Spencer also felt this way about Alison.Darren believes that Hanna felt this way concerning Alison.Spencer feels she is constantly under her older sister Melissa's shadow, though she's mostly gotten over this by the end of the series.Courtney is even buried under her twin's name. Always Identical Twins: The person who died was actually Alison's identical twin, Courtney, whom Alison killed in a fit of rage for stealing her identity.After, Hanna and Mona have sort of replaced her by the start of the series, though Hanna eventually loses this. Aloof Big Sister: Melissa to Spencer, and Jason as well.Also subverted several times when the girls are alone with someone they think is A, but turns out not to be, such as Emily with Toby.On several occasions, but the most notable ones are Spencer with Mona in Unbelievable and the four girls with Alison and Nick in Deadly.Adults Are Useless: There hasn't been a single adult that they've found that could help with their 'A' problem.Though it's later subverted, since Burned reveals that the girl, Tabitha Clark, was killed by a blow to the head at close range (which was very much not accidental), not from the fall. In Twisted, the girls confront someone who they think is Alison, and Aria, believing she was going to kill them, pushes her in self-defense, causing her to fall to her death.Spencer, in self-defense, closes her eyes and pushes Mona away from her, causing Mona to go over the edge of the cliff and break her neck in the fall. In Unbelievable, Mona tries to kill Spencer after the latter discovers that she's A.The second half of the series reveals that she did indeed survive the fire, but is in hiding in or near Rosewood, continuing to torment the girls as A along with Helper A, and while there is a Time Skip of at least six months between Wanted and Twisted, there's no indication given that she went to another school or made any other friends during that time. Aborted Arc: The Sequel Hook at the end of Wanted (the originally-planned Grand Finale for the series) implies that Alison survived the fire that was believed to have killed her and left Rosewood with her family (who skipped town right after her apparent death) to start a new life elsewhere under a new name that's a Significant Anagram of 'Alison DiLaurentis', forming a new posse at her new school.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.Ī television series premiered on ABC in the summer of 2010, all series exclusive tropes go here. The series follows the lives of four girls - Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily - whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader, Alison. Pretty Little Liars is a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard.

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