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Somewhere between the silliness of "[[Toon (Tabletop Gamegame)|Toon]]" and the serious of "Prime Time Adventures", there sits a book. This book is ''Cartoon Action Hour'', a tabletop RPG that invokes the spirit of the [[Merchandise-Driven]] action cartoons of [[The Eighties]].
 
''Cartoon Action Hour'' has a lot of a shout-outs to 1980s cartoons, including ''[[Transformers]]'' (''Transbots''), ''[[Thunder CatsThundercats]]'' (''Action Cats''), and ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' (the ''[[Inhumanoids (Animation)|Inhumanoids]]''-like ''Dark Brigade'' and the regular version as ''Strikeforce Freedom'', replacing snake-themed villains with spider-themed villains), for example.
 
"Cartoon Action Hour: Season Two" was released on Oct 30, 2008. Season Three is currently in development.
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* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: At least in the first version, players were encouraged to think of creating their character as coming up with that character's action figure.
* [[Mooks]]: called Goons. Rules are provided to handle those who get their hides kicked time and time again.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Completely embraced. Characters don't die, they're only knocked out or captured. ''Unless'' you're gaming out [[The Movie]].
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Kargorr, the failed villain complains about a comic relief character, Ziggle. John Bravesteel, Kargorr's heroic counterpart, says that Kargorr is just upset that Ziggle defeated him once--and tries to tell it to the audience, Kargorr shuts Bravesteel up by saying no one wants to hear from him.
* [[Point Build System]]: Uses Character Points (First season) and Proof of Purchase Points (Second season).
* [[Retraux]]: The rule book even includes a glossary of 80's slang, but only in the first edition.
* [[Shout -Out]]: The whole RPG and 'Cartoon Logic' is a [[Shout -Out]] to cartoons of the 1980s.
* [[Ted Baxter]]: Kargorr, so very much. His whole shtick is that he's an incompetent [[Harmless Villain]] (bordering on a [[Dastardly Whiplash]]) who thinks of himself as a fearsome [[Big Bad]].
* [[Word of God]]: Cynthia Celeste Miller, creator of ''[[Cartoon Action Hour]]''.
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* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Noblara.
* [[Big Bad]]: Nekkrottus.
* [[Eek! Aa Mouse!]], or [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]?: Serpentina has a fear of rodents.
* [[The Empire]]: The Blackskull Empire.
* [[The Kingdom]]: Haven.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The Guardians of Iconia themselves--[[Justified]] as they are a mixture of different humanoids and races of Iconia.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Serpentina.
* [[Shout -Out]]: To ''[[He-Man and The Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He-Man and Thethe Masters of Thethe Universe]]''.
* [[Spin-Off]]: ''Ladies of Might'', which happen to be in a special St. Valentine's Day PDF file.
* [[The Starscream]]: Shadow Queen fits this role.
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* [[The Baroness]]: Her blonde haired [[Expy]], The Black Widow.
* [[Big Bad]]: General Arachnid.
* [[Shout -Out]]: To ''[[G.I. Joe]]''.
* [[The Squad]]
* [[Take Over the World]]: The goal of SPIDER chaos warfare.
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* [[Big Bad]]: Maximillian Mercy.
* [[Shout -Out]]: To ''[[The Transformers Generation 1]]''.
* [[Take Over the World]]: Maximillian's goal.
* [[Transforming Mecha]]: Both the Transbots and the Warbots fit this trope.
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