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Jewelpet

A toy and anime franchise created by Sega (known for Sonic the Hedgehog) and Sanrio about the titular Jewelpets who have fallen from Jewel Land; thus, the Jewelpet of Courage, Ruby, is asked to locate them.

The anime ran for *seven seasons* making the anime the longest Sanrio-based anime that *isn't* related to Hello Kitty so far (though Aggretsuko may change that).

Do not confuse Ruby with Ruby Rose, though both *RWBY* and *Jewelpet* got a crossover fanfic starting July 2017. Also, Garnet is not to be confused with a Crystal Gem.

## Tropes

* Obscurity, much?: The franchise is semi-obscure outside Japan, as per usual for a Sanrio franchise not named Hello Kitty or Show by Rock!!. This time around, though, it was *actually* obscure in America due to Sega and Sanrio fearing a lawsuit from the owners of Webkinz, a similar franchise that was popular in America at the time. By 2020, this got so bad, it got its own page.
* You Are Fired: Coal gets fired from the Decoranain towards the end of *Kira Deco* and thus escapes from reality via a *Yami Quest* character.
	+ In the same season, it's revealed that upon bailing Blue Knight Ozaki out of jail, Garnet fired her former butler in order to replace him with Ozaki.
* Size Changing: *Magical Change* has a Jewelpet grow taller as they turn into humans.
* Innocent punishment: Ruby sometimes gets killed despite her heroic actions. She always comes back, though.
* Samurai Jack Timeskip: The majority of *Magical Change* takes place seven years after the main human of the series meets Ruby.
* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: How does Ruby come back to life after getting killed?
* Animal World: Level 3, bordering on level 4. *Magical Change* earns a level 2 thanks to the Jewelpets having the ability to turn into humans.
* Satisfactory Conclusion: One of *few* Sanrio franchises to end on one of these, even if it's not a happy one.
* True ending: When the Jewelpets go back to Jewel Land, though in fanon at least one leaves Jewel Land again eventually.
* This gave us inspiration: Coron looks somewhat similar to Ruby.
* Padding Filler Z: Only five episodes of *Magical Change* are plot-related.
* Shonen Beat: From *Sunshine* onward, the anime basically became Galaxy Angel for girls, even going so far as to add a JoJo reference in *Sunshine*.
* Jewelrunes: The Trope Namer, due to the fictional (written) language the Jewelpets use.
* Dubless Series: The anime got dubbed in almost every other European-originated language, such as Spanish, French, Greek, Italian, Hungarian, and Portuguese, in part or in full. However, the English dub was made exclusively for Southeast Asia, and a German dub simply doesn't exist due to the German anime market being almost the exact same as the US anime market.
	+ Worth noting is that the English dub was recorded at Omni Productions (the same company known for the infamously bad Transformers English dubs), so anything even remotely close to a North American English dub doesn't exist either.
* Downwards Funnel: A short film, originally set for a February release, had to be delayed due to the effects of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic.

TBA.
Misplaced Aesop

"Mrs. Hildebrand is so cool! She's way awesome. I’m smarter than everyone else now, for sure. My teacher taught me everything and, most of all, how to solve the Big Question. Remember, to find the Big Question, you must unlock, review, apply, and answer."— **Cellita Gonzalecio (during interview)**, *Unlock the Big Question*

An Aesop is one of the most played with tropes in fiction. It has come to the point where parodies of them are becoming as repetitive as the morals themselves. Events are placed in motion, there's a course of action that needs to be taken or avoided, and there will be tragic consequences of *not* doing the correct action.

The trouble is realistic consequences, while the subtlety will be lost so that it's hard to show *why* the action should be taken. Worse, maybe there isn't any agreement on what the real consequences are. How can we be *sure* what will happen after certain choices are made?

## Examples Include

1. An Aesop: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
2. Broken Aesop: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
3. Spoof Aesop: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
4. Accidental Aesop: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
5. Lost Aesop: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
6. Fantastic Aesop: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
7. Clueless Aesop: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
8. Double Aesop: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
9. Aesop Amnesia: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
10. Aesop Collateral Damage: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Buddha Unmovers

Character debuts

**Buddha Unmovers** is the first episode of the first season of *The Unmovers*.

## Plot

For taking too long to arrive, The Unmovers attempt to outwit an nervous Jessica to receive the boxes of a lifetime.

## Characters

* Leonard Ouzts
* Joe Vescey
* Vlad Caamono
* Jessica
* The Three Brothers Moving Lady Employee

## Gallery

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Chi's Sweet Home

One of the most notorious cases of Shoujo Jump in seinen manga, Chi's Sweet Home is a manga and an anime about the eponymous cat. It has two anime series with two seasons each.

The first anime is available on DVD (with a cheaper option via SD on BD) in full in the US courtesy of Discotek Media.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Obviously averted between Japan and the rest of the world, but in Italy it airs on JimJam rather than an adult-oriented network (then again, see below).
* Cartoon Appropriateness Scale: The most puzzling example, since this was a seinen manga (and *should* qualify for levels 1-2 *at most kid-friendly*) yet its anime adaptation airs on JimJam (a preschool-oriented network) in Italy, and its manga was published left-to-right in North America. The Discotek Media releases luckily aim it at a level 1-2 due to a faithful translation and the fact that they're a retro anime distribution company.
* Obscurity, much?: More people in North America know about the anime adaptation than the manga. Even with that, the only physical releases are of the first anime, courtesy of Discotek Media. And if you're looking for a dub, you may also be out-of-luck; only the first season of the 2016 anime was ever dubbed.
	+ However, the anime is completely obscure in the UK. UK fans can *try* to get Region 2 DVDs straight from Japan, but said DVDs may probably not be English-friendly.
* Cute Mascot: The eponymous Chi is a cat.
* Shoujo Jump: One of the most notorious cases, if not *the* most notorious case in seinen manga. Bonus points in that the manga ran in *Morning*, which publishes more obviously seinen manga such as *Cooking Papa* and *Hataraki Man*.
* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: How come the Yamadas can't keep pets in their house? One of the landlord's rules?
	+ As of *Chi's New Address* this is no longer a problem; the Yamadas manage to move somewhere where pets *are* allowed.
Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama

Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama is a shoujo anime and toy franchise by Bandai Namco Holdings.

One day, a girl's cherished colored pencil turns into a Cocotama. When said girl sees it, she agrees to sign a contract and build him a dollhouse.

After that, comedy (and meeting other Cocotamas) ensues.

A sequel aired on Japanese television from 2018 to 2019, with a crossover between both series currently running online.

## Tropes

* You Messed Up, Now You're the Magical Girl: One of the rare instances where one messes up and *doesn't* become a magical girl.
* Obscurity, much?: Almost completely forgotten outside Japan, and would have been had it not been for Bandai forgetting to block a video for the DVD release outside Japan. This, despite it coming out at a time when any anime can get picked up for streaming. The net anime is worse as it's never been *subbed*.
	+ The Japanese Blu-rays can at least be played in North America. The catch being that they're not bilingual.
* I Have Failed to Keep a Secret: This is how a Cocotama can meet its end and turn back into the object it was born from.
* Innocent punishment: Averted: Let's say you refuse to sign a contract with a Cocotama. You endanger it. You wait until midnight to do so. Too late.
* Point of discontinuation: The original toys, due to the anime cast getting replaced.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Subverted between Japan and South Korea thanks to Disney Channel.
* This gave us inspiration: Why some people call the anime a ripoff of Jewelpet. And this was just three years after *Vary Peri* got flak for ripping off magical girl anime in general, *especially* Zoobles and Jewelpet.
* Dubless Series: Like a ton of TV Tokyo shoujo, this never got a North American English dub. Nor has it been dubbed in *any* European-originated language. Contrast this with *Jewelpet* and *Onegai My Melody*, which both got English dubs exclusive to Southeast Asia.
* The Colbert Effect: The only reasons the series is known in the Anglosphere at all are Bandai forgetting to block a video for the DVD release and a Crane Couple unboxing of Toreba prizes.
* You Are Fired: Played with. On one hand, if she reveals the Cocotamas' existence, a Cocotama Contractor is never officially fired from her status. On the other hand, she does invoke I Renounce My Position as her Cocotamas turn back into regular objects.
* Confined to Your Room: A rare example where it happens even in the *Japanese* version; Kokoro's younger brother is banned from playing video games "for a while" due to a mishap involving an encyclopedia.
Project-001 "Blue Bones"

**[PROJECT ID]:** 001

**[DANGER LEVEL FROM 1-10]** : 7

**[CONTAINMENT]:** Small cell, no video surveillance or view from the outside world of any kind shall be present.

**[DESCRIPTION]:**

 Project holds the appearance of a blue skeleton that is engulfed in blue fire. It can phase through any type of material and is capable of reproducing itself once it takes damage. The closer it is to dieng, the more clones it is capable of producing. All clones cannot be told apart from its original, thus making it near impossible to defeat it due to the only way of eliminating all clones is to kill the main Project. Once the main skeleton dies, all clones will fade away and a more docile version of itself will take its place, but will slowly become more hostile and will soon gain the ability to reproduce and phase through walls like its original over time. During its time as docile, it is to be escorted back to its cell using a healthy male with no known diseases as a lure to get the Project back into its small cell. When docile, it is in no way capable of harming anyone or able to phase through walls and can be easily lured. Once hostile, the only way to disturb it is if making contact with human flesh against its bones.

Test subjects say that Project 001 feels like a type of liquid, however, 001 appears to be made of solid bone.

When disturbed, it will tear off all flesh of the test subject and leave nothing of the victim but its skeleton.

In very few occasions, the victims' skeleton would be reanimated as one of the clones of 001.

All clones of 001 cannot be killed or stopped, the only known way of stopping them is killing the main Project.

Commander Comedy and Tragedy are currently working with a highly intelligent team of researchers to study a way of permanently terminating 001. They have made no progress whatsoever, and Project appears to be invincible for the time being.
League of Super Evil

A YTV cartoon by DHX Media, specifically Nerd Corps, debuting in 2009.

The show is about three villains who try to be evil: Voltar (whose evil plans usually involve normal everyday things turned up to eleven), Red Menace (the least evil of the group), and Doctor Frogg (the most evil of the trio), and their pet Doomageddon.

Also, the show is abbreviated L.O.S.E. for a reason.

## Tropes

* Voltar isn't Zim: Well, it *was* on Cartoon Network, but the show's US run only lasted a season. As for the other two seasons? Your best legal bet is home media releases or Netflix.
	+ At least it was rerun on Teletoon later on, but even then reruns disappeared from Teletoon quickly.
	+ Disney XD aired the show in Latin America *years* before Disney XD Canada started rerunning it.
* Only Moderately Evil: The titular league, with Doctor Frogg being the most evil out of the threesome.
* Super Evil: *Could* qualify for the Trope Namer. It even gives the trope its page image.
	+ Doctor Frogg. Not only is he Super Evil, he's also a Super Genius.
	+ Evil Steve, though he just wants to make money off of other villains.
* Wacky Science: A machine that converts your brain into muscle wouldn't work anyway as you can't do that in reality.
	+ Also, there are no "zillion channels" in reality. There were only around 15,000 channels in the world at the time this page was made, though that number is fluctuating.
* Canadian Content Required: Provides the page image for the trope.
* I hate spending cash: More specifically, Evil Steve hates giving out *refunds*.
* Gainax Ruined the Ending: In some episodes.
* Financial Failure: Evil Steve is cheap and loves money.
* Obscurity, Red?: Semi-obscure in the US, not so much in its native Canada. Oh, and the final two seasons are more obscure in the US than the first.
* Innocent punishment: Name one time the team fail at completing their schemes.
* The Protagonist is a Villain: The titular League are the protagonists, but the other villains are the antagonists of the show. Even Evil Steve.

TBA.
Aspen Pellot

Aspen Pellot is a web series featuring various characters from classic theatrical cartoons, arcade games, and anime, also including Caillou, Dora the Explorer, Scooby-Doo, Little Bill, Arthur, Rhythm Thief, Kunio-Kun, Henry Stickmin, Rhythm Heaven, Battle for Dream Island, and Go!Animate users' original characters. It was made by the person of the same name and uploaded to YouTube. This series was created in Go!Animate, also known as Vyond.

## This series provides examples of:

* **Animal World**: Multiple characters are from Animal Worlds themselves, so of course this counts!
* **Gender Stereotype Swap**: His Vyond videos has a lot of these. Doris, Elena (which who is the biggest of all), Jessie, Ariel, Kelly, Satari, Lola Bunny (Which who is the biggest of all), Petunia Pig, Rosie, D.W., Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, Daisy (Vyond), Mouthless Girl, Amy and Puffy, and some (or not) other female character lacks the female trails and have male traits, behavior, and personality instead. Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck (well, almost), Elmer Fudd, Monk, Cole, Noah, and few other male characters have stereotypically girlish traits instead of boy traits. However, some of the male characters have boyish traits. Aspen Pellot is trying to become "the next Emmy The Mermaid"
Having Fun

"Having Fun" is a wiki term for playing with a trope- twisting, bending, and maybe even exaggerating it to achieve different results.

Not to be confused with Just to Get a Laugh, which is about *characters* from different series getting their own pages (and playing with stories rather than tropes).

One more thing to note: this is *not a trope*. This is only to define how Tropes Fanon plays with tropes.

## Examples

* You Are Fired: See here.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: See here.
* You Are Benched: See here.
* Animal World: Examples of "Having Fun" listed on the same page.
* Obscurity, much?: See here.
* No Home Release for You: See here.
* Junking Tapes: See here.

TBA.
S4C

S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru, or Channel Four Wales in English) is a free-to-air public service television station in the Welsh language. It was launched on November 1, 1982 (shortly before Channel 4 started broadcasting the next day), and was the first television station to specifically target a Welsh-speaking audience. S4C is the fourth oldest terrestrial television station in Wales. S4C partially broadcasts shows like Sam Tan (Fireman Sam), as well as the other shows.

## Programmes that have aired on S4C (as of April 2023)

* Fireman Sam
* and many more shows aired on this channel.
Obscurity, much?/Movies

Even the film industry can have some pretty obscure films.

That said, a few restrictions for documenting films:

* A film shouldn't be documented on this page until its original theatrical run ends (or one month after its streaming release for streaming-exclusives) as of January 1st, 2023. No matter how obscure a film is, if it makes its budget back, then it probably has a big cult following.
	+ This only applies to the U.S. box office; if a film isn't exported at all, then it can be documented 1-4 months after the film's release in its country of origin.
* Films released before 1939 need to be lost *and* obscure in order to qualify.
* Short films are also best not documented (since there are *lots* of short films).

Disney has its own page.

* Part of the reason why people speculated that Slipknot would be among the first people to die in Suicide Squad (2016). The character was not as popular as Harley Quinn or Deadshot, and there were few scenes in the film that he appeared in.
* Subversion: Fox thought that *Star Wars* would become this, so they agreed to hand its director George Lucas all merchandise rights to it, as well as all sequel rights. Then *Star Wars* took off *massively*, so Fox's projections more or less backfired on them.
* Warner Bros. Animation's first feature film unit (there would be a second later on, which was a little more successful) churned out these. Only four of their movies are well-known- *Space Jam*, *The Iron Giant*, and *Looney Tunes: Back in Action* among them, the latter of which killed off the division upon its release.
* Compared to previous adaptations of *Mighty Atom*, *Astro Boy (2009)* is the most obscure animated work in the franchise (only the 1950s tokusatsu is more obscure than the film), not helping matters being this was Imagi's only feature film.
* Every mockbuster ever, if they're not laughed at for being laughably bad, *will* be this.
* The 1960s adaptation of *Heidi* (yes, the same book adapted into *Heidi, Girl of the Alps*) became this after the "Heidi Game" incident.
* Every single tokusatsu-based movie *ever* outside of Japan, unless it's *Power Rangers* or *Ultraman*-related.
* The *ChouSeiShin* series is already obscure outside of Japan to begin with, but its film adaptation *Chousei Kantai Sazer-X the Movie: Fight! Star Warriors* really takes the cake. Not helping matters is it's a tokusatsu film that isn't related to either *Power Rangers* or *Ultraman*, meaning it's this by default outside of Japan anyways.
Samurai Jack Timeskip

After a big timeskip, characters may find that they've gotten stronger (or at the very least gained some form of power) and grown more hair than the character once had. Side effects might include:

* Losing hope of getting back to the past.
* Becoming President of the United States (though that was just a dream).
* Getting laughed at since they're still in school.

If this happens to a *female* character, don't expect them to grow a beard.

An inversion is where one becomes bald rather than growing more hair.

## Examples

### Straight examples

* The Trope Namer, Samurai Jack. 50 (in-canon) years have passed since the end of the original Cartoon Network run and the first new episode to air on Adult Swim. Jack grew a beard and lost hope of returning to the past. As of episode 7, the gods who helped him throughout the series shaved his beard and gave him a haircut.
* Naruto and Luffy are the most prominent examples in the Weekly Shonen Jump. Goku too. However, they don't grow any facial hair.
	+ Speaking of the Weekly Shonen Jump, Joseph Joestar between *Battle Tendency* and *Stardust Crusaders*. By the time his grandson Jotaro gets his Stand, Joseph has grown facial hair, though he's stronger than he was in *Battle Tendency* due to his Stand.

TBA.

### Female examples

* Riley towards the end of the film, even though no actual difference is seen.
* Moana has the titular character grow up in just minutes of film time, implying she's been there for *years*.
* Imagined upon in PB&J Otter, a rare example for a *preschool* series; Jelly imagines she's the *Queen of the Wilderness* in one episode, and it even inspired a *creepypasta*.

TBA.

### Inversions

* One-Punch Man: Even when three years of training made him able to defeat people with one punch, it's a fact that Saitama went bald during said training.
* The Men Who Built America: As the monopolists age, they also weaken in terms of bodily strength. However, they still have power over almost *an entire industry*.
	+ Rockefeller was not only physically weakened, he also had to deal with *Standard Oil* being broken up.

TBA.
Obscurity, much?/The Lego Group

Lego is one of the biggest toy companies in the world, starting in Denmark and eventually expanding worldwide. It's hard *not* to find Lego bricks in any general or toy store in the United States *alone*, but discontinued sets have a tendency to become this.

For clarification, this list is only for Lego sets and creations made with Lego bricks. If something is made from competing building blocks, there is no need to document it here. Also, pre-1939 examples, as well as examples not involving Lego bricks or any Lego-produced bricks similar to them, are best not documented here as Lego's been around for a long time.

* Lego was almost brought into bankruptcy by a couple of sets only intended for use in specific sets. *That* didn't go so well, so Lego eventually decided to make most, if not all, its playsets compatible with one another afterwards. Thus, the older playsets that weren't compatible with newer ones were brought into this trope.
	+ That said, this also helped Nintendo in court, due to their Nintendo Blocks being accused of copying Lego bricks, one of the reasons no one outside of Japan heard of Nintendo until they developed *Donkey Kong*.
* Buying certain Lego sets will set you back a hundred dollars or *more* as an example of how obscure some sets are. And yet, some collectors still collect sets secondhand.
* Outside of robotics courses, almost no one heard of Lego Mindstorms in the 1990s. *Then* come the 2010s, people started realizing the sets could be used for *multiple* things, such as coin-op vending machines, coin-op restaurants (some of which are based on vending machine technology), and a ton of machines where coins below a certain diameter (i.e. smaller than one quarter or 2 euros) are rejected.
* Older Lego-based videogames, such as the older *Lego Star Wars* titles, are this, at least outside their country of origin.
* Lego and the British candy Smarties (not to be confused with the American tablet candy of the same name) apparently do not work so well, as videos with a Lego machine dispensing the chocolate treats tend to be unpopular compared to other Lego machines. This particular video only has 15K views as of this writing. In contrast, this video (where a Lego machine is used to dispense the similar candy M&Ms) got over a million views.
* That said, have fun telling someone who hasn't played with a Duplo set what said branding is. Duplo sets are basically larger Lego bricks, but aside from that difference, same company, more obscure branding. The *only* media that reference them are *The LEGO Movie* (and its sequel) and one Lego spoof on *Robot Chicken*.
"Jetson, You're Fired!"

You Are Fired as a recurring joke, or if it happens in *every single job* the character works at. Can also happen if *everyone* was fired in rapid succession before replacements are even hired.

Often a form of Innocent punishment.

For when it only happens once to a character or doesn't happen too often, see You Are Fired.

## Examples

* George Jetson is the Trope Namer due to his constantly being fired by Mr. Spacely.
* *Family Guy*: Peter Griffin often gets fired from several jobs he works at. Averted in the pilot/first episode, as he was never re-hired by the toy factory he used to work at.
* *The Simpsons*: Homer Simpson's been fired from the nuclear plant so often, even one of the "Angry Dad" shorts (based off of Homer) showcase Angry Dad's boss (who was modeled off of Mr. Burns) firing him.
* *Regular Show*: Benson always threatens to fire Mordecai and Rigby, in some cases even going through with it (it never sticks, though).
* *Inch High, Private Eye* is sometimes fired for failing to solve a case.
* In GoAnimate videos, expect troublemakers to be fired from every job they work at, with predictable results. One example is *Dora for Hire*.
* *Hayate the Combat Butler* is always threatened with being fired.
* *The Flintstones*: Mr. Slate fires Fred frequently.
* Ozu threatens to fire the entire Lily Mu cast *frequently* in *Kappa Mikey*.
* Mr. Ick would let out a "You're fired!" before correcting himself in *Rocko's Modern Life*.
* Jonesy is fired in every episode of *6teen*. In fact, he holds the record for most firings out of any character from pre-2007 Teletoon series, and the record for any Nelvana cartoon *period*.
* In *The Amazing World of Gumball*, after getting jobs (that they shouldn't have due to a hormone messup), Gumball and Darwin end up firing everyone at the company, including themselves. In real life, the only way to do that is via layoffs.
* According to Matthew Santoro, *everyone* at an Australian mine was fired for a few of the miners doing the Harlem Shake.
* It's entirely possible in the *Pokémon* games to release your entire team (and every Pokémon in your PC)... except for one single Pokémon.
* Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, is just about the only superhero in Marvel Comics' roster that is threatened with firing from their paid job *all the time*.
Doodlez

A series of Duck Amuck-style shorts commissioned by Teletoon and produced by the otherwise-unknown Cellar Door Productions.

Aired on Nicktoons in America.

## Tropes

* I hate spending cash: In the "Virtual Reality" short, whenever Dood inserts some money in the machine, he gets sent to a horrible game.
	+ This trope applies to whoever "draws" the cartoon in another short where Dood tries to put in some money to ride a horse... only for it to backfire at the end.
* Canadian stereotypes: How much more Canadian can the show get from the fact that Teletoon commissioned it? Well, throw in Canadian references.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Justified, at least in part. See, the shorts appeared on Nicktoons for a while, but what made sense for the series to do so was the short that paid tribute to *Post Haste*, a game played by *Nick Arcade* contestants back in the 90s. The similarities to the Looney Tunes short "Duck Amuck", which is seen on Cartoon Network, has nothing to do with this example.
* Obscurity, much?: A YouTube user that is in no way affiliated with Teletoon or its owner Corus Entertainment has uploaded most of these to YouTube, and Teletoon somehow isn't taking legal action against it. That's how semi-obscure it is.
* Shout-Out: See Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon above.
Paranoia, the Destroyer

Sometimes, paranoia gets the best of you. You're afraid of almost everything that can go wrong. Thus, this trope goes into effect.

Trope Namer is The Kinks.

And for clarity's sake- do not add examples where people are allergic to something, but not paranoid of it. This is also not for referencing the word "Paranoid".

## Examples

* The Kinks are the Trope Namer; they recorded a song called "Destroyer", which is about the narrator being paranoid about Lola.
* The reason why Dexter's mom in Dexter's Laboratory wears gloves is due to paranoia of being infected with germs.
* In SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob gets paranoid about losing his job frequently, either through means of being fired, being ordered to take a vacation, having Jim take over, or through other means.

TBA.
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town

*Santa Claus is Comin' to Town*, one of Rankin-Bass' most-beloved Christmas specials, tells the full story of who came to be known as Santa Claus: How he got his beard, how he got his clothes, why kids put up stockings, and why he lives in the North Pole. Basically, the *ultimate* aversion of What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions? concerning common Christmas questions.

For what happened later on, see Rankin-Bass' adaptation of *Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer*.

## Tropes

* Unrealistic stuff: It's about Santa Claus' origins, so this is par for the course.
* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: Downplayed. Most of the questions asked in the special are answered, but no one ever bothered to ask why Santa gives those in his naughty list coal.
	+ Why does the Burgermeister wield so much power over Sombertown, and more importantly, why did Sombertown secede from the kingdom so early?
* Offer Void Wherever Prohibited: Combined with *Confined to Your Room*, of *all tropes*, when the Burgermeister bans toys from Sombertown.
* Confined to Your Room: See Offer Void Wherever Prohibited above.
* You Are Fired: Implied. Once the Burgermeisters die off, it's likely that, assuming democracy came to Sombertown, Meisterburger's aides were Impeached from Office for making the children suffer.
* Downwards Funnel: Congratulations, Meisterburger; you just helped create several Christmas traditions even if you didn't want to. Granted, while Kris was later arrested, he later broke out with the help of some reindeer.
* This gave us inspiration: Based off a Christmas song, like other Rankin-Bass Christmas specials at the time.
	+ In-universe example: Because he was an outlaw as far as Sombertown was concerned, Kris Kringle can no longer use *that specific name*. Instead, being inspired by a nametag, he now goes by Santa Claus.
	+ That said, an overworked Santa decides to make trips around the world just once a year to reduce his stress- on the 24th of December, aka Christmas Eve.
* Dubless Series: Par for the course in cultures that do not celebrate Christmas.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: The network that commissioned it no longer has the airing rights, and let's keep it at that.
* Exactly What It Says: Santa Claus (then known exclusively as Kris Kringle) came to Sombertown in this special. It's not called *Santa Claus is Comin' to Town* for nothing.
* Obscurity, much?: Par for the course as far as cultures who do not celebrate Christmas are concerned. As for cultures who *do* celebrate Christmas, especially in the United States, this is averted *hard*.
Qubo

Qubo was an American children's network airing series from Nelvana, Scholastic, and DreamWorks Classics. In other words, Qubo is what happens when you combine Teletoon, YTV, and Treehouse TV to try to make an American version.

Qubo also had a late-night block called "Qubo Night Owl", which aired series from all three distributors.

After an almost 15-year run, Qubo received the chopping block thanks to a merger between Ion and E.W. Scripps in 2021. The network shut down on February 28th. The Ion block currently remains, but with all "Qubo Kids Corner" branding dropped.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Qubo has *defied* this trope whenever they could in the past 14 years before they shut down (it was partially owned by Nelvana when it started, giving some justification in Qubo's case).
	+ That said, some shows still play this straight; how come Grossology, which has aired on The Hub, aired on Qubo during its (Qubo's) final years? Well, Discovery Family lost the rights to it prior to 2016.
* Cartoon Appropriateness Scale: By the time of its shutdown, Qubo reached level 0 during the morning and early afternoon and level 1 during the evening. It also used to be level 1 during late-night until Ion decided to stuff infomercials *on a children's network*.
* Programming Archive: The whole network, especially during its final years.
	+ That said, Qubo never aired any anime during its existence (unless Pecola is counted as an anime). Then again, the last attempt to air anime that was edited for children on over-the-air television didn't even outlast Vortexx.
* Downwards Funnel: This was the last children's brand on broadcast TV that wasn't PBS Kids or Litton-related, so its shutdown marked the end of non-PBS animation outside of the Fox cartoons (which aren't really appropriate for Qubo's demographic), cable, home media (to an extent), and streaming.
	+ It also didn't help that Qubo was shut down, potentially thanks to streaming, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
* The Colbert Effect: If a show was owned by Nelvana, Scholastic, or DreamWorks Classics, if Qubo dug it up they would find *some* way to bring it out of obscurity. Sometimes, it succeeded, but most of the time, only whatever cult following a show had watched it.
* Dubless Series: A good reason why some of the programming on NBC's version of the Qubo block were *not* on the Telemundo block: some of Qubo's programming has no Spanish dub.
Digimon Adventure Tri

Digimon Adventure Tri is a series of anime movies based on *Digimon* and a clear lesson of how to market a children's franchise to the seinen and josei crowds, or more accurately those who grew up watching the original Digimon.

Notable for being the first Digimon entry whose English version is not handled by Saban or Hasbro. Initially rumored to be the final Digimon material released in America, until said rumor was disproven by the *Digimon Adventure* reboot getting a Crunchyroll simulcast.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Appropriateness Scale: The original *Digimon Adventure* was aimed at boys 7 and up at a level 1 (Fox Kids' promos were gender-neutral). *Tri*, however, is a seinen-aimed installment of a children's franchise, and level 2, to boot. Even if it managed to shy away from profanity unlike most other seinen released in America, Tri's not for children at all.
* Post-Conclusion Gameplay: *Tri* is a non-playable version to the original *Adventure*.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Neither Saban nor Hasbro (after the latter snapped up the former) distribute the films in North America. The distributors do, however, use the English character names in the dub (and even hired most of the original VAs) to keep consistency with the Saban dub of the original.
* The Colbert Effect: After Fusion killed the franchise off as far as the installments aimed at children go, *Tri* revived it among the younger end of Adult Swim's current target demographic.
* Obscurity, much?: Alongside *Fusion*, *Tri* indirectly caused this for *Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters*: *Fusion* didn't perform well enough, and *Tri* performed well... with the crowd who grew up with *Adventure*.
* Satisfactory Conclusion: The 2020 film not withstanding, *Tri* acts as one to the original *Digimon Adventure*.
* That's a Capital Idea: After Toei Animation started acknowledging its older anime more, starting with the recut of *Dragon Ball Z* and later rebooting *Sailor Moon* with *Sailor Moon Crystal* (not to mention *Ojamajo Doremi* light novels), Toei Animation did the same thing with *Digimon*.
Business First, Party Later

"So you see, here at Featherstone Incorporated, everyone is fully dedicated to working super hard, because we are motivated by the promise of rest and relaxation after work. So come and join us. Over tons of people work hard to play hard."— **Deedra Featherstone**, *Helping Hands*

Anyone who has lived past the age of 4 is well-acquainted with the fact that Life Is Not Fair. Many kids (and adults) often don't make the effort to prioritize work before play. While everyone procrastinates from time to time, constantly putting off work can become a very dangerous habit. Do you ever find that we seem to have a million excuses why something can't get done, like work or chores? Yet, when it comes to pursuing our favorite desires, obstacles are no match for our diligence? Part of having maturity comes with doing the things we need to do before we're allowed to do the things we want to do.

It’s never easy to go to school/work all day, or to have that hard talk, or to finish what we started, or to say sorry for the things we did wrong, or to actually wake up when the alarm sounds. It never was and never will be easy. Think about what’s the worst that could happen? You're not going to die because of it, but motivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it's hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart's not in it? There is one easy tactic.

We would tell you that it's just not fair, but in reality, maybe the writers just needed a way to continue the story or build the suspense. There are many ways this trope is generally employed. At least all of the fictional characters are having *way better fun* than we are.
Comedic Sapient, Dramatic Human

In most live-action and animation mash up films, there is the duo between a wacky, goofy, silly, funny, carefree, lighthearted, and comedic anthropomorphic animal, a object, robot, mythical creature, or a alien and a human, especially a male, who is down to earth, snarky, brooding, serious, and dramatic.

Often appeared in films that a mix between live-action and animation.

A subtrope and supertrope of "Drawn Together" Casting and also a subtrope for Human-Animal Relationship.

## Examples

* Any of the Western Animation-themed films and shows always used this trope to death:
	+ Who Framed Roger Rabbit has a goofy rabbit named Roger Rabbit and Eddie Valinet, who hates Toons.
	+ Averted in Cool World, Frank Harris, Holli Would and Nails The Spider are serious.
	+ Out of Jimmy's Head has a cartoony Golly Gopher Gang and a realistic Jimmy Roberts.
	+ Desert Mirage: Cliff Morelli and Ryley Raccoon
	+ Bonkers has the titular bobcat and a Toon-hating detective named Lucky Piquel
	+ The Emmy The Mermaid Show has all the characters from RobArts Cartoon Universe, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Cool World, Bonkers, and Desert Mirage.
* Futurama: a Anti-Role Model Bender and a serious Lela
RWBY

RWBY (pronounced "Ruby") is an anime-inspired web cartoon by Rooster Teeth. Yes, the same people that worked on Red vs. Blue and X-Ray and Vav.

Because most of Rooster Teeth's prior work was based on videogames (the exception being *RT Animated Adventures*), *RWBY* is Rooster Teeth's first entirely-original intellectual property.

Because Monty Oum wrote 20 volumes' worth of story, it's safe to say the series is continuing past Monty's death.

Also got a spin-off, named RWBY Chibi, if you're not interested in the main story.

Do not confuse Ruby Rose with another character named Ruby.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Broadcast by Tokyo MX in Japan, and with Gen:Lock airing on Toonami, it's possible that, thanks to WarnerMedia's acquisition of Rooster Teeth, RWBY may soon air on Toonami.
* Obscurity, much?: The RWBY manga. As for the rest of the franchise (especially the main work), this is obviously averted.
* Innocent punishment: Averted in episode one. Glynda didn't deliver Ruby this trope, because Ozpin wanted to meet Ruby. Instead, Ruby became a student at Beacon Academy.
	+ Dust is *highly* explosive, as Weiss found out.
* Samurai Jack Timeskip: Volume 4 takes place *months* after volume 3, and most of the characters got their clothing redesigned.
* I hate spending cash: Roman Torchwick stated in the Dust robbery that he didn't want money. What he *did* want was the Dust.
* That's a Capital Idea: Parodied in Volume 1, despite being a serious show most of the time.
* Creator Shout-out: In one episode of Volume 2, Jaune was reading a comic book. The comic book in question? X-Ray and Vav.
* Catchy Tunes: Has their fair share, but the catchiest tunes in the series could be the theme songs.
* No Home Release for You: One of the few Rooster Teeth shows to avert this. Given it's a massive franchise on par with *Red vs. Blue*, *not* releasing it to physical media would only make fans angry. Thus, the various Blu-ray releases.
* Confined to Your Room: Weiss is not outright confined to her room despite an outburst that almost ruined the Schnee family's reputation. However, she *is* confined to the manor grounds *and* disinherited. Became a big dose of irony later on when Weiss not only escapes Atlas, but she also places her own father under arrest.
* You Are Benched: Jacques' decision to keep Weiss out of sight in the manor also means she couldn't continue her huntress duties. At least, not as far as her father knows, as she trained in secret until she escaped.
* Loads and Loads of Irony: Jacques confines Weiss to the manor grounds, only to be arrested by *his own daughter* a few volumes later.
	+ Beacon Academy getting overrun by Grimm. Granted, it was the villains' fault, but still.
	+ Rowan Torchwick's final words were also ironic (at least the "Survive" part was): "Lie, Steal, Cheat, and Survive!"
	+ The teams at Beacon splitting up are also ironic, especially Team RWBY when Weiss is benched by her father. If they're not together, when what's the point of keeping the team names? And this isn't even counting former teams who lost members for good...

TBA.
Having Fun/You Are Benched

Here are the ways one can approach having to sit out a game or two.

* Basic definition: When someone has to sit out a few games, whether due to injury or because the coach is trying to discipline him.
* Straight: Joe is benched for one-two games as punishment.
	+ Alternatively, he's benched because he has an injury that needs a few weeks to heal, making him miss five games because of it.
* Exaggerated: Joe is benched for the rest of the season, though as a punishment rather than because of an injury.
	+ Joe is cut entirely.
* Downplayed: Joe is one of the best players on the team. Joe costing the team a game is no big deal to them, since they can always bounce back. As such, he only gets benched when he's too injured to play.
* Inverted: Joe doesn't get a single benching all season- because of his good behavior *and* because he hasn't had a single injury during said season.
* Justified: Joe is extremely injured and is physically incapable of playing for the next few games.
	+ The coach disciplined him for costing the team a game.
* Subverted: It looks like the coach is about to bench Joe, but it turns out he wasn't the guy who cost the team the game.
* Double Subverted: Then just before the next game, Joe injures himself and is benched because of it.
* Zig-zagged: Joe got benched due to an injury. He recovers quickly, allowing him to play again... but on his first game back, he injures himself *again*.
* Exploited: One of the teammates give Joe really heavy equipment (that isn't even good for defense), making him injure himself on the playing field.
* Exploitation Denied: The coach is angry at the prank and, after benching Joe due to his injury, benches the guy who did it for even longer than Joe would be.
* Defied: Joe takes a really serious injury and can never play again. The coach thus has no choice but to cut him entirely and make him quit the sport for good.
	+ The coach is so angry at Joe that he cuts him on the spot rather than benching him.
* Played for Drama: Joe has never played a single game because he's either been benched as punishment or benched for injuries he received during practice.
* Deconstructed: This gets to the point where the coach yells at Joe for ten minutes before finally cutting him for good.
* Reconstructed: Luckily, another team is willing to take Joe in.
	+ Alternatively, due to League rules Joe gets a ton of money from the team after he's let go.
Adult-oriented Aesop

The writers of an adult-oriented TV show want to throw an aesop or something educational in.

When the network approves of this, they throw it in.

Thus, we have an Adult-oriented Aesop.

Do not confuse with a Kid-friendly Aesop.

## Tropes

* Some writers on The Simpsons are mathematicians, so that's the reason there's a lot of math on the show.
* Anime is getting bad at this:
	+ The aesop for Soul Eater is how bravery overcomes madness and fear.
	+ The aesop for Danganronpa is that hope can never die.
	+ Kill la Kill has *three* of these:
		- First off, they discussed how greed can turn a person evil. This was in Episode 7.
		- The second (and main) one was about how humans are humans, and clothes are clothes.
		- And the third, discussed in the OVA, was about how people must learn from the past.
	+ Puella Magi Madoka Magica has the titular character become the embodiment of hope.
	+ Attack on Titan's aesop is that you can find beauty if you don't stop fighting for it.
* A music variation exists in Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven.
* Virtually any documentary on TLC, the History Channel, etc. before they decided to air non-educational stuff.
	+ Though the History Channel series Pawn Stars and American Pickers are still somewhat related to history, through the historical items in both shows.

TBA.
Post-Conclusion Gameplay

The post-conclusion gameplay is playable when you get to play a game past its conclusion, in case you missed something or want to find everything the game has to offer.

Do not confuse with No Ending at All, where you play until you run out of lives and/or time.

Note that as spoilers are ahead, it's best if you play these games before reading the rest of this page.

## Examples

* *Super Paper Mario*: Right after Count Bleck and Tippi (read: Lady Timpani) marry each other (mirroring what happened when Peach and Bowser were forced to marry each other in the beginning), the Dark Prognosticus' prophecy is reversed, game's over, right? Wrong. The developers decide to allow you to continue playing in case you want to return to the Slammer Kingdom to take the challenge uninterrupted. There's also plenty of items you can play for as well.
* A non-playable variant in *Kill la Kill*. Just right after Senketsu burns up, Honnoji Academy prepares for their graduation. This sets up the True ending to the entire anime.
* *Doki Doki Literature Club*: The final act (right after Monika gets deleted) can be this, though the game itself will never have this as it deletes itself (and maybe the characters if you are unlucky enough) after the credits and a letter.
* No matter how hard you try in *Undertale*, everyone will know your choices... unless you do a "True reset". This won't get rid of choices from the Genocide route, though.
* *Jewelpet*: Some of its videogames have these in case you forgot to meet some Jewelpets or just want to hang out with them.
* *South Park: The Stick of Truth* and *The Fractured But Whole*, in case you forgot to do some side-quests. Not all of them are playable after the main events, though.
	+ The other *South Park* games avert this trope.
* Some *Pokémon* games can have this. In *Gold and Silver* and *Crystal Version*, you can beat the Kanto league after you beat the Johto league. In *Emerald Version*, you can take on the Battle Frontier after you beat the Hoenn league. Beyond that, you can also unlock other secrets in *Black and White* once you beat the Unova League.
* All WarioWare games (yes, including Game & Wario) in case you want to set new high scores. Or in the case of *Touched*, unlock everything.
* *Sonic Colors* actually has this in the *credits*. You can run, jump, and dash to tear up the end credits. Post-conclusion gameplay afterwards is also possible. Likewise, every main title Sonic game since *Adventure* also has post-conclusion gameplay in case you missed something.
* *Harvest Moon*: In at least one game, marrying your rival will automatically avert this.
* Parodied in *Don't Call Us a Junk Game!*, in which the characters of a videogame invoke a New Game+ via Edit Mode as a response to their game being called "junk".