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* [[Cyberspace]]: Played straight in "Hard Drive Courage". On an interesting note, Cyberspace is depicted as the actual inside of a computer. You know, chips, motherboards, the usual. Plus ''a lot'' of green binary code.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Not all the monsters Courage meets are [[Exclusively Evil]] or hostile - some of them are just [[Chaotic Neutral]] or even friendly. In fact in some cases they even need Courege's help.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: This could be disputed, as the entire series was darker than most other animated series; however, most episodes from the final season are significantly more dramatic in nature compared to other seasons, especially the first.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Courage's Computer, as well as Shirley the Medium.
** Katz can be rather snarky as well. "Pity..."
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* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: A number of the first season episodes have a lot of tradition cartoon antics (chases scenes, slapstick violence, etc), and can actually become quite goofy at times, with John Dilworth himself admitting a number of the earlier episodes were "cartoon filler".
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: That giant starfish that eats cities and won't stop until hearing Muriel speak.
* [[Epic Fail]]: In ''Muriel Blows Up'', the General attempts to disarm the Evil Carrot by cutting the green, red and blue wires in its wire brain...but obviously not the yellow ones, because [[Sarcasm Mode|that would just be pointless and silly]].
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Though he's not exactly evil, Freaky Fred's refusal to shave an animal's tail on the grounds that "it would be weird" definitely counts.
* [[Evil Albino]]: The Harvest Moon, althought he's not really evil. He's more like Scary Albino.
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** This is lampshaded in some small, throwaway moments. For example, at the beginning of The Last of the Starmakers, Courage is on the porch and picks up the newspaper with his hand before putting it in his mouth and giving it to Eustace.
* [[General Failure]]: Mr. Frith's "General" form, to the point where [[Irony|he even fails to disarm one of his own bombs]] in ''Muriel Blows Up''.
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* [[Gentle Giant]]: Randy The Robot becomes one of these after he finally gets over his [[All Of The Other Reindeer]] angst.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The show's entire premise: mature themes of horror played ''straight'' in a show appealing to people of all ages and levels of maturity. Several more specific (and traditional) examples as well.
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*** The pilot, The Chicken From Outer Space, partly plays this straight and partly averts it. It's not on the Season 1 DVD, but Jon R Dilworth sells it through his online store.
* [[Kick the Dog]]
* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]: It is basically a running gag for [[Exact Words|every single member]] of Eustace's family (not counting Muriel and Courage) to have one of these, including Eustace himself.
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Eustace is the victim of this in nearly every episode.
** A large number of villains suffer this as well.
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* [[Snowlems]]: A living snowman (sounding suspiciously like [[Sean Connery]]) became a villain due to [[Hollywood Global Warming]].
* [[Solar CPR]]
* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: Courage is implied to be one of these by his incredibly hillbilly-ish teeth and personality (and, you know, his shockingly high intelligence level).
* [[Space Whale]]: A dangerous predator, in "Last of the Starmakers".
* [[Space Whale Aesop]]: "Swindling only begets swindling, as selfishness [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|begets banana-head]]."
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