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The Red Panda is "Canada's greatest [[Superhero]]", a mostly non-powered adventurer with a slew of gadgets fighting crime and villainy on the streets of Toronto. His secret identity is "one of the city's wealthiest men", whose chauffeur, Kit Baxter, joins him on his adventures as The Flying Squirrel.
The series can be both silly and serious by turns. It takes place during the Great Depression, and many episodes deal with the poverty of the time, whether it's crimes caused by it, the Red Panda's secret identity trying to use his money to help with it, or Kit's background on the streets growing up with it. It also [[Playing with a Trope|plays with]] many [[Superhero]] tropes, especially those of [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]]. More recent{{when}} episodes have gotten generally darker, as the series' timeline moves into World War II.
Several years before the modern '''''Red Panda Adventures''''', a six-episode series was produced with a very different concept, featuring the Red Panda as a member of Canada's "Panda Squadron" during [[World War II]]. It was also much sillier, with characters like Baboon McSmoothie, [[Man of a Thousand Faces]], and German von German's Nazi Ninjas. It can currently{{when}} be found in the Decoder Ring Theater Vault.
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* [[Absent-Minded Professor]]: Doctor Chronopolis is one. [[Played for Drama]] when {{spoiler|Dr. C is put out of action following "The Wild West" by what appears to be Alzheimer's.}}
* [[Action Girl]]: Kit, despite being both the [[Sidekick]] and the [[Love Interest]], is ''never'' the [[Damsel in Distress]], and is capable of both making plans and kicking ass.
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* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Pretty much sums up The Red Panda's relationship with The Flying Squirrel, {{spoiler|until "The Field Trip".}}
** Also, Kit completely failing to tell the Red Panda that {{spoiler|she's pregnant}}.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "...will answer to the Red Panda!" "The Red Panda swears it!"
** "Kit Baxter, Behave Yourself..." "Yes Boss." (As well as "Yes Boss" on it's own)
** A case might also be made for "Do you think ____________?" "I really do."/"I really don't."
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* [[Coat, Hat, Mask]]: The Red Panda's costume, homaging the many early non-powered heroes who used it. Although he breaks from tradition by wearing his oft-mentioned red gauntlets.
* [[Colonel Badass]]: Colonel Fitzking (from the original universe), because it's gotta be ''hard'' to make it in the army in WWII as a large, genetically augmented, talking Golden Retriever. Also, his main-universe counterpart, Colonel Fitzroy, who is among other things {{spoiler|the Red Panda's commanding officer}}, and is fully willing to shoot a nutjob in the head and call him a traitor and a saboteur later just to help the war effort.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: Averted/Inverted. The passage of historical events is actually ''faster'' than real time, especially in recent seasons. Example: In the eighteen real-world months between the premieres of the episodes “Nightshade” and “There Will Be Rain Tonight”, we have gone from the Hindenburg disaster (May 6, 1937) to the Dieppe raid (August 19, 1942).
* [[The Commissioner Gordon]]: The Red Panda started off being viewed as a criminal by the police, with Chief O'Mally reluctantly accepting help from him when villains or other weirdness targets the city. By the newest season, O'Mally trusts him more than his own men. They even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded the irony of it.]]
* [[Composite Character]]: [[Inverted]] Some of the characters from the Earth 2 Panda Adventures seem to be combinations of the regular universe ones, or vice versa, e.g. Earth 2's Flying Squirrel = RPA's Flying Squirrel + {{spoiler|Harry Kelly}}.
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* [[Death Is Cheap]]/ [[No One Could Survive That]]: Lost in time, buildings dropped on them, blown up, and other things that this troper can't even remember have happened to Red Panda's [[Rogues Gallery]] and they keep coming back. Red Panda enough [[Lampshade Hanging|noted]] that [[Genre Savvy|he's stopped thinking they're dead]] [[Never Found the Body|unless he sees the body.]]
* [[Did Not Do the Research]] - In "A Midwinter's Murder", the Red Panda smells burnt almonds in the tea and proclaims that there's arsenic in the tea. It's cyanide that smells like burnt almonds. Aside from the fact that the ability to smell cyanide is actually quite rare...
** Also, The Red Panda's psychic abilities are constantly referred to as "hypnotism". Sorry, but hypnotism does not allow one to cast illusions from a distance or mind-meld. Of course, the terminology here is almost certainly a tribute/homage to the radio version of [[The Shadow]], whose psychic invisibility was similarly defined as a form of hypnotism.
** In "There Will Be Rain Tonight", it is stated that any Canadian survivors of the Dieppe raid would undoubtedly be in a Gulag. Ah, no. Gulags were ''Soviet'' prison camps. Nazi prison camps were called ''Stalags.''
* [[Domino Mask]]: Red Panda wears one.
* [[Doomsday Device]]: "The Endgame"
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* [[George Lucas Throwback]]: The series is essentially a love letter to [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]]. Series creator Gregg Taylor has expressed his disdain for the more angst-driven storylines of post-[[The Dark Age of Comic Books|Dark Age]] comics and films.
* [[A God Am I]]: The Electric Eel
* [[Girls' Night Out Episode]]: Flying Squirrel and the Grey Fox in the fittingly titled "Girls' Night Out."
* [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]: The Red Panda uses one from time to time.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: {{spoiler|Mama}} gives one near the end of "The Big Top."
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* [[Identity Impersonator]]: {{spoiler|Tom Tomorrow}} did this to help out the Red Panda in "Red Panda: Dead or Alive!", {{spoiler|The Red Squirrel}} and {{spoiler|the Red Panda's Agents}} do this in season finale "Operation: Cold Feet"
** Red Panda pretends to be {{spoiler|The Mad Monkey}} in "The Hidden Door"
** In "From The Ashes", {{spoiler|John Doe/Archer fills in for the Red Panda while he's missing and believed to be dead}}.
* [[I Didn't Mean to Kill Him]]: Flying Squirrel says this about the Electric Eel.
* [[Idiosyncrazy]]: Every villain has one. The heroes even [[Lampshade Hanging|point it out]] it in a few episodes.
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** Andy Parker does this to his soon to be girlfriend/{{spoiler|now wife}} in "The Boy in Blue."
{{quote|'''Andy:''' Ellen, it's hard for me to kiss you when your mouth won't stop moving.}}
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* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: When another hypnotist convinces the Squirrel that the Red Panda is the bad guy, the Panda uses the phrase "Kit Baxter, behave yourself!" to prove his identity.
* [[Split Personality]]: {{spoiler|The Electric Eel}}
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* [[Tomato Surprise]]: {{spoiler|John}} at the end of "Just Like Clockwork." But most [[Genre Savvy]] listeners most likely guessed by the first commercial break.
* [[Too Clever by Half]]: Wentworth James is a brillant inventor, but he is a [[Horrible Judge of Character]] and "solves" problems with [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]], that makes it clear he's [[Too Dumb to Live]].
* [[Translator Microbes]]: In season 7, {{spoiler|the Red Panda}} can apparently do this subconsciously. He has no idea how it works.
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: {{spoiler|The Electric Eel, Kid Chaos}}
* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: As of "The Terrible Two", Mad Monkey and Jack Rabbit. How quickly they hook up leads poor Kit rather flummoxed.
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* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: The Mad Monkey, with the power to command baboons. Eventually, however, he discovers that his power is actually a form of mind control that can be used against humans as well.
** It also gives him immunity to the Red Panda's hypnotic powers.
** Every time he shows up just proves that [[Took a Level
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: The Red Panda and The Flying Squirrel, {{spoiler|until "The Field Trip."}}
* [[Write Who You Know]]/[[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]]: Kinda. Creator/writer Gregg Taylor and Clarissa Der Nederlanden, voice of the Panda and Squirrel, are married.
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