is with Prince Arion but used to have a thing with Prince Ander, who Amberle notes is still "pining" after her, although he denies it. It gets "resolved" at the end of season 1 with Arion and Diana both dying.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_b8e38fc5	type	Metaphorically True
The Shannara Chronicles / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True: Wilâ€™s description of how Eretria stole the Elfstones from him in the Royal Palace is accurate... from a certain point of view.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Shannara Chronicles / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: The role of the Witch Sisters Mallenroh and Morag is reduced to little more than a cameo as "guardians of the Bloodfire", and they don't even get named onscreen.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Shannara Chronicles / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Sprinkled among characters with very fantasy sounding names such as Amberle, Eventine and Eretria you have others with more conventional ones like Wil and Diana.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_ba0e3912	type	Power Nullifier
The Shannara Chronicles / int_ba0e3912	comment	Power Nullifier: The Crimson use special collars that make it impossible for the person wearing them to use magic. They are said to be relics from the Great War, which would make them Lost Technology.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_ba1953b2	type	Queer Establishing Moment
The Shannara Chronicles / int_ba1953b2	comment	Queer Establishing Moment: Eretria tells Amberle (after having previously slept with Wil) that she also likes women before starting to flirt while they're taking a bath together.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_bacf8e98	type	Preserve Your Gays
The Shannara Chronicles / int_bacf8e98	comment	Preserve Your Gays: By the end of season 2, bisexual Eretria is pretty much the only named character from season 1 still alive (and not trapped in an existence as a tree or banished to a hell dimension for the time being). Almost every other character introduced in the first season - except a couple really minor one-episode characters that were never mentioned again, and the Gnome leader, who barely gets any lines - died a graphic onscreen death. Her Love Interest Lyria, introduced in season 2, also survives, unlike many other major characters introduced in that season. Only her ex-girlfriend Zora is killed, and she only appears in two episodes.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
The Shannara Chronicles / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: Mag, whose father lobotomized her mother to make her his "wife".
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_bc1865fb	type	Deader than Dead
The Shannara Chronicles / int_bc1865fb	comment	Deader than Dead: Necessary for dealing with the Changeling in a permanent fashion. It can be killed, but unless it's burned to ashes and the ashes placed in a sealed jar, it will eventually come Back from the Dead. The Warlock Lord can only be permanently killed by having his heart pierced by the Sword of Shannara, which must be wielded by a Shannara who is able to "face his truth" by accepting the visions the Sword gives him. Shea was not able to fully do so, and so only killed the Warlock Lord temporarily - in Season 2, Bandon succeeds in bringing him back.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Shannara Chronicles / int_beb9a361	comment	Eretria, of all people, makes a habit out of appearing out of nowhere to save another character from some danger, always with a lot of swagger and a snarky one-liner. Not only is it how she enters the story in the first place, but in episode five she saves Amberle from Cephelo, then saves Wil and his Elven escort from a monster not five minutes later.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
The Shannara Chronicles / int_bfad4265	comment	I Have You Now, My Pretty: Cephelo makes it clear what Amberle's fate will be as his captive. He probably shouldn't have been so open about it while Eretria was still within earshot. This was also the fate of Mag's mother at the hands of the warden of Pykon after lobotomizing her, and what he intended to do to Amberle as well.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_c3448a6f	comment	Subverted with the Sword of Shannara, at least according to Wil. He was expecting the ultimate weapon to be a lot more impressive-looking.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_c3bc970f	comment	Seers: Bandon was born with the ability to see a vision of the death of anyone he touches. This has not led to a very happy life for him.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_c59d9a4b	type	Half-Breed Discrimination
The Shannara Chronicles / int_c59d9a4b	comment	Half-Breed Discrimination: Cephelo tries to capitalize on the discrimination that Wil has endured all of his life as a half-Elf to get him on his side.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
The Shannara Chronicles / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Eretria disabling the dozen or so guards outside Cephelo's tent quickly and quietly enough that none of them even managed to raise the alarm. And then she has a second one almost immediately after, killing a monster that was menacing a whole party of soldiers from the shadows. She was clearly in the zone that day.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Shannara Chronicles / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In "Chosen", Allanon warns Wil that "Magic always comes with a price." In "Utopia some of the characters use an ancient movie projector to watch Star Trek: The Motion Picture. (Paramount, owners of the Star Trek franchise, also owns MTV.) The big man with the burned face that Eretria meets in the Utopia infirmary looks suspiciously similar to Sandor "The Hound" Clegane from Game of Thrones. The Shannara books are considered archetypes of Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game-style fantasy (people of different races with different abilities coming together for a quest). The blue objects Amberle recovers from the school that resemble the Elfstones are in fact the same type of multi-sided dice that RPG players use.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
The Shannara Chronicles / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: Cephelo's original plan to get Wil on his side involved a fight to the death between Eretria and Amberle... with Amberle wearing a leather bikini.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_c9367f60	comment	Threesome Subtext: Both Amberle and Eretria are in love with Wil, who himself loves and cares deeply for both, though he can't seem to decide which one he wants to be with. Meanwhile Amberle and Eretria slowly but surely become very good friends, which added with Eretria's bisexuality has earned them their own form of Belligerent Sexual Tension.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_c93ae7fc	comment	High-Dive Escape: In "Wraith", Wil and Mareth escape the Mord Wraiths by jumping off a cliff into a lake.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_ca5d7b66	type	Pre-Climax Climax
The Shannara Chronicles / int_ca5d7b66	comment	Pre-Climax Climax: In "Ellcrys", Wil and Amberle make the most of their last hours together before going to face the demons.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: Most episodes have two or three plot threads taking place in different locations, usually being resolved or at least coming to a head by the end of the episode. It crosses into Third Line, Some Waiting at times when one or more characters are off one their own doing things that don't immediately affect the main plots.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Seems to be a recurring theme, where those granted the most power tend to be the least interested in actually having it.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_cb2d889	comment	Won the War, Lost the Peace: Season 2 shows that while the Elves won the war against the Dagda Mor, a year later they're still suffering the effects in the form of an empty treasury and hordes of refugees whose homes were destroyed by the demon army. The crown's weakness and the widespread suffering has also caused the rise of a rebellious faction that persecutes magic users as scapegoats for the war and is plotting to overthrow the government.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_cd8c578c	comment	My Eyes Are Up Here: Amberle tells Wil as much in no uncertain terms when he comes across her bathing. Later gets an Ironic Echo when he strips down to swim and she starts Eating the Eye Candy.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Prince Arion doesn't believe in magic or demons and thinks the problems the Elves are facing is the work of Gnome assassins and that Allanon is a charlatan, despite the good evidence otherwise. He finally accepts they're real when it becomes just too strong.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: The Demon army in the book is described as a nearly-infinite tide of monsters of all shapes and sizes (including Ogres, Goblins, Imps, Demon-wolves, were-creatures, Gremlins, Ghouls, Harpies, Furies, bat-things and giant snakes) with even a lesser one being a threat to a standard soldier. While they're still powerful soldiers in the series, they're reduced to an army of Faceless Mooks who only march towards Arborlon when every single leaf of the Ellcrys has fallen, while in the book they started the assault as soon as a big enough gap appeared, and in the show they have a much more uniform appearance as scary figures in dark armor. Morag and Mallenroth, the Witch Sisters, are easily dispatched by a blast of the Elfstones' blue flames each. In the book, they far outclass the protagonists and only fall in a Mutual Kill that destroys their domain. The Reaper in the series is still an Implacable Man who can easily butcher anyone getting in his way, but is also much slower and dumber. He's also destroyed by Wil right after the Pykon segment as soon as he figures out how to use the Elfstones, while in the book not only he's the Final Boss for Wil's group, but also takes a lot more punishment from the stones before being vanquished. Trolls as a whole go from being a whole race of barbaric but noble and strong warriors of large size to a bunch of almost-feral brutes in post-apocalyptic outfits.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Amberle and Eretria can both kick some serious ass, as can Elven commander Diana. Season 2 adds Lyria, Mareth, and possibly Queen Tamlin.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Remo. He claims to have once served King Eventine in this capacity, but at the time of the series, he just does it for his own amusement.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: Over the course of Season 2, three different characters manage to take one look at Mareth and realise how she feels about Wil. None of those three characters is Wil himself.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The odds of Wil and Amberle both crossing paths with Eretria within a day of one another are extremely low.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_e0d0fb13	comment	Please Put Some Clothes On: Wil asks this of Amberle when she's interrogating him at knifepoint while completely naked.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: A lot of the characters, in one way or another. Allanon is the last of the Druids, so the responsibility of dealing with magical threats lays squarely on his shoulders. Except there's an ex-Druid running around too... Cogline. I guess because he left the order he can't pick up the slack? Wil is the last living descendant of King Jerle Shannara. Amberle is the last living member of the Chosen. At the end of Season 2, Mareth is the last of the Druids after Allanon's death, and also the last living heir to the Elven throne.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_e360ae63	comment	Reforged Blade: The Sword of Shannara, after it shatters in the fight between Wil and Bandon and is taken to the Ellcrys.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Allanon mentions the Ildatch in connection to the Dagda Mor's origins. The first season of the show is an adaptation of the second book in the Shannara series. The Ildatch is a Tome of Eldritch Lore that is central to the plot of the third one.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Shea Ohmsford of the series is mainly based on his book counterpart, but also take on some of the traits of Jerle Shannara in that he was the one originally meant to kill the Warlock Lord but failed the test of the Sword of Shannara and so only partly succeeded, with his descendent - Shea in the books, Wil in the series - being forced to finish the job. Mareth is about 70% Canon Foreigner, but gets her name and some of her backstory from a character in First King of Shanarra (500 years before the main trilogy) and her illusion magic seems to be based on Wil's son Jair and his wishsong.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_e8497e34	type	Adaptation Species Change
The Shannara Chronicles / int_e8497e34	comment	Adaptation Species Change: A partial one in that the Dagda Mor is still a demon, however in this adaptation he started off as an Elven Druid before he was corrupted by the Ildatch. Partial change with Shea and Wil. Shea is now a full Elf rather than a Half Elf, and since Wil is now Shea's son instead of his grandson, he is now the Half Elf, instead of 1/8. His greatly diluted Elven blood (despite which he still looked Elfy enough to be mistaken for a full Elf at various points of the novel) was what caused problems with the Elfstones in the first place in the book. This has been abandoned in favor of them simply messing up everybody who uses them. Furies: in the book they're described as half-cat half-woman demons who attack in packs, in the series Furies are grotesque four-winged bat monsters. Eretria is now a descendant of a group of people who had Demon blood.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With in the Betty and Veronica Love Triangle in season 1. "Bad" girl Eretria flirts and seduces Wil early on and they go at it for around an hour of great sex and he is completely spent the following morning, showing she's great in bed, but the scene is portrayed in a non-romantic manner as it happened almost entirely off-screen and she only did it to trick him, leaving him in the morning after while taking the Elfstones with her. Meanwhile, when "good" girl Amberle has her Pre-Climax Climax with Wil, this is portrayed in a romantic Idealized Sex manner, with the scene showing them making love while triumphant music plays and followed by them happily cuddling under the bedsheets in the aftermath.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: The three younger members of the main cast in Season 1. Amberle is the Superego, idealistic and high-minded, but also sometimes cold and unforgiving. Eretria is the Id, all passion and self-interest, motivated by primal things like anger, pleasure and survival. Wil is the Ego, thoughtful and capable of seeing different sides to an issue, but also lacking in drive and caught in an eternal tug-of-war between the other two.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Shannara Chronicles / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Eretria, of all people, makes a habit out of appearing out of nowhere to save another character from some danger, always with a lot of swagger and a snarky one-liner. Not only is it how she enters the story in the first place, but in episode five she saves Amberle from Cephelo, then saves Wil and his Elven escort from a monster not five minutes later. Allanon frequently turns up just when someone is about to get killed by one demon or another and deals with it. In "Breakline", when Amberle and Eretria are in some trouble, they both predict that Wil is going to swoop in at the last moment and save them. They're right.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Crown Prince Arion is a complete dick to almost everyone he interacts with, including members of his own family.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_eba911fd	comment	Dark Messiah: Tye leads a village of humans devoted to reclaiming the lost technology of the Age of Man and living free from the Elves. He is intelligent, charismatic, and clearly cares greatly for his people, but his rhetoric has more than a hint of Fantastic Racism to it. And every month he makes a Human Sacrifice to the local Trolls as part of a peace treaty between them and his village.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_ecb3970b	comment	Anti-Magical Faction: The Crimson, an Elven group that wants to wipe out all magic and magic users.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_ed7cb8b2	comment	Enclosed Extraterrestrials: Technically mutants, not extraterrestrials, but still alien-like, the Trolls are all covered in Steampunk clothing.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_edae412c	comment	Fighter, Mage, Thief: The trio as they set off on their quest. We have Amberle (fighter), Wil (mage), and Eretria (thief).
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Cephelo stays to cover Eretria's escape in "Utopia" and is killed. Subverted in that he only did it because he was mortally wounded anyway, meaning that he chose redemption because it didn't actually cost him anything.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_f314f8c4	comment	Traveling at the Speed of Plot: It's not clear how much time has actually passed between Amberle leaving her home and later returning. Several times in both seasons characters will need to get from one place to another... and usually arrive quickly in what should have taken a day or several.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_f79d939e	comment	Can't Bathe Without a Weapon: Wil finds Amberle taking a Waterfall Shower and ends up slipping and rolling down to where she is. By the time he gets himself up, a stark naked Amberle is holding a knife to his throat.
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The Shannara Chronicles / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: The Four Lands are littered with recognizable remains of the present day human civilization, even though 3,000 years are stated to have passed since The End of the World as We Know It. After that long most of those remains would've either rusted away into nothing or been so eroded as to be unrecognizable.
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The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Our Gnomes Are Weirder / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Perfectly Arranged Marriage / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Please Put Some Clothes On / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Post-Apocalyptic Gas Mask / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Power High / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Preserve Your Gays / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Psycho Lesbian / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Queer Establishing Moment / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Rage Against the Mentor / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Rape as Backstory / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Resigned to the Call / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Retractable Weapon / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Seeks Another's Resurrection / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Sequel First / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Serrated Blade of Pain / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Sexual Karma / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Sickly Child Grew Up Strong / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Slippery MacGuffin / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	The End of the World as We Know It / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	The Show of the Books / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	The Tease / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Toplessness from the Back / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Villain's Dying Grace / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Water Source Tampering / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Waterfall Shower / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	You Go, Girl! / int_441ec102
The Shannara Chronicles	hasFeature	Faux Action Girl / int_441ec102

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