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''Bakugan Battle Brawlers'' is the story of six children who find Bakugan, which are these spherical toy-like things that contain monsters ([[Beyblade|gee, does THAT sound familiar?]]), and must save the Bakugan's world, Vestroia. Some of these have their own spirits and are able to speak--all of the main characters, and most of the supporting cast, has one of these.

 

 

The rules are hard to pin point, since they were never fully explained and [[Screw the Rules I Have Plot|change whenever its needed]], similar to the first season of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]''. At difference of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'', however, as the show has progressed the rules haven't become more clear; on the contrary, they've become more and more vague (hard as that is to believe). What little structure and strategy there was in the first season has been completely abandoned in favor of two children shouting "Ability Card Activate!" over and over and over and over for the entire episode. Of course, this doesn't translate to the [[Bakugan (Tabletop Game)|actual game]], which while not played like traditional card games, has many rules like card limit (you can have 15 cards in your deck). The anime seems to break the rules as far as how many cards you are allowed to use, and just treat them like attacks later on.

* [[Alien Invasion]]: After [[Big Bad|Naga]] was destroyed in the first season finale, the next two seasons had extradimmensional aliens as their main villains. Its presently unknown is Mag Mel is continuing this trend or not.

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Julie's ''entire family''.

* [[The Artifact]]: Julie in ''Gundalian Invaders''; her sole reason for existence is to remind the viewers that the original cast was more gender-balanced.

* [[Bad Future]]: {{spoiler|[[The Bad Guys Win|Coredegon and the evil Mechtogan win]], destroying Bakugan City and everyone in it, he then goes to New Vestroia and kills off all the Bakugan. Thankfully, the Brawlers [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] by going back in time to stop him in his tracks right as he's about to leave to do all this.}}

** Klaus, Spectra, Gus, and possibly Jesse as well.

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Jake

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Dr. Michael as Hal-G, it seems like everyone is getting brainwashed in ''Gundalian Invaders''

* [[Bratty Half Pint]]: Nene.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: {{spoiler|Alice}} and Ace use Darkus-attributed Bakugan.

** [[Dark Is Evil]]: ...On the other hand, we have Hal-G, Masquerade, Barodius and Ren. {{spoiler|Ren turns good later.}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Preyas. Gets even worse with Preyas Diablo.

* [[Defector From Decadence]]: {{spoiler|Volt and Lync both leave the Vexos because they want no part in Zenoheld's new genocide plans. Lync even [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifices himself to deliver the plans to Alice.]]}}

* [[Elemental Powers]]: Pyrus (fire), Aquos (water), Ventus (air), Subterra (earth), Haos (light), and Darkus (darkness). These powers are drawn from Infinity (positive energy), which allows Bakugan to use all elements, and Silence (negative energy), which amplifies dark power to extreme heights. When combined, they form Perfect energy, and a Bakugan can use any element to its fullest, or even bend space and time.

* [[Evasive Fight Thread Episode]]: Episode 2 of ''New Vestroia'', after a bit of exposition, turns into a fight between Dan and Ace that never gets resolved.

* [[Evil Twin]]: Naga, to Wavern. (They're ''fraternal'' twins, by the way.)

* [[Evil vs. Evil]]: {{spoiler|The evil Mechtagon vs the Nonet Bakugan and Wiseman II.}} The episode is even ''called'' "Evil Vs Evil".

* [[Evolution Power Up]]: All of the main Bakugan evolve at least once, and Drago and Hydranoid evolve twice.

** As of now, {{spoiler|Drago has evolved nine times. So far.}}

* [[Exposed to The Elements]]: Julie and Runo go to visit Alice in ''[[Moscow]]'' in ''New Vestroia'', still wearing the same clothes as always, and don't appear to be having any trouble at all.

* [[Expy]]: as far as anyone's concerned, Spectra is Masquerade 2.0. both wear eye-covering masks, have flamboyant blonde hair, seek to create the "Ultimate Bakugan", and have shocking secret identities.

*** Strangely absent from the third season so far.

* [[Final Boss Preview]]: Mag Mel attacking the Brawlers himself during his assault on Gundalia. Even Dan and drago aren't powerful enough to take him down and get their butts kicked.

** Both Dan and his partner Drago are [[The Hero]].

** Both Shun and his partner Skyress are [[The Lancer]].

* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: Dan's goggles are usually just there to be stylish, but he used them a grand total of ''one time'': shielding his eyes from a blinding Haos attack.

* [[Golden Super Mode]]: {{spoiler|Dragonoid Destroyer obtains this after being powered up by the combined energy of the bond of every human and Bakugan on Earth. His power level at this point is ''infinite''.}}

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Masquerade/Alice.}}

** {{spoiler|And Spectra/Keith}}

** {{spoiler|"Surge": Kodokor lets himself be slain so that a combined Spatterix and Stronk can take down Mechtavius Destroyer in the havoc of his explosive death, and likewise, the latter two buy time for Betadron and Gunz to escape harm.}}

** {{spoiler|Also in "Surge", Worton and Betadron stay behind in the time stream to let the Brawlers travel back to the past, knowing they might perish.}}

** Pretty much two third's of the cast are voiced by Canadian animation voice acting veterans

** Hmm, half of Bakugan: Gundalian Invaders is the [[Metal Fight Beyblade|Beyblade Metal Fusion]] show, if not all.

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Naga kicked off the series by absorbing too much energy from the Silent Core. {{spoiler|When he dies, it's also by absorbing too much power.}} The BT System of New Vestroia also explodes by absorbing too much power. {{spoiler|Phantom Darak and Barodius also explode from, guess what, absorbing too much power.}} Now, in ''Mechtanium Surge'' there is a creepy guy who is demanding power from the main characters. Any bets on what'll happen to him?

** {{spoiler|Guess what! HE EXPLODED.}}

* [[Filler|Loads And Loads Of Filler]]: Feels like each arc can be condensed into ''a'' '''''third of its length'''''.

* [[Long Distance Relationship]]: Julie and Billy.

** Alice, a Mad Scientist's Beautiful ''Granddaughter'', plays this straight. Well, sort of. Her grandfather, Michael, was taken over by negative energy after an accident with a dimensional transporter and became the evil Hal-G, and she tried to defend him, and was herself being used by him, first by being turned into Masquerade and then by being tricked into believing that Michael was [[I Know You Are in There Somewhere Fight|in there somewhere]].

* [[Magical Girl]]: Elfin. while it wasn't so noticeable at first, when she evolved into Minx Elfin, she invokes this trope so much that she's practically become a [[Affectionate Parody|direct homage]] to Sailor Moon, complete with [[In the Name of The Moon]] style phrases. It's so blatantly obvious now that she even copied one of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'''s signature poses.

* [[Mask Power]]: The evil Masquerade.

** And the evil Spectra. Though he's started wearing the mask even as good.

* [[The Messiah]]: Drago.

* [[Mission Control]]: Joe.

* [[Never Say Die]]: Shun's Mom. Mostly subverted otherwise.

* [[Nice Hat]]: On the final episode of ''Battle Brawlers'', Dan and Runo go out on a date, with the latter sporting a whole new hairstyle and matching white dress. Somehow the first thing Dan notices on Runo is her [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjCCdcsAfzg cool looking hat].

** Code Eve, the creator of the Bakugan, gave Drago an upgrade as a reward for defeating season three's [[Big Bad]]. This ends up being too much for him to handle, resulting in Drago creating a Zenthon. This also links Dan and Dragon to [[Big Bad|Mag]] [[Sealed Evil in A Can|Mel]], allowing him to absorb energy and begin to escape his prison. Yeah, real nice job there!

** Thanks to Mag Mel, nearly everything the Brawlers do in ''Mechtanium Surge'' turns out to be this. Not really their fault though, Mag Mel is just that good at [[Xanatos Speed Chess]].

* [[No Export for You]]: ''New Vestroia'' combines this with [[Short Run in Peru]] by not airing in ''Japan'' at all despite the series being created by the Japanese company TMS Entertainment and airing in Japan first.

** However, this was averted hard as ''New Vestroia'' aired a '''YEAR LATER''' in Japan, same goes with ''Gundalian Invaders''. But the sad thing is that TMS Entertainment will never release ''Mechtanium Surge'' in Japan due to the storyline is [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|TOO serious]] for Japanese Standards. Instead, Japan gets a more 'lighthearted' reboot named ''[[Baku Tech]]! Bakugan'' to fill its airing spot shoes.

** Eventually, all of the first season girls.

* [[Official Couple]]: See [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] below.

** In Masquerade's case, it looks almost as though the mask is getting bigger in some shots, or that the mask is sliding up and down his face.

** With Komba and Julio, it's mostly the nose.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: There're several characters in the English dub have more then one actor, but isn't that noticeable (nor are they credited for that matter), Naga in particular had three.

* [[Power Levels]]: Have been escalating. Brawlers can now take their opponent's Bakugan if their Bakugan's power level exceeds the opponent's by 500, and this happens regularly--as do power levels nearing 2000. Also, in episode 9 of ''New Vestroia'', Lync says that a Bakugan can't move if its power level drops below 300. In ''Battle Brawlers'', Bakugan with a natural power level below 300 were commonplace.

*** Heck, the power levels in the actual game have been increasing as well, though at a slower pace. 450 to 500 Gs used to be powerful, but now we have Bakugan with 1000 Gs. Luckily enough, 1000 is as far as it goes...for now.

** The highest so far has been Drago with 3150 Gs. Granted, this was seen as far to much in-universe, and he was in danger of ''exploding'' but...

* [[Something They Would Never Say]]: Shun uses this to recognize Hal-G using his powers to disguise his voice as Marucho's butler over the telephone.

* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: While mostly completely unconnected, each season's [[Big Bad]] is a great deal stronger than the previous one. Their actions also get progressively more evil as they go along as well. Case in point, Zenoheld ''attempted'' genocide but failed, the season four [[Big Bad]] Mag Mel is said to have been imprisoned for actually committing it.

* [[Spoiler Opening|Spoiler Ending]]: The closing credits for Gundalian Invaders lists characters who ''haven't even been mentioned yet'' from the first episode.

* [[The Starscream]]: Spectra and Mylene from ''New Vestroia''; Kazarina from ''Gundalian Invaders'' {{spoiler|, although she was ultimately loyal to Emperor Barodius.}}

* [[Sword Fight]]: While the Bakugan do most of the combat, Dan has gotten into a couple of energy sword duels over the course of the series.

* [[Talking to Himself|Talking To Herself]]: When Mira goes to Earth and meets Dan's mom. [[Alyson Court]] voices both. Also, Julie Lemieux and Ron Pardo voice sufficiently many characters that there's bound to be at least one example for each.

* [[Time Skip]]: The ending of the finale of ''Battle Brawlers'' skips ahead a couple of years, putting it shortly before the start of ''New Vestroia''.

** And there's a six month skip between seasons of ''New Vestroia''. And yet, with all these skips, Marucho doesn't grow one inch.

* [[Together in Death]]: Shadow And Mylene, see [[You Are Worth Hell]] entry below.

* [[Transformation Is a Free Action]]: Played with the second arc of ''Mechtanium Surge''. Wiseman had a tendency to not let the good guys' Bakugan combine, and would just respond to this attempt with an attack, though in "Jump to Victory" that attack took awhile to rear up so it really didn't make as much sense. In "Enemy Allies", Mechtavius Destroyer attacks ''Dan'' as he is getting ready to bring out Dragonoid Destroyer, and in "Evil Arrival" he attacks Gunz before he gets to finish saying "Bakugan Bra--". Most notably, in "Evil vs. Evil", he doesn't let Betadron, Kodokor, and Mutabrid combine, and keeps slapping Mutabrid around, but no matter how much, he insists on combining and eventually dies. That said, [[Talking Is a Free Action]] is still in play.

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: Billy (for Julie); Runo (for Dan)

* [[Voice of the Legion]]: Mag Mel's followers have this in their true forms.

* [[Warrior Poet|Warrior Thespian]]: Jesse

* [[Water Is Dry]]: When Dan [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-bvfUivhvU&feature=related#t=4m20s runs through the river] to retrieve Drago in ''Dan and Drago''. In the ''rain''.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Aranaut's been hit with this big time.

* [[You Are Worth Hell]]: Shadow has a clear chance to survive the [[Negative Space Wedgie]], but opted to die with Mylene anyway ([[Ship Tease|he thinks it'll be interesting]]).