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{{quote|''"Hi! My name is Cathy. My grandpa and I came from planet Rhapsodia to power up an age-old secret society. With my new friends, our mission is to battle troublemaking aliens around Singletown. We are... the [[Title Drop|Monster Buster Club]]!"''|'''Cathy Smith''', the opening sequence}}
 
'''''Monster Buster Club''''' is a French-Canadian co-produced [[All CGI Cartoon|computer-animated]] series produced in 2008-2009 by [[Marathon Media|Marathon]], the animation company where ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' and ''[[Martin Mystery]]'' were created. It's about a foursome of twelve-year-olds (Sam, Chris, Danny, and Cathy) who, as members of an "age-old" secret society called [[The Eponymous Show|the Monster Buster Club]], protect the city of [[City of Adventure|Singletown]] from troublemaking aliens.
 
The four kids are all [[Wise Beyond Their Years|surprisingly mature for their age;]] not only do they not seem to depend on their parents, they've been seen to hold part-time paying jobs in spite of being twelve years old. Their only adult supervision comes from [[Eccentric Mentor|Cathy's grandfather]], a well-meaning [[The Masquerade|alien disguised as an old man]] who oversees the Monster Buster Club's operations, although [[Adults Are Useless|he's far from a reliable mentor]], being much more interested in tending to his garden.
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Now has a [[Monster Buster Club/Characters|Character sheet]]. Tropers are encouraged to contribute.
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=== ''Monster Buster Club'' provides examples of: ===
 
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: The MBC network tunnels are large enough to park the MBC Pods. Those tunnels are said to be important tools for protecting humans and aliens on Earth.
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* [[All Cavemen Were Neanderthals]]: Krog
* [[All CGI Cartoon]]
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The show's [https://web.archive.org/web/20120421143001/http://www.monsterbusterclub.fr/ website].
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Wendy
* [[Almost Kiss]]: Cathy and Jeremy in "The End Of Everything (Part One)".
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** Chris. Strangely, Chris' little brother John is a [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]].
** Sam to a lesser extent. [[Word of God]] confirms Sam's ethnicity: she's Italian and Armenian.
* [[Amusing Alien]]: Casanova, Mr. Smith's favorite plant.
* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]
** Krog to Principal Rollins in "Me Krog, You Rollins".
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* [[Battle Butler]]: Doudo
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: The Destiny Puzzle
* [[Berserk Button]]
** Never disturb Sam while she's playing video games.
** In {{spoiler|"The End of Everything (Part Two)"}}, Danny gets angry {{spoiler|since Cathy is missing.}}
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* [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism]]: Grampa Smith, in his true form, looks like a sort of blue-skinned fish-fly thing with four limbs. Cathy's true form, on the other hand, has six tentacle-like limbs, white skin with pink spots, three crests on her head, and a squirrel-like tail. This is assuming that Grandpa Smith and Cathy belong to the same species; Cathy may well be adopted, seeing that we never hear anything about her birth parents.
* [[Blatant Lies]]
** King Petalia XIII claims that he's the former ruler of seventeen planets, and twenty four moons, give or take an asteroid.
** Glor Glenemore is a self-proclaimed thief in the galaxy, but he gets clumsy every time he's doing his mission.
* [[Blob Monster]]: Addison's real form -- {{spoiler|the Morphering Glob}}.
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* [[Cultured Badass]]
** Cathy is shown to be knowledgeable in Rhapsodian culture as well as some customs in other planets.
** Sam, who enjoys painting and fine arts.
* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: John
* [[Cyborg]]: Fibeloids, like Swampdweller each have a [[Artificial Limbs|metal left arm and an electronic right eye]].
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** Mark -- Sissi
** Jeremy -- Jérémie... [[Name's the Same|oh, come on! Really?]]
*** He looks remarkably like [[Totally Spies!|Arnold Jackson,]] too.
** Grandpa Smith looks like a very nice, yet scatterbrained, [[Mega Man (video game)|Dr. Wily]].
** Speedy and Veedy resemble XLR8 from ''[[Ben 10]]''.
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** Jeremy (see: [[Expy]])
** Elton and Gilbert in their human form.
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: What ''can't'' Cathy do!? [[Word of God]] says that she's capable of learning all kinds of extraordinary abilities.
* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Elton and Jeremy.
* [[Noodle Incident]]
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** In "Galaxy's Strangest Creatures", there's a ''[[The Matrix|Matrix]]'' reference inside the school and warehouse.
** There's another one in "New Recruits", where an alien enemy does the [[Bullet Time]] thing.
** In "The Battle of the Bands", at the gym you'll find a poster at the left which resembles the head of the three main characters from ''[[Totally Spies!]]''
* [[Sleep Cute]]: Danny and Cathy, in "The-Forget-Me-Stone".
* [[The Smart Guy|The Smart Guys]]: Chris; Jeremy
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* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Each MBC Blaster can change into a [[Weapons That Suck|Vacuvator]], [[Frickin' Laser Beams|Double X]], [[Frickin' Laser Beams|Alien Flasher]], [[Sonic Stunner|Sonar Blaster]], or [[Bubble Gun|Electrobubble]].
* [[Tabletop Games]]
** In the episode "Sore Winner", Danny is forced to play a game called ''Demons & Daggers'', a parody of ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]''.
** In "Mindreader" and "Laugh Attack", Mark challenges his classmate to play a game called "Fishy Fish", a board game loosely based on ''Battleships''.
* [["Take That!" Kiss]]
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'''Chris:''' The end of everything! }}
** "Galaxy's Strangest Creatures"
* [[Toilet Humour]]: In "Wrong Number", the Galactic Commander says "poopcorn" instead of popcorn.
* [[Tomboyish Name]]: Sam
* [[TradesnarkTradesnark™]]: Herptilius' Amphimabot. Intergalactic patent pending.
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Changing from regular clothes to MBC suits.
* [[Tron Lines]]: The kids' fluorescent costumes give off this effect in the dark.
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* [[Two-Teacher School]]: Principal Rollins and Mr. Fusster
* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]: Cathy, Elton, and young Frieda's hair styles look similar.
* [[Universal Driver's License]]: Whether the MBC rides on their own pods, MBV, or a space ship, it's quite a surprise they get used to them.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Nossida and Rocky Mountain.
* [[The Virus]]: {{spoiler|The alien virus in "Goodbye Earth"}}. The episode {{spoiler|doesn't tell us what kind of effects it has, aside from being contagious to humans}}.
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