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Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) is a high school junior who lives in the unincorporated town of Neptune, California, "a town without a middle class": the "09ers," from the prestigious (and fictional) 90909 zip code, are insanely spoiled children of insanely wealthy parents, while everyone else works for the 09ers, mostly as domestics at minimum wage (if that). Veronica, daughter of county sheriff Keith Mars (Enrico Colantoni), was more of an honorary 09er: her best friend was Lovable Alpha Bitch Lilly Kane (Amanda Seyfried), her boyfriend was Lilly's equally-popular brother Duncan (Teddy Dunn), and she was also friendly with Lilly's boyfriend and Duncan's best friend, Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring), son of movie star Aaron Echolls. The Kanes are practically royalty in Neptune; Lilly and Duncan's father, Jake Kane, is a software billionaire, and the largest employer in town; when his company went public, their secretaries became millionaires. It may just be popularity by association, but Veronica's life is pretty good.Then it all comes apart. Duncan dumps Veronica so hard and so seemingly out of the blue, that she has no idea she's been dumped until Lilly tells her; days later, Lilly is found dead, her head bashed in. Veronica's father accuses Jake Kane of committing the crime, and the town reacts badly, holding an emergency recall election and replacing Keith with his deputy, Donald Lamb. Keith changes his profession to Private Detective, a trade both he and Veronica excel at. Veronica stands by her father through the bad publicity and ends up ousted from the popular clique. Most of her former friends turn on her, none more so than Logan, who becomes, in Veronica's words, a "psychotic jackass" to the world at large. Soon thereafter, Lamb apparently cracks the case, catching Abel Koontz, a former Kane Software employee... but Keith and Veronica don't buy it. Finally, Veronica crashes a classmate's party—largely to spite those shunning her—and ends up roofied and raped. When she attempts to report it, Sheriff Lamb accuses her of lying and throws her out of his office. And, to add insult to injury, her mother Lianne turns to booze and eventually vanishes, leaving Veronica a note saying she'll be back for her someday.Then, as the first episode actually begins, Veronica reluctantly befriends new transfer student Wallace Fennel (Percy Daggs III). She has by now transformed herself into a hard-boiled detective, helping Keith with stakeouts and taking pictures of unfaithful spouses, and meanwhile solving mysteries for classmates with the help of Wallace, Keith, and other allies including PCH biker gang leader Eli "Weevil" Navarro (Francis Capra), computer whiz Cindy "Mac" MacKenzie (Tina Majorino) and, occasionally, Duncan Kane, Logan Echolls and other 09ers. In the meanwhile, she pursues her own investigations: Who really killed Lilly Kane? Who was responsible for Veronica's rape? And what on earth is Lianne Mars up to?Veronica Mars is an hour long Teen Drama that debuted on UPN in 2004, that later expanded into a franchise, with the addition of a film and book series of the same name.Now has an episode guide and a character index. | |
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Hotter and Sexier: The revival season has sex scenes more graphic than its original run, due to its older characters and no longer constricted by broadcast television guidelines or aiming at a young-adult demographic. | |
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Photo-Booth Montage: In a first season episode, a girl manipulates her blackmailing, emotionally abusive boyfriend into doing this so that she and Veronica can doctor the photos to make it look like he is gay, and thus get him kicked out of the navy. | |
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Anyone Can Die: Meg Manning, Lynn Echolls, Aaron Echolls, Woody Goodman, Beaver Casablancas, Kendall Casablancas, Dean O'Dell, Don Lamb. Gia Goodman in the film. Logan Echolls in Season 4. | |
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Villainous Lineage: An overt example is the implication that the men in the Echolls family are inherently violent and sadistic, which (according to Veronica) is a major source of worry for Logan as far as him continuing the circle of violence with any children he might have. Veronica considers this with leads for the serial rapist in season three: "Dick, a rapist? Two in the same household?" He's not, by the way. | |
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Goodbye, Cruel World! | |
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Goodbye, Cruel World!: In a third season episode, Veronica is given a Criminology assignment of planning 'the perfect murder'. She suggests faking a suicide note from the victim, using a generic phrase such as "Goodbye cruel world", typed on a computer so the note can't be analysed. Shortly afterwards, the dean of the college is murdered in exactly this way. | |
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Rape as Drama - Most of the time it's used. | |
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Rescue Romance | |
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Rescue Romance: Played with in "Silence of the Lamb"; Leo, a rookie deputy at the police department, actually rescues Keith, Veronica's father, from the Monster of the Week, but Veronica becomes smitten nonetheless. Played straight between Logan and Veronica in Season 1. Having previously been sworn enemies, they share a very passionate kiss (kicking off their Official Couple status) after he rescued her from a Mad Bomber in the middle of Season 1. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?/Rule of Symbolism: Veronica stabbing a rapist with a porcelain unicorn. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: Several; the Kanes, the Echollses, the Casablancases, the Mannings... Even the Mars family is not immune, although they are far better off than the aforementioned families in this regard. Still though, a father shunned by the community, a drunk mother who ran away, and a daughter who's almost disturbingly wise beyond her years can't quite be described as healthily functioning. | |
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Relationship Upgrade | |
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Logan's usual function after Season 1 with his Relationship Upgrade with Veronica. And if he doesn't get there in time for BDH, you better believe he'll get arrested just to beat the crap out of you in prison. Don't mess with his V. | |
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Bilingual Backfire | |
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Bilingual Backfire: In season 4, Logan is recalled to active duty after serving as Congressman Maloof's personal bodyguard for a few weeks. As he says his goodbyes, Maloof's wife comments in Arab that she'll miss "seeing that young man's body around". Logan matches her comment by replying in Arab that he'll try to keep in shape. | |
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Right Behind Me | |
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Right Behind Me: Subverted. The title character is asked about the hated Celeste Kane, and sarcastically describes her as a paragon of humanity. Meanwhile Kane has appeared right behind her. | |
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Heroes Love Dogs: Veronica and Keith have their pitbull Backup, and in Season 4, Veronica and Logan have a dog called Pony. | |
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From "Not Pictured" Not Pictured: Cassidy Casablancas | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Wallace asks Veronica how she knew the daughter of a record producer. She replies, "We used to be friends...a long time ago." Cue theme song that starts with the line "A long time ago, we used to be friends." | |
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Daddy's Girl | |
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Daddy's Girl: The show's title character and her father, Keith Mars. They've always shared a very close bond, which has only increased when Lianne Mars left her husband and daughter for good. Trina Echolls is doted on by her father Aaron, and when he finds out that her boyfriend has been hitting her, Aaron beats the guy into next Tuesday. This is made made all the more disproportionate and jarring because he himself physically abuses her brother Logan. | |
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Sins of Our Fathers | |
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This is the subtext of the second season when a parent commits a crime, their children have to walk the walk of shame. In "Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough", Jackie is volunteered to sit as target in the water balloon carnival booth, in a bikini, being pelted with cold water by people who hate her. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Quite a bit; it is a CW show, after all. Examples include Logan, Duncan, Piz, and possibly Dick. | |
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The Beard | |
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In "Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough", Mac and Beaver are totally cute the entire episode. The season ends with Beaver being a sociopathic molestee who may or may not have used Mac as The Beard. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Shelly Pomeroy, though she does appear in a flashback in late season 1. | |
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The Movie | |
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The Movie: Long desired by its fans, it is the goal of a Kickstarter campaign brought forward by Rob, Kristen, and other castmembers, and happened! | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Keith Mars, who previously gave off the impression of a Non-Action Guy, goes berserk when the first season's villain tries to burn Veronica alive. He even walks straight through the fire to save his daughter, spending several weeks in a hospital afterwards. The domineering, abusive and murderous Aaron Echolls seems oblivious that his daughter is being beaten up by her boyfriend, even appearing interested in starring in a movie he wants to pitch. However, at the start of what looked to be a pleasant dinner he administers one of the most comprehensive beatdowns ever seen on TV, before calmly concluding "I've decided I'm not interested in appearing in your movie." It would appear that the same protectiveness doesn't apply to Logan, though. | |
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Egg Sitting: Veronica has to "raise" a baby-like doll with her boyfriend Duncan for a sex-ed class. It's not clear if they fail or succeed, but Veronica definitely isn't shown to be a reliable parent. Also, the doll serves as Foreshadowing for the reveal that Duncan's ex-girlfriend is pregnant. | |
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Crapsack World: Neptune is a town divided into the rich section of town (the "09ers") and pretty much everyone else, as far as being a town where you are insanely rich or working low wage jobs for the incredibly rich. The town police is run by an evil jerk whose pettiness towards those who he doesn't like is matched only by his laziness, as well as filled with people who blindly support the wealthiest guy in town when he's accused of murdering his daughter. In addition, the county supervisor is a pedophile, the local business mogul is a Corrupt Corporate Executive, and the town's famous actor resident is an abusive psychopath and murderer. | |
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I Love the Smell of X in the Morning: | |
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Outside/Inside Slur: Hispanic students who have predominantly white friends are called Coconuts: brown outside, white inside. | |
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In Season 2, in a parallel to Veronica's own situation pre-series, Jackie Cooke is unofficially "uninvited" to the winter carnival by Alpha Bitch Madison Sinclair, over the mistaken belief that Jackie's father, Terence, had something to do with the school bus crash. Jackie shows up anyway, which results in her being so hated and reviled by the rest of the school that she's forced to sit in the dump tank and being forced into freezing water, while wearing a bikini, in the middle of December. | |
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Chekhov's Gun: All the time but rarely ever in the same episode. If there's some brief mention of something out of the main line in an episode then it will be used one or two episodes later e.g. A deputy mentions he's a bouncer at a club, three episodes later he is used as an explanation as to how Veronica was able to quickly get into the club. | |
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Parents Know Their Children: Mac's birth mother, who immediately recognizes her on first sight despite only knowing that she is a girl, due to Mac accidentally being Switched at Birth. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Pretty much the mindset of every 09er kid in Neptune (and their parents). It comes to a head in Season 2 and in the movie where class tensions reach their peak, enough that Keith wants Veronica to be anywhere any other than Neptune. | |
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May–December Romance | |
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Trina is extremely scornful and rude about Logan's abuse allegations against Aaron, but she is absolutely furious when she finds out about Kendall and Logan's May–December Romance in Season 2, and she is not shy about showing it. | |
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Apparently played straight by whatever Jake Kane is running with "The Castle" in Season 3, which is secretive, isolated, and extremely suspicious - but the show was cancelled, leaving it an Aborted Arc. | |
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Ironic Echo: In Season 2 Veronica mentions Nick and Jessica's breakup. In Season 3 "What's Left of Me" Nick's song about said breakup is playing on a radio. | |
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Missing White Woman Syndrome: Brought up when Weevil mentions that shortly after the murder of Lilly Kane, a little girl from his neighborhood named Marisol Reyes disappeared, but she didn't warrant the same amount of media coverage or therapy sessions for the students. (Weevil was fogging the issue, not wanting to bring up his own affair with Lilly. At the same time, Lilly was the daughter of a minor celebrity. Also, Reyes simply disappeared, whereas Lilly was brutally murdered.) Notable because due to the nature of the show, the point of Weevil's tirade was ignored on the fanbase, who thought that the introduction of the Reyes case was going to be an important part of the Kane case. It wasn't. Also, this would have reflected badly on Keith Mars, since he would've been sheriff at that point. | |
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So Happy Together: In "You Think You Know Somebody", Troy and Veronica serenely hold hands and walk down the hall right before he turns out to be a drug dealer who never told her about his shady past. In "Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough", Mac and Beaver are totally cute the entire episode. The season ends with Beaver being a sociopathic molestee who may or may not have used Mac as The Beard. Veronica and Logan go through a great deal of romantic problems in Season 4, only to end up happy together after a Time Skip, even getting married. Then, at that very moment, Veronica realises that Penn planted another bomb. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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"That's Amore" playing while Aaron Echolls beats the ever-loving crap out of his daughter's abusive boyfriend. Made even darker when you consider that Aaron murdered his son's girlfriend, who he had been having an affair with on the downlow and that said beating scene was Rob Thomas's way of laying the groundwork for Aaron being revealed as the murderer as far as showing him being capable of beating someone nearly to death. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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The domineering, abusive and murderous Aaron Echolls seems oblivious that his daughter is being beaten up by her boyfriend, even appearing interested in starring in a movie he wants to pitch. However, at the start of what looked to be a pleasant dinner he administers one of the most comprehensive beatdowns ever seen on TV, before calmly concluding "I've decided I'm not interested in appearing in your movie." It would appear that the same protectiveness doesn't apply to Logan, though. | |
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Crime After Crime | |
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Crime After Crime: Played with, or perhaps subverted in season one, in which the Kanes commit various counts of conspiracy (mislabeled in the show as obstruction of justice) in order to conceal that Duncan did not kill Lilly. Well, technically, they thought he killed her and that's why they covered it up. In their defense, they did find him in a position where he was covered in her blood. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: It's basically Buffy the Vampire Slayer set in a film noir world. | |
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What Did I Do Last Night? | |
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What Did I Do Last Night?: A non-humorous example: The first episode has Veronica waking up from a party in bed without her underwear after being roofied at a party. It takes until the end of the season (and more than a year of in-show chronology) until she figures out exactly what happened that night. | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles - Many in season 3, although ironically most of them didn't get a bigger part for it. Also, Dick and Beaver in season 2. | |
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Uninvited to the Party | |
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Uninvited to the Party: In the backstory, Veronica crashing a party she wasn't invited to ends in tragedy. She was uninvited in the first place because her popularity spiraled downward due to the circumstances surrounding the Lilly Kane murder investigation. Everyone hated her so much that, when she crashed the party to try and make a point, she ended up being drugged and raped, traumatizing her for the rest of the series and emphasizing just how unpopular she is, as well as how much she wants to have her normal life back. In Season 2, in a parallel to Veronica's own situation pre-series, Jackie Cooke is unofficially "uninvited" to the winter carnival by Alpha Bitch Madison Sinclair, over the mistaken belief that Jackie's father, Terence, had something to do with the school bus crash. Jackie shows up anyway, which results in her being so hated and reviled by the rest of the school that she's forced to sit in the dump tank and being forced into freezing water, while wearing a bikini, in the middle of December. | |
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Everyone Went to School Together | |
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Everyone Went to School Together: While everyone is at Neptune High together for plot reasons, this is continued in Season 3 as extremely variable students Veronica, Wallace, Mac, Logan, and Dick all continue going to Hearst together. Veronica's mother went to school with Love Interest Duncan's mother and father: explored in "My Mother, the Fiend" and a plot point in other episodes. Veronica's teacher and Trina's mother. They all seemed to be in the same year. And Trina's biological mother and Lianne, Veronica's mother. | |
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Removed from the Picture - One boy's presumably dead dad got this treatment from his wife. Turns out he changed his gender. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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The show also has a Lampshade Hanging. In the first-season episode "Drinking the Kool-Aid," a boy joins a cult, and his rich parents ask Mr. Mars why he'd go when he was provided for. Mr. Mars says that it's often rich kids who leave, and the boy's father sighs (paraphrasing): "Yes, I know what you're thinking. Spoiled rich kid, no material need denied, no spiritual need fulfilled. That's not us." | |
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Sexual Karma | |
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Sexual Karma: Pretty much everybody is shown having very enjoyable sex, except Cassidy with Mac, where he has erectile dysfunction. Guess who's the villain of season 2? Justified because Cassidy's inability to have sex with Mac is actually a clue that he was raped as a child, which is how he is connected to the bus crash. Averted with Duncan and Veronica, whose sex is "fine" at best. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Jackie goes from being a spiteful, self-obsessed rich girl to a humble, empathic, and understanding person after she loses her social position once her dad is accused of the bus crash. Dick, sort of. Logan starts out as a Jerkass who torments Veronica whenever he gets a chance, and then nearly every tragedy that could possibly happen to him happens. He's probably the best example of a Jerkass Woobie on recent television. | |
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How Unscientific! | |
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How Unscientific!: In the episode "Normal Is the Watchword" our titular heroine is saved by a hallucination of (or possibly the actual spirit of) her dead best friend Lilly. Lilly had appeared frequently the previous season (as Veronica tried to solve her murder), but it had certainly been implied she was not a literal ghost, just Veronica's way of working through her emotions and thoughts. At least until "Normal Is the Watchword", when Lilly's sudden and unexplained appearance distracted her friend from getting on a doomed bus. It is later implied that Veronica may be suffering from a neurological condition brought on by various traumas. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: Skist, the soft drink choice of Veronica. | |
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Token Good Cop | |
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Token Good Cop: Before Keith's return to law enforcement at the end of Season 2, Leo D'Amato is the only remotely positive or supportive force for good among the Neptune police department. Though Leo is still around in Season 4, he's an FBI agent at this point (and Keith is no longer in law enforcement). His role as the only good police officer is filled by Marcia Langdon, who genuinely listens to Keith and Veronica. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: Veronica and Keith become this, due to the horrific monsters they deal with over the course of the show's three seasons. | |
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The Ingenue | |
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The Ingenue - Hannah Griffith. | |
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Accidental Declaration of Love | |
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Accidental Declaration of Love: Happened to the title character during Alterna-Prom, when an intoxicated Logan declares his intense feelings and his thoughts of their epic relationship to her and reignites a rather cooled-down relationship. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Aaron Echolls - no ax, all crazy. Examples: his eyes in the rearview mirror in the season 1 finale, locking Veronica in a fridge and trying to burn her alive because she had the tapes that proved he was having an affair with the underage girl he then murdered, frequently emotionally and physically abusing his son, and beating his daughter's boyfriend to a bloody pulp then cheerily asking Logan, "how was school?" Logan Echolls has been shown to possess similar tendencies and was described as 'psychotic' in the first episode, during which he bashed in the headlights of Veronica's car because she had inadvertently caused his own to be taken away by getting him arrested. He is shown to have a short fuse throughout the series, although the show ended before he could properly follow in his father's footsteps. | |
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Mistaken for Cheating | |
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Mistaken for Cheating - Happens a few time, both with clients' spouses and main characters. Notably, Veronica has trust/jealousy issues, especially in season 3. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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"Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner" seems like it'll be the start of revealing some Hidden Depths for Lamb, possibly paving the way for some serious development, but the show quickly regresses him back to a one-dimensional jerk and never looks back. And for all we know, Grace is still in that closet at series' end. | |
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That One Case | |
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That One Case: For both Keith and Veronica, the Lily Kane murder. | |
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Murderers Are Rapists | |
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Murderers Are Rapists: Suspected but subverted by child molester Woody Goodman, who is the final suspect of blowing up the bus in Season 2, but actually didn't kill anyone. Played straight with Cassidy Casablancas, the real villain, though, who is revealed simultaneously to have blown up a bus, killed a lot of people, and, in a totally separate incident, raped Veronica. | |
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I Am What I Am | |
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I Am What I Am: Invoked word for word by Veronica when people call her out for her nosiness and vindictive nature. | |
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Witness Protection | |
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Witness Protection - In one episode, Keith gets hired to find someone who turns out to be a protected witness. | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: Rashard and Keith both insist on the term 'special lady friend.' | |
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Beard of Sorrow | |
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Beard of Sorrow: Duncan near the end of the first season. Unless he's actually entering the Beardness Protection Program — at the time that he grows it, he's both depressed and running away from home. Logan grows one in the third season after Veronica breaks up with him. | |
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Previously on… | |
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Previously on…: They used these to good effect—usually the Previouslys would help with something that had emotional pay-off that episode instead of making it blatantly obvious what clue in the A Plot was going to be revealed next. | |
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Embarrassing Nickname | |
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Embarrassing Nickname: Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas. A nickname so loathed, protesting against it was one of the last things he did before killing himself. Presumably nicknamed as such because his father and older brother were both nicknamed Dick and liked to torment him. The Principal's son, Vincent, is nicknamed Butters by his peers. And he isn't bitter about it at all. | |
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Rape and Switch | |
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Rape and Switch: The victims of Woody Goodman. Of the 4 we know about, one was definitely gay, another was sexually "on the fence" (as another character put it), and one... well... it's subject to Alternate Character Interpretation, but there's definitely subtext. The fourth victim we know about (or was strongly implied) doesn't have his sexuality brought into the whole thing, but he was less important than the first 3. | |
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Evolving Credits | |
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Evolving Credits: Mrs. Dent disappears from the credits partway through season 1. Note that this was the only time the credits ever changed during a season; every other actor was credited for every episode even if they did not appear in those episodes. This includes a character who was Killed Off for Real mid-season. | |
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Hollywood Law | |
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Hollywood Law: The Lily Kane trial was wallbangingly full of this. When Duncan Kane had to kidnap his daughter? Not a chance in HELL the grandparents could have gotten custody away from the biological father, even if he hadn't been from a gazillionaire family - well, maybe a CHANCE, as 2/3 of the remaining gazillionaire family members had been investigated and/or tried for interference in the murder investigation of their daughter, because they believed their son, the father, was guilty due to a medical condition which causes uncontrollable, unpredictable and violent blackouts. Also, the mother was also from a gazillionaire family and big in their church. The trial of Aaron Echolls at the end of season 2 had the defense attorney asking about Veronica's sexual history and confidential medical info, then directly introduce hearsay from an absent third party (directly, as in the lawyer himself told the jury that the absent person had said X). Reality Is Unrealistic. California evidence law was the first to be codified and differs in several ways from most states, especially when Proposition 8 in 1980 made a lot more fair game. If Veronica Mars's sexual history was relevant, even just to show bias, it would be allowable so long as not to prove consent to a rape. Hearsay from an absent third party may also be used on cross-examination to a witness, provided it meets certain qualifications. However that's usually a stupid idea as attacking character of a witness allows the defendant's character to be attacked. But bringing in Veronica's medical records should've brought a mistrial and sanctions (if not disbarment) against Aaron Echolls' lawyer, as those are wholly confidential. Speaking of Aaron Echolls' trial, it's not said why he wasn't charged, say, with kidnapping Veronica, assaulting Keith, and trying to kill them both by setting some guy's house on fire. Did the local prosecutors just forget about HOW the police arrested Aaron in the first place? Even a competent forensic investigation at all would have blown huge holes in the story he gave to the police (that he got into Veronica's car with her permission, she crashed, and they walked to the guy's house and called for help, after which Keith arrived and attacked him unprovoked. The homeowner, the only uninvolved witness, "mysteriously disappeared" (read: was killed) before the trial), like, if Keith attacked unprovoked why are Aaron's fingerprints all over the gas can which started the fire? Why was there a fire in the first place? And it is somewhat unlikely that Veronica would have climbed inside and locked herself into an old refrigerator, and set it on fire. There would certainly be hair and blood inside the fridge from Veronica. There are a lot more things than that too. Another unrealistic thing is that Keith Mars could have been immediately ousted in a recall election. In reality, Sheriffs are among the most horrifically ground-in officials in the US, almost impossible to remove. Even in a place like 90909, they would have had to wait until the next election, because there's virtually never a provision to remove someone at that level. | |
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The Sheriff | |
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The Sheriff: As Neptune, California, is an unincorporated town, there is a Sheriff's Department for the county, not a police force. Keith Mars is the ex-sheriff, ousted for political reasons. He was replaced by Sheriff Lamb, who was pretty much just short of being a full-on manifestation of Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop. He's never shown taking bribes, but when a high school student reports that she's been raped, he laughs her out of his office. | |
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Jaded Washout | |
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Lucky the Janitor's life has been profoundly unlucky. He was molested by Woody Goodman, he grew up as a Jaded Washout, he becomes a janitor, and then has a total breakdown when Woody's star rises, and he goes on a school shooting and gets killed. | |
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Discriminate and Switch | |
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Discriminate and Switch: When Wallace, who is black, moves in with his new roommate, the roommate acts uncomfortable. He explains, "I specifically said I didn't want a roommate who was...uh, you know...better looking than me." In an earlier episode, Veronica has implied that one of her teachers, Mr Woo, is gay, and he plays with this trope: | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Celeste treated Lilly coldly and rudely, but she's also extremely rude to Veronica and is a constant thorn in both Keith and Veronica's side, which gets even worse after Season 1, once Veronica and Keith have unmasked her daughter's killer. As if it isn't enough that he drugged Veronica, Dick encouraged Cassidy to rape her by telling him that "you don't know where she's been." As if it isn't enough that Cassidy raped Veronica and gave her an STD, he got it from being molested. His constant mockery of Mac and Beaver also have a strong streak of this. Talking of "bad enough"...Lamb refused to report Veronica's rape, but he's also viciously rude to her almost every single time they're together, and calls her a slut about it. In addition to sleeping with and murdering his son's girlfriend Lilly, Aaron violently abuses his son. | |
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Official Couple | |
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Played straight between Logan and Veronica in Season 1. Having previously been sworn enemies, they share a very passionate kiss (kicking off their Official Couple status) after he rescued her from a Mad Bomber in the middle of Season 1. | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love: The so-called "epic love" speech from "Look Who's Stalking" definitely fits, even if it isn't actually Logan's first declaration of love (which is shown in season 2 premiere flashback and isn't angsty at all). | |
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Mad Bomber | |
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Mad Bomber: Played with in Season 2. Bombing isn't Cassidy's only speciality due to some extreme villain capabilities, but he did blow up a bus, a plane, and he rigged Woody Goodman's car. In season 4, Neptune is plagued by a series of bombings committed by a deranged serial killer who even starts playing Criminal Mind Games with the authorities. It turns out that there's actually two separate bombers: the first, Perry Walsh, was hired by "Big" Dick Casablancas to further a real estate scam, the second, Penn Epner, is a copycat who started his own series of bombings based on what he mistakenly believed to be the original bomber's modus operandi. | |
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Hereditary Suicide | |
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Hereditary Suicide: Lynn Echolls throws herself from a bridge when her husband Aaron's adultery and physical abuse becomes too much for her. Her son Logan is about to jump off in the same place at the end of Season 1 when he gets jumped by the PCHers, and Felix is murdered. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The show can get almost Anvilicious in its views of doing what's "right" versus doing what's legal. Some examples: It's okay to steal evidence from law enforcement to conduct your own investigation if you know the cops are a bunch of failures. If your illegitimate child is at risk of falling into the custody of abusive people, you're better off fleeing the country with her without even giving a custody hearing a try. The wealthy routinely walk away from criminal behavior with nothing more than the mild inconvenience of having to walk away from it. Therefore, go ahead and blackmail and threaten them to get some form of justice. Or, if you're wealthy or a criminal, have them killed. | |
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Five-Second Foreshadowing | |
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Five-Second Foreshadowing: The series tended to reveal its season-long villains in this manner. | |
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Funny Photo Phrase | |
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Funny Photo Phrase: One episode has the eponymous detective discovering a secret society at the school. She observes one of their meetings and goes to take a picture. Just before taking the picture, she says, "Say, 'repressed homosexuality'." | |
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Name of Cain | |
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Name of Cain: Duncan and Lilly and their parents, Jake and Celeste. It fits both Duncan (suspected of murdering his sibling) and Jake (due to his general moral dubiousness) particularly well. And it's the Kanes who set up Abel Koontz to take the fall for the murder; this Meaningful Name is lampshaded by an episode title. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: It's never explicitly confirmed, but it's pretty clear that in "My Mother, the Fiend", Vice Principal Clemmons manipulated Veronica into investigating a mystery for his own ends without her realizing it until it was all over. Cassidy uses one, asking Veronica to investigate his step-mother for adultery, knowing that this will lead Veronica to discover his father's real estate scams, and reveal it to the world, which in turn will cause his father to flee the country, moving all of his father's money into his (and Dick's names) in trust funds. Then he asks his mother to move back in with them/take them with her, knowing this will make her decide to sign off on the trust funds to give him early access. In the third season, Tim is a big fan of these: First, he frames Veronica for plagiarizing her essay, knowing that she would clear her own name but he left enough clues that she would discover their mentor's dirty secret in the process, hoping it would scare her away from him. Later, he kills the Dean, knowing that Veronica would investigate and find enough evidence to incriminate his boss, the aformentioned mentor, in the process. | |
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Pietà Plagiarism | |
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The second season begins and ends with Pietà Plagiarism, first with Veronica holding Logan, then Logan holding Veronica. | |
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The Chain of Harm | |
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The Chain of Harm: Season 2 is about one. Cassidy/Beaver raped Veronica, and blew up the bus to kill other victims of abuse (who wanted to go public) because he had been sexually abused by Woody Goodman. | |
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Character Development | |
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Logan in his early appearances before Character Development hit in. Ostracizing Veronica, wrecking her car with a baseball bat, organizing bum fights... | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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No Fourth Wall: Creator Rob Thomas once put his own books prominently in the background of one scene, and in the series finale, a character quips "Rob Thomas is a whore" (see below)... although in the context of the scene he's referring to the lead singer for Matchbox 20. A phone call from Clarence Wiedman to confirm the completion of an off-the-radar job is answered with "CW?" followed by Wiedman's reply of "It's a done deal." Just after the show was picked up by the new CW network following the merger of its former home, UPN. | |
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Parental Betrayal | |
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Parental Betrayal: Aaron Echolls and to a much lesser extent Veronica's Mum who abandons Veronica twice and the second time she does it she takes Veronica's college fund for good measure. | |
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Forced Out of the Closet | |
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Forced Out of the Closet: Veronica investigates blackmail letters that certain students have been receiving, including one girl whose gay status would be revealed if she did not pay up. When Veronica figures things out, she discovers that the perp was a gay student who just wanted to out her girlfriend so they could be together in public. | |
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Crapsaccharine World | |
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Crapsaccharine World: Yet to people who don't live there, it probably just seems like any other Southern Californian town filled with Hollywood A-listers, pristine beaches, and millionaires. | |
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Camera Sniper | |
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Camera Sniper: At least half the episodes have this, though that's unsurprising considering the character is a private eye. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: In season two, when Cassidy pulled a prank on his brother Dick in revenge for Dick treating his brother like shit, Dick threatened revenge. However, Cassidy stops his vengeful evil older brother in his tracks when Cassidy reminds him of a mysterious "Sally" and what happened to her. This was ultimately clarified in an interview by Rob Thomas: Sally was a childhood pet that Dick had, who Cassidy killed in retaliation after Dick did something horrible towards him. When Veronica calls Cliff for a favor in season two, both of them rattle off a few previous incidents where they helped each other out. | |
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Queer Flowers | |
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Queer Flowers: Lilly is implied to be bisexual. In an Alternate Timeline where she wasn't killed, her boyfriend in college breaks up with her for fooling around with his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, she open-mouth kisses Veronica in the show's timeline, and Lilly tries to get Veronica to dress more provocatively at least once. | |
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Reminiscing About Your Victims | |
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Reminiscing About Your Victims: Parodied and subverted. A straighter example occurs in Season 2's finale, Not Pictured, where the Big Bad Cassidy reminisces about exactly why they killed each person they did, implies that he killed Mac and reminisces about Keith and Woody. | |
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Fur and Loathing | |
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Fur and Loathing: Veronica wears a coat with a faux-fur collar while talking to some animal rights activists, realizes it, and takes it off. One of them sneaks behind her and moves to chop the collar off; Veronica catches her, shrieking "It's fake!" (This is probably important to actress Kristen Bell, who is herself one of the sane-ish kinds of animal rights activists.) | |
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Absurdly Powerful Student Council | |
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Absurdly Powerful Student Council: There's an episode centered around the corrupt antics of Neptune High's student council. The council, run by the school's wealthiest students, conceived a policy called "Pirate Points" to allow the councilmen and their cronies on the various sports and cheer teams to have take-out food delivered to the school for them to eat, while forcing the rest of the students, and those in clubs that were not liked by the jocks and student council, to eat the crappy cafeteria food. To keep a rabble-rousing ex-cheerleader from getting elected student council president on a platform of her abolishing the Pirate Point program, Alpha Bitch Madison Sinclair schemed to get popular student Duncan Kane elected president, under the logic that Duncan would keep the Pirate Point program going since he was too spaced out to care either way about how controversial the program was. In the end, after realizing the reform candidate was a narc for the local police and probably wouldn't carry out her vow to abolish the program, Veronica was forced to switch candidates and shamed Duncan (via pointing out how much of a hand-puppet he had become for Madison) into taking up the cause. Rather than abolish the system, he opts to reform it into a more egalitarian program, expanding it to include all clubs and teams at school as well as all students on the honor roll. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: Jake Kane. The Mars family catches the real killer of his daughter Lilly, but he procedes to ruin their lives in the Season 3 finale. | |
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Anti-Interference Lock Up | |
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Anti-Interference Lock Up: Cassidy Casablancas does this to his girlfriend Mac, to prevent her from intervening when he goes to kill Veronica, as she's found out it was him who crashed the bus. To make sure she doesn't leave, he takes her clothes out of the room so she's also trapped in there naked. | |
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Privileged Rival | |
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Privileged Rival: Most of the villains are villainous because they have the money to bribe, cheat, and scam their way through the court system which effectively kneecaps the only thing Veronica can do (sleuth, get evidence, get them in court). | |
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Story Arc | |
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Story Arc - Several storylines spanned the whole of a season, while others took up large chunks of one. | |
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Love Hurts | |
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Love Hurts: Veronica's first love Duncan dumps her without any explanation and then, after rekindling their relationship, leaves her to escape the country and the law with his child from another girl. She and her Second Love Logan hurt each other pretty equally and consistently throughout the show even as they try to make their relationship work. And all the other guys were pretty much rebound. And then there is Mac, who takes a long time to get over Cassidy, who turned out to be a murderer and a rapist. And Keith Mars, whose wife turned out to be a long-time cheater and later an alcoholic. | |
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Fundraiser Carnival | |
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Fundraiser Carnival: Neptune High had a Winter Carnival to raise money for the senior trip. Justified in that it's a very affluent school district. | |
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Bantering Baddie Buddies | |
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Bantering Baddie Buddies: In season 4, two Mexican cartel hitmen, Alonzo and Dodie, travel to Neptune to find the killer of one of the boss's nephews, who died in an explosive attack on a boardwalk motel. Most of their time together is spent bantering about the nature of their mission, the peculiarities of Southern California, and the high turn-over rates in their line of work. | |
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Long Hair Is Feminine | |
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Long Hair Is Feminine: The Veronica of flashbacks, when she was a fairly stereotypical high school girl, has long hair; present-day Veronica, having become a Guile Hero by way of Break the Cutie, favors a much shorter, more severe cut. | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Not only is Sheriff Lamb brutally killed off in the lamest of lame fashions, but afterwards everyone forgets he exists, save for a deputy, whom newly re-appointed interim Sheriff Keith Mars promptly fires upon reassuming control over the department. You'd think that the violent murder of the sheriff would be a major thing that would hang over the department for quite some time, but no. Logan in Season 4, too. He's happy on his wedding day. Until Veronica realizes that the Big Bad left one more bomb behind which explodes on Logan, killing him in the span of about two minutes. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene - Weevil, Logan, Dick, Don Lamb, Cassidy... | |
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Dead Animal Warning | |
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Dead Animal Warning: Subverted. After the bus crash at the start of season two, Keith investigates the wreckage of the bus to find a dead rat taped under one of the seats. Keith and Veronica initially conclude that the rat was a message to someone who was planning to rat out someone else. But later, Keith figures that the purpose of the rat was the stench forcing certain students off the bus to protect them. | |
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Record Needle Scratch | |
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Record Needle Scratch: Played straight when Veronica is listening patiently to her dad saying that he met someone and hoping that she's ok with it... until he drops that it's her best friend Wallace's mom. Cue record scratch. | |
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Date Rape | |
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Date Rape: Part of the backstory told in flashbacks. Veronica is roofied during a high school party end of her sophomore year and wakes up partially unclothed the next morning. She tries to report what happens and Sheriff Lamb calls her a slut and kicks her out of the station. Which explains why she hates him so much. At the end of season 1 she finds out she was drugged when Madison (who had just been drugged herself) spit in her drink. Duncan rescued her at first getting her to a safe room. Then he was drugged and put in the same room. Duncan in his state thought she had consented. Logan was the one that brought the drugs to the party. Then at the end of the 2nd seasons she find out that mass murderer Beaver had raped her that night. In season 3 she can't understand why Logan goes as far as he does to protect her as she investigates a serial rapist, who targets her but is scared off by Logan The mystery in Season 3 runs off this perpetuated at Hearst College. | |
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Family Business | |
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Family Business: Albeit unofficially, Keith Mars's private eye business, which he runs with his daughter Veronica. | |
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Working the Same Case | |
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Working the Same Case: The show has a habit of cleverly combining Veronica and her dad's cases, sometimes pulling dismissed plot threads into one cohesive reveal of the season's Big Mystery. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: With his mother committing suicide, his dad being an abusive jerk, being framed for murder twice, and a whole other things, man, does it suck being Logan. However, the person this applies most to is Cassidy. And it's not easy being Veronica, either. | |
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Mocking the Mourner | |
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Mocking the Mourner: After the bus-crash kills several Neptune High students, the parents of one of the victims starts getting harassed by someone who keeps trying to trick them into believing their son is a ghost; not only do they hear audio recording of his voice, but they smell his cologne, see things getting moved around, etc. It's not upfront mockery, but a sinister act of psychological warfare concerning their murdered child. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: Though a number of characters die throughout the series, it's usually not seen onscreen; instead, someone walks in on either the body or, on two occasions, on the murderer firing gunshots at an offscreen target. | |
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Media Watchdog | |
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Media Watchdog: Many fans joke that the storm of double-entendres present in the dialogue simply overloaded the censors' filthometers and they gave up. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Veronica and Duncan are discussing Logan sleeping with an older woman. | |
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Evil All Along | |
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Evil All Along: Cassidy starts by raping Veronica and then lying about it (which isn't revealed until later on), but he becomes truly evil in Season 2. He kills a bus full of his classmates, a witness who could turn him in, and 3 people on a plane. This wasn't revealed until the finale but yes he was evil. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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And, in flashbacks, Lilly and Veronica. Lilly was the brash, wild one (red), whereas Veronica was sweet and demure (blue) before (things changed). | |
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Students' Secret Society | |
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Students' Secret Society: The Nepture High School has the Tritons, a secret society for the richest kids at the school. In "Clash of the Tritons" they end up becoming suspects in falsely accusing Veronica of distributing fake IDs. However, despite their hooded robes and weird rituals, it turns out that they're innocent in this case: the whole thing was arranged by a student by the name of Rick as revenge against the Tritons for rejecting his membership - and revenge against Veronica, as Keith got his father arrested for embezzlement. A much more malign version is present in "The Bitch Is Back", with the Castle at for Hearst College, which might just cross the line into a full-fledged cult. Among other things, pledges are tortured to make them tell the truth about their various misdeeds. | |
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You Know What You Did | |
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You Know What You Did: Subverted when Alpha Bitch Madison Sinclair claims that she and Logan had had sex. True to trope, Veronica believed this unquestioningly, and confronted Logan about it. They had. | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: "Community soap." | |
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All of the Other Reindeer | |
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All of the Other Reindeer: Veronica and Cassidy, with vastly different outcomes. | |
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Trapped by Gambling Debts | |
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Trapped by Gambling Debts: How Jackie's father is blackmailed into working security for a morally ambiguous casino owner. | |
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Motive Rant | |
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Motive Rant - Used a lot in the show, by the bad guys to explain their actions. | |
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Downer Ending | |
| Veronica Mars / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Veronica got away with a lot of illegal stuff throughout three seasons. She broke in places, abused her dad's authority, and endangered his position. Until the end of Season 3, when she broke into The Castle and the series concluded (for a decade, anyway) with the extreme Downer Ending that Veronica was going to face consequences, her dad was going to lose his position, and she was in serious legal trouble. (Although this is ultimately a dropped thread in Season 4 and the books.) | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Quite a reputation I've got, huh? You wanna know how I lost my virginity? So do I." Duncan lands two whams on Veronica with one line in "A Trip To The Dentist": In-universe, for Veronica: "I'd be a willowy blonde too if my dad was a plastic surgeon." When Veronica breaks into a computer near the end of Season 2 and hears the voice of one of the bus crash victims saying, "Woody's sick. What he did to us is wrong. We were just kids." | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: In the Season 1 finale, Veronica finds Lilly's sex tapes hidden in the wall. Watches them, and Aaron Echolls pops up as the mysterious man having sex with Lilly. In the Season 2 premiere, Veronica walks into work and is told her boyfriend is there the camera pans to reveal...Duncan. In Season 2, Veronica breaks into Meg's hospital room and sees her pregnant belly. From "Not Pictured" Not Pictured: Cassidy Casablancas In the Season 3 premiere, Parker screaming with her head shaved, revealing that she's the latest victim of the Hearst College rapist. | |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul" | |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul": Cindy Mackenzie much prefers her nickname, Mac. Piz is never called by his first name (Stosh), and Dick is never called Richard, but Rule of Funny is probably in effect with the last one, because he doesn't seem to mind being called it. Inverted by Mac's boyfriend, Cassidy. Everyone calls him by his Embarrassing Nickname, Beaver, when he wants to be known by his given name. | |
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The Cartel | |
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The Cartel: A Mexican cartel plays a role in the plot of season 4, when a nephew-by-marriage of the boss is killed in an explosion in Neptune, California. At the behest of his nagging ex-wife, he sends two sicarios into Neptune to track down and kill the bomber. It's also shown that Weevil's gang and the PCH'ers have ties to this cartel. | |
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We Used to Be Friends | |
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We Used to Be Friends: The series used "We Used to Be Friends" as its Real Song Theme Tune, and it shows: as we learn in the first episode, following the murder of her best friend Lilly, Veronica's boyfriend ignores her (actually, that happened a couple of days prior), her former friends turn against her, and she gets roofied and raped. Thus begins her descent into Film Noir. | |
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Dramatic Necklace Removal | |
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Dramatic Necklace Removal: Veronica wears her best friend Lily's necklace to a dorm-room casino when she's searching for Logan when everyone in the room is robbed, and the masked robber pulls it off her neck. When she finds the robber, she takes Lily's necklace back in like fashion from the robber's daughter. | |
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Narrator | |
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Narrator: Veronica, natch. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: A few elements bookend the first season. Keith Mars kinda skeeves out Veronica by saying "Who's your daddy?" ("I hate when you say that"). He also tells her, before going on a stakeout in the pilot, to take back-up (Backup is their pit bull); when Aaron Echolls tries to steal his car for a get-away in the season finale, he's surprised by Backup in the back seat. The second season begins and ends with Pietà Plagiarism, first with Veronica holding Logan, then Logan holding Veronica. The pilot features Weevil beating up Logan and telling him to apologize until Veronica says she doesn't want his apology. This is mirrored in the series finale with Logan beating up Gory until Veronica makes a similar statement. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Clyde Pickett from season 4 is a former bank robber who became Dick Casablancas Sr.'s fixer after they did time together in Chino Prison. He quickly becomes friends with Keith, despite him being a prime suspect in the bombings. It turns out he did pay Weevil's gang to commit petty crimes to drive down real estate prices, but he wasn't behind the bombings. Still, he and Keith part on reasonably amicable terms. | |
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Flashback | |
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Flashbacks a-go-go | |
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Vertigo Effect | |
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Vertigo Effect: The last episode of season 2, when Veronica figures out exactly what's going on. | |
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Please Wake Up | |
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Please Wake Up: Duncan's parents found him cradling his sister's body. They thought he had killed her, but he'd found her and was begging her to wake up. | |
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Country Matters | |
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Country Matters: Oh, if only this wasn't network television, Kendall Casablancas would've gotten whupped: | |
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10-Minute Retirement - In "Normal Is The Watchword" (the season two premiere) Veronica claims to have given up investigating after catching Lilly's killer, only to pick it right back up as soon as she finds out Wallace is involved in the problem she was previously refusing to solve. | |
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Unbreakable Weapons | |
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Unbreakable Weapons - You'd think, given her reliance on it, Veronica might have run out of charge for her taser at least once. Though it did get taken from her at least twice. | |
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Hollywood California | |
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Hollywood California: Neptune, California is represented by San Diego. More properly, Oceanside, a middle-sized city just north of San Diego, just without copious numbers of US Marines, since the real life Oceanside is just south of Camp Pendleton, one of the largest Marine Corps bases in the world. Oddly enough, the show was filmed in the suburb Chula Vista at Hilltop High School. However, Oceanside High School was used for exterior shots, so there's definitely plenty of evidence for faux-Oceanside. | |
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Anchored Ship | |
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Anchored Ship: With Veronica and Duncan in season 1 (eventually they get back together and then break up for good) and later with Logan and Veronica, which ends with no definite resolution, mostly due to the show's cancellation. However, they are firmly this in Season 4, until Logan's death. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless - That is, unless said police officer is Keith Mars. Otherwise they're corrupt and actively hostile. | |
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Karma Houdini Warranty | |
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Karma Houdini Warranty: Kind of with Dick. He never faced consequences for anything he actually did wrong but, years after Cassidy raped Veronica at least partly thanks to Dick, Dick did end up genuinely distraught and in serious pain after Cassidy's suicide. Whether or not that was enough was very divisive. Veronica got away with a lot of illegal stuff throughout three seasons. She broke in places, abused her dad's authority, and endangered his position. Until the end of Season 3, when she broke into The Castle and the series concluded (for a decade, anyway) with the extreme Downer Ending that Veronica was going to face consequences, her dad was going to lose his position, and she was in serious legal trouble. (Although this is ultimately a dropped thread in Season 4 and the books.) | |
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He's Just Hiding | |
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"Clash of the Tritons", Logan's mother having taken all she can from her cheating husband, abandons her car on a bridge and jumps to her death - apparently. Logan refuses to believe it, and they Never Found the Body. | |
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It's All My Fault | |
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It's All My Fault: Veronica after the bus crash and Parker's rape. Dick, of all people, after Cassidy's death. | |
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The Conspiracy | |
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The Conspiracy: Season 3, and it's a big one. While there is an actual rapist running around, the whole head-shaving thing had nothing to do with him. That was a Wounded Gazelle Gambit set up by the local Straw Feminist group using the rapes as a cover and shaving girl's heads themselves to discredit the Greek system and get them thrown out. | |
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Surprise Incest | |
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Surprise Incest: Duncan Kane broke up with Veronica because his mother told him she was his half-sister. After the first season finale revealed Veronica and Duncan weren't related, they got back together (until Duncan got Put on a Bus). | |
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Disney Villain Death | |
| Veronica Mars / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Also in the same episode: Cassidy's suicide isn't shown, we just hear the car alarm going off, which is also a Disney Villain Death. | |
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Gang of Hats | |
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Gang of Hats: The PCH Bike Club are all Latino bikers from the wrong side of the tracks, all high schoolers (or at least high school age). | |
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Profiling | |
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Profiling: A character accused of stealing because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time is described as having been "lurking" in the area. "Lurking? You mean, 'standing while black'?" | |
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Dashing Hispanic | |
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Male: For example, the Dashing Hispanic Weevil asks Veronica to come to his aid after being set up for murder in Season 2, Logan comes to Veronica to ask her for help in Season 1 after his mother's apparent suicide, and mysterious (then) newcomer Cassidy comes to hire her to unravel the mysterious past of his new stepmother Kendall in Season 2. | |
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Intrepid Reporter | |
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Intrepid Reporter: Veronica Mars is called exactly this from 1.14. | |
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Cigarette Burns | |
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Cigarette Burns: While talking to his daughter's abusive boyfriend, Aaron Echolls shows him some scars on his hands. He recounts how his alcoholic and incredibly abusive father (something Aaron himself inherited) put out a cigarette on his hand when Aaron tried to stop his dad from beating his mother. He then gives the guy a better view. Trina taunts Logan over his claims as a child that Aaron was "the big bad wolf... cigarette burns and broken noses..." | |
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Only Friend | |
| Veronica Mars / int_5f861d0f | comment |
Only Friend: Logan and Dick serve as this for each other in season three. Veronica and Wallace are an example in early season one. | |
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Time Skip | |
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Veronica and Logan go through a great deal of romantic problems in Season 4, only to end up happy together after a Time Skip, even getting married. Then, at that very moment, Veronica realises that Penn planted another bomb. | |
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Riding into the Sunset | |
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Riding into the Sunset: A symbolic variation. Veronica walks away into the rain, signifiying the consequences of the series finale being rather crappy (her Dad's facing charges that could land him serious jail time for protecting her, and their primary opponent for her Dad's old job as Sheriff is a corrupt puppet of the mafia). As the camera pans out, we get the impression that Veronica is upset not only because she inadvertently got her Dad in trouble, but because she knows she'll never change her ways. | |
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Pretty Spry for a Dead Guy | |
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Pretty Spry for a Dead Guy: It wasn't an intentional scam, but the apparent appearance of Logan Echolls' dead mother turning out to be his sister using her credit cards had much the same effect. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: This includes Weevil, Logan, and Dick. | |
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Involuntary Charity Donation: Logan tells a news crew that his father Aaron will be donating five percent (or less - we're never told his income exactly) of his next paycheck to a homeless shelter. His father severely beats him for this. | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill: Keith Mars got in serious trouble for doing this, since impersonating government officers is illegal. His daughter gets away with it on multiple occasions, however. | |
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Plot Archaeology: Veronica's rape is seemingly resolved in Season 1. She learns that she and Duncan had consensual sex while under the mutual influence of roofies, which left her with no memory, and Duncan left and never mentioned it to her because he believed she was his half-sister (which she wasn't). It then came back in a big way in Season 2, with the revelation that while she and Duncan had had consensual sex, Cassidy/Beaver Casablancas was lying about never having hurt Veronica - he raped her while she was unconscious that same night. | |
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Did You Just Have Sex? | |
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Did You Just Have Sex?: In season two, immediately after Veronica sleeps with Duncan she bumps into Logan who says she looks different and asks if she's changed her hair. At home her father makes a similar comment and she wonders whether he's really such a good detective that he can tell she's had sex. | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Aaron Echolls physically abuses his son Logan, cheats on his wife, and murdered a teenage girl that he slept with after she threatened to tell on him, but he cares a great deal about his adopted daughter Trina. Enough to unleash a severe beating on her abusive boyfriend when he finds out what the guy did to her. | |
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Rich Bitch | |
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Veronica overcomes or utterly humiliates the Rich Bitch, Jerk Jock, or local idiot sheriff every single episode, but they're right back to acting completely dismissive of her the next day, often reaching the point of Bullying a Dragon. It's like they want her to dig up their deep personal secrets. Lampshaded by Veronica in the series finale: | |
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All Girls Like Ponies | |
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"IS IT A PONY?!?" | |
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Photos Lie | |
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Photos Lie: Literally. Veronica figures out that the bus crash in Season 2 is linked to Woody Goodman's Little League team, and he molested several of the boys he mentored. She spends an entire episode going painstakingly through every single name on the photograph...only to realize that the actual Big Bad, Cassidy Casablancas, was "Not Pictured", which allowed him to kill Woody, try to kill Keith, and put Mac in mortal danger. | |
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Fille Fatale | |
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Also used by Aaron Echolls's defense attorney to discredit Veronica's testimony as simply made up by a Fille Fatale angry that her sexual advances towards his client were rebuked. | |
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Animal Wrongs Group | |
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Animal Wrongs Group: Subverted in a third-season episode. Veronica suspects a group of committing a crime, but finds out they're generally pretty good people. She also tricks a Ted Nugent Expy into wearing a shirt saying "Meat is Murder". | |
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Missing Mom | |
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The show's title character and her father, Keith Mars. They've always shared a very close bond, which has only increased when Lianne Mars left her husband and daughter for good. | |
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We Hardly Knew Ye | |
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We Hardly Knew Ye: Ms. Dent disappeared without explanation eight episodes into the first season due to budget constraints (and the fact that her character didn't really have much to do). Her exit is explained as maternity leave in a throwaway line a few episodes later. | |
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Hot-Blooded | |
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Logan and Duncan. Duncan (blue) is reserved and somewhat emotionally restricted, whereas Logan (red) is pretty much the dictionary definition of Hot-Blooded. | |
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Ironic Nickname: Lucky the Janitor's life has been profoundly unlucky. He was molested by Woody Goodman, he grew up as a Jaded Washout, he becomes a janitor, and then has a total breakdown when Woody's star rises, and he goes on a school shooting and gets killed. Also, when Veronica jokingly says "easygoing Veronica Mars, that's what the kids at school call me", Keith provides the page quote. | |
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Beardness Protection Program | |
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Duncan near the end of the first season. Unless he's actually entering the Beardness Protection Program — at the time that he grows it, he's both depressed and running away from home. | |
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Mistaken for Incest | |
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Mistaken for Incest: This was Season 1's explanation for Veronica's rape. She and Duncan had consensual sex under the influence of GHB. Duncan had previously broken up with Veronica because he mistakenly thought that Veronica was his sister, as his father and her mother had had a longterm affair. Ultimately, Veronica learned that they are not biologically related. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Veronica Mars, whose name means "true image", which ties in with her being a Born Detective and having a pathological obsession with finding the truth (which often comes with taking a picture of it since she's a Private Detective). Plus, the Mars family lives in Neptune, and Veronica drives a Saturn. A character makes the connection in an early season 3 episode. Wallace means foreigner in Norman French—in the pilot episode of the series, Wallace is the new kid in town. Dick Casablancas usually is a dick. Cindy Mackenzie goes by "Mac", and she is the hacker of the group. In Season 4, Matty Ross shares a name with the protagonist of True Grit and is a plucky teenage girl trying to clear her father's name after he's falsely accused of a crime. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: "Clash of the Tritons", Logan's mother having taken all she can from her cheating husband, abandons her car on a bridge and jumps to her death - apparently. Logan refuses to believe it, and they Never Found the Body. A season and a half later, the Big Bad Cassidy Casablancas leaps to his death after having his crimes and Freudian Excuse (sexual abuse which he was trying desperately to keep secret) made public. Logan in the season 1 finale, but unlike the previous 2 examples, he wasn't able to go through with it. | |
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Deceptive Legacy | |
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Deceptive Legacy: One of the cases of the week the eponymous character receives is to track down a classmate's father. It turns out that his mother told him that his father was dead to hide the fact that his father has had a sex change. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name Tim Foyle Gil T. Pardy Carrie Bishop and Susan Knight, who feature most prominently in the episode that also involves Mr. Rooks. Veronica MARS lives in NEPTUNE. From season 3: | |
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Invisible President | |
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Invisible President: In the season 1 finale, the Kane family throws a party where the Governor of California is a guest. Based on the episode's air date and a few chance remarks, it's pretty clear that the governor is intended to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, but his name is never mentioned and he never appears onscreen. | |
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Nominal Importance | |
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Nominal Importance: Inverted. Almost all major and minor characters have first and last names that may be known by greater fans of the show. However, given that the large arcs of the show tended to included a large number of characters, this may not be surprising. | |
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Casting Gag | |
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Casting Gag: Harry Hamlin plays a previous "sexiest man of the 80s", a title that Hamlin himself held, action star. His real life wife, Lisa Rinna, plays his wife. Kevin Smith shows up in season two as a convenience store clerk. | |
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Bus Full of Innocents | |
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Bus Full of Innocents: The second season revolves around the Bus Full of Innocents crashing. | |
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Disney Death | |
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Disney Death: The ending of the second season of has the season's Big Bad Cassidy detonating a remote bomb aboard a plane that presumably has Veronica's dad on it. However, it turns out that her father drove home and he wasn't on the plane. Mac in that same episode. Looks like Cassidy might have killed her, but he didn't. Also in the same episode: Cassidy's suicide isn't shown, we just hear the car alarm going off, which is also a Disney Villain Death. | |
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Everyone Loves Blondes | |
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Everyone Loves Blondes: Logan and Duncan both certainly have a type: Lilly, Veronica, Meg, Hannah, Parker... In "Weapons of Class Destruction", Veronica investigates a guy who turns out to have a thing for blondes. She notes that at least she's his type. | |
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Corruption of a Minor | |
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Corruption of a Minor: In a third season episode, Veronica's client is a young man who was forced to join a militia in Africa at the age of six. | |
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George Jetson Job Security | |
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George Jetson Job Security - The journalism teacher seems to be Neptune High's equivalent of Defense Against the Dark Arts. Ironically, Ms. Dent was originally planned to be a major character, going by her inclusion in the opening titles. | |
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Big Bad Ensemble | |
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Big Bad Ensemble: Season 1 only had one Big Bad. Season 2 has...many. Who killed Felix Toombs and framed Logan for it? Thumper on the Fitzpatricks' orders, but Thumper also repeatedly threatens Weevil and takes the gang from him. The bus crash: Cassidy Casablancas is the actual answer, and given that he also raped Veronica before the start of the series, he qualifies in several different ways. However, Cassidy is also a victim of Woody Goodman, the pedophile mayor who torpedoed incorporation and raped multiple children, including two of the bus crash victims. It's kind of a crowded season. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: Keith's Catchphrase, "Who's your daddy?", turns into this in Season 1 when Veronica suspects he's not her father. Luckily, he is. | |
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If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! | |
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If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Subverted amusingly in one episode. Veronica actually tries to do this when she thinks she has found an Animal Wrongs Group by advocating outright terroristic tactics, but it doesn't work out because the activists are the sensible, law-abiding sort who don't believe in extreme methods. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Troy, Veronica's first boyfriend, got derailed big time. He was Put on a Bus then briefly returned only to reveal that he was dating someone else and committing drug trafficking, albeit not rape. | |
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Embarrassing Password: Mayor Woody Goodman's password is stated to be Mr. Good Wood (without the period, of course).Considering this is only an episode before we learn he is a child molester, this is also a disturbing password Veronica comments on how adorable it is that criminology TA and wannabe amateur sleuth Tim Foyle's password is Dick Tracy. | |
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Straw Feminist | |
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Straw Feminist - Lilith House doesn't care who actually is doing the raping, they just want to pin it on the Pi Sig fraternity so they can shut it down. They even have a member falsely claim to be sexually assaulted to further this agenda. How's that for commitment? | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
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Brother–Sister Incest: subverted. Duncan and Veronica are not siblings, although both thought they were at different points. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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From Bad to Worse: The pilot episode embodies this trope as Veronica lays out her backstory. In the space of a few months, her boyfriend dumped her, her best friend got murdered, her mother left the family, she became a social pariah in her school, her father got recalled from his job as sheriff, and then, just to top things off, she got drugged and raped by someone at a party. And this is all before the show even started. | |
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Relieved Failure | |
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Relieved Failure: Veronica ultimately loses the Kane scholarship, which she's been working hard towards all of Season 2, and thus her ability to attend Stanford. However, she ultimately realizes she's glad to be going to Hearst after she comes to understand how much Wallace and Mac - who are both going to Hearst - mean to her. | |
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Endearingly Dorky | |
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Season 4 has Richard "Big Dick" Casablancas who was always a villain from his first appearance in Season 2, when he was running a Ponzi scheme on top of bullying his youngest son. He also orchestrated a bombing to scare people away from estates he wanted to purchase. But he wasn't behind the further bombings, which was done by the apparently Endearingly Dorky Penn in order to obtain media attention and notoriety. Penn's final bomb then kills Logan after his and Veronica's wedding. | |
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Witless Protection Program | |
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Witless Protection Program: In one episode, Veronica is unintentionally manipulated into tracking down a man in the Witness Protection Program, thinking she's helping a woman find her ex-husband. It wasn't very difficult for her to find out who he was and where he lived, and almost gave the woman the man's home address before her father stopped her and told her who she was actually aiding. | |
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Like Goes with Like | |
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Like Goes with Like: Percy Daggs III was apparently told that Wallace and Veronica would never have a romantic relationship due to his race. Lilly was in a Love Triangle with Logan (white) and Weevil (Hispanic). Although Lilly wasn't overly infatuated with Logan (she was cheating on them both with his dad), Logan was her boyfriend; Weevil was her "side fling". More blatantly, in Season 2, Wallace (black) is in a love triangle with Jackie (black) and Jane (white). He chooses Jackie over Jane. | |
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Mock Millionaire | |
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Mock Millionaire: One episode introduces the richest kid in Neptune, who arrives to school in a limousine and lives in the biggest house in town. The twist ending is that he's the son of the butler, and thus is actually not rich. There's also Richard Casablancas, who turns out to have been running a real estate con all this time. When his son hires Veronica to track Richard's gold digger wife, the con ends up being exposed, and Richard flees the country. However, this is an unusual example because his sons, Dick and Cassidy, don't seem to actually suffer at all for their dad's lack of money, because they had legit trust funds apparently. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
| Veronica Mars / int_7b8b3def | comment |
Celebrity Paradox: In season 4, Vinnie Van Lowe likens teaming up with Mars Investigations to The Avengers. Ken Marino played Joseph Manfredi in Agent Carter. | |
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Character Name Alias | |
| Veronica Mars / int_7c1bf001 | comment |
Character Name Alias: It plays a similar name game with other notable fictional detectives. Keith Mars has memorably introduced himself as "Adrian Monk" and as "Carson Drew, and my daughter Nancy". Veronica, infiltrating a rival school, went by the name Betty, saying she was Horny, the mascot for the Rhinos, the team at her old school...Riverdale. On one occasion, Veronica went to a church group and pretended to be pregnant. Her chosen alias was Hester. | |
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Opening Narration | |
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Opening Narration: "I'm never getting married. You want an absolute? There it is." and so forth. | |
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Horror Hippies | |
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Horror Hippies: Subverted. When she and Keith need to investigate a Cult-like group a boy from her school got involved with, they learn that the group is populated with animal loving, hard working, peace loving hippie types who are inspiring the boy to be a better person than the Jerkass he was before. Veronica and Keith expect that they have a darker side and it was played very dramatically when Veronica ended up hanging out with them herself, but this isn't the case; the group really is as genuinely kind as they seem, and any danger they presented was all imaginary. | |
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Expository Hairstyle Change | |
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Expository Hairstyle Change: Flashbacks of Veronica during season one and Logan's stubble and unkempt appearance during his depression in "Postgame Mortem" due to his break-up with Veronica. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: The series begins with Veronica's monologue while she's spying on a couple. The kind of character Veronica is becomes especially clear when she says "$40 an hour is cheap compared to the long-term financial security sordid photography can secure you...your offspring...your new lover." Cynical, jaded, witty, and sexy. Veronica in a nutshell. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "Between here and Granger, you got rattlesnakes, coyote traps, scorpions, hippies doing mushrooms, all kinds of bad stuff." Not to mention Lamb: "Well, well, what do we have here? An illegal gambling establishment. Underaged drinking. Public displays of affection. It's like Sodom and Gomorrah in here." In "Weapons of Class Discussion", after Veronica figures out who is issuing the bomb threat, she confronts him over the phone. | |
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Cuteness Proximity | |
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Cuteness Proximity: Veronica (and later on Logan) have at least one scene where they degerenate into babytalk when around Backup. | |
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Defiled Forever | |
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Defiled Forever: In the third season, Max doesn't care at first that Wendy (/Fiona/Sharon) is a prostitute, but once they start living together and people start talking about her past and trying to hire her as a stripper, he starts having more and more of a problem. Beaver's freakout about anyone finding out that Woody is a child molester also has shades of this. | |
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MockGuffin | |
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MockGuffin: In the second season episode "I Am God", Veronica is haunted by dreams of the bus crash (the season-long mystery she's trying to solve), and in particular of a drawing of a scythe hanging over nine tombstones, with the words "I Am God" written underneath. She thinks it's a key to how the bus crashed, but it turns out to just be an album cover for an indie rock band. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Hollywood Game Design | |
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Hollywood Game Design: There was an episode where two geeks make a world-class video game in their dorm room, all by themselves. | |
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Relative Error | |
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Relative Error: In the last season, Mac's newly introduced animal-rights-activist love interest turned out to have a female housemate, who triggered this trope. | |
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Embarrassing First Name | |
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Embarrassing First Name: Piz's first name is Stosh. Mac's first name is Cindy. Both use the first syllable of their last name instead. | |
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Artistic License – Law | |
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Artistic License – Law: Many, many occasions - Veronica's cross-examination at the Lilly Kane murder trial being the most egregious. Most episodes have at least one. On at least three occasions when the Dean died, when the bus driver died, and when the Coach died someone asks Veronica or Keith to prove a death ruled a suicide was in fact murder because their life insurance policy won't pay in the case of suicide. In California, life insurance policies are required by law to pay in full in the case of suicide if the policy has been in place for 2 or more years. Less than two years refunds all premiums. | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Casablancas brothers: Dick is stupid, impulsive, never thinks things through, loud, and sex-obsessed. Beaver is intelligent, quiet, reserved, manipulative, secretive, and completely ruthless. Logan and Duncan. Duncan (blue) is reserved and somewhat emotionally restricted, whereas Logan (red) is pretty much the dictionary definition of Hot-Blooded. And, in flashbacks, Lilly and Veronica. Lilly was the brash, wild one (red), whereas Veronica was sweet and demure (blue) before (things changed). | |
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If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her... | |
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If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Veronica gives a Gender Flipped version of the speech to Jackie: | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic. California evidence law was the first to be codified and differs in several ways from most states, especially when Proposition 8 in 1980 made a lot more fair game. If Veronica Mars's sexual history was relevant, even just to show bias, it would be allowable so long as not to prove consent to a rape. Hearsay from an absent third party may also be used on cross-examination to a witness, provided it meets certain qualifications. However that's usually a stupid idea as attacking character of a witness allows the defendant's character to be attacked. But bringing in Veronica's medical records should've brought a mistrial and sanctions (if not disbarment) against Aaron Echolls' lawyer, as those are wholly confidential. | |
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Incredibly Obvious Bug | |
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Incredibly Obvious Bug: Pretty much everything. Sometimes this is played with, though—when Veronica is dealing with particularly savvy characters, she plants two bugs, an obvious one that they find right away and a more inconspicuous one that they don't bother looking for because they think they've already found the bug. Then there was the time in season 2 when the incredibly obvious bug Veronica planted in Sheriff Lamb's office was... an actual bug. | |
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Second Love | |
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Second Love: Logan and Veronica for each other. Possibly, Alicia for Keith. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: A few rather serious points are just... left there. Perhaps the writers were thinking they'd have time to get around to them, but some never even get mentioned again, when they really should have: No one cares about the murder of Aaron Echolls? Why the hell didn't the FBI charge Veronica as an accomplice to kidnapping? Alicia Fennell, who was dating Keith (and they were in the process of repairing their relationship), disappears partway through Season 2, only reappearing in the Season 2 finale to say goodbye to Wallace. What about the murder of Kendall Casablancas? | |
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Jerk Jock | |
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Jerk Jock: Logan in his early appearances before Character Development hit in. Ostracizing Veronica, wrecking her car with a baseball bat, organizing bum fights... The series notably averts this in one episode where a girl cheats on her football playing boyfriend with an artist. The "star athlete" turns out to be genuinely decent and caring, the artist... not so much. Also averted by Wallace, the star basketball player who is, with the possible exception of Meg (Alpha Bitch aversion cheerleader popular girl who is the nicest person around), the best person in the entire series. | |
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Creepy Gym Coach | |
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Creepy Gym Coach: Woody Goodman, who owns the baseball team the Sharks used his position as the Little League coach to abuse multiple kids over the years, including Marcos Oliveras, Peter Ferrer, and Cassidy Casablancas. The fact that Peter and Marcos were going to go to the police to stop Woody abusing anyone else is what leads to the bus crash. | |
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No Communities Were Harmed | |
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No Communities Were Harmed: The series is set in the fictional Neptune, California, an unincorporated locality close to San Diego and Los Angeles. It otherwise borrows elements from both cities and SoCal in general, combining sunny weather with a ludicrously socially stratified society. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality: Some of the things Veronica does are pretty gray morally (see: using Leo to steal evidence). Even the two most arguably moral characters in the show, her friend Wallace and her father Keith, do bad things; Wallace is in a car when it runs over a homeless person and never reports it doesn't report it until weeks later and Keith destroys evidence that would implicate his daughter and has an affair with a married client. | |
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Villain with Good Publicity | |
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Villain with Good Publicity: In order to avoid spoiling anything, suffice it to say there are several of these, although some turn out to be red herrings and not true villains at all. | |
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Parental Favoritism | |
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Parental Favoritism - All over the place: "Lilly always said her parents adored Duncan and tolerated her. If she couldn't please them, she'd go out of her way to piss them off." Aaron Echolls, who dotes on his daughter and beats his son. Made even worse by the fact that Trina refuses to believe Logan's claims of abuse and accuses him of lying in order to make their father look bad. Dick Casablancas Sr. is pretty blatant about favoring his eldest - which ends badly. | |
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Real Song Theme Tune | |
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Real Song Theme Tune - "We Used To Be Friends" by the Dandy Warhols. A slower, Darker and Edgier version replaced it in season three. And a cover version in Season 4 by Chrissy Hyde. | |
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Dame with a Case | |
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Dame with a Case: The show has this trope played straight in the role of Veronica's dad Keith, who is a PI and often gets hit with difficult cases at the behest of beautiful women; a clear example is Kendall hiring him to help her with the Fitzpatricks in Season 2, and trying to clear Mindy O'Dell's name after she's suspected of her husband Dean O'Dell's murder in Season 3. It also gets gender-flipped on both ends and gender-flipped (in a female private eye and female client) in Veronica's cases, which frequently feature mysterious both male and female students turning up to ask Veronica for her help to clear their names: Male: For example, the Dashing Hispanic Weevil asks Veronica to come to his aid after being set up for murder in Season 2, Logan comes to Veronica to ask her for help in Season 1 after his mother's apparent suicide, and mysterious (then) newcomer Cassidy comes to hire her to unravel the mysterious past of his new stepmother Kendall in Season 2. She has just as many female clients as male, although they tend to be one-shot characters. But, for examples, the bus driver's daughter gets her fully ensnared in the bus mystery in Season 2 for trying to prove he didn't commit suicide, Playful Hacker Mac hires her to find out the truth about her parentage (and uncovers a Switched at Birth situation at the same time), and played with by Meg, who is extremely sweet and wholesome but hires Veronica because she's being wrongly labeled as "the school slut". | |
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This Song Goes Out to TV Tropes | |
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This Song Goes Out to TV Tropes: In "Clash of the Tritons", Veronica dedicates her karaoke version of "One Way or Another" to a secret society she’s trying to catch. Subverted when a little girl who is dying to see Logan get back together with Veronica calls a radio station and asks Nick Lachey's "What's Left of Me" to be dedicated to her, from him. Funny, of course, because neither him nor her are exactly the romantic type... and yet this cheesy song somehow rings true. | |
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Derailing Love Interests: Troy, Veronica's first boyfriend, got derailed big time. He was Put on a Bus then briefly returned only to reveal that he was dating someone else and committing drug trafficking, albeit not rape. Meg, almost literally. After Duncan chose to be with Veronica, she's behaving like a massive jerk - admittedly with a good reason - then she gets blown up in the bus crash. Although she survives, she doesn't live much longer. After Meg was derailed to make room for Duncan/Veronica, Duncan himself then got derailed later in Season 2. After he and Veronica decide to be together, Duncan learns that Meg is pregnant with his child, and then has to go on the run, literally never to see Veronica again, rather than face a custody battle with her abusive religious-freaks parents. Logan got derailed to make room for Piz in Season 3 when he slept with Madison Sinclair, Veronica's worst enemy. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: Season 1's penultimate episode "A Trip To The Dentist" reveals the true circumstances of Veronica's rape and plenty more. She wasn't raped; she and Duncan had consensual sex, just under the influence of GHB. And she finally learns that Duncan knew, thanks to Celeste, that there was a good chance Veronica was his half-sister. In Season 2, 'Donut Run', which concludes Duncan's whole arc. He leaves Neptune with baby Lilly and Veronica's help to escape the religious freak Mannings, Veronica loses Keith's trust, and Veronica and Duncan can never see each other again. Season 2 finale "Not Pictured" is one wham after another: Cassidy/Beaver was molested by Woody, so he blew up the bus and killed Curly Moran. And he gave Veronica a STD after he raped her. All of this after he got together with Mac, breaking her heart. Then he commits suicide. And Aaron Echolls is killed by Duncan and Clarence after escaping justice for Lilly's murder. The Season 4 finale "Years, Continents, Bloodshed": Veronica commits to Logan, they get married, Logan gets blown to smithereens by the remaining bomb, and Veronica leaves Neptune. | |
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Private Detective | |
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Private Detective: Both Veronica and her father. Usually working the same case, sometimes just parallel versions. And Vinnie van Lowe. | |
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Undercover as Lovers | |
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Undercover as Lovers: Veronica did this to Logan at the Neptune Grand once to look for his mother. Inverted by Veronica and Duncan, though, in "Donut Run." Veronica and Duncan pretend to have broken up so that Veronica and Duncan kidnap his newborn baby. | |
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California University | |
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California University - Hearst College. | |
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Drama Bomb | |
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Drama Bomb: The bus crash in the opening episode of the second season. | |
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Suspiciously Prescient Planning | |
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Suspiciously Prescient Planning: Veronica eventually puts together that Cassidy Casablancas is the bus bomber because of some of this. Cassidy has enjoyed massive success with his (illegal) real estate company, Phoenix Land Trust. While, on the surface, this may just be showing that Cassidy is a Teen Genius, she figures out that Cassidy was molested by Woody Goodman because Cassidy made his money by betting big against incorporation. To do this, she deduces that he must've known it would fail, which means that he had to be the voice edited out of the tape accusing Woody of child molestation, and the person who blackmailed him into "killing" incorporation. He was able to bet so readily on the failure of incorporation because he knew he had the leverage to get Woody to force it to fail. | |
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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: In the third season, Hearst College Dean's wife Mindy O'Dell. Kendall Casablancas sometimes fills this role in the second season. Additionally, since Veronica Mars is basically Film Noir with the genders flipped, Logan Echolls and Dick Casablancas often fit this role as well, the former especially in season one. | |
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Confessional | |
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Confessional: One second-season episode has Logan and Weevil trying to convince Veronica to bug a confessional, as they're convinced that the priest is involved with a drug ring. She refuses, but agrees — with reservations — to plant a camera with no mic, so they can see if any drugs are being handed off. note Interestingly, she showed no compunctions about bugging therapy sessions a season earlier, nor any prior indication of being particularly religious, so it's a little surprising that she'd have qualms here... | |
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Trivially Obvious | |
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Trivially Obvious: It's a Running Gag that when anyone asks a Neptune resident if they know a good lawyer, the response is always, "I know a lawyer." | |
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Religious Stereotype | |
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Religious Stereotype: Played with when one of Veronica's investigations involves the conservative preacher father of a friend. The preacher's assistant fits the fundie stereotype to a T as well as being the villain of the episode. On the other hand the friend's father turns out to be both honest and compassionate. | |
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Revenge | |
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Revenge: Veronica is a revenge addict. When she starts to run short on targets for personal revenge she looks for other people to get revenge for. | |
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers | |
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Though it's possible he's just saying it to annoy Veronica, Logan insults her then-boyfriend Duncan's prowess by saying that, if the cuddling was the best part, he didn't do it "right". Veronica and Duncan then break up (due to circumstances, not because of the sex) and Logan goes on to be part of an Official Couple with Veronica, following the inference that Logan is a much better and more enthusiastic lay than Duncan. Zigzagged before being played straight. Mac wants to lose her virginity to her first boyfriend, the otherwise-sympathetic Cassidy Casablancas, who's very nervous and averse to sex and sexuality in general, to the point where Mac thinks there's something wrong with her. When they finally get around to trying to have sex for real, Cassidy can't get it up. Immediately after this, it's then revealed that Cassidy is a mass-murderer who raped Veronica while she was unconscious before the start of the series. | |
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Your Favorite | |
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Your Favorite: Subverted. Logan's "loving" father Aaron makes him a birthday dinner of his favorite food. Except it is his sister's favorite and Logan is deathly allergic to it. Aaron responds by getting mad at Logan for not appreciating his efforts. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
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Betty and Veronica: The show has a tendency to overlap love triangles, so that everyone is an Archie and everyone is a Betty or Veronica at certain points. In season 2, Veronica is torn between Duncan (Betty, sort of) and Logan (Veronica). Duncan is also torn between Meg (Betty, Too Good for This Sinful Earth) and Veronica (Veronica). She and Logan become an Official Couple, while Duncan leaves with his and Meg's baby after her death. In season 3, Veronica is torn between Piz (Betty) and Logan (Veronica). Logan also becomes the Archie between Veronica (the Veronica) and Parker (Betty). There's an episode in season 1 called "Betty and Veronica"; however, the episode in question is not an actual example of the trope, although it does contain several Shout Outs to the trope-naming comics. | |
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Christmas Carolers | |
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Christmas Carolers: Seen at a Christmas party. | |
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Big Bad | |
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A straighter example occurs in Season 2's finale, Not Pictured, where the Big Bad Cassidy reminisces about exactly why they killed each person they did, implies that he killed Mac and reminisces about Keith and Woody. | |
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In the Blood | |
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In the Blood A rather sedate example - Cindy Mackenzie, who was Switched at Birth, seems to have inherited every one of her personality traits from her biological parents, and exactly none from the people who raised her for her entire life. The same goes for the girl she was switched with. An overarching example in the series is Veronica, the Born Detective, born of Keith...a detective. | |
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As You Know | |
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As You Know: Used in the season 2 finale, in which the Big Bad and Veronica take a 5 minute timeout before he tries to kill her, for them to confirm yes, she knows everything. Veronica Mars is smarter than me, so I was thankful and disbelief-suspending, for the explanation. | |
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Gambit Roulette | |
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Gambit Roulette: The whole deal with kidnapping Duncan's daughter, Cassidy's far-reaching scheme, and the season three plotline where a teacher's assistant kills the head of the college in order to destroy the life of one of the professors at the college, as payback for him giving a bad reference for the assistant where he basically slagged him and cost him a teaching job at another college. | |
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe | |
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: In the first season, episode 7, that the case of the week involves a pregnant woman fighting with her boyfriend, who isn't the father, makes Veronica think that maybe she's not her father's daughter. This latter point will be a continuing point in the first season. | |
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Absurdly Divided School | |
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Absurdly Divided School: Downplayed. The school, like the rest of Neptune, is divided heavily by social class, with the students of billionaires being favored in almost every circumstance. This was taken further with the school's "Pirate Point" program, which gave athletes and student council members privileges the others were not allowed to have, and when one student ran for president specifically to end this system, she gained a lot of supporters among the lower-class students but was opposed heavily by the richer students and most of the teaching staff. | |
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Quick Nip | |
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Quick Nip: Subverted with a poker game where one of the players periodically takes a swig from a bottle of Jack Daniels he keeps with him. Later in the same episode, Veronica (a very small blonde teenager, and the ex-girlfriend of the player in question) grabs the bottle and takes a long draw, much to the shock of everybody present. She then remarks on his abysmally low alcohol tolerance, and explains that the bottle contains tea. | |
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Let Them Die Happy | |
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Let Them Die Happy - Veronica does this to Abel Koontz. | |
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Cure Your Gays | |
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Cure Your Gays: One episode involved a high school boy whose parents sent him to a camp that was supposed to "de-gay" him. | |
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Expies | |
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Expies: Most of the main characters seem to be this for Sherlock Holmes. The premise is largely the same, though the stories are very different. Veronica=Sherlock Wallace=Watson Logan=Irene Adler Cassidy=Moriarty Keith=Mycroft | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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"My name...is Cassidy!" In fairness to him, it is. | |
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It's for a Book | |
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It's for a Book: Veronica used "it's an assignment for health class" (or some variant thereof) to cover all kinds of activities, including collecting a DNA sample from her dad. Somewhat justified in that she's a good actress and usually plans out her requests beforehand instead of making them up on the spot. The series actually inverts it in the third season. The final assignment from Veronica's former FBI agent criminology professor? A paper on how you'd commit the perfect murder. When the Dean ends up dead in a manner that copies elements from Veronica's paper, she is seriously wigged. | |
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Never Speak Ill of the Dead | |
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In "President Evil," Weevil demands to know how Veronica could date Logan after "how he treated Lilly." The show, to this point, has given us no indication that Logan ever treated Lilly like anything less than a princess, even though Lilly cheated on Logan with both Weevil and his own father. However, this could also be a case of Never Speak Ill of the Dead or just Weevil's own Moral Myopia. | |
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I Never | |
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I Never: An episode in the first season had flashbacks featuring the main character and her former friends ditching going to homecoming and drinking champagne in a limo while playing "I Never." | |
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Artistic License – Religion | |
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Artistic License – Religion: In the third season, Piz starts ranting on his radio show about how even though he is a Catholic school boy, the concept of Purgatory completely baffles him. He then goes on to completely incorrectly explain it as the place for people not good enough for Heaven (a common misconception among non-Catholics and Catholics alike, so maybe this is Truth in Television?). Purgatory is the place of purification for souls on their way to Heaven in which the temporal effects of their sins are cleansed. | |
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Good Parents | |
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Good Parents: Averted with most parents on the show, who range from neglectful to downright abusive, but Veronica's father Keith stands out as one of the greatest dads in television, making her a Daddy's Girl. He lets her help him in his P.I. business all she wants is always supportive when she's down, puts his own personal life on hold when he finds a new paramour because she's still not over her mother Lianne abandoning them, and will destroy anyone who even considers hurting his little girl. | |
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Foe Cooties | |
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Foe Cooties: Veronica can barely look at Logan on learning he slept with Madison Sinclair, let alone date him. | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish" | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Subverted in the Veronica Mars episode "Like A Virgin". Veronica reports that her account's been hacked, and the system administrator gives her a spiel about password safety. Whereupon she reveals that her password was "GJ7B!X" (with possible variation in case). Subverted again in "Mars vs. Mars." Keith changes the combination to his safe to something of personal significance, then leaves it in a location that would be highly visible to a trained PI. When trained PI Veronica finds all the password and opens the safe, it no longer contains files but instead an ink packet that explodes onto her. Played straight, however, in "Happy Go Lucky". Woody Goodman's password is "mr good wood." And we learn that he's a pedophile that episode. | |
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Action Dad | |
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Action Dad: Keith Mars, Veronica's private detective and formerly the town sheriff, goes berserk when first season's villain tries to burn Veronica alive. The domineering, abusive and murderous Aaron Echolls seems oblivious that his daughter is being beaten up by her boyfriend, even appearing interested in starring in a movie he wants to pitch. However, at the start of what looked to be a pleasant dinner he administers one of the most comprehensive beatdowns ever seen on TV, before calmly concluding "I've decided I'm not interested in appearing in your movie." It would appear that the same protectiveness doesn't apply to Logan, though. | |
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The Butler Did It | |
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The Butler Did It: Or more accurately, the butler's son did it. | |
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It's Not You, It's My Enemies | |
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It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Except Veronica breaks up with Logan because she doesn't want to deal with his enemies. Duncan and Veronica's relationship after much Will They or Won't They?, eventually concluded when Veronica helped Duncan to kidnap his and Meg's baby, so he could take her to Australia rather than risk her falling into the hands of Meg's abusive, religious extremist parents, bringing Duncan and Veronica's relationship to a definite end. | |
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Rule of Funny | |
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Cindy Mackenzie much prefers her nickname, Mac. Piz is never called by his first name (Stosh), and Dick is never called Richard, but Rule of Funny is probably in effect with the last one, because he doesn't seem to mind being called it. | |
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The Bad Guys Are Cops | |
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The Bad Guys Are Cops: Although Veronica's rape is a huge Break the Cutie moment for her, it's implied that her faith is really lost when Lamb laughs in her face when she tries to report it. The Neptune police are also famously corrupt. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: Oh, Dick Casablancas. He started off with one word in episode 2 - "Logan" - and his role just got bigger until he got a Promotion to Opening Titles for season 2. It was rumored that the only reason why the actor playing Dick got booted up to full-time cast member was due to the fact that the actor playing Dick's brother Cassidy was brought on full-time for season two, as the Big Bad and that having him in the title and not the actor playing his on-screen brother, would give away the season's twist ending). | |
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MacGuffin | |
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MacGuffin: The rat in Season 2. Veronica thinks that it's a reference to her "ratting" on Aaron Echolls, but it isn't. It mostly seems to be a method of getting the 09ers out of the bus but it's never explicitly cleared up. "Veronica Mars" being written on Curly Moran's hand. In theory, it's a way of throwing everyone off the scent of his connection to Cassidy Casablancas. The briefcase is a classic example. It apparently contains a priceless painting, but it never becomes that important. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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In 1x06, "Return of the Kane", we get "Ventura Highway" playing over Aaron beating Logan with a belt. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Dick Casablancas is responsible for Veronica's rape, as he encouraged his brother to rape Veronica, yet the characters don't seem to care and the writers seem to have forgotten about it. In a second season episode, a lesbian cheerleader poses as a blackmailer preying on Neptune High's gay students with the end goal of outing her girlfriend, who wanted to stay in the closet. It goes off pretty much as planned, with no negative consequences for the cheerleader at all. It is implied that the cheerleader's girlfriend will be told, and not be happy about it. | |
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Mood Dissonance | |
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Mood Dissonance: An episode does this beautifully - a major character is stabbed in the stomach by an ex-lover at a Christmas party while everyone is outside smiling, watching snow fall, and listening to a choir sing happy Christmas music. As described by Veronica: "Christmas in Neptune is, was, and always will be about the trappings - the lights and the tinsel they use to cover up the sordidness, the corruption." | |
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Worst. Whatever. Ever! | |
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Worst. Whatever. Ever!: "Worst. Easter Egg Hunt. Ever." | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Vinnie Van Lowe | |
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Working with the Ex | |
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Working with the Ex - Or at least going to school with him. Or them. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: The entire defense of Aaron Echolls is this since the audience is well aware of what was on those tapes and know how the confrontation that ensued between Veronica, Keith, and Aaron actually went down. To the audience, the fact that Aaron and his lawyer tell Blatant Lies and it works, makes the entire trial infuriating and Aaron's Karmic Death all the sweeter. | |
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Slipping a Mickey | |
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Slipping a Mickey: Played for Drama. This is how Veronica was presumably assaulted, because Dick drugged Madison like this but Madison swapped the glasses, and Logan drugged Duncan, which led to Duncan and Veronica having consensual sex under the influence and Veronica having no memory of it. Then it turns out that Veronica was raped by Cassidy Casablancas on the same night. In Season 3, this is how the Hearst College rapist Mercer gets his victims. And if he doesn't, his co-conspirator Moe will snag them. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: "That's Amore" playing while Aaron Echolls beats the ever-loving crap out of his daughter's abusive boyfriend. Made even darker when you consider that Aaron murdered his son's girlfriend, who he had been having an affair with on the downlow and that said beating scene was Rob Thomas's way of laying the groundwork for Aaron being revealed as the murderer as far as showing him being capable of beating someone nearly to death. The music is in the scene itself, but in episode 1x10, "An Echolls Family Christmas", Christmas carolers were singing while Aaron Echolls was getting stabbed with an ice pick. (It always seems to involve Aaron, doesn't it?). In 1x06, "Return of the Kane", we get "Ventura Highway" playing over Aaron beating Logan with a belt. | |
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Chekhov's Party | |
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Chekhov's Party: Shelley Pomeroy's party, which was always important as it was where Veronica had been raped, but whose true significance came back unexpectedly at the end of Season 2. While in Season 1, Veronica found out that she and Duncan had had consensual sex while drugged, Season 2 brought back Cassidy's story that he told her about being encouraged to rape her but not going through with it. In fact, he did rape her, and he infected her with chlamydia. The school trip that the kids were on when the bus blew up, to the Sharks stadium. It turns out later that Marcos and Peter had planned to reveal that Woody Goodman molested them, and that inspired Cassidy Casablancas to blow up the bus. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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When Veronica finds out that Cassidy is a murderer... and Mac is with him. | |
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The Loins Sleep Tonight | |
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Zigzagged before being played straight. Mac wants to lose her virginity to her first boyfriend, the otherwise-sympathetic Cassidy Casablancas, who's very nervous and averse to sex and sexuality in general, to the point where Mac thinks there's something wrong with her. When they finally get around to trying to have sex for real, Cassidy can't get it up. Immediately after this, it's then revealed that Cassidy is a mass-murderer who raped Veronica while she was unconscious before the start of the series. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: It would be a shorter list to name the characters with lines that weren't. Backup, Mandy, Inga. No, seriously. That's about it. Every other character on the show is a deadpan snarker or tries to be. And Backup is a dog. And several people are convinced that he can have a very sarcastic face when he wants to. | |
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Fictional Province | |
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Fictional Province: The series is set in the fictional unincorporated town of Neptune in Southern California. Neptune itself is located in the fictional Balboa County, which appears to have been carved out of parts of the Orange and San Diego counties. | |
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All for Nothing | |
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All for Nothing: Many times, befitting the noir world. Abel Koontz falsely confessed to Lilly's murder and was paid off by the Kanes who thought their son, Duncan, was guilty. As a result, he got millions, which he couldn't enjoy as he was in prison and dying of lung cancer. However, Veronica figures out that this was all to help his daughter, Amelia to live in wealth and luxury. By the time Veronica finds her, though, Amelia has been murdered by her boyfriend and hidden in a fridge, so Koontz outlives her. Veronica wastes her chance at the Kane Scholarship by walking out of her last final to see justice done for Lilly...which doesn't happen as Aaron gets away with it. The Kanes, too, handsomely paid off Abel to confess to Lilly's murder, as they believed Duncan was guilty. He wasn't, which just led to her real killer going free for much longer. | |
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Creepy Children Singing | |
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Creepy Children Singing: Near the end of the second season, there's a closing-episode montage set to Alejandro Escovedo's "Falling Down Again", which features children singing in the chorus and laughing during the fade-out, playing in conjunction with the imagery of Thumper chained to a urinal, struggling while the stadium is being demolished. | |
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Off-into-the-Distance Ending | |
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Off-into-the-Distance Ending: In the final scene of the series, Veronica walks away into the rain, signifying the consequences of the series finale being rather crappy (her Dad's facing charges that could land him serious jail time for protecting her, and their primary opponent for her Dad's old job as Sheriff is a corrupt puppet of the Mafia). As the camera pans out, we get the impression that Veronica is upset not only because she inadvertently got her Dad in trouble, but because she knows she'll never change her ways. | |
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Film Noir | |
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Film Noir: The show somehow effectively used this style in a San Diego high school setting. And gender swapped. | |
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Loners Are Freaks | |
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Loners Are Freaks: Averted, where the titular heroine is a loner in season 1. Later seasons acknowledge the trope's effect, however, as Veronica sporadically feels guilty about the fact that she really operates better alone. The Big Bad of Season 2, Cassidy, is a pretty big loner and also a violent rapist and murderer. | |
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Head-in-the-Sand Management | |
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Head-in-the-Sand Management: Apart from her father, the closest anyone comes to a Reasonable Authority Figure is Vice Principal (later Principal) Clemmons. Everyone else is a complete ass. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Too many to count: Most notably Logan, who has a father who emotionally and physically abused him... and also slept with and then killed his girlfriend. There's also the religious zealotry of the Mannings, who lock their seven year old daughter in a closet because she's "not ready to be tested." There's also Big Dick Casablancas, who would have competitions with his oldest son to see who could make his youngest son cry. Implied for Rodney and Gia Goodman's mother, but we still have no idea what she actually did. Played with about their father, Woody, who is a child molester, which leaves Gia in a Fate Worse than Death by the movie, but it's not made clear if he abused Rodney. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Implied for Rodney and Gia Goodman's mother, but we still have no idea what she actually did. Played with about their father, Woody, who is a child molester, which leaves Gia in a Fate Worse than Death by the movie, but it's not made clear if he abused Rodney. | |
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Tap on the Head | |
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Tap on the Head: In the first season finale, several people get rather badly knocked about. Keith, after a knock-down drag out with Lily's killer and a bad encounter with a fire, ends up in the hospital, as does the killer (who also gets hit by a delivery truck and attacked by a pit bull). Meanwhile, Veronica was knocked out by a car wreck and beaten unconscious by the killer but the doctor just sends her home for some restnote After two concussions, one right after the other? That would never happen. | |
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Tracking Device | |
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Tracking Device: Used over and over again in order to track and find nearly anybody. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: In "President Evil," Weevil demands to know how Veronica could date Logan after "how he treated Lilly." The show, to this point, has given us no indication that Logan ever treated Lilly like anything less than a princess, even though Lilly cheated on Logan with both Weevil and his own father. However, this could also be a case of Never Speak Ill of the Dead or just Weevil's own Moral Myopia. Cassidy was never intended to have raped Veronica. His story about what happened that night was supposed to be true, until Rob Thomas thought it added more emotional weight to the Season 2 finale. Veronica is digging around to find out what happened during Jake Kane's time at boarding school in Season 3. However, he went to Neptune High with Veronica's mother Lianne and his future wife Celeste, which was one of the major running threads throughout Season 1 and even kicked off one of the main mysteries, if he could be Veronica's father. | |
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Rearrange the Song: The series used The Dandy Warhol's "We Used to Be Friends" for its theme. The third season, which moved from high school to college, switched to a dramatically different remix of the song - it was much slower and more electronic than indie rock. Allegedly, it was meant to have more of a noir feel to it. | |
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Pants-Positive Safety | |
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Pants-Positive Safety: Two notable examples in season 4: one is a Mexican sicario who puts his gun down the back of his pants when he answers the door; a none-too-bright hillbilly does the same thing a few episodes later, only he shoves the gun down his crotch. | |
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Widowed at the Wedding | |
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Logan and Veronica are a prime example of this in modern day fiction. They try it out several times, but each time circumstances contrive to keep them apart, usually through their clashing personalities and Logan's self-destructive behavior. This is subverted by the 2014 movie, however. In the end how they ultimately prove to be one of the greater examples of a tragedy, as after getting through all the crap, both their own and the worlds, to be together, and Logan fixing his dark places and his time in the Navy maturing him greatly, he proposes during season 4, Veronica finally finds herself in a good enough place to accept his proposal. During the series finale, come the scene immediately after their wedding, and the two preparing to go on their honeymoon, Logan goes to move the car out of the alleyway for street cleaning, and dies in a car bombing meant for Veronica. The episode is even title "Years, Continents, Bloodshed". | |
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Executive Meddling | |
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Executive Meddling: A rare case where even the creator admits that the network's involvement was beneficial. The original script for the pilot had Veronica and Keith estranged at the end of the episode after Veronica discovers the postcards her mother has been sending hidden in his safe. The network gave Rob Thomas a note saying "Her best friend is dead. She's been raped. Her mom has deserted her. She's a pariah at school. You can't take her dad away, too." Thomas describes himself as "eternally grateful" for this intervention. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Lilly was in a Love Triangle with Logan (white) and Weevil (Hispanic). Although Lilly wasn't overly infatuated with Logan (she was cheating on them both with his dad), Logan was her boyfriend; Weevil was her "side fling". | |
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Self-Induced Allergic Reaction | |
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Self-Induced Allergic Reaction - A suspect eats peanut butter cookies in order to trigger his nut allergy and escape from jail. | |
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Valley Girl | |
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Valley Girl - Gia, Madison, Hallie. | |
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Maybe Ever After | |
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Maybe Ever After: The show ended this way, with hints of possible feelings lingering between Veronica and Logan while she was dating Piz at the time. In this case, the lack of resolution might simply be a result of the series being canceled. The 2014 movie then reaffirmed their feelings for each other. | |
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Moose and Maple Syrup | |
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Moose and Maple Syrup: The girls are pressured to join a dorm-wide party where everyone decorates their rooms like a different country. They give a Take That! to the whole thing by picking Canada, with the country spirit consisting of a picture of a moose, saying "Eh," and playing Barenaked Ladies songs. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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A funnier example occurs in "The Rapes of Graff", when a prostitute comes over to Veronica and Keith's apartment: | |
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Danger Takes a Backseat | |
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Danger Takes A Back Seat: Well played, Aaron Echolls. | |
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Gender-Inverted Trope | |
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Gender-Inverted Trope: Wallace is a male Girl Friday, and Logan often acts as a male Femme Fatale. | |
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Clear My Name | |
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Clear My Name: Veronica spends a lot of her time doing this. Usually it's either her or Eli being accused, but other people get their turns occasionally. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Yeah, trying to harm Veronica with Keith or Logan around is probably not the best idea. Especially noticeable when Keith loses it at Aaron Echolls' lawyer in Season 2 for insinuating V is a liar and/or promiscuous. Cassidy Casablancas hates being called "Beaver" and nearly always complains about it when he can. Even before it turns out he's completely insane. | |
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Dangerous Clifftop Road | |
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Dangerous Clifftop Road: For a long time, Veronica assumed the bus crashed off the cliffside route in Season 2, kicking off that mystery arc and killing a whole bus of students. It was only later on that Keith realized there was a bomb planted alongside and the killer timed it then to send them into the water. However, the students who weren't killed by the blast did drown. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: Meg Manning, Cassidy Casablancas, Gia Goodman, Vincent Vanlowe. Cindy Sinclair and Madison Mackenzie, if they weren't switched at birth and kept the same name. | |
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Born from a Dead Woman | |
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Born from a Dead Woman: In Season 2, Meg Manning gave birth to her and Duncan's baby daughter while in a coma after the bus crash. She dies of a brain aneurysm. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Really Gets Around - Lily was like this. Also, Parker (for a while). Aaron Echolls slept with (at least) three guests at their previous Halloween party (and possibly one serving girl he simply forgot about) at a party his wife attended! | |
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Locker Mail | |
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Locker Mail: Veronica is framed for running a fake ID business, which operates by high school students putting their name and cash in an envelope and depositing it in a "magic" locker that doesn't belong to anyone, and then a fake ID appears in their locker the next day. | |
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Interrupted Suicide | |
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Logan in the season 1 finale, but unlike the previous 2 examples, he wasn't able to go through with it. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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Subverted Trope by Meg, whose parents are crazy fundies, but is still a very nice person. | |
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Going by the Matchbook | |
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Going by the Matchbook: In a flashback, we see that Lily has quite a collection of matchbooks with Hispanic names and phone numbers written on them. Of course, she's never been to the bars or met the guys, she just left them around the house for her mother to find.... | |
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Character Title | |
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Character Title: Also prominently features the Mars family as opposed to putting the father in the background. | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male - Partially averted, partially played straight. Veronica bluntly points out that what the members of Lilith House did to Chip Diller was rape and he is clearly traumatised by it. On the other hand he is such an Asshole Victim that it is very difficult for the character to invoke sympathy. However, the female rapists are still portrayed more sympathetically than he is. | |
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Ho Yay | |
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Same gender examples include Dick and Logan, who live together in the movie, in addition to being best friends throughout their time at Hearst. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Mallory Dent, in the opening credits as a main character for the first handful of episodes and then never seen again. Hand Waved into Put on a Bus some time later with a vague reference to the character being on maternity leave. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
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Badass Bookworm: Veronica, a straight-A Teen Genius, who is also not afraid of a fight and more than capable of masterminding a few revenge plots. Who would have thought that Cassidy was capable of murdering at least 10 people, and probably more? | |
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And Starring | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c40c8b74 | comment |
And Starring: "And Enrico Colantoni." | |
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Ass Shove | |
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Ass Shove: In one episode, Chip Diller was drugged and had an Easter egg stuck up his ass. | |
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Face on a Milk Carton | |
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Face on a Milk Carton: Played straight in an episode where Veronica and her dad are investigating the "Mooncalf Collective", a hippie group near their town. After returning home, VM pours herself a glass of milk and recognizes a teen she met at the Collective, giving her dad the evidence he needs to bring the authorities into the matter (The story takes place ~2005, making it an anachronism). | |
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Not So Great Escape | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c4d30144 | comment |
Not So Great Escape: Veronica often gets caught during her investigations, hiding once in the leg space of a desk and another time in a closet. | |
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Big Damn Movie | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c5d36037 | comment |
Big Damn Movie: Is a go! | |
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Blah, Blah, Blah | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c676a2f8 | comment |
Blah, Blah, Blah: Quoth Wallace to Veronica, in one episode, "Course, you're not listening to a word I said. So I might as well have said, 'blah blah blah, blah, blahbity blah blah." | |
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Cliffhanger | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c6b8d37a | comment |
Cliffhanger: Season One ends on several cliff hangers. Aaron Echolls has been arrested, but it's unclear how Veronica's relationship will be affected. The audience knows that Logan had an incident on the bridge where he contemplated suicide, although the characters don't. | |
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Truth-Telling Session | |
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Truth-Telling Session - A flashback makes it clear: never play "I Never" with friends, unless you want it to turn into one of these. With booze. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Has its own page. | |
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c82e751f | comment |
Unspoken Plan Guarantee - Season 2. Pick an episode. | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c83a589c | comment |
Luke, I Am Your Father: Subverted when paternity tests confirm that Keith Mars is indeed Veronica's father, not her mother's highschool sweetheart Jake Kane. And then played straight with Logan's adopted sister in an interesting way that somehow managed to avoid the usual cliché of the trope. Also played straight at the end of the second season episode "Green-Eyed Monster" with Wallace and Nathan. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse:Does this with several characters: Logan isn't exactly a villain, but he does have a home life worthy of one: his famous father sleeps around and is physically abusive, his mother commits suicide, and his sister is an emotionally void, aspiring (and failing) actress whose primary motivation in life is to improve her career without working at all. For that matter, Logan's father—a murderer himself—claims that it was his father's abuse which made him who he is. Even more blatantly, Cassidy Casablancas is a psychotic mass-murdering teenager due largely to the physical and emotional abuse of his father and older brother. The show also has a Lampshade Hanging. In the first-season episode "Drinking the Kool-Aid," a boy joins a cult, and his rich parents ask Mr. Mars why he'd go when he was provided for. Mr. Mars says that it's often rich kids who leave, and the boy's father sighs (paraphrasing): "Yes, I know what you're thinking. Spoiled rich kid, no material need denied, no spiritual need fulfilled. That's not us." Subverted Trope by Meg, whose parents are crazy fundies, but is still a very nice person. In the same episodes where we find out about Meg's parents, Sheriff Lamb also indicates his dad abused him, and combines it with a Pet the Dog moment. | |
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Criminal Mind Games | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c895f927 | comment |
In season 4, Neptune is plagued by a series of bombings committed by a deranged serial killer who even starts playing Criminal Mind Games with the authorities. It turns out that there's actually two separate bombers: the first, Perry Walsh, was hired by "Big" Dick Casablancas to further a real estate scam, the second, Penn Epner, is a copycat who started his own series of bombings based on what he mistakenly believed to be the original bomber's modus operandi. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c9597a03 | comment |
Self-Deprecation: Season 3 had quite a bit more Product Placement put in it by creator Rob Thomas than previous seasons. In the second-to-the-last episode ever, after two Product Placements in a row, this conversation happened: | |
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Slut-Shaming | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c972d624 | comment |
Slut-Shaming: Season 3's serial rapist arc. The worst perpetrators are the Straw Feminists. Also used by Aaron Echolls's defense attorney to discredit Veronica's testimony as simply made up by a Fille Fatale angry that her sexual advances towards his client were rebuked. | |
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Post Coital Collapse | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c9e5a634 | comment |
Post-Coital Collapse: Several of Kendall and Logan's sex scenes are filmed like this, specifically in "Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner" when Kendall cuddles up to him as a way of attempting to get money from him after finding out she's broke. | |
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Necro Cam | |
| Veronica Mars / int_c9e7f2b | comment |
Necro Cam: They use one of these sequences at the end of season one, where Veronica finally pieces together what actually happened. She presumably explains her theory to Duncan while the audience sees the footage of her idea being performed. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
| Veronica Mars / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error: Cervando, one of the victims of the bus crash, manages to have three different last names in various episodes where he's mentioned. The date of Shelly Pomroy's party (where Veronica was raped) changes by several months when it's brought up in season 3. In the series finale, Veronica hints to Jake Kane that she knows some deep, dark secret about his time at boarding school. Except he went to Neptune High, and the show even had a whole storyline about the Kanes and Marses' history there. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| Veronica Mars / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Jake Kane appears to be your standard Corrupt Corporate Executive asshole, but he is overcome with emotion at seeing the "real" Lilly (mischievous, misbehaving, vibrant, bubbly) on the memorial video. | |
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Non-Action Guy | |
| Veronica Mars / int_cc1bd54d | comment |
Keith Mars, who previously gave off the impression of a Non-Action Guy, goes berserk when the first season's villain tries to burn Veronica alive. He even walks straight through the fire to save his daughter, spending several weeks in a hospital afterwards. | |
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Switched at Birth | |
| Veronica Mars / int_cd54b574 | comment |
Switched at Birth - Mac and Madison. This leads to a Tear Jerker when Mac meets her blood sister and mother at Madison's. | |
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Spoiler Opening | |
| Veronica Mars / int_cd83fa5b | comment |
Spoiler Opening: Averted in the second season, where Duncan's brief cameo in the season finale, where it's revealed that he ordered the execution of Aaron Echolls, was a surprise largely because he hadn't been removed from the opening credits after he was written out. As if to make up for this, in the third season finale the reveal that Jake Kane is the head of The Castle (Neptune's secret society) is undercut by having Kyle Secor listed as a Special Guest Star at the start of the episode. | |
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Downtime Downgrade | |
| Veronica Mars / int_ce195b81 | comment |
Downtime Downgrade: Essentially happens with Logan and Veronica after season 1, would be an Offscreen Breakup if not for a brief flashback. Averted after season 2 - they don't break up after summer, they do it on screen... a few times. | |
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Misery Builds Character | |
| Veronica Mars / int_ce6487aa | comment |
Misery Builds Character: Via Word of God, this is why Logan is killed off at the end of Season 4. Many people aren't happy. | |
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Porn Names | |
| Veronica Mars / int_cf6ce348 | comment |
Porn Names: An escort site had, among their employees, a lady named "Bambi Gasm". | |
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Never Suicide | |
| Veronica Mars / int_cfbd1467 | comment |
Never Suicide: Subverted with Logan's mother. It really was just a suicide. (Probably. They never did find the body.) Played straight with Dean O'Dell, whose murder is an elaborate suicide set-up to eventually implicate his unfaithful wife and her lover. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d001c42c | comment |
Anti-Villain: a few of the "bad guys" have sympathetic motives, such as Ryan in "Ahoy Mateys" (revenge for the death of the boy he loved) or Pete in "Weapons of Class Destruction" (revenge for years of bullying that put him in the hospital and turned his father against him). | |
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| Veronica Mars / int_d013cd12 | type |
Lovable Rogue | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d013cd12 | comment |
Lovable Rogue - Just about the entire cast - most notably Veronica, Logan, Weevil, and Mac all qualify. | |
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Ripped from the Phone Book | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d05bc66b | comment |
Ripped from the Phone Book: Wallace's estranged father Nathan Woods rips out the page of a phone book while looking for Alicia Fennel's address. | |
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Broken Bird | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d08595d3 | comment |
Broken Bird: Veronica herself is the clearest example, but Cassidy is a villainous Rare Male Example, and Mac becomes one after Season 2. | |
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Monkeys on a Typewriter | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d0c8e54 | comment |
Monkeys on a Typewriter - Veronica references this when she realizes that she knows Curly Moran after all. | |
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Troubled, but Cute | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d22a7df2 | comment |
Troubled, but Cute: Logan, Weevil, Veronica... | |
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Teen Genius | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d280a296 | comment |
Veronica, a straight-A Teen Genius, who is also not afraid of a fight and more than capable of masterminding a few revenge plots. | |
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Mail-Order Bride | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d346d7e8 | comment |
Mail-Order Bride: Subverted in an episode. A woman claiming to be a Russian emigrant looking for an ex-boyfriend she met through the Internet turns out to be a member of Russian mafia searching for a witness. | |
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| Veronica Mars / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Veronica gets this a lot. Most notably in season two: Veronica Mars finally gets the goods to destroy her mortal enemy Donald Lamb and help get her father elected sheriff once again, after obtaining an audio recording that has him extorting a bribe from a retired baseball player, who threw a playoff game to pay off his gambling debts. One problem: Wallace is dating the baseball player's daughter and the revelation would destroy her reputation at school. On top of this, Wallace has just discovered that his mother has been lying to him all of his life about his father being dead, when his father finally shows back up in Neptune to visit the son his ex kept him from seeing. But Veronica is too busy to lend a sympathetic ear to Wallace, as she's too concerned with finding the proper venue to play the audio recording for maximum damage. This causes Wallace to lose his trademark cool and verbally ream Veronica out over how distracted by revenge she has become and worse, how she doesn't care that her scheme will ruin the life of Wallace's girlfriend. Veronica gives this to Keith when he sleeps with a married woman and then proceeds to hand out every excuse they've heard from their marks. | |
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Opening Shout-Out | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d3a840a8 | comment |
Opening Shout-Out: At the beginning of an episode, Veronica describes another girl with, "We used to be friends, a long time ago." This segues immediately into the opening credits, which begin with the Dandy Warhols singing, "A long time ago, we used to be friends ..." | |
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Fidelity Test | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d4408b5d | comment |
Fidelity Test: Veronica plays a Fille Fatale to find out whether the jealous client's fiancee is cheating. He isn't, but it doesn't end well for them anyway. | |
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| Veronica Mars / int_d6253d71 | type |
TheGwenStacy | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d6253d71 | comment |
The Gwen Stacy: Meg for Veronica and Duncan, also Kendall for Keith (oddly enough) | |
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The Chessmaster | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d62dd556 | comment |
The Chessmaster: Veronica pulls off several of these to catch criminals. The plan she uses to allow Duncan to escape the USA with his child crosses into roulette territory. There's also the epic scheming of Cassidy Casablancas. Not only did he kill a dozen people, keep any attention off him for months, manipulate and blackmail his way through the stock market, he's also the only person I can ever remember lying to Veronica's face and not having her suspect at all. And he's just 16. He's good dammit. | |
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Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job | |
| Veronica Mars / int_d67e900a | comment |
Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: After Lianne walks off with Veronica's $50,000 bounty, the latter temps as a barista. | |
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Fake Guest Star | |
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Fake Guest Star: The series always had an interesting relationship with leads v. guest stars. The actor portraying Ms Dent was listed as main cast in Season 1, despite only appearing for a handful of scenes over four episodes (and disappearing from the credits, though not promotional materials, after seven). In Seasons 2 and 3, new one-season-arc characters Jackie, Piz and Parker were promoted to leads above some recurring co-stars who played equally significant roles in all three seasons. Season 1 recurring characters Dick and Cassidy were promoted to lead cast in Season 2, though it's rumoured that Dick was only promoted to disguise the fact that Cassidy's promotion was due to him being the Big Bad of the season, as his role didn't really expand until Season 3. Meanwhile in all this, Tina Majorino as "Mac" appeared in at least as many or more episodes than Dick, Cassidy and Jackie, played a more significant role in the main plot than two of the three, yet wasn't promoted to lead credits until Season 3, along with Michael Muhney as Don Lamb, another actor who'd been with the show since the first season. | |
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Heinousness Retcon | |
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Heinousness Retcon: In season 1, Veronica investigates the circumstances around the night she was raped and confronts Cassidy Casablancas, one of her initial main suspects. He admits that his Big Brother Bully tried to pressure him to do it, but he couldn't go through with it. This is accepted, with him just being a secondary character who is quickly dismissed from the investigation and has no further role in the plot. Come season 2, and Cassidy is revised to now be the calculating Big Bad of the season who is the mastermind behind several murders. With Veronica randomly realizing that he was lying to her before and really did rape her, all delivered in a single line. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Practically everyone on the show is guilty of some version of this. Veronica herself constantly exploits any and all connections she has in law enforcement. Usually justifiable, considering she lives in Neptune. | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math: Logan Echolls finds out that his late mother's trust fund is running low unexpectedly. He's told that it's going to run out in fourteen months at this rate, but it turns out that it's only losing ten thousand dollars a month more than expected. The idea that his losing one-hundred and forty thousand dollars means he'll be broke in a little over a year doesn't mesh well with his continuing stereotypical rich-kid lifestyle nor the subtext suggesting that he noticed the missing money because he's actually being financially responsible. | |
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Who's Your Daddy? | |
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Who's Your Daddy? Jake Cane hadan affair with Lianne Mars which leads spoiler: Veronica to trick her father into giving a blood sample for a DNA test. She's offered money by the Cane family to throw away the DNA test and renounce all possible inheritance rights, which are considerable. She's left wondering until her father shows her the results of the DNA test he had done. He asks who "Who's your daddy?" and she replies "You are, daddy.". | |
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False Confession | |
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False Confession: This is a major part in the Lily Kane murder mystery in the first season: Disgruntled former Kane Software employee Abel Koontz confesses to the murder of Lily Kane, but in reality the Kanes agreed to pay for his daughter's future so that he would take the fall (He's dying from a disease, so he doesn't particularly care what happens to him), because they believe that their son Duncan killed Lily in an epileptic fit. Because of his confession, Sheriff Lamb ends the investigation, saying they found the killer, causing Veronica and her disgraced-Sheriff-now-PI father to investigate it themselves. | |
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Parents Walk In at the Worst Time | |
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Parents Walk In at the Worst Time: Aaron Echolls accidentally walks in on Logan and Veronica making out. He politely makes an excuse and leaves, and later, when Veronica has to hide from Logan's friends (their relationship is still a secret), even offers to drive Veronica home, and tells her he approves of her with Logan. | |
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Arc Welding | |
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Arc Welding: Arc Patching, if not Arc Welding, was done when the season 2 bus bombing storyline wrapped up. The perpetrator was revealed to also have raped Veronica at Shelly Pomroy's party, a storyline thought to be wrapped up in season 1 as being not rape, but semi-consensual sex between two people who had been independently, involuntarily roofied. This explained Veronica's chlamydia, despite her having only two (or, as The Reveal made plain, actually three) sexual partners and presumably using protection, the existence of which was used to paint Veronica as a slut and therefore untrustworthy in the trial of Aaron Echolls. The blatant illegality of delving into her medical records for some reason not resulting in a mistrial is another debate entirely. | |
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Red Herring | |
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Red Herring: Par for the course for a detective show. Veronica always has to run down one or two false leads. Taken up to eleven in the second season, in which she has to investigate every single victim of the bus crash in order to find out who was really behind it. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: The solution to Veronica's rape. Initially, she and Duncan had only had drugged sex, which Veronica had no memory of the next morning. Except, nope, Cassidy's story about being encouraged by Dick to rape Veronica was true, and he actually went through with it, just a short while before Duncan found Veronica. The fact that the Big Bad of Season 2, Beaver/Cassidy, was able to just happen upon Curly Moran being beat up by the PCHers who promptly got out of town. | |
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Ship Tease | |
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Ship Tease: Played for laughs between Dick and Mac. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: "A Trip to the Dentist" features Veronica asking a bunch of previously one-off characters questions leading her to find out what happened the night she was raped. Duncan in "Not Pictured". It seems like he was only there for a flashback but it turns out he had Clarence kill Aaron | |
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Token Black Friend | |
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Token Black Friend: Wallace. He gets his own story in season 2...which results in him leaving the show for several episodes...and is promptly written into the background of season 3, although he got a few storylines in Season 3. Weevil might also count as a sassy latino associate, but he's got enough of his own motivations that he might count as independent of Veronica...except he needs her help frequently to get him out of jail. The show tried a little harder than most shows to make the minority best friend more three-dimensional. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Late in season 3, when Dick experiences a Despair Event Horizon over Cassidy's death. | |
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Come to Gawk | |
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Come to Gawk: This is the subtext of the second season when a parent commits a crime, their children have to walk the walk of shame. In "Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough", Jackie is volunteered to sit as target in the water balloon carnival booth, in a bikini, being pelted with cold water by people who hate her. It's also a common occurrence for people to be stripped naked and duct-taped to the high school's flagpole. | |
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Playful Hacker | |
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She has just as many female clients as male, although they tend to be one-shot characters. But, for examples, the bus driver's daughter gets her fully ensnared in the bus mystery in Season 2 for trying to prove he didn't commit suicide, Playful Hacker Mac hires her to find out the truth about her parentage (and uncovers a Switched at Birth situation at the same time), and played with by Meg, who is extremely sweet and wholesome but hires Veronica because she's being wrongly labeled as "the school slut". | |
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Bad Guy Bar | |
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Bad Guy Bar: The River Stix. | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: In a rather gruesome scene in season 2 of Veronica Mars, Weevil has Logan kidnapped. Two PCH bikers proceed to play Russian Roulette with Logan's hands and knees until he tells them whether or not he killed Felix Toombs. | |
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Dead Person Conversation | |
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Dead Person Conversation: Veronica spends much of the first season conversing with her murdered best friend Lilly Kane. Duncan, Lilly's brother, also speaks with her. In the second season episode "I Am God" Veronica dreams she's speaking to the victims of a bus-crash. | |
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Nemesis as Customer | |
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Nemesis as Customer: Veronica starts working at Jabba the Hutt in Season 2 when she leaves Mars Investigations. She's forced to serve Jackie Cook who is snobby and demanding from the beginning, which only gets worse when Jackie brings other guys to the coffee shop while toying with the feelings of Wallace, Veronica's best friend. However, Jackie and Veronica becomes friends after Jackie goes through Break the Haughty and starts working at the coffee shop herself. | |
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Turns Red | |
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Turns Red - The season one final fight between Keith Mars and Aaron Echolls qualifies this. | |
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Interrupted Intimacy | |
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Interrupted Intimacy: An episode has an (adult) hacker's relationship with a student (minor) at the school revealed by Veronica and her camera as a blackmail scheme. She even says "There's something seedy in being the interruptus in somebody else's coitus." | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: Or woman. Given how common terrible parenting is in Neptune, it's not surprising this happens every once in a while: In the season one finale, Veronica finally calls out on her mother about everything, the drinking, the abandonment... and kicks her out. Logan gets a few of these; most notably the scene when he and his Dad are sharing a jail cell and Logan yells at him for Lilly's murder. Trina calls out her BioDad in season 2, for, y'know, abandoning her at the prom of the school he taught at. Dick gets a big one in season three, when he gives his dad hell for the way they treated Cassidy, and asks if it's their fault he's evil and dead. Wallace sings out his with "Papa Was a Rolling Stone." | |
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Cult | |
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A much more malign version is present in "The Bitch Is Back", with the Castle at for Hearst College, which might just cross the line into a full-fledged cult. Among other things, pledges are tortured to make them tell the truth about their various misdeeds. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: "My name...is Cassidy!" In fairness to him, it is. A funnier example occurs in "The Rapes of Graff", when a prostitute comes over to Veronica and Keith's apartment: | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: A few characters potentially, but Veronica herself definitely fits the best. Let's list all the things that happen to her throughout the show: her boyfriend dumps her without notice, her best friend is murdered, she's roofied and raped, she's framed for cheating multiple times in an academic context (which is an efficient way to sabotage an academic career), she's locked in a burning fridge, attacked with her own taser, and roughed up by an Irish mobster. That's not to count the relentless bullying and emotional isolation the rest of her school puts her through. And her response to all this? Find out who's responsible for [insert travesty] and make them pay. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Logan and Veronica are a prime example of this in modern day fiction. They try it out several times, but each time circumstances contrive to keep them apart, usually through their clashing personalities and Logan's self-destructive behavior. This is subverted by the 2014 movie, however. In the end how they ultimately prove to be one of the greater examples of a tragedy, as after getting through all the crap, both their own and the worlds, to be together, and Logan fixing his dark places and his time in the Navy maturing him greatly, he proposes during season 4, Veronica finally finds herself in a good enough place to accept his proposal. During the series finale, come the scene immediately after their wedding, and the two preparing to go on their honeymoon, Logan goes to move the car out of the alleyway for street cleaning, and dies in a car bombing meant for Veronica. The episode is even title "Years, Continents, Bloodshed". Duncan and Veronica are also an example, in which while Duncan doesn't end up dying like Logan not only can they never be together, they can't even so much as contact each other without the risk of spending the rest of their lives in prison. Veronica herself lampshades this | |
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Not Blood Siblings | |
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Not Blood Siblings: In season 1, Veronica finds out that her mother and the father of her ex-boyfriend Duncan Kane were High-School Sweethearts who may have continued their relationship as an extra-marital affair... meaning that she and Duncan may or may not be half-siblings. This revelation leads her to pull her car over and puke on the side of the road. Luckily, the paternity test that her father has done proves that she and Duncan aren't related. A few months later, they resume their relationship. Though according to Word of God, Duncan was SUPPOSED to be Veronica's half-brother for real, but the network wouldn't let them put Actually-Blood-Siblings sex on the air. So it was originally meant to be a complete (and squicky) subversion of the trope. | |
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Telegraph Gag STOP: There’s a blackly humorous one of these in the episode "Lord of the Bling"; at Lynn Echolls' funeral, Aaron asks Logan if he's heard from his half-sister Trina: | |
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Backstory | |
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Back Story: The series had a massive backstory that explained how Veronica, a formerly girly high school student, became a hard-boiled sardonic detective. Apparently all it takes is: 1) having the Sheriff be your father; 2) have your best friend murdered under mysterious circumstances; 3) have your father disgraced by the rich locals after he fails to close the case; 4) lose face with your peers because you stand by him; 5) go to a party with your peers only to get roofied and raped. The result? A jaded, cynical 17 year-old girl with an appetite for getting the truth—the perfect storytelling recipe for awesome. | |
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Briefcase Full of Money | |
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Briefcase Full of Money: Subverted. In the season 2 finale, Kendall just gets a several-million-dollar windfall as the result of Cassidy's suicide. She then walks into Keith's office with a briefcase and tries to offer him a job. When he refuses, she shows him the contents of the briefcase — which the audience doesn't get to see — and he agrees to take it. A few episodes into season 3, we learn that the briefcase actually contained a van Gogh painting, not cash. | |
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Monster of the Week | |
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Played with in "Silence of the Lamb"; Leo, a rookie deputy at the police department, actually rescues Keith, Veronica's father, from the Monster of the Week, but Veronica becomes smitten nonetheless. | |
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Caretaking is Feminine: Meg Manning was the babysitter for the Neptune parents. After her coma and eventual death, Veronica took over for an episode, despite her personal disinterest in the kids and dislike of the job. | |
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The Vamp | |
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The Vamp - Where to start, where to start... | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Keith Mars gets one at the end of season 1, literally walking through fire to rescue Veronica. Wallace tackled Lucky in the high school cafeteria, because he was threatening and about to shoot Jackie. And he gets shot. With blanks. But still, nobody except Lucky knew that. Logan's usual function after Season 1 with his Relationship Upgrade with Veronica. And if he doesn't get there in time for BDH, you better believe he'll get arrested just to beat the crap out of you in prison. Don't mess with his V. Veronica gets one at the end of the first sub-arc of Season 3, rescuing the latest rape victim with a unicorn. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Logan, Dick Casablancas, Don Lamb - and pretty much every adult male in Neptune, especially when they are rich. | |
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Second Year Protagonist: The series starts in Veronica's junior year, but When It All Began and many flashbacks are set in the previous year, while freshman year isn't mentioned much. | |
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Running Gagged | |
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Running Gagged: Cassidy Casablancas is constantly being tormented by his nickname, Beaver, and Veronica consistently starts calling him Beaver before switching it out with Cassidy; Logan also makes a series of "Dick and Beaver" jokes about sleeping with Kendall...then, come the end of Season 2, Logan accidentally calls him "Beaver" when trying to persuade Cassidy not to kill himself after it comes out that he crashed the bus and killed multiple people. This seems to be the final straw for him, and he emotionally tells Logan that his name is Cassidy before jumping off the roof to his death. | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot: When Veronica finds out that Jake Kane may be her father, which means that her ex-boyfriend Duncan may be her half-brother. When Veronica finds out that Cassidy is a murderer... and Mac is with him. Veronica also uses this trope to her own benefit by pretending to throw up to keep a possible rapist at a distance. | |
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Parental Hypocrisy | |
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Parental Hypocrisy: There must be a booming business in high school exposing the hypocrisies of parents for their children. | |
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Professional Sex Ed | |
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Professional Sex Ed: In the third season, a boy meets a cute girl at a convention and has his first sexual experience with her. Later, it turns out she was hired by his friends. | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Notably averted; Weevil and his PCH bike club actively engage in biker gang activities, although they aren't as violent as real life gangs. | |
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth | |
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In season 2, Veronica is torn between Duncan (Betty, sort of) and Logan (Veronica). Duncan is also torn between Meg (Betty, Too Good for This Sinful Earth) and Veronica (Veronica). She and Logan become an Official Couple, while Duncan leaves with his and Meg's baby after her death. | |
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All Bikers are Hells Angels | |
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All Bikers are Hells Angels - The PCHers. Although considering the dominant ethnicity of the PCHers, this is really more a case of All Bikers Are The Mongols. | |
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Obvious Villain, Secret Villain | |
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Obvious Villain, Secret Villain: Season 2 follows on from Season 1 in that the Big Bad Aaron Echolls remains a major threat. So does Thumper and the Fighting Fitzpatricks, who is revealed early as Felix's killer in one instance and then pretty Obviously Evil as an entire gang of Fighting Irish. But the bus crash was caused by a Hidden Villain, Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas who is also revealed to be Veronica's rapist. Season 4 has Richard "Big Dick" Casablancas who was always a villain from his first appearance in Season 2, when he was running a Ponzi scheme on top of bullying his youngest son. He also orchestrated a bombing to scare people away from estates he wanted to purchase. But he wasn't behind the further bombings, which was done by the apparently Endearingly Dorky Penn in order to obtain media attention and notoriety. Penn's final bomb then kills Logan after his and Veronica's wedding. | |
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Same Race Means Related | |
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Same Race Means Related: Veronica's Token Black Friend Wallace's father is apparently dead, and he's raised by his mom Alicia. However, early in Season 2, the Black Nathan Woods shows up and follows both Alicia and Wallace before revealing that he's Wallace's biological father. Also in Season 2, Jackie and Terrence Cook, who are both Black, are introduced separately before it's revealed that they are father and daughter. | |
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Last-Second Word Swap | |
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Last-Second Word Swap: Intentionally done by Veronica. When one of the characters in the programme that Veronica hates tells her that they were dealing with some trouble, Veronica says, "Trouble with a capital "T", that rhymes with "C", that stands for..." When her father objects she replies, "What? I was going to say "cute." | |
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A Deadly Affair | |
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A Deadly Affair: Aaron Echolls nearly becomes a victim when one of his mistresses becomes a Woman Scorned when he tries to ignore her and stabs him in public. However, he turns out to be a perpetrator of this as well, when he turns out to be the one who killed Lilly Kane to cover up his affair with her. | |
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The Not-Love Interest | |
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The Not-Love Interest: Wallace to Veronica. Of course, Executive Meddling said it would never happen. Weevil and Dick could also qualify as the same. | |
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Got Volunteered | |
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Got Volunteered: Logan volunteers his father to donate money to a soup kitchen. He does so publicly enough and with grand enough reception that his father can't back out without looking like an ass. However, behind closed doors Aaron brutally beats Logan in response. | |
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Recorded Audio Alibi | |
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Recorded Audio Alibi: Mercer lies to Veronica and tells her that he couldn't be the Hearst College rapist because he runs a radio show that goes out at the same time, which clashes with several of the rapes. When Veronica hears Mercer's show skipping, she realizes that he lied to her about her show being live and it's actually pre-recorded - and then he's immediately revealed to be one Hearst College rapist. | |
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Knee-capping | |
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Knee-capping: This was threatened when Logan was being tortured. His tormentors were playing Russian roulette with him, pulling the trigger after each "wrong" (i.e. not what they were looking for) answer given. After two "wrong" answers, they moved from his arms to his knees. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: Most of the bad guys on the show are not afraid to raise a hand to a woman. That's how you know they're bad guys. | |
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Anger Born of Worry | |
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Anger Born of Worry: Both Veronica and Logan really dislike it when the other puts him- or herself in danger. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement - A good deal of it, and more and more in season 3—the final episode parodied this with the "Rob Thomas is a whore" comment. | |
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Never Found the Body | |
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Subverted with Logan's mother. It really was just a suicide. (Probably. They never did find the body.) | |
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Perp Walk | |
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Perp Walk: This rarely involves an actual arrest, but the jerk of the week usually gets some kind of public shaming... that occasionally involves getting taped to a flagpole. There is episode where Veronica herself is arrested by the sheriff in front of the school. "Gosh, I hope they use that photo in the yearbook" indeed. | |
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Platonic Life-Partners | |
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Platonic Life-Partners: Veronica and Wallace. They're best friends, confide in each other about (almost) everything, and spend an inordinate amount of time together. However, neither of them ever shows any romantic interest in the other and they both date other people. Same gender examples include Dick and Logan, who live together in the movie, in addition to being best friends throughout their time at Hearst. | |
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Trumplica | |
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Trumplica: While Richard "Big Dick" Casablancas wasn't originally envisioned as this during the original series, he becomes more Trump-like when he returns for the Un-Cancelled season 4. As a real estate tycoon who served time in Chino for fraud, he is now campaigning the county to repeal rent control with appeals to returning Neptune to its former glory, an era that Veronica and Keith both claim never existed to begin with. It becomes even more of a Take That! with the reveal that Big Dick has gone off the deep end and now resorts to terrorism to drive down property values. | |
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Born Detective | |
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Veronica Mars, whose name means "true image", which ties in with her being a Born Detective and having a pathological obsession with finding the truth (which often comes with taking a picture of it since she's a Private Detective). | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect? | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect?: Veronica overcomes or utterly humiliates the Rich Bitch, Jerk Jock, or local idiot sheriff every single episode, but they're right back to acting completely dismissive of her the next day, often reaching the point of Bullying a Dragon. It's like they want her to dig up their deep personal secrets. Lampshaded by Veronica in the series finale: Keith too, though he doesn't really overcome it completely. He defeated Aaron Echolls but still can't get much respect from the community, except in the early part of Season 2. | |
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Economy Cast | |
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Economy Cast - Neptune contains exactly two private investigators (Keith Mars and Vinnie Van Lowe) and although the rich and powerful muster many lawyers, about the only one to appear in more than one episode is Mars family ally and Public Defender Cliff McCormack. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: At the beginning of this show, Veronica's dad has been voted out of office, her alcoholic mom has abandoned them, and none of her former friends are speaking to her...and those are just the things that are actually shown in the first episode. If we count things that are talked about and then shown later, we also get Rape as Backstory and a murdered best friend. | |
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Continuity Lockout: Why the network demanded season 3 have smaller arcs than the season-long ones of season 1 and 2. They made it too hard to attract new viewers. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: RATNERRRRRRRRR! "Do you know a good lawyer?" "I know a lawyer..." "IS IT A PONY?!?" UNICORNS! People getting taped to the flagpole. Wallace and hacky sack. "It's a white man's sport!" Favors, generally requested from or by Veronica and lampshaded increasingly heavily over the course of the series. | |
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Conspicuous in the Crowd | |
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Conspicuous in the Crowd: Season 4 has Veronica's Establishing Character Moment occur during a bombing on the boardwalk. After the explosion, everybody runs in the opposite direction - except Veronica, who walks towards the danger. | |
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Good Adultery, Bad Adultery | |
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Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Unusual "bad adultery" from a protagonist. Keith, Veronica's dad, begins an affair with a married woman (he himself is married to an alcoholic who fled, stealing $50,000 from him). Veronica is crushed, and confronts him. She calls him on his hypocrisy when all of his excuses are exactly what every guy they've caught in their Private Eye business says. He breaks it off. | |
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Real After All | |
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Real After All: It is clear that our titular heroine's dreams and conversations with her dead friend Lilly are happening in her head, and after Lilly's murder is solved they stop. However the second season episode 'Normal is the Watchword' has Lilly briefly appear and save Veronica's live by distracting her at a key moment - the implication being that her (Lilly's) ghost intervened directly. | |
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Society-on-Edge Episode | |
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Society-on-Edge Episode: The second-season premiere largely features the townspeople losing their senses after a long string of privileged rich people get away with crimes they obviously committed. Later, Veronica and Logan (one of the aforementioned rich people) narrowly dodge a drive-by shooting—violence which the series typically avoided until the first season's finale. | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Duncan and Veronica's relationship after much Will They or Won't They?, eventually concluded when Veronica helped Duncan to kidnap his and Meg's baby, so he could take her to Australia rather than risk her falling into the hands of Meg's abusive, religious extremist parents, bringing Duncan and Veronica's relationship to a definite end. | |
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Eating Lunch Alone | |
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Eating Lunch Alone Veronica, until Wallace sits with her in the first episode. And whoever Veronica needs to talk to will also be conveniently doing this most of the time. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog Jake Kane appears to be your standard Corrupt Corporate Executive asshole, but he is overcome with emotion at seeing the "real" Lilly (mischievous, misbehaving, vibrant, bubbly) on the memorial video. Late in season one, Aaron acts like Lynn's death has changed him, starts trying to act like a kind father to Logan, and encourages Logan's relationship with Veronica as "good for him." It doesn't last. In season two, when Sheriff Lamb finally believes Veronica that the Mannings psychologically abused their youngest daughter, Grace. Trina is extremely scornful and rude about Logan's abuse allegations against Aaron, but she is absolutely furious when she finds out about Kendall and Logan's May–December Romance in Season 2, and she is not shy about showing it. In season three, when Vinnie saves Veronica from a beatdown at the hands of the Fitzpatrick clan. Late in season 3, when Dick experiences a Despair Event Horizon over Cassidy's death. | |
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Perpetual Poverty | |
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Perpetual Poverty - Pretty much half of Neptune, as far as perpetuating the class warfare subplot of season two and three. Specific examples include: Veronica and Keith also fit this trope. Although they do ultimately rise out of it later in Season 2, they're back in again at the end of Season 2, as Veronica has no college savings, as she spent them on all her mother's rehab (which didn't stick). Veronica and Logan, in Season 4, so much. While Logan has had money stolen from his trust, his parents were both famous, and even assuming that he lost all of the money he inherited, he's still in the Navy and should be making good money. He can barely afford to live in Neptune, he and Veronica struggle to make rent, and he bikes everywhere because he can't afford to keep a car. | |
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