![]() On the one hand the faculty did allow him to keep attending the school even after he lost his jacket and gave him access to resources that would have helped him learn magic on his own merit, only for him to give up as soon as it got difficult and turn to a shady back-alley magic dealer, ignoring the warnings of a student who had personally dealt with him before and started selling a potentially lethal substance to the other students. Both Sides Have a Point: Emily and Doyle regarding Calvin's expulsion.Doyle naturally assumes the first one is the good guys although there are strong hints that he misread it. Beauty Equals Goodness: In the Bad Future Doyle witnesses, the most physically attractive, human looking students make up one team who are in conflict with one featuring a lot of the more monstrous ones.Betty and Veronica: Doyle is the Betty and Iric is the Veronica for Emily.Bad Future: In issue 14 Doyle accidentally goes to a future where the students of Strange Academy are at war with each other, it scares him so much that he decides to drop out of Strange Academy.Badass Normal: Emily's mom, an apparently unmodified human with no known magical capabilities, participates in the Family Day race with an opposing team that includes Asgardians and Demons, and with obstacles including a fire-breathing dragon and wins! At one point she beats Loki, who she apparently shoved right off the racetrack!.(apparently going back to their own homes wasn't an option.) It turns out the only reason she really did this was because she was Brainwashed and Crazy. At the begging of the next issue it quickly becomes clear that Emily had absolutely no idea what she had hoped to accomplish through this and all the students who followed her into it were left homeless. And Then What?: Issue 17 ends with Emily staging a walkout to protest Calvin's expulsion and the general secretive nature of the school faculty.Alone Among Families: On Family Day, in Issue 9, Calvin, who has no family, and Doyle, whose father "won't be getting a visitor pass any time soon", both feel this way and decide to do some exploring instead of watching the others have fun.
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