Danger 5: Difference between revisions

* [[Brainwashed]]: Allied soldiers are being turned into Japanese robot-soldiers in "Kill-Men of the Rising Sun"

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Ilsa in "Lizard Soldiers of the Third Reich"

'''Jackson:''' You've always got something in your head! }}

* [[Big Red Button]]: Used to activate Stalin's [[Doomsday Device]].

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Virginal [[Ice Queen]] Claire and hard-drinking [[Sensual Slav]] Ilsa.

'''Ilsa:''' All you had to do was sleep with him? (tries to throttle Claire) }}

* [[Beauty and The Beast]]: Mengele is about to shoot Claire, when his dinosaur-headed servant stops him. "I love her!"

** All in all, the series contains correct English, German, Russian, Italian, French, Japanese, and Cantonese. This is a result of being from Australia's premier multilingual channel, which prides itself on its linguistic diversity.

* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Ilsa

* [[Booze Flamethrower]]: Faced with a fire-breathing lizardman, Ilsa takes a swig and squirts alcohol into its face, sending it up like a torch.

* [[Black Comedy]]: Particularly homicidal slapstick.

* [[Defeat Equals Explosion]]: A female Nazi agent laughs insanely after being thrown out a plane before exploding for no apparent reason.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Numerous dialogue examples. German golden superweapons made of gold. Mengele's introduction is an excellent example:

* [[Depraved Homosexual]]: Himmler and Heydrich.

* [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons]]: The dinosaur Ilsa fights can breathe fire.

* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: How Danger 5 attempt to kill Hitler in the first episode. Tucker while infiltrating the Swiss brothel.

* [[Easy Amnesia]]: How Ilsa explains to Rommel why his wife hasn't been in touch.

'''Ilsa:''' Yes. After I was hit by the mortar in Stalingrad I wandered through Europe with a group of priests until a magician brought back my memories, then I came to find you. }}

* [[Eureka Moment]]: Any time Danger 5 suddenly realise they're amongst the enemy.

* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: How the miniseries ends.

* [[Everyone Comes Back Fantasy Party Ending]]: In every episode, while the end credits roll, there's a party in the Danger 5 headquarters featuring the main cast and all the major characters from the episode (including Hitler!).

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: In "Lizard Soldiers of the Third Reich", Dr Mengele produces half human, half dinosaur nazi soldiers.

* [[Hand Signals]]: As she's being led away by Nazi soldiers:

'''Tucker:''' [winking back] [subtitle: What?] }}

* [[Honey Trap]]: "Ilsa was married to Rommel!"

* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]] / [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Claire and Jackson are being strangled by brainwashed Tucker and Ilsa. Claire admits to Tucker that "we need you and...[[Anguished Declaration of Love|I can't go on without you!]]" This wakes up Tucker, who promptly knocks out Ilsa [[Interrupted Declaration of Love|while Jackson is stumbling over his own]] [[Love Confession]]. Afterwards, however, Claire refuses to admit to Tucker that she actually meant what she said.

* [[I'll Take Two Beers, Too!]]: Jackson.

* [[Immune to Bullets]]: The Carbonado-enhanced girls and the Japanese robo-soldiers.

* [[Indy Ploy]]: "I've got a plan." "What is it?" ''"Improvise."''

* [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: The same actors are reused over and over again for different minor roles in different episodes.

* [[Miniature Effects]]: Used in every external shot so far. [[Stylistic Suck|Deliberately]] [[Special Effects Failure|unconvincing]], to keep with the series' theme.

* [[Mission Briefing]]: Given by an eagle-headed colonel.

* [[Momma's Boy]]: Tucker.

* [[Mother Russia Makes You Strong]]: "Russians don't have emotions."

** Ilsa has the psychic power to calm monkeys and open locked elevators.

** Pierre's psychomixology:

'''Tucker''': ''Above'' satisfactory! }}

* [[Pulp Magazine]]: Goes so far as to spoof this on its [[Bonus Material|website]], where the pulpy pastiche articles are treated as factual news stories on the ''Danger 5'' 'verse.

** The fake advertisements at the end.

** The eagle-headed colonel picking on Claire in every briefing.

'''Colonel''': No, Claire, that's a ''Tyrannosaurus Rex''. Try thinking first before you open your mouth. }}

** Hitler jumping out the window. The same window.

* [[Scenery Censor]]: A pterodactyl is doing [[Black Comedy Rape|something nasty]] to a [[Screaming Woman]] behind a strategically-placed flower vase.

* [[Series Goal]]:

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]

"You always were a joking man, Glenn. A man of jokes." }}

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Tucker running around Antarctica with his shirt off.

* [[Widget Series]]: WWII featuring an eagle-headed military officer. Need I say more?

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Jackson in "Fresh Meat for Hitler's Sex Kitchen".

I hit a '''Nazi!''' }}

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Tucker is afraid of water.