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''Libertys Kids'' is a [[PBS]] series created by [[DiC Entertainment]], the producers of [[
The major characters are:
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Although the series was created for a juvenile audience, it nevertheless takes a relatively sophisticated look at the American Revolution, which highlights not only the heroes and achievements of the independence movement, but also its less palatable aspects such as the role of slavery, mob violence and the privations the Native Peoples of America suffered in this conflict.
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* [[All
▲* [[All Star Cast]]: Let's just look at the guest stars... [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337550/fullcredits#cast Oh, boy]...
* [[The American Revolution]]: [[Captain Obvious|Duh.]]
* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: The Liberty News Network (aka LNN), were [[Benjamin Franklin]], James Hiller, Sarah Philips, and Henri give little factoids and host tiny games for the audiences about the 18th century.
* [[Bait and Switch Credits]]: Somewhat. The lyrics to the intro are pretty fitting, but the song itself is a pop tune with brief Aaron Carter rapping, a little out of place for a historical cartoon that does take itself seriously.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: James and Sarah.
* [[Big Eater]]: Henri and his pastries.
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead|Blond Brunet Redhead]]: James, Henri, and Sarah.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: For a show that talks a lot about killing and wounding people, there isn't a whole lot of blood shown. Then again, it ''is'' a show aimed at kids seven and up.
* [[British Stuffiness]]: Sarah starts out like this.
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* [[A Father to His Men]]: A bunch of the officers are this way: George Washington repeatedly calls his circle of officers his family, Baron von Steuben encourages inspiring devotion in the men and at one point [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|spoonfeeds a sick soldier]], and Lafayette charges into a battle to calm the retreating Continentals down. Benedict Arnold also counts, which actually makes his inevitable [[Face Heel Turn]] more of a [[Tear Jerker]] than it is normally portrayed.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Sarah
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: James
** [[The Lancer]]: Henri/Sarah. Henri acts more like a Lancer, but Sarah serves this function more in the plot, acting as a backup reporter to James.
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Various historical characters get their own moment. However, one of the most obvious is during the American siege of Yorktown. In order to conserve supplies, Cornwallis leaves the blacks who joined his army to fend for themselves.
* [[Kid Detective]]: Well, kid investigative reporters.
* [[Kid Hero]]: [[
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Henri starts out as this.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: In the 14 years that took place, the main characters went absolutely everywhere wearing the same outfits. Even when crawling through the mud and forests Sarah would still wear her dainty little gown.
* [[Magical Negro]]: Moses.
** To be fair, it's not as if Moses and other black people had a choice but to be this. [[Values Dissonance|It was the 18th century.]] Just being friendly with white people [[Where Da White Women At?|(specifically, a teenaged white ''girl'')]] was pushing the envelope of society's tolerance. It's lucky he wasn't lynched on the spot at that slave auction as a buyer. Had he been an [[Angry Black Man]] or a [[Malcolm Xerox]], he wouldn't have lasted long. Real-life characters like James Armistead and Elizabeth Freeman are evidence of this.
* [[Man Hug]]: Lafayette and Washington are very fond of these.
* [[Meet Cute]]: James getting struck on the head with a book-stuffed pillowcase by Sarah... in the midst of the Boston Tea Party.
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* [[Minored in Asskicking]]: Thomas Paine, albeit very briefly.
* [[Mysterious Past]]: All the main characters have one.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Strongly averted. The show not only had characters die, but also wounded, sometimes in gruesome ways (though [[Bloodless Carnage|without a whole lot of blood]]).
* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Although the events of the series span 14 years of history, the show featured kid characters who never appear to age even while the adults around them do. After all, by the end of the series, the trio should have been entering their late 20s. [[Tagalong Kid|Henri]] doesn't even get [[Character Development]]!
* [[Officer and
* [[Opposites Attract]]: James, the poor, orphaned, American patriot, and Sarah, the rich English loyalist.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: None of the main teenage characters live with their parents. Sarah is the only one whose parents are still alive.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Henri.
* [[Politically
* [[Redheaded Hero|Red Headed Heroine]]: Sarah.
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: Not that it dwells on it for very long, but the show doesn't dismiss that the American Revolution was initiated by angry colonists who were mostly seen as radical idiots at the time. Not to mention the tar-and-feathering...
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* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: Sarah's cousin Tom, among others.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: James and Sarah, as noted below.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Some elements of [[Politically
* [[Sick Episode]]: Sarah contracts Smallpox in "An American In Paris."
** More accurately, she gets vaccinated for smallpox and has a reaction, most likely a mild form of the disease. But yes, she gets better.
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* [[Three Amigos]]: James, Sarah, and Henri.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Henri loves pastries with jelly on them.
* [[Tokyo Is the Center of
* [[Traveling At the Speed of Plot]]: Played with. The characters mention roughly accurate travel periods for the time, but often, news makes it to faraway places way faster than it should have.
* [[True Companions]]: The three kids eventually form this amongst themselves, with Ben and Moses.
* [[Tsundere]]: Sarah is often a Type A towards James throughout their [[Story Arc|story arcs]], and this element to her personality brings the underlying [[UST]] in their relationship.
* [[Vague Age]]: The characters' ages are rather unclear, considering how many years are passing during the context of the show despite everyone's appearances not aging at all.
* [[Viewers
** The DVD release thankfully takes the same route but includes them in the extras.
** The actual cartoon itself surprisingly averts this trope. Considering it's a kids cartoon, it's very detailed and takes time to show the motives and reasoning for many events and characters.
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: While the three kids' physical designs don't change, their voices do sound somewhat more mature with the show's progression.
** They probably didn't ''think'' they looked older and that's why.
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The basic plot for Sarah visiting [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s home and discovering that the writer of "All men are created equal" is a slaveholder.
** Sarah actually calls out Washington after the Siege of Yorktown when he says that the slaves who fought for the British would be returned to their masters.
** Something they didn't go into would be the fact that Jefferson also raped some of the black women in his "employ" (because he ''owned'' them and they couldn't say no unless they wanted to be lynched). Who also had children by him. Yes, that Jefferson [[Historical Hero Upgrade|the one everyone loves today]]...revolutionary, Founding Father, visionary, serial rapist.
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*** An interesting fact there: The slave in question? Was the slave of his wife Martha, and also her half-sister. And Thomas only took interest in her after Martha's death.
*** Another interesting fact: Jefferson's white descendants ignored or denied the slave's descendants when they claimed to be descended from Jefferson, until finally genetic testing pretty much proved the slave's descendants right.
** That's even digging into the fact that, while Washington [[Pet the Dog|freed his slaves upon death and provided for them afterward]], [[Sliding Scale of Anti
*** Not to mention his complete reversal of opinion and policy in regards to slavery in the early 1800s and his reactions to the Haitian Revolution. Notable example: '''He wanted to place an embargo on Haiti and STARVE the country out!'''
* [[Wide
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