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* ''Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur'' — The cast were stuck in the past and dodging dinosaur poachers as they're trying to get back to the present.
* ''Doraemon: The Record of Nobita: Spaceblazer '' — A [[Space Western]]-ish adventure concerning hostile takeover of a planet.
* ''Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil'' — Missing civilization of dog people and ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' styled adventure in Africa.
* ''Doraemon: Nobita's Monstrous Underwater Castle'' — Remnants of Atlantis Civilization, the still existing Mu, and Bermuda Triangle.
* ''Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld''— Parallel world where magic flourished instead of science.
* ''Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars'' — Space battle with remote controlled toy tanks.
* ''Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops'' — The only thing that stands between Earth and a massive mech army are the cast of Doraemon and a [[Humongous Mecha]].
* ''Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights of Dinosaurs'' — [[Lizard Folk|Underworld reptilian people]] descended from dinosaurs are plotting to take over the above world because they believe their (almost) extinction was caused by primitive mammals which were ancestors to human.
* ''Doraemon: Nobita's Parallel "Journey to the West"'' — The historical [[Journey to the West]], with sci-fi elements.
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* ''Doraemon: Nobita's Adventure: Drifts in the Universe''
* ''Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King'' - [[Prince and Pauper|Nobita swaps roles with a Mayan prince who looks just like him]]
* ''Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves''
* ''Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom''
* ''Doraemon: Nobita and the Wind Wizard''
* ''Doraemon: Nobita's Wannyan Space-Time Odyssey'' - The 25th movie in the franchise concerning a [[Stable Time Loop]] involving a civilisation formed from abandoned cats and dogs. Contains many [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to gadgets and scenes in the other movies.
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* ''Doraemon: Nobita's Great Merman Sea Battle'' - A Loose adaptation of [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s [[Tear Jerker]] [[Fairy Tale]], [[wikipedia:The Little Mermaid|The Little Mermaid]].
Even though it's not really popular in the west, Doraemon is a very influential series in the east. For example, in 2002, Doraemon was featured along Aung San Suu Kyi and Hamid Karzai as one of the 22 heroes featured in a special edition of [[Time Magazine]] on Asian Heroes. In a truly surreal moment, Doraemon has been designated by the [[Real Life]] Prime Minister of Japan as the Ambassador between the cartoon world and Japan, with the ceremony including a to-scale model of Doraemon.
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* [[Big Guy, Little Guy]]: Guess who? {{spoiler|Gian and Suneo, of course}}.
* [[Book Dumb]]: Nobita can be pretty smart at times, just look at the creative ways he uses Doraemon's tools!
* [[Bruiser with a Soft Center]]: Gian, especially later movies where little [[Tender Tears|touching moments can make him cry more than anybody else.]]
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Nobita.
** In the movies, if something embarrassing or painful is happening to somebody, you can bet that it's Suneo.
** Doraemon himself is a [[Butt Monkey]] from times to times, especially around the time the series started.
* [[Casual Time Travel]]: Time travel is extremely common place in Doraemon's universe. Apparently everyone can afford a Time Machine in the future. As a result, many lunatics have the idea of using future tech to exploit and alter the past, which calls for the existence of Time Police.
* [[Censor Steam]]: In a twist from the manga's [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]] subverting roots, recent episodes do this with Shizuka whenever she's taking a shower. [[Ruined FOREVER|This has not escaped the notice of the series' long time (40+ years) fans.]]
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Doraemon who managed to capture many cats' heart, Dekisugi, Nobita in the movie for Creme Miyoko and possibly Riruru. Doranichov and finally Wang Dora whose tend to get beat up by Mimiko.
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* [[Cowardly Lion]]: Despite being generally considered a coward among his friends, Nobita is shown to be quite brave in dangerous situations, mostly in the movies. The [[Dirty Coward]] role is given to Suneo instead.
* [[Dancing Theme]]: One of the renditions of "Doraemon no Uta", the opening theme.
* [[Disneyfication]]: Practically, The whole Doraemon series mellowed down Most of The Fairy Tales and Famous Stories They adapted, Most Notably, In "Doraemon: Nobita's Mermaid Legend" movie, The plot was practically more similar to the source than The Disney Movie, but In The End, Sophia and The entire Mermaid Tribe live Happily ever after anyway.
* [[Dreadful Musician]]: Gian has horrible, devastating singing ability. Shizuka plays a violin as bad as Gian's singing.
** Heck, one episode even has Suneo make up a conspiracy theory about a guy ''using Gian's voice for assassinating people''.
* [[Expy]]: Some of Doraemon's gadgets are very similar to gadgets from other series, either in function or in appearance. For example, the Moshimo Box is a [[Doctor Who|red telephone booth]] that can essentially jump dimensions.
* [[Fairy Tale Motifs]]: All over the place, Most notably "Doraemon: Nobita's Mermaid Legend" follows the Basic Plot/Theme of [[The Little Mermaid]] in Sophia's arc to a [[Happily Ever After]].
* [[Fartillery]]: One manga episode deals with Nobita trying to come up with a neat trick for a New Year's talent show. Doraemon gave him a bunch of sweet potatoes that, when eaten, produces melodic 'gas'. Unfortunately, Doraemon forgot to tell him not to eat more than one at a time...
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Gian, who else? He does get some [[Character Development]] over the series' run, however, turning into a [[The Big Guy|big guy with]] [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|a temper]], especially in the movies.
* [[Five-Man Band]]: The typical casting in many Fujiko Fujio's series.
** [[The Hero]] - Nobita, but is debatable with the title.
** [[The Lancer]] - Doraemon, but Gian also fit this role more as he argues with Nobita the most.
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* [[Generation Xerox]]: Every single one of Nobita's ancestors (including his father) is a loser with no backbone who is constantly bullied by Gian and Suneo's. This gets swapped with Nobisuke (Nobita's son), though, as ''he'' is the one who bullies Gian and Suneo's sons.
* [[Girl Next Door]]: Shizuka, to all three boys - but especially Nobita.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Shizuka Minamoto has them.
* [[Girl of the Week]]: The movies, especially later ones, where there will be a token girl even though the main focus isn't on her at all.
* [[Green Aesop]] : Used frequently in the movies. In most stories, and especially in movies, human destroying the environment won't result in a disaster on its own; that would take too long. Chances are, alien civilization will plot to intervene and destroy humans first to prevent said environmental disaster from happening.
* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: Almost every civilization Nobita and his friends run across in the movies has some sort of grudge against humans. Usually paired with [[Green Aesop]] above.
* [[I Am Not Weasel]]: A running gag when someone first meets him, they think he's a tanuki. This makes Doraemon [[Berserk Button|really mad]] since he's a robotic cat without ears.
* [[Identical Grandson]]: Taken to ridiculous extreme. All of the main cast has ''almost-look-exactly-the-same parents, siblings, relatives, ancestors and descendants''.
* [[Ingesting Knowledge]]: In one chapter, Nobita eats a special kind of bread that lets him remember anything printed on it.
* [[In Spite of a Nail]]: Nobita's still going to have the same son even though he's marrying someone else. Unless it's a [[Stable Time Loop]].
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* [[Monster Roommate]]
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: All nudity of the boys, Shizuka's constant bath scenes, and her numerous [[Panty Shot|panty shots]]... technically not [[Fan Service]], instead they're [[Played for Laughs]]. After all, they're just kids.
* [[No Ending]]: Quite possibly, which ends up having the fans create their own endings in doujin comics. One [[Happily Ever After|happy ending]]<ref>Doraemon's battery fails, and without his ears, they can't swap it out without wiping his brain. Not only that, the time police have placed an absolute embargo on anyone interfering in any way with Nobita and the now-unconscious Doraemon. Rather than swap his battery, which would effectively kill him, Nobita spends the next ''35 years'' becoming the world's foremost expert in robotics in order to save him, marrying Shizuka on the way. But as his friends figure out, it was all a [[Stable Time Loop]] -- the technology that Doraemon was bringing back was way, way too advanced unless something [[The Singularity|remarkable happens]] to jump-start the technology -- like Dr. Nobita Nobi reverse engineering Doraemon enough to fix him.</ref> (which was legendarily [[Jossed]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20111228015915/http://zepy.momotato.com/2007/05/29/author-to-pay-settlement-for-doraemon-doujinshi/ from orbit, with nuclear fire] by the publishers due to the art being picture perfect to the original series and the ending being more or less beloved by the entire fanbase) and two [[Downer Ending]]s, one of which was lifted from [[St. Elsewhere]].
** The Fujiko duo did try to end the series when it appeared that the franchise was losing popularity in the early 70s, resulting in the final story in Volume 6 of the manga. When the franchise suddenly picked up in popularity again shortly after the release of the said volume, they were forced to [[Retcon]] that particular story in the first story of Volume 7 of the manga.
** The 1973 series did have an ending, where Doraemon returned to the future and Nobita promised him to grow up to be successful.
** The two [[Downer Ending]]s have been written into fanfiction [https://web.archive.org/web/20120407084252/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3274425/1/Calling_Across_Time
* [[Non-Serial Movie]]: See the list above.
* [[Nostalgia Filter]]: Considering Nobita has a time machine in his desk, this gets occasionally brought up.
** Once, he reminisced on how much he missed the fun childhood playtimes with his now deceased grandmother, hence traveled back in time to see her again. Turns out he was quite a brat as a kid and frequently threw tantrums at the poor lady.
* [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]: Sophia and The Whole Mermaid and Merman Tribe from The 2010 Movie, "Doraemon: Nobita's Mermaid Legend".
* [[Panty Shot]]: A [[Running Gag]] with Shizuka.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Gian is '' very '' protective of his little sister. If you even think about messing up with Jaiko, [[Berserk Button|you're dead]].
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** Suneo being extremely sensitive about his height.
* [[San Dimas Time]]: While never explicitly mentioned, some of the episodes with Time Traveling tend to use this which often leads to some [[Fridge Logic]] moments.
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* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: Doraemon's purpose for coming to the present time is to change Nobita's attitude, which will lead to the [[Bad Future]] mentioned above.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Lots, to its contemporaries and classics alike, and some even to Western pop culture. One notable one is to ''[[Galaxy Express 999]]'', whose [[Cool Train]] has been outmoded by the Anywhere Door.
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* [[Sidekick Ex Machina]]
* [[Smug Snake]]: Suneo, mostly played for laughs.
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Doraemon is fond of this. Many times the titular character and Nobita time-travel to fix an event in the past, only to end up being responsible for whatever they are trying to fix in the first place.
* [[Strictly Formula]]: 90% of the TV episodes involves Nobita suffering a predicament, begging Doraemon for a gadget, Nobita abusing said gadget/getting the gadget stolen by Gian and Suneo then suffering the consequences. The fun is in seeing what the gadget is.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: Nobita became one in ''Nobita's Genesis Diary'' when he decides to create his own world.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: The [[Leitmotif]] of the eponymous "Toy Troops" is one for "Yankee Doodle".
* [[Ted Baxter]]: Suneo fancies himself the most good-looking, intelligent and talented of the gang. Well, at least he's kind of right about the last two things...
* [[Tender Tears]]: Loads and loads in the movies after year 2000.
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Suneo and Gian.
* [[Time Paradox]]: Again, with the casual use of time travel, there are quite a lot episodes dealing with time paradoxes.
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