Be Careful What You Wish For: Small one, but in the episode in which Cleo can grant wishes, Kim wishes she can "just take a shower whenever she wants".When Emma leaves in season 3, Cleo eventually went into Brains territory while Bella took over the Beauty spot.Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: With Cleo as Beauty, although she started off as somewhat Hollywood Homely. ![]() The mermaid characters are humans by default, and a special mermaid tail had to be made for all of Cleo's scenes that took place in the bathtub because she'd turn into a mermaid upon contact with any water. He does see the error of his ways by the end, but Rikki's completely justified in never wanting to associate with him again after that! Midway through Season 3, though, after he kisses another girl and then lies about it to Rikki, he threatens to expose her secret to the world in a last-ditch attempt to make her stay with him. Zane is a sympathetic character for the first two and a half seasons despite his bad boy image, helping the mermaids escape the first season's Big Bad and dedicated to upholding The Masquerade like everyone else.Charlotte spends most of series 2 trying to be nice to people, it's the main characters that are doing nasty things to her.Lampshaded in Season 3 when Rikki tells new girl Bella that she only likes Will because "he's the only guy in a five-mile radius not to swoon over her". ![]() The Beautiful Elite: This show is a pretty bad offender of this.Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: A sisterly version between Cleo and Kim occasionally shows up throughout the series.This trope turns a conversation between Cleo, Emma, and Rikki into an info dump for Charlotte, who's eavesdropping.As You Know: Two minutes into the season 2 premiere Kim reminds her sister that their parents have now split up, for the audience's benefit.Anything else you do is just you wanting to hurt someone. This likely has to do with it being a Post-Script Season.Įmma: We've made a fool of him. Compared to the finales of the two prior seasons, it's something of a let-down, and a lot of plot threads are ultimately never resolved. How do the girls defeat it? By using their powers to create an artificial water tentacle in the moon pool, and somehow deflect the comet's path with it. Anti-Climax: The Series Finale raises the stakes significantly, with a comet that threatens to wipe out all life on Earth.Elliott, Emma's brother, is an aversion as he is usually nice, friendly and 'squeaky clean' (Rikki's words). Annoying Younger Sibling: Cleo's younger sister Kim is a rather extreme case.Alpha Bitch: Miriam is not a nice person.Bella in the third season also has three powers, as she was alone in her moon pool. When Charlotte becomes a mermaid, she gains all three of the powers because she is the only one in the pool. All Your Powers Combined: The powers will be divided by those in the moon pool when it's active during the full moon.Averted with characters like Miss Chatham and Max, who have experienced the mermaid problems and offer helpful advice to the girls. ![]() Particularly noteworthy is Cleo's father, who fails to notice how little Cleo likes Charlotte, and does nothing to rein in Kim's brattiness.
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