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Kyle XY
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })As part of a new wave of television shows that debut during the early summer, Kyle XY is a modern-day sci-fi show built around the title character of Kyle that aired 2006-2009. In the first episode, Kyle is a mute, naked, wide-eyed teenager with no memory and no belly button found wandering out of the woods and into the Puget Sound area of Washington state. After a short stay at a juvenile delinquent center, social worker and psychiatrist Nicole Trager sees a benign personality in Kyle that doesn't belong there, so she obtains permission to provide a type of foster care with her own family.Her family is hesitant at having a stranger around, but Kyle shows a certain affection for them and his simple honesty despite not saying a word wins them over. At the end of the first episode, Kyle says his first words to his surrogate family and their story begins, but not without him having strange traits like preferring to sleep in the bathtub.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The rest of his new family consists of patriarch Stephen Trager, a brother in Josh Trager who is convinced Kyle is an alien, and Lori as a big sister who shows him the nuances of teenage life. Kyle quickly gains a crush in the literal Girl Next Door Amanda and a best friend in Declan, who has an on/off relationship with Lori. Also included is a shadowy stalker Tom Foss who knows where Kyle is from.Over time, Kyle gathers an array of impressive abilities that no human should have. It appears that all of these abilities are a result of using far more of his mind then anyone else. He learns entire languages and memorizes the encyclopedia in minutes. He is capable of instantaneously solving graduate level calculus. He jumped off a roof without any harm and recreated a .jpeg image after briefly seeing the base computer code.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })While it doesn't take too long for the mystery to be solved, there are other problems surrounding it, not the least being that there is someone else exactly like him.Airing on the ABC Family network, part of the success of the show comes from the impressive advertising campaign, including viral marketing and several obvious sponsors. Critical reception has been very warm, with a lot of praise going out to actor Matt Dallas for a tone-perfect performance as the title character.The series concluded with its third season, leaving a myriad of questions unanswered, in true Kyle XY style. Word of God did, however, say a few things about where the would have gone had it continued for a couple more seasons. | |
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HilarityEnsues | |
Kyle XY / int_149ff4b0 | comment |
Hilarity Ensues: Alot of the pranks in the show, while funny, would be extremely illegal (as per the description). Notably, Josh sneaking in to Amanda's house and covering for her while she visits Kyle (It Makes Sense in Context), is probably some sort of felony. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: The series got progressively darker as it went along, but Season 3 marked a definite shift. | |
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Misplaced Wildlife | |
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Misplaced Wildlife: The Other Rainforest doesn't have rattlesnakes. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: Played with. Kyle, drunk out of his head, instantly sobers up after violently puking, then explains that "I reversed the polarity of my liver to return my body to homeostasis!" This is implied to be a joke, though, in response to Josh suggesting that he do something like that earlier in the episode—which begs the question of how he actually sobered up so quickly. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: "I'm Kyle XY!" - said by a very drunk Kyle in Season 3. | |
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The Chick | |
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The Chick: Lori and/or Amanda. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: Amanda and Jessi sure have a lot of tension concerning Kyle once Jessi's programmed into developing feelings for him. Jessi actually is described as having green eyes, making this trope that much more fitting. | |
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A Shared Suffering | |
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A Shared Suffering: Kyle and Jessi, due to both being born in the same lab and having similar abilities. It helps that their genetic donors were once lovers. | |
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X Called; They Want Their Y Back | |
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X Called; They Want Their Y Back: "Hilary Duff called, she wants her shirt back." | |
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Distaff Counterpart | |
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Distaff Counterpart: Kyle gets one in Season 2. | |
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Rule of Pool | |
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Rule of Pool: Averted. In the first episode, Kyle has a fight with a Police Officer by a swimming pool, yet no one ends up getting thrown into it. | |
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The Smart Guy | |
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The Smart Guy: Big shoes to fill with someone like Kyle around, but Josh is closest to filling The Trickster version of this trope, and is usually Kyle's go-to source of sneaky guile for pulling off teenage shenanigans. | |
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Blithe Spirit | |
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Blithe Spirit: Kyle to anyone who lets him into their lives. | |
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Spock Speak | |
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Spock Speak: Kyle, especially the way he describes normal human activity in his narration. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: Kyle in "Grounded." It also overlaps with Innocent Fanservice Guy, because of the context: | |
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Important Haircut | |
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Important Haircut: Lori cuts Jessi's hair near the end of season 2 when Sarah, who has shorter hair, comes and Jessi leaves her "father", Brian Taylor. Lori even utters the line, "Once we do this, there's no turning back." | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: Hilary was an outstanding example of this. When we first meet her in Season One, she starts out as an unlikeable an Alpha Bitch, but as time goes on, she gradually evolves into a much better person, genuinely repentant for her past misdeeds, and actually becoming one of the most likable characters by the time of the final season. Similarly, Declan, who went from being a jealous jock with a dislike for Kyle to his best friend and confidant. | |
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Become a Real Boy | |
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Become a Real Boy: A great deal of the first season's most poignant moments deal with Kyle expressing his desire to fit in with the rest of humanity, and more specifically, be a real son to the Tragers. | |
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Wrong Guy First | |
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Wrong Guy First: Amanda with Charlie, who ends up cheating on her. | |
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Sarcasm-Blind | |
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Sarcasm-Blind: But Kyle learns fast. | |
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The Big Guy | |
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The Big Guy: Foss, with his military training, experience, and protective nature. Jessi becomes this after her Face–Heel Turn, as she is also scarily protective of those few that she considers family. | |
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BellyButtonless | |
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Belly Buttonless: Kyle, one of the first clue to others that he's not quite normal. | |
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Invincible Hero | |
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Invincible Hero: Kyle became one of these after Season 1. | |
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Power Incontinence | |
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Power Incontinence: Kyle and Jessi use their Psychic Powers unintentionally when they feel distressed. | |
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin' | |
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Josh smokes pot only a couple of times and his parents come down on him. Hard. Even more bizarrely, the pot he was smoking belonged to his parents. | |
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Photographic Memory | |
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Photographic Memory: Kyle goes one step further, having a holographic memory, reliving events in three-dimensional space. | |
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Muggle Foster Parents | |
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Muggle Foster Parents: Twice. In the first season, Kyle lives with a foster family while he himself is unaware of his true origins. In the second season, Kyle returns to live with his foster family because he wants to live the normal life his genetic father was never allowed to have. | |
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The Lancer | |
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The Lancer: Declan to Kyle. Foss to Baylin and/or Hillary to Lori. | |
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The Leader | |
Kyle XY / int_60e49895 | comment |
The Leader: Kyle obviously, as the lead character. Doesn't actually become this until Season 2, with Mr. & Mrs. Trager surprised that he's become the ringleader. | |
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Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story | |
Kyle XY / int_63c1170b | comment |
Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story: Kyle is given a plausible backstory for his lack of memories, intelligence and absence of a navel. His female counterpart, Jessi, however, is given false memories because an agent for a Corrupt Corporate Executive finds her first. | |
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Making a Splash | |
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Making a Splash: Kyle develops hydrokinesis in "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades." | |
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Two-Person Pool Party | |
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Two-Person Pool Party: Josh gets one in "Diving In." Not that it goes anywhere... | |
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Awesomeness by Analysis | |
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Awesomeness by Analysis: Kyle and Jesse both have super advanced brains and can copy anything by watching or doing the math. A good example is when Kyle joins the basketball team at school and can make any shot just by measuring the angles or learns how to fight by watching martial arts movies (he also learned Chinese this way). | |
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Changeling Fantasy | |
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Changeling Fantasy: Subverted at the end of the first season when the Kyle supposedly found his real parents. In fact, he was grown in a lab, the parents are actors, and Kyle goes along with the plan to protect his adoptive family, a situation which lasts a whole episode and then requires Kyle to make up another story for why he's returned. | |
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Token Evil Teammate | |
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Token Evil Teammate: Jessi, until her (gradual) Heel–Face Turn. Still viewed as a Sixth Ranger even afterwards. | |
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Almost Kiss | |
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Almost Kiss: Kyle is FINALLY about to kiss Amanda at the dance when Jessie blows a fuse... Literally!! The ensuing light show throws them off their first kiss at the very last nanosecond. Audience's heads asplode. | |
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Left Hanging | |
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Left Hanging: And how! If anything, the series finale raised more questions than it answered. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Dysfunction Junction: The Tragers used to be like this. Enter Kyle who reorients their priorities and makes them question their own philosophies. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: The fate of Miss Thatcher and the Head of Security at Zzyzx is never revealed, although it is implied that they were killed when Foss firebombed the facility. Similarly, many minor characters appear in only one episode and never show up again, and even main antagonists can simply drop off without a word. After MadaCorp is defeated in Season 2, the corporation - and the newly-promoted Emily Hollander - are seen in one further episode, and are then never mentioned again. In Season 2 alone, there were three separate Big Bads, all of which pretty much went unmentioned after they were defeated. | |
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Jerk Jock | |
Kyle XY / int_863fac26 | comment |
Jerk Jock: At first it seems that Declan is this trope, but he ends up becoming one of the most awesome characters on the show, and a great friend and confidante to Kyle (and love interest to Lori). Whereas Charlie, Amanda's boyfriend, starts off as a subversion of this but by Season 2 he's taken to cheating and eventually they break up. Also, he turns out to be highly homophobic - ironic considering the role his actor would land later on in a highly LGBT-friendly environment. | |
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Mentors | |
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Mentors: Several... Nicole and Stephen to Kyle, Lori, and Josh (as parents ought to be)... and to Jessi and Andy as needed. Baylin and Foss mentor Kyle in mental and physical disciplines, respectively. | |
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Five-Man Band | |
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Five-Man Band: Various potential candidates for the roles, and various configurations for the team concept... The Leader: Kyle obviously, as the lead character. Doesn't actually become this until Season 2, with Mr. & Mrs. Trager surprised that he's become the ringleader. The Lancer: Declan to Kyle. Foss to Baylin and/or Hillary to Lori. The Smart Guy: Big shoes to fill with someone like Kyle around, but Josh is closest to filling The Trickster version of this trope, and is usually Kyle's go-to source of sneaky guile for pulling off teenage shenanigans. The Big Guy: Foss, with his military training, experience, and protective nature. Jessi becomes this after her Face–Heel Turn, as she is also scarily protective of those few that she considers family. The Chick: Lori and/or Amanda. Token Evil Teammate: Jessi, until her (gradual) Heel–Face Turn. Still viewed as a Sixth Ranger even afterwards. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
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Betty and Veronica: Kyle (Betty) and Charlie (Veronica) for Amanda, Lori (Betty) and Jessi (Veronica) for Declan, Mark (Betty) and Declan (Veronica) for Lori, and Amanda (Betty) and Jessi (Veronica) for Kyle. | |
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Sleep Cute | |
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Sleep Cute: The above scene eventually culminates in this. | |
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Evil Mentor | |
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Evil Mentor: It seemed that Foss was this to Kyle, until it turned out to be Taylor... who then becomes the Evil Mentor to Jessi. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
Kyle XY / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: The brief advert for MadaCorp in the second episode of Season One. | |
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Kyle XY / int_9e1beee3 | type |
90% of Your Brain | |
Kyle XY / int_9e1beee3 | comment |
90% of Your Brain: Specifically, Kyle (and later Jessi) uses around 50% of his brain, which is why he is so gifted and intelligent. | |
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Kyle XY / int_a536f3a3 | type |
Gender-Blender Name | |
Kyle XY / int_a536f3a3 | comment |
Gender-Blender Name: Andy (short for Andromeda), which in classic tradition causes some identity mix-up. Josh didn't know she was a girl until she told him her screen name, which left him with his jaw hanging open because she'd been the one kicking his ass online. | |
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Kyle XY / int_a7f99c1f | type |
Two First Names | |
Kyle XY / int_a7f99c1f | comment |
Two First Names: Brian Taylor. | |
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Kyle XY / int_b99f51b2 | type |
An Odd Place to Sleep | |
Kyle XY / int_b99f51b2 | comment |
An Odd Place to Sleep: Kyle prefered the family bathtub over a bed. | |
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Kyle XY / int_bbf11c0 | type |
Genius Bruiser | |
Kyle XY / int_bbf11c0 | comment |
Genius Bruiser: Jessi is as smart as Kyle, but has a more of a tendency to get violent - and enjoys it. | |
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Kyle XY / int_bd0d6395 | type |
No Social Skills | |
Kyle XY / int_bd0d6395 | comment |
No Social Skills: Kyle was not raised by anyone and so is not familiar with any social norms. | |
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Kyle XY / int_c42400d1 | type |
Gamer Chick | |
Kyle XY / int_c42400d1 | comment |
Gamer Chick: Andy, full on. Her goodbye party is playing G-Force and eating junk food. This is one of the reasons Josh falls for her. | |
Kyle XY / int_c42400d1 | featureApplicability |
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Kyle XY / int_c555059a | type |
There Is Another | |
Kyle XY / int_c555059a | comment |
There Is Another: Jessi and Adam Baylin's female counterpart Sarah. | |
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Kyle XY / int_c6074d96 | type |
I Am Spartacus | |
Kyle XY / int_c6074d96 | comment |
I Am Spartacus: Kyle leads the basketball team on this in episode 7 of season 1. When Jesse tries to jump from the roof, Kyle, Lori, and Josh all step forward and say they'll try too. | |
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Kyle XY / int_c8146364 | type |
Portmanteau Couple Name | |
Kyle XY / int_c8146364 | comment |
Portmanteau Couple Name: Many, a surprising amount of which are actually in-universe: Leclan (Lorri and Declan), Keclan (Kyle and Declan), Kylanda (Kyle and Amanda) and Kessi (Kyle and Jessi). | |
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Kyle XY / int_cbe687ab | type |
Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
Kyle XY / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Most of the Big Bads, since the series' primary antagonist was a Mega-Corp. Miss Thatcher from Season 1 and Mr. Ballantine from Season 2 are prime examples. | |
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Kyle XY / int_cfbbd075 | type |
Porn Stash | |
Kyle XY / int_cfbbd075 | comment |
Porn Stash: Josh keeps one (of course). It's the source of much hilarity, especially in Season 1. Arguably the best moment being when he doesn't want to play the Ouija Board, because that's where the magazines are hidden. | |
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Kyle XY / int_d45c0b86 | type |
Refuge in Audacity | |
Kyle XY / int_d45c0b86 | comment |
Refuge in Audacity: Apparently in the past Adam Baylin's girlfriend /counterpart Sarah wrote all the answers to a college test on the ceiling of a classroom. The professors, while angry, were far too impressed and shocked to expel her. | |
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Kyle XY / int_db2f3581 | type |
All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
Kyle XY / int_db2f3581 | comment |
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Declan and Lori. | |
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Kyle XY / int_ddb233c1 | type |
Mid-Season Twist | |
Kyle XY / int_ddb233c1 | comment |
Mid-Season Twist: In season 1, Kyle sees Foss in his dreams, which have begun to show flashes of memory. | |
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Kyle XY / int_de143e97 | type |
Psychic Nosebleed | |
Kyle XY / int_de143e97 | comment |
Psychic Nosebleed: Happens to Kyle and Jessi when they strain or over-use their powers. | |
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Kyle XY / int_dee56696 | type |
Innocuously Important Episode | |
Kyle XY / int_dee56696 | comment |
Innocuously Important Episode: Since the series was a mystery drama, many episodes fell under this. | |
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Kyle XY / int_df5c3013 | type |
Think Unsexy Thoughts | |
Kyle XY / int_df5c3013 | comment |
Think Unsexy Thoughts: Suggested by Josh to Kyle so he can avoid embarrassing public erections, in addition to A Date with Rosie Palms (for which Josh lends Kyle one of his girly magazines.) | |
Kyle XY / int_df5c3013 | featureApplicability |
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Kyle XY / int_dfe04121 | type |
Prom Is for Straight Kids | |
Kyle XY / int_dfe04121 | comment |
Prom Is for Straight Kids: Happens as one of the principal's Kick the Dog moments; forgetting that in a public school, having a straight-only prom is not actually legal (not that this stops many schools in real life). | |
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Kyle XY / int_e1ac3d95 | type |
Supernatural Soap Opera | |
Kyle XY / int_e1ac3d95 | comment |
Supernatural Soap Opera | |
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Kyle XY / int_e2a41c3b | type |
Literal-Minded | |
Kyle XY / int_e2a41c3b | comment |
Literal-Minded: Kyle, though he gradually gets better. | |
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Kyle XY / int_e851b5 | type |
The Plan | |
Kyle XY / int_e851b5 | comment |
The Plan: Kyle and Jessi hatch one to ensnare Cassidy at the end of Season 3. | |
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Kyle XY / int_e91a2f04 | type |
Cloning Blues | |
Kyle XY / int_e91a2f04 | comment |
Cloning Blues: Kyle being a clone has been Jossed in the third season finale, when a character claims that they share a common mother. Cloning is mentioned in the same episode, but Kyle and Jessi respond as if it's never been done before. | |
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Kyle XY / int_ebb235cc | type |
Circumcision Angst | |
Kyle XY / int_ebb235cc | comment |
Circumcision Angst: Kyle averts this, even though Lori has an issue with it. | |
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Kyle XY / int_ed05cfee | type |
Naïve Newcomer | |
Kyle XY / int_ed05cfee | comment |
Naïve Newcomer: And how. Much of the first season's comedy was derived from Kyle's attempts to understand various social mores and ideas. Jessi, despite having memories tends to be like this for most social situations. | |
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Kyle XY / int_f511ea9b | type |
Product Placement | |
Kyle XY / int_f511ea9b | comment |
This is a VERY rare case where Product Placement was actually done in an endearing way, as Kyle's absolute love for Sour Patch Kids candy became a fun quirk of the character. | |
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Kyle XY / int_f6254414 | type |
Cute Bruiser | |
Kyle XY / int_f6254414 | comment |
Cute Bruiser: Amanda, actually, though it's double subverted. She hits Nathan with a vase, smashing it over his head. Jessi tells her that he'll wake up soon, "because you don't hit hard enough." This time she punches him out much harder. | |
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Kyle XY / int_fb9e25e9 | type |
Team Mom | |
Kyle XY / int_fb9e25e9 | comment |
Nicole and Stephen to Kyle, Lori, and Josh (as parents ought to be)... and to Jessi and Andy as needed. | |
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Kyle XY / int_fea27091 | type |
Buffy Speak | |
Kyle XY / int_fea27091 | comment |
Buffy Speak: Lori: "I could see the sparkage in your eyes." | |
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