Amphibia (TV series)

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Amphibia is a 2019 Disney Channel cartoon created by Matt Braly, who was a director on Gravity Falls. It premiered on June 17, 2019, and ended its third season on May 14, 2022.

Anne Boonchuy is a girl who opened a mystical music box with her two friends, Sasha Waybright and Marcy Wu, where all three are transported to Amphibia. The inhabitants consist of giant flora, fauna, and sapient amphibians of frogs, toads, and newts. The three members of the Plantar family take her in: the energetic Sprig who becomes her new best friend, the brutal Polly who wishes to throw down with this monster, and the grandfather Hopediah or Hop Pop. Anne goes on many adventures with her new friends while searching for her old ones and finding a way back home.

Amphibia is a Spoilered Rotten series, so be warned, Spoilers may be unmarked.


 * Adults Are Useless: Ultimately defied throughout the series.
 * In Amphibia, all the adults are shown as those that can fight and protect their children, or grandchildren, when the chips are down. Hop Pop is shown to be an accomplished wrestler, able to take down Mayor Toadstool, while Felicity Sundew uses innkeeping training to prepare Ivy for whatever is out there in the world.
 * Also, while Anne's father is something of a Bumbling Dad, her mother is a Mama Bear who catches on fast.
 * Alien Lunch: A Running Gag in season one involved Anne being grossed out by the food in Amphibia, which tended to have bugs in it. After about a month in Wartwood, however, she starts craving pillbug pancakes and bug jerky. In.
 * All Animals Are Dogs: Some insects and arachnids are kept as pets where they show dog-like behavior. There is one episode where Anne takes in a large wild caterpillar she names Domino II that resembles and acts like a cat but later changes into a meat-eating moth that almost ate her and the Plantars.
 * Alternate Realm Boon:
 * Amazing Technicolor Population: Amphibians consist of different species of frogs, toads, and newts comprised of various skin tones.
 * The Atoner:
 * In season three,.
 * "The Hardest Thing" shows.
 * Big Creepy-Crawlies: The world's fauna consists of various giant predatory insects and arachnids.
 * Bittersweet Ending: Each season ends this way:
 * "Reunion": While the Plantars and Wartwood manage to.
 * "True Colors": It's very close to a Downer Ending..
 * "The Hardest Thing": The sad part is not . The Time Skip further emphasizes this: while indeed Anne, Sasha and Marcy Back in frog world,.
 * Black Comedy: Practically a staple of the series, especially when it references how easy it is to die in Amphibia.
 * Both Sides Have a Point: One that comes up in the series finale. Hop Pop gently tells Sprig that . Sprig responds cheerily that . "The Hardest Thing" shows both of their points coming to life:
 * Dramatic Irony:
 * "Best Fronds" ends with Anne hoping that Sasha and Marcy are okay whenever they are. Rapid cut to Commander Grime confronting a chained-up Sasha, with Anne's missing shoe.
 * In season three, Agent X is convinced that the "frog aliens" are planting an invasion when he sees traffic camera footage of them fighting a robot. All the while, Anne and the Plantars are trying to figure out how to.
 * Entertainingly Wrong: Anne thinks that she was the only one sucked into Amphibia because she woke up alone in the swamp. Episode 2 ends with The Reveal that Sasha ended up in toad territory, and Grime captured her. In Season 2, when Anne realizes that Sasha was transported, she commits to finding Marcy as well.
 * Evolving Credits:
 * Freeze-Frame Bonus:
 * Humans Are Ugly: In the pilot, Anne's attempts to ask Wally for help send him off screaming, claiming that a monster tried attacking him. He leads an angry mob in the town. When Sprig meets Anne, after she set snare traps to protect herself, he at first alls her "beast". Later, however, after she saves him from a giant mantis, he calls her an "ugly hero". Even after Anne proves that she's not a monster, the town still calls her the "scarecrow".
 * Large and In Charge: Mayor Froderick Toadstool is the largest resident of Wartwood Swamp, the town where most of season 1 takes place; justified, as he is a toad while most other residents are frogs. However, the king of Amphibia as a whole is King Andrias Leviathan, who towers over any of his subjects, clearly the biggest non-monster character on the show as of the end of season 2.
 * Lima Syndrome: Sasha's experience after being captured by Captain Grime was... well, maybe Sasha herself can summarize it better.
 * Machiavelli Was Wrong: Initially, Grime had a Machiavellian method of leading his troops, and they were a mess. Sasha manages to convince him that this Trope is better, and it does make his troops more efficient and competent. Of course, Sasha never says a leader has to be sincere when respecting his men, as she initially only does this to manipulate them.
 * Also,
 * The Man Behind The Man: This show lives on this Trope:
 * Mayor Frodrick Toadstool was the first antagonist, the greedy and corrupt mayor of Wartwood, but he was mostly penny-ante as a villain.
 * Later, it seemed Captain Grime was the higher-ranking antagonist, with
 * Still later
 * My God, What Have I Done?:
 * Anne has this reaction for many moments throughout the seasons when her ideas or stubbornness get the Plantars into trouble or mortal danger. She spends the end of the episode apologizing when that happens and making up for her mistake..
 * Sasha goes through an extended version of this in season three when kicking herself over.
 * has two of them in the series finale. Then "The Hardest Thing" happens, and.
 * Ordinary High School Student: Well, The three human girls (Anne Boonchuy, Sasha Waybright, and Marcy Wu) are ordinary middle school students.
 * Organic Technology: Amphibia's technology consists of plants that act as appliances, such as mushrooms that can shine light through bioluminescence
 * Perspective Flip: Season one starts with the typical Trapped in Another World, season 2 expanding it with Sasha and Marcie trapped with her;
 * Reality Ensues: Spending six months in Amphibia and having no access to modern hygiene facilities results in Anne needing extensive dental work when she gets home.
 * Schizo-Tech:
 * Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: This is practically a Running Gag in the series and a motif:
 * Part of the reason why Sasha is so controlling is that she's worried Anne and Marcy would otherwise have no reason to hang out with her. Fortunately,.
 * Hop Pop.
 * Marcy
 * A more ambiguous one with
 * Series Goal: Anne is trying to reunite with Sasha and Marcy while finding a way home.
 * Shared Universe:
 * Shipper on Deck: Anne loves romance, where she even obsesses over Sprig and Ivy being together.
 * Title-Only Opening:
 * Trapped in Another World: The three human girls are trapped in Amphibia due to the music box. Each one is sent to different locations: Anne near Wartwood, Sasha taken prisoner of Toad Tower, and Marcy in Newtopia.
 * Wham! Episode:
 * Whole Plot Reference: The series makes loving homages of Fushigi Yuugi, a story where two best friends end up in a magical world and become mortal enemies after enemy factions find them. Their school uniforms also become indicators of their connection to their homes, and fundamental goodness, much as how Miaka's uniform connected her to Yui until they switched places by accident in the real world and in the book. Anne sticks to her St. Catherine's uniform while traveling throughout Amphibia, while Sasha trades it in for Grime's toad armor, and Marcy . In the end, despite all the girls making more than their fair share of mistakes and.
 * Hop Pop.
 * Marcy
 * A more ambiguous one with
 * Series Goal: Anne is trying to reunite with Sasha and Marcy while finding a way home.
 * Shared Universe:
 * Shipper on Deck: Anne loves romance, where she even obsesses over Sprig and Ivy being together.
 * Title-Only Opening:
 * Trapped in Another World: The three human girls are trapped in Amphibia due to the music box. Each one is sent to different locations: Anne near Wartwood, Sasha taken prisoner of Toad Tower, and Marcy in Newtopia.
 * Wham! Episode:
 * Whole Plot Reference: The series makes loving homages of Fushigi Yuugi, a story where two best friends end up in a magical world and become mortal enemies after enemy factions find them. Their school uniforms also become indicators of their connection to their homes, and fundamental goodness, much as how Miaka's uniform connected her to Yui until they switched places by accident in the real world and in the book. Anne sticks to her St. Catherine's uniform while traveling throughout Amphibia, while Sasha trades it in for Grime's toad armor, and Marcy . In the end, despite all the girls making more than their fair share of mistakes and.
 * Whole Plot Reference: The series makes loving homages of Fushigi Yuugi, a story where two best friends end up in a magical world and become mortal enemies after enemy factions find them. Their school uniforms also become indicators of their connection to their homes, and fundamental goodness, much as how Miaka's uniform connected her to Yui until they switched places by accident in the real world and in the book. Anne sticks to her St. Catherine's uniform while traveling throughout Amphibia, while Sasha trades it in for Grime's toad armor, and Marcy . In the end, despite all the girls making more than their fair share of mistakes and.