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'''''Pretty Little Liars''''' is a television series based on [[Pretty Little Liars (novel)|a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard]]. The series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader, Alison. Three years later, they begin receiving text messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.
The TV series premiered in
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** Caleb for Hanna, but he's a [[Subversion]]. Once you move past the fact that most of his money comes from crime, he really isn't that bad a guy.
** In the eyes of Rosewood Toby is this for Spencer.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Sometimes, it seems that Rosewood must be the perverts capital of America. The number of characters who lust after teenage girls is truly staggering - one is even a police officer and he dates a high school student without anyone raising an eyebrow. Many of the rest of the male characters have cheated on their partners.
* [[Alone with the Psycho]]: {{spoiler|Spencer}} in "unmAsked".
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Alison.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: A combination of [[Adaptation Decay]] and [[Adaptation Expansion]].
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Emily.
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{{quote|"You don't know the Biebs. You don't understand the Biebs...or his hair."}}
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Emily dates Maya (Veronica), Paige (Veronica) and Samara (Betty). She also has feelings for Ali (who seems to be a mixture of the two).
* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: Many of the characters on this show are very attractive.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Maya fits this because she {{spoiler|dated a boy while she was at juvie camp before she returned}}.
** Alison fits this trope as well given that {{spoiler|in both the books and the show she occasionally pursues romantic encounters with Emily, who is in love with her}}.
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* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Alison and Kate.
* [[Book Dumb]]: Hanna. She once claimed that she couldn't even spell Louisiana, let alone know anything about its history.
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Lucas, and Spencer in the show.
* [[Bring Out Your Gay Dead]]: {{spoiler|Maya was killed off in the Season 2 finale}}.
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: {{spoiler|Melissa and Jason made out prior to the events of the series. It was later revealed that they share a father}}.
* [[Bus Crash]]: {{spoiler|Maya}} who was last seen a few episodes earlier before it was revealed she was dead.
* [[But Not Too Black]]: Maya.
* [[Casting Gag]]: [[Claire Holt]] as a girl who dates a [[H₂O: Just Add Water|swimmer.]]
* [[Cold Opening]]
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Sara Shepard, the books' author, appears as a substitute teacher for Ezra in the episode “Please Do Talk About Me When I’m Gone”.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Seth in "If These Dolls Could Talk". Seth is made even creepier because it was implied he has some form of psychic ability.
* [[Creepy Doll]]: The dolls that A sends to the girls, and the dolls in the doll shop especially the one resembling Alison near the end of "If These Dolls Could Talk".
* [[Dark Secret]]: The main characters and many of the recurring characters have skeletons in their closet.
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** Emily has one of these with Alison in the second season after passing out.
* [[Death by Adaptation]]: {{spoiler|Maya who had lived in the books was killed off in the Season 2 finale}}.
* [[Determinator]]: Spencer. Despite so many of her theories about Alison's killer or A's identity turning out to be wrong she keeps on relentlessly pursuing every lead. Jenna once said that Spencer reminded her of a hungry terrier.
* [[Dirty Cop]]: Darren uses some questionable methods while he is investigating the murder of Alison although he doesn't do anything that is actually illegal. After Hanna gets arrested for shoplifting, her mom starts a relationship with Darren to keep Hanna from getting in trouble. Thankfully, she kicks him out of the house eventually. He usually targets Hanna for interrogation and harassed Emily in one episode.
** {{spoiler|Garrett as well}}.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Averted in the case of Aria in the show, as her father refuses to leave the family when he and Ella separate.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: [[Subverted]]. {{spoiler|Mona}} falls off Lookout Point in a fight with Spencer, but she lives.
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]]: Averted. Jenna doing this to Toby is viewed as being a very horrible thing to do someone.
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* [[Fair Cop]]: Darren and Garrett.
* [[The Fashionista]]: Mona and Hanna. When Spencer's room was searched by the police Hanna and she mentions the cops taking some of her shoes, Hanna's immediate reaction is to ask if the Tory Burches might not have been confiscated too. This becomes something of a running gag when she later notices her therapist wearing Tory Burch boots too.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In the Halloween episode, the story that Ali tells the boy she and Hanna are babysitting will definitely jump out to anyone who has read the books, assuming the producers are going to keep that plotline intact.
** Lucas accidentally showing Hanna an online betting site before he shows the pictures of her collecting trash during her community service.
** Also Noel gives a speech about female bullying vs male bullying in "The Naked Truth".
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* [[Hot Teacher]]: Ezra.
* [[Intelligence Equals Isolation]]: Lucas suffers this badly. Apart from Hanna, he has literally no friends. Then Caleb comes along and they form something of a bromance... then {{spoiler|Caleb hooks up with Hanna, the girl Lucas is desperately in love with}}.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: {{spoiler|Mona}} claims that she started the A scheme as a means to get back at the girls, not for {{spoiler|their treatment of her, but for the fact that Hannah was spending more time with them and less time with her}}, even though they'd barely hung out together at all after Alison's death and [[Irony|it was in fact the A scheme that brought them together again.]] Maybe [[Justified Trope]] though, as it's implied that {{spoiler|Mona}} was taking orders from someone else and her claims about her motivations are a lie.
* [[Jerkass]]: Alison definitely crosses into this trope. The reason why she is popular is because she is attractive, smart and charismatic.
* [[Just Friends]]: Hanna and Lucas.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Alison, {{spoiler|Ian, and Maya}}.
* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: Emily, Samara, Paige and Maya.
* [[Les Yay]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] by Alison in the books and show, to manipulate Emily.
* [[Mama Bear]]: In the show, Pam Fields defends her daughter from Paige's father. She hasn't really changed her views on homosexuality, she just has a reaction to someone hurting her daughter.
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** Spencer and Ian.
* [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold]]: How Toby Cavanaugh is played at first. Later on, he drops the "Misunderstood Loner" part.
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Spencer drinks ''a lot'' of coffee.
* [[Name Drop]]: The rope song at the beginning of 'Through Many Dangers, Toils And Snares' clearly mentions (and is about) some ''Pretty Little Liars''.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Alison frequently gave nicknames to people. They included Jenna the Jerk, Snow White, Hefty Hanna, Killer for Emily and Hermes for Lucas.
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** Emily has one of these with Alison later after passing out from inhaling too much carbon monoxide. It's unclear as to whether or not Alison really IS alive or if Emily was just dreaming.
*** Emily was rescued by someone and the fact that she was dragged away rather than carried suggests her rescuer was female.
* [[Parental Neglect]]: Spencer's parents are often missing when she needs them the most. When they are home, they tend to neglect her in favor of Melissa. They also allowed Ian to live in their house, despite Spencer being terrified by him. Toby and Jenna's parents are literally never seen and apparently don't mind their teenage daughter dating an older guy. Aria's parents generally mean well but didn't notice Mike's depression or Aria being terrorized by A or her having a relationship with her teacher.
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: Invoked by Paige's father. He claims that the only reason Emily became captain of the team is because she is lesbian. This is ironic because Paige also a lesbian, though in the closet at that time.
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Alison had been killed before the first episode and she only appears in flashbacks or dreams.
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** Also applies to Mona who is played by Eurasian actress Janel Parrish.
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Jenna and Aria. Jenna was even called Snow White by Alison before she went blind.
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: Emily and Alison had this.
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: Emily fits this trope with [[Even the Girls Want Her|more than a few girls]]...
** In the show: Emily and Maya, Emily and Alison, Emily and Paige, Emily and Samara.
* [[Secret Identity]]: A is the identity of who is stalking the girls and {{spoiler|Alison}} adopted an alias which was Vivian Darkbloom.
* [[Secret Relationship]]:
** {{spoiler|Spencer and Toby}} are forced to pretend they aren't still dating in the second season.
** Same goes for {{spoiler|Aria and Ezra}}.
** {{spoiler|Ian and Alison}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]
** In "Touched by an A-ngel", Hanna says she "isn't in the mood to play [[Veronica Mars]]."
** Lucas, the kid who falls for the popular girl who gets with the jock like in the 80s Corey Haim movie ''Lucas''.
* [[Sinister Silhouettes]]: Played with. A isn't ''actually'' shown in silhouette, but is made to look like it by wearing a black coat and black gloves anytime she appears.
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Spencer. Also, Caleb.
* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: Toby Cavanaugh, Mona Vanderwaal, and Jenna Marshall.
* [[Sunglasses
** Although, in a recent episode, Jenna is slapped by Hanna after Hanna finds out {{spoiler|that Jenna was using Caleb to get information from Hanna}} causing her sunglasses to come off.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Trista and Samara share many similarities.
* [[Take My Hand]]: Spencer tries to save {{spoiler|Mona}} this way in the Season 2 finale.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Emily and Spencer. Aria and Jenna also fit the bill - except for the tall part.
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: Noel Kahn, Ezra, Garrett, Toby, Caleb, Darren and Lucas in the books.
* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: Aria and Ezra of course.
** Plus Byron had one before the series with his student Meredith.
* [[Teen Drama]]: Marketed like "''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' for teens".
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: [http://prettylittlebitchfaces.tumblr.com/ A hilarious tumblr dedicated to lampshading the constant and never ending use of the word on the show.]
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Toby and Caleb.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: "Eye Of The Beholder" has {{spoiler|1=Jenna Marshall end up in the hospital when someone lures her to the DiLaurentis house with a text message and then sets it on fire}}. Fortunately, Hanna and Spencer save her.
** "If These Dolls Could Talk" tops it. {{spoiler|It starts with Spencer getting visited by Alison (which may or may not have been a dream) and also features Aria's parents threatening to send her to boarding school before Ezra gets fired and has sex with Aria. Also Spencer, Emily, and Hanna are ready to turn in Melissa when police show up arrest Garrett because Jenna gave Toby page 5 of the autopsy. Oh, and Jenna can now see}}.
* [[Wham! Line]]:
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Mona'''}}: I've done everything you've asked me to.}}
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Byron cheated on his wife with a university student named Meredith.
** Ian kissed Melissa's younger sister Spencer and had a relationship with {{spoiler|Alison}}.
** Wren also cheated on Melissa with Spencer.
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