Kids of Mobius/Tropes

Tropes for Kids of Mobius, both the theatrical short series and the TV series.
== Tropes ==
* Adaptation Personality Change - Many examples.
** Eggman becomes an Adaptational Dumbass, becoming more incompetent due to old age. He even has some moments of being a Downplayed Adaptational Nice Guy, specifically with Flash in the Christmas special.
** Cream becomes a Downplayed Adaptational Jerkass, usually due to her daughters (and sometimes even her son) going too far with their antics. She also has some Adaptational Seriousness, which is the main reason she is the primary antagonist of the Prower Sisters' shorts.
** Amy becomes an Adaptational Badass who gets the short end of the stick in most Rose Siblings episodes and very few Rob and Riley episodes due to Smash's quick thinking and excellent strategizing, but never loses to other villains (if you could consider Riley to even be one), due to her not going easy on said villains, trying to bring the element of surprise to all of her magic attacks.
** Like even the most serious Knights of Cerebus in official Sonic media, Shadow is an Adaptational Comic Relief, despite still being the most dangerous of the Prower Sisters' and Lemur Twins' most recurring rivals. He's the Yosemite Sam to the Prower Sisters' Bugs Bunny.
** In some ways, Tails is an Adaptational Dumbass, like Eggman. Though he is even better at engineering here than he is in the main series, due to being older, he's easier to trick. Specifically by the Prower Sisters with their Sonic disguise in the first episode of the TV series.
* Anti-Hero - The Rose Siblings, especially Flash Rose are examples of these. They love to foil Eggman's evil plans, but it's always out of boredom. In some episodes, they'd even free him out of jail or allow people to like him. As a result, they are On & Off.
* Beware The Nice Ones - Nearly every Freedom Fighter, most prominently Amy or Cream, despite being more easily dealt with by the Prower Sisters and Rose Siblings.
* Character Shilling - People like to talk about how Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy are the most powerful heroes in Mobius. They do live up to the hype. The only reason they may not seem like it when they fight the kids is because they hold back, thinking they should go a bit easy on the kids.
* Combat Medic - Cream is a prime example. She not only has healing powers, but she boosts her friends' attacks and speed. Turns out Amy can do something like this too, but Cream is able to do more healing than she can. Bonus points, since Cream works most prominently as a doctor.
* Damsel Out Of Distress - One episode states that one of Amy's favorite strategies to use against new villains is to pretend to be the Damsel in Distress in order to make her kidnappings a wake up call for her fellow Freedom Fighters in order for her to be able to perform a combo attack with one of the members.
* Darker And Edgier - Season 2 is a much darker season compared to Season 1. The comedy is meaner, the subjects the Lemur Twins joke about are even darker (e.g., Maria's death), reviving villains is much more common, Eggman starves a desert city, the Mongoose Sisters' segments are more sadistic, and there's an episode about comforting citizens of an earthquake. It also counts as Denser And Wackier, as the Lemur Twins are even crazier than the Prower Sisters, and the Pyro and Iron segments are weirder. However, for the most part, the show still doesn't take itself seriously.
* Declaration Of Personal Independence - All of the Rose Siblings do this when they realize Amy hasn't taught them new skills or let them have a chance at fighting Eggman, who is much more incompetent in this series.
* Duck Season. Rabbit Season - One of the Prower Sisters' go to tricks.
* Dude, Not Funny! - Cream always gets angry at the Prower Sisters' tricks, as long as they are played on fairly innocent people and/or go way too far. Amy too, especially in Case of the Curse, where she is tortured by the Junior Chaotix, Flash Rose, and the three groups of tricksters in the series.
* Excuse Plot - The plots of the Rose Siblings trying to break Eggman out of prison in many episodes, saving his robots from getting destroyed, or trying to get the Eggman Fan Passes back are excuse plots so that they can fight Sonic and friends
* Expy - The Prower Sisters are basically Mobius' version of Bugs Bunny, and later on in the TV series, the Warners from Animaniacs. Most people call them Bugs Bunny or the Warners if they were excellent engineers and inventors, as these are the daughters of Tails. However, since they are literally kids, they have to deal with problems a kid would hate. Also, from Season 1 to Season 2, they go from being even more self-serving than the average Karmic Trickster, even attacking their own mother and father for stopping them from getting revenge on the amusement park owner and endangering the city to being less self-serving by doing more heroic deeds.
* From Special To Series - The special, The Greatest Prison Break Of All Time was so popular, Kids of Mobius got a TV series.
* Goldfish Poop Gang - Many examples.
** Eggman is this to a lot of characters in the series.
** Most of the examples are the Freedom Fighters, as they are this to the Prower Sisters, Lemur Twins, and Rose Siblings, even Queen Sally and King Shane who lead the entire team, with their strategies falling apart due to the kids' intelligence. Most especially...
*** Tails and Cream (even Shadow to an extent) to the Prower Sisters.
*** Sonic to Flash every Ring Rush (because even if Sonic wins the races, Flash gets way more rings due to her ability to attract them).
*** Diamond Cutters (2nd gen, save for Tangle, since she often joins in her daughters' antics instead) and Jewel to the Lemur Twins.
* Guile Hero - There are a ton of examples.
** The Prower Sisters are the primary examples of Guile Heroes, which comes with them being inspired by Bugs Bunny. While not always heroic, their main methods of defeating foes is through trickery, which is a category no other character but the Lemur Twins and Boomer come close to topping them in. They always manage to defeat their foes, whether they're villains or not.
** As implied above, Amy is the Guile Hero of the team when a new planet-ending threat comes to Mobius, with Tails being the Science Hero and Sonic and Knuckles being the Action Heroes.
* Innocently Insensitive - The Prower Sisters aren't terrible people, they just joke about heavy topics, not having full knowledge on them, and using them as ways to get back at people they deem jerks.
* Karmic Tricksters - Considering the Prower Sisters are based on Bugs Bunny, it is bound for them to follow this trope. The Mongoose Sisters slightly follow this trope too.
** Flash counts as this, often to her self-proclaimed arch-nemesis, Cream when she is in her alter-ego, The Lightning Lady.
* Kid Detective - The Junior Chaotix members follow this trope to a tee, always asking adults for questions. The adults they ask may believe the case they're solving happened, but just don't care about it.
* Power Trio - The Mongoose Sisters are a Power Trio. They often bicker, with Harmony bickering less than they do, but in "Mongoose Mayhem", that doesn't even end up working for her.
* Red Oni, Blue Oni - A lot of examples:
** The Prower Sisters are usually laid back and wait for someone to wrong them before they unleash chaos on them. The Lemur Twins, on the other hand, prank people on instinct and are more often than not insane.
** Of the Mongoose Sisters, Rhythm is the jerk, Harmony is the mediator, and Melody is in between.
** Dash and Smash are both to each other. Dash is usually more outgoing and prefers to do the raw fighting, while Smash prefers to use her superior wits and smarts to get what she wants and defeat her foes. However, Dash acts more calm, while Smash is more of a jerk.
** Rob is a Red Oni to Riley's Blue Oni, as Rob is more outgoing and emotionally smart, while Riley is more about book-smarts, trying to solve problems through them, but isn't the best at socializing and can be reckless at times.
** Tangle is, of course, the Red Oni to Whisper's Blue Oni, like in the comics.
*Sadist Show - Zigzagged as some episodes are extremely mean, but others are heartwarming.
*Took A Level In Badass - Cream is insanely powerful in her super form and will use it when angered enough.
* The Prankster - The Lemur Sisters love to prank people, and they do so on instinct. However, they joke about things like the death of Maria Robotnik and Mephiles the Dark that they may be considered outright malicious. The Prower Sisters somewhat follow this trope (mainly Cookie). Boomer, Bean's younger son is an example too, and is like the Lemur Twins, except with more abilities, and thus, flashier.
*Two/Three Shorts - While Kids of Mobius is mostly a Two-Shorts series, it becomes Three-Shorts in Season 3 (fittingly enough).
*Unexpectedly Dark Episode - While it doesn't treat itself seriously, Case Of The Curse is the quintessential dark comedy episode of the series, because it's about Amy unknowingly getting tortured by her daughter, Flash, along with her friends, despite getting out of the tortures and severely punishing them afterwards.
*Well Intentioned Extremist - If anyone doesn't write Riley as this, news flash: that is NOT Riley. Though she is a villain, she always does her actions to solve a social issue, like traffic and freedom of opinion. She is the series' prime definition of an Anti-Villain.
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