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'''''Robotboy''''' (2005-2008) is an animated television series. The eponymous protagonist is the latest creation of the world-renowned scientist Professor Moshimo. Due to fears that Robotboy would be stolen by his arch-rival Dr. Kamikazi and his main henchman, Constantine, to be used to take over the world, Professor Moshimo entrusts Robotboy to 10-year-old Tommy Turnbull, his biggest fan. While being protected by Tommy and his two friends, Lola and Gus, or "G-man" as he calls himself, Robotboy learns how to behave and act as if he were a real boy.

* [[A Boy and His X|A Boy And His Robot]]

* [[Adorkable]]: Tommy.

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: ''"STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!"''

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Bambi

* [[Agony of the Feet]]: Happens to Tommy in "The Return of Robotgirl" when Gus puts on a fake titanium butt and dares him to kick it.

* [[Aint No Rule]]: Says a monkey can't be the goalkeeper in a kids' soccer game, apparently. Or a robot playing striker. Or a player switching teams halfway through. Or beating up the ref. Or [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty|throwing a bowling ball at your opponent.]] Or playing with five balls at once.

* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]

* [[Animals Hate Him]]: Kamikazi. Dear God.

* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]: Subverted in "Kamispazi!" when Donnie gives his mom a cooked squirrel with his dad saying that he trapped and skinned it by himself...but then reveals it was actually roadkill.

'''Gus:''' Or chocolate-covered butterballs. ''(Lola looks at him funny)'' What? It could be. }}

** The spider on Robotboy's flashlight in "The Return of Robotgirl" has four eyes instead of eight.

** Robotboy's growth capacitor thingy makes him this in "Grow No-Mo!"

** Salvatorei (or however you spell its name), Kamikazi's [[Rodents of Unusual Size|supersized gerbil,]] in "Teasebots"

* [[Big Brother Bully]]: Donnie Turnbull.

* [[Big Fancy House]]: Lola lives in one

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: One of the signs outside Gus's house in "Metal Monster" says "verbotten", which is German for "banned". (It should actually be spelled with only one T, but that's beside the point.)

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Sure, [[The Hero|Tommy]] is blonde - But so is Bjorn, Kurt, and Kurt's father...

* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Sussie, Bambi and Princess Justine

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Off-screen, implied to have been done to Robotgirl right before "The Return of Robotgirl".

* [[But Not Too Black]]: Subverted with Lola. You wouldn't mistake her for a white girl, but her eyes ''are'' very blue. And then there's her voice...

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Dr. Kamikazi and Gus. Donnie actually calls Tommy one in "I Want That Toy!"

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: In "Kami-Chameleon", Gus shows Chupika to Tommy, his new virtual pet. Later, Tommy uses Chupika to charge Robotboy when his batteries fall out.

* [[Closer to Earth]]: Lola, especially in "The Return of Robotgirl" when she is able to help Robotgirl where Tommy, Gus and Robotboy failed.

* [[Creepy Monotone]]: This is how Protoboy talks.

* [[Cute Machines]]

* [[Cute Mute]]: Miumiu, Moshimo's fiancée, but it's finally subverted at the end of "Grow No-Mo!"

* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: Tommy. Robotboy was also designed with this in mind.

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Robotgirl.

* [[Epic Fail]]: In "The Old Switcharobot", Robotboy-in-Protoboy's-body Super-Activates and prepares to fight Protoboy-in-Robotboy's-body...and then his arm cannon falls out.

* [[Precious Puppies]]: [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|Subverted]] in "Dog-Ra", where the lost puppy adopted by Tommy turns out to be a {{spoiler|Kamikazi robot}}

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Protoboy to Robotboy, Kamikazi to Moshimo, Kurt to Tommy. Especially noticeable in the Robotboy/Protoboy case -- Robotboy was turned evil in a couple of episodes by Kamikazi, but it's always reversed by the end, and Protoboy is pretty much what Robotboy would be if Kamikazi turned him evil without Tommy finding a way to switch him back.

* [[Expy]]: Gus is basically a child friendly [[South Park|Eric Cartman]].

** Robotboy himself is pretty much Astro Boy or Mega Man

** Protoboy is pretty much Proto Man, but with Bass's coloration and personality.

** Gil from the electronics store is [[Napoleon Dynamite]].

* [[Face Palm]]: Protoboy's reaction to Robotboy stopping Robotgirl from making a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in "The Return of Robotgirl".

* [[Forbidden Fruit]]: Gus's [[Freudian Excuse]] for his obsession with video games and other electronic toys is that his parents are [[Acceptable Religious Targets|Amish]] and [[Against My Religion|forbid such things]].

* [[Genki Girl]]: Robotgirl. Subverted in "The Return of Robotgirl" when she is shown to be very sad and doesn't trust Tommy, Gus or even Robotboy due to choppy memory loss.

''(Robotgirl tries to punch Robotboy but misses and hits Gus instead)'' }}

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Kamikazi attempted to turn Protoboy evil, but went too far and made Protoboy ''too'' evil to the point of being nigh-uncontrollable.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Tommy's mom again

* [[Hulk Speak]]: Robot''boy'' talk somewhat like ''dees'' (due to apparently being Japanese).

* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: Robotboy uses it on Constantine in "Kamispazi!" to get him to tell where Kamikazi is.

* [[Jerkass]]: Gus.

** Donnie more so.

* [[Jerk Jock]]: Kurt

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Donnie. This is lampshaded by Tommy in a few episodes.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Kurt throwing a ball at some random crippled kid in "Kami-Chameleon".

* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]: Tommy's dad, Kurt's dad, and Constantine all have one.

* [[Leitmotif]]: Kamikazi has his own.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Lola even wears her blue dress when she goes to bed. The only time she's ever been seen wearing a completely different outfit is when she went ''bowling'', oddly enough.

* [[Losing Your Head]]: Inverted in "Stuck On You", where Klaus von Afoncügel steals Robotboy's body parts and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|leaves him with just a head.]]

* [[Love Triangle]]: [[Betty and Veronica|Lola loves Tommy, who loves Bambi]] (who dates [[Jerk Jock|Kurt]]). The whole thing was toned down considerably in the third and fourth season, mind you.

* [[Magic Pants]]: Lola's dress, in the episode "Gus' Mix".

* [[Missing Mom]]: Lola's mother is never shown.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Kurt and one of his cronies have them, and Tommy's dad sports one in "Foot Brawl".

* [[Nightmare Sequence]]: Donnie has a pretty long one in "Donnie Turnbull's Day Off" that involves fish medicine, his mom, and Robotboy's bed.

* [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken]]

'''Robotboy:''' Robotboy no afraid! }}

* [[Obliviously Evil]]: Robotboy pulls this off in "Clammadon Rising" and "Grow No-Mo!"

* [[Panty Shot]]: Several kids in "The Donnienator"; Lola in "Traffic Slam."

** And then there was the quick shot in Traffic Slam where they didn't show her panties, if you know what I mean.

'''Robotboy:''' No-o-o! Robotboy like school! }}

* [[People Zoo]]: Auntie Gravitee's intergalactic freakshow. Apparently, Gus is the only human who's freaky enough to fit in there.

* [[Psychic Powers]]: Robotboy's probability calculator in "The Soothsayer".

* [[Retcon]]: In "Brother," Moshimo says that his first encounter with Kamikazi was when he kidnapped Protoboy. Later, in "The Legend of Brainy Yak," Moshimo relates his childhood as a yak herder in the Alps, and notes that a young Kamikazi made fun of one of his yaks.

* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]: Robotboy. He's even passed for a human kid at least twice.

* [[Robot Buddy]]: Robotboy.

* [[Robot Kid]]

* [[Scarecrow Solution]]: Used very briefly when Gus pretends to be another Moshimo robot in "The Return of Robotgirl" to distract Protoboy, but it only works for a few seconds.

* [[Secret Keeper]]: Tommy, Gus and Lola

** Gus's virtual pet in "Kami-Chameleon", [[Pokémon|Chupika,]] looks a lot like a [[Tamagotchi]].

* [[Show Within a Show]]: ''The Human Fist.''

* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]: Poor Lola.

* [[Sleep Mode Size]]: Robotboy's deactivated form.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Bjorn

* [[Spikes of Villainy]]: On Donnie's wristband.

* [[Stock Footage]]: Robotboy's transformation sequence.

* [[Stop Copying Me]]: Utilized in "Donnie Turnbull's Day Off" when Robotboy pretends to be an ordinary toy around Donnie when Tommy is out of the house.

''(Donnie hits Robotboy and is met with a punch to the face)'' }}

* [[Ted Baxter]]: Gus -- an example would be when he tries to show Robotboy how to win a girl over and ends up making Robotgirl cry.

* [[Temporary Bulk Change]]: A side-effect of the tapeworm living in Gus's stomach in "Tummy Trouble". Of course, [[Status Quo Is God|Gus becomes his normal fat self again at the end.]]

* [[Third Person Person]]: Moshimo's robots.

* [[Telescoping Robot]]

** Walter the (apparently male) tapeworm from "Tummy Trouble" inverts this with pink coloration, eyelashes and a high voice.

* [[Three Amigos]]: Tommy, Gus and Lola

* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Robotboy, Robotgirl and Protoboy all get a pretty awesome one.

* [[Troll]]: The function of the Teasebots in "Teasebots".

''"You're so ugly, when you walk by a toilet, it flushes! Thank you very much!"'' }}

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Robotboy and Robotgirl to Moshimo, to the point where they (or at least Robotgirl) would willingly sacrifice themselves for him as proven in "The Return of Robotgirl".

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: In the episode "Kami-Chameleon", two of the teachers have weird limbs and different voices (they're actually Kamikazi's cronies in disguise) and Robotboy shows up in gym pretending to be a student.

* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: Gus in "Traffic Slam", Tommy's mom in "Kamispazi!", and, bizarrely enough, ''[[Fridge Logic|Robotboy]]'' in "Gus's Big Mouth".

* [[What Does He See in Her|What Does Tommy See In Bambi?]]: Seriously, look at [[Kick the Dog|how she treated him]] at the beginning of "Crying Time"! One scene later, Robotboy says what we're all thinking:

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Kurt in the soccer episode gives Lola a ''rough'' bodycheck.

** In "The Return of Robotgirl", Protoboy kicks Robotgirl in the chest/stomach hard enough to knock her batteries out.

* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: Averted in "Traffic Slam" when Tommy's mom [[Disproportionate Retribution|kicks Lola in the face]] [[Refuge in Audacity|for trying to take her cookies]].

 

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