Atomic Betty: Difference between revisions

The show has also reappeared on American airwaves on [[The Hub]] (formerly [[Discovery Kids]]) before it was taken off of air as of 2011.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: This was implied at toward Max Sr. toward Maximus and later on, Max Sr. Sr. toward both of them.

* [[Bumbling Dad]]

* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Penelope and Sarah are only partially Asian.

** One of the first indicators that this isn't an American cartoon is that Betty's school has a Canadian flag flying from the flagpole.

* [[Captain Color Beard]]: Greenbeard

* [[Captivity Harmonica]]: This was partially seen during one part of "Like Father, Like Scum" with Max Sr. (hidden in the shadows at that point) playing it before the Berillum Boys bust Max Sr. out of his prison.

** In "The Pre-Teen Queen of Outer Space" when the Drones need a new queen they intentionally seek out the most evil female in the universe.

* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Played straight with Purrsy, Koreena, Maximus and his family, but the episode "Noah's Bark" shows that Maximus's race is not [[Always Chaotic Evil]].

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: To [[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command|Buzz Lightyear]].

* [[Ditzy Genius]]: Dr. Cerebral can invent hi-tech gadgets, but he's lacking in common sense.

* [[Double Entendre]]: "You're about as brilliant as the dark side of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Uranus]]!"

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Betty's orange clone.

* [[Fat Cat]]: This is what Max Sr. is. Same to elderly Max Sr. Sr., though it could be due to himself being too old.

* [[The Federation]]: The Galactic Guardians

* [[Forgotten Birthday]]: In "Cat Fight" Betty's mom thinks her husband forgot Purrsy's birthday, though it's played more like a [[Forgotten Anniversary]] scenario.

* [[Fountain of Youth]]: The Youthinator in "Bold Age" where Maximus' grandfather, Max Sr. Sr., used it to make people old while elderly like himself (and Penelope's grandmother) are made young.

* [[Girl Posse]]: Penelope's friends Megan and Sarah.

* [[Green Eyes]]: The usual match for a [[Redheaded Hero|Red Headed Heroine]] - [[Green Eyed Red Head]].

** Parodied when DeGill is in the shower and they blur out his crotch.

* [[Halloween Episode]]: The episodes "When Worlds Collide", "The Ghost Ship of Aberdeffia", "Night of the Living Mummies", and "Trick or Creep".

* [[Hartman Hips]]: Betty's mom

* [[No Name Given]]: Betty and her family's last name is never mentioned. Even in a school assembly, the principal calls her just 'Betty'. The closest we get to learning her last name is when Sparky refers to Betty's mother as 'Mrs. B'

** Actually in a series of Atomic Betty [[All There in the Manual|books]], her last name was revealed to be Barret.

* [[Petting Zoo People]]

* [[Playing With Fire]]: Betty's red clone.

* [[Positive Discrimination]]: Paloma

* [[Pretty Fly for A White Guy]]: Betty is voiced by a black woman and her black friend Regeena is voiced by a white woman.

** The empress in "Battle of the Bots" has the hairstyle of [[Star Wars|Leia]].

** The title, "Power Arrangers", is an allusion to the series, [[Power Rangers]]

* [[Space Does Not Work That Way]]: In "Queen for a Day" we have this exchange.

{{quote| '''General Bee''':Is this a suitable world your highness.<br />

* [[Stout Strength]]: Though briefly seen in "The Big Dig", Max Sr. proves to be a bit dangerous around Hopper the Chopper and his gang (before he's wedgied by Hopper).

* [[Stuffed Into a Trashcan]]: In "The Way of the Wiener" Betty's orange clone does this to Penelope while cleaning up the mess she made, supposedly mistaking her for trash.

* [[Thick Line Animation]]

* [[This Is No Time for Knitting]]: In "Galactic Guardians No More", Betty announces that it is time to start baking while they're under fire from numerous enemy ships in their own ship — which had been previously decommissioned as a military vessel and turned into a traveling pie shop. Of course, Sparky and X-5 question her timing, but this is part of her plan to save the day: she uses the dough as improvised ammunition for the ship's torpedo launcher, then lures the enemies close to the sun to bake the dough into a debilitating mass.

* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Noah

* [[Villain Song]]: "Virtuoso of Insanity"

* [[The Voiceless]]: Penelope's Asian friend Sarah never talks.

** Or at least she use to in the first two seasons before Mission: Earth decided to make her mute.

** DeGill's groupies. Most of the time they just giggle like bimbos, though the green-skinned redhead gets a line in "A Hard Day's Fight".

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifter]]: The Chameleon

* [[Weirdness Censor]]: In "Wedding Crashers" Auntie Matter kidnaps Grampa Jim right in front of Betty's parents' eyes. But while they are shocked by the kidnapping and start to worry, the fact that an alien did it is completely ignored.

** "Takes One to Know One" [[Averted Trope|averts]] this. When Paloma gets beamed into a spaceship, Duncan freaks out.