Red Panda Adventures: Difference between revisions

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This series contains examples of:

* [[Action Girl]]: Kit, despite being both the [[Sidekick]] and the [[Love Interest]], is ''never'' the [[Distressed Damsel]], and is capable of both making plans and kicking ass.

* [[Alien Invasion]]: Red Panda has to deal with a magical version in "The Gathering Storm."

* [[Big Ham]]: FREIDRICH! VON! SCHLITZ!

** To be fair, with very few exceptions, being a [[Big Ham]] is a prerequisite for being a Red Panda villain.

{{quote| '''Kit:''' Why, this guy's so slippery he's...<br />

'''Red Panda:''' ...like a very slippery thing that escapes you at the moment? }}

** "An interesting point..." Borders on [[Verbal Tic]] for Greg Taylor's characters.

* [[Ceiling Cling]]: The Flying Squirrel loves doing this.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Fenwick Industries and how Red Panda was able to convince them to help him out in "I Dream of Genies". {{spoiler|Fenwick is his last name and he owns the company.}}

** {{spoiler|1=The File that Baboon McSmoothie bribed the Red Panda with in "The World Next Door" is used in "A Dish Best Served Cold".}}

* [[Clear My Name]]: Red Panda has to worry about this in "Red Panda: Dead or Alive!" He later helps out Tom Tomorrow when he's framed in "Murder Wears A Mask"

* [[Clockwork Creature]]: Captain Clockwork's minions of choice.

* [[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).

*** It has. With {{spoiler|The Genie}}

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Much like [[The Shadow]] who undoubtedly serves as an inspiration, Red Panda has a pretty creepy laugh.

* [[Faking the Dead]]: They've done this a few times with the Flying Squirrel.

* [[Fanfic]]: Gregg Taylor has a don't ask don't tell stand on these. You can write them, he just doesn't want to hear about it.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: In "The Third Wave" we learn that {{spoiler|Kit}} is a skilled writer.

** {{spoiler|Which leads to her having a job at ''The Chronicle'' since sometime before "A Nose For News"}}

* [[Humiliation Conga]]: In "The Dream Factory", they steal the conmen's equipment, withdraw their money from their account so their checks bounce, steal the real money from their safe, blowup their car, beat them up, and then leave them handcuffed to a safe filled with funny money.

* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]: The Red Panda has to deal with this in "The Deadliest Game"

* [[Idiosyncrazy]]: Every villain has one. The heroes even [[Lampshade Hanging|point it out]] it in a few episodes.

** It's even subverted in some cases. See [[Genre Savvy]] above for examples.

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: The Genie lives and breaths this.

** Doc Rocket/ {{spoiler|Wentworth James the rich inventor.}}

* [[Let's You and Him Fight]]: Villains try to set this up from time to time between Red Panda and the Flying Squirrel, either with mind control or trying to make Kit a zombie.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Many recurring villains, including Professor Zombie, the Genie, and Dr. Von Schlitz, but Dr. Chronopolis is a good guy version, and Doc Rocket is at least a Mad Inventor.

** The biggest result so far is the anti-magic alloy Dr. C created. It's woven into our heroes' costumes, making them invisible to magical senses. In "The Gathering Storm", it's revealed that they've been making ''weapons'' out of it, including brass knuckles and bullets, which they use to fight off a dimensional incursion of snakemen.

* [[Mistaken for Spies]]: In "Nightshade", though it's really more like Mistaken for ''Different'' Spies.

* [[Rogues Gallery]]: The Red Panda has a pretty big one. We have yet to meet all of them.

** Greg seems to be fixing this in the newer seasons. So far we've seen {{spoiler|a reformed Bumblebee, and a story with Captain Clockwork.}}

* [[Secret Identity Identity]]: The Red Panda is scornful of the man he once was, a playboy who was so bored he picked up superheroing for a lark... and realized how empty his life had been.

* [[Secret Keeper]]: The Red Panda's first chauffeur tried to blackmail his way into being one. He forgot that his boss was a master hypnotist.

* [[Steven Ulysses Perhero]]: Antonia Zombanistro aka Professor Zombie is a villain version of this. Also Arthur Maestro aka The Maestro.

* [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler]]: Almost everything in the original series. In the new one, Dr. von Schlitz, of so-far-pre-WWII Nazi Germany, creates inventions that are fusions of science and magic. As well, the Stranger and his magical colleagues often speak of the occult forces stirring in Europe...

* [[Super Registration Act]]: Interestingly, this seems to be being done by the heroes ''themselves''; specifically, New York's Justice Union, who have tried to strongarm the Red Panda into joining before.

* [[Sure Let's Go With That]]: Nightshade apparently mistakes the Red Panda for this world's version of Baboon McSmoothie.

* [[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.

** Also "Trial By Terror"

** And {{spoiler|The Red Panda Revenge Squad}} in "A Dish Best Served Cold"

** It also gives him immunity to the Red Panda's hypnotic powers.

** Every time he shows up just proves that [[Took a Level In Badass|that you shouldn't underestimate]] [[Heart Is an Awesome Power|him because of his powers.]]

* [[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.