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* [[Advancing Wall of Doom]]: Three in ''Rocket Knight Adventures'' - one of which is part of a boss battle.
* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]: At least one per game.
* [[Always Someone Better]]: Sparkster is this to Axle Gear.
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* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: In ''[[Sonic the Comic]]''. Its storyline was set after the games, after Sparkster has left Elhorn for a long time and then returned to find the Princess is brainwashed and the country occupied by new reptilian invaders. This adaptation had a few grimdark elements, one of the opening panels of the conquered nation being two former knights involved in a bloody street fight for a crowd.
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]:
** In ''
** In the same game, when you get to face Axel in a head-to-head fight,
* [[Convection Shmonvection]]: The lava areas.
* [[Dark Is Evil]]: Axel Gear's armor is dark and he is ''definitely'' evil.
* [[Determinator]]: After Sparkster destroys most of its body, the final boss of the first game follows him off the exploding Pig Star and ''keeps fighting him as they re-enter Elhorn's atmosphere''.
* [[Diagonal Cut]]: The coup de grace is delivered to ''
* [[Difficulty by Region]]: ''
* [[The Dragon]]: Axel Gear, to whoever the current [[Big Bad]] is.
* [[Driven by Envy]]:
* [[The Empire]]: The enemies in each game are part of one.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Sparkster and Axel Gear and the pigs vs. the wolves in ''Rocket Knight''.
* [[Eternal Engine]]: Due to the fondness of the series for ridiculously huge war vehicles and mechanical fortresses, a large proportion of its levels are some sort of variation on this.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Princess Sherry in the first game definitely counts for this, as do Cherry and Flora.
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: In ''
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Axel Gear, to Sparkster.
* [[Eye Beams]]: Used by some bosses.
* [[Fanfare]]: One of the levels has this as the background music.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: The emperor in the first game. {{spoiler|General Sweinhart too, once he does a [[Face Heel Turn]]
* [[Flash of Pain]]
* [[Flying Brick]]: Sparkster, to the point where he actually ''flies'' in some sequences.
* [[Follow the Money|Follow The Gems]]
* [[Funny Animal]]: Sparkster and most of the other people of Zebulos are anthropomorphic opossums, and the invading armies over the three games include such fauna as pigs, lizards, snakes, wolves
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The giant robot bosses of the fifth stage of ''
* [[Glacier Waif]]: Sparkster and Axle Gear.
* [[Good Colors, Evil Colors]]: Sparkster's armor is "good" blue, while Axel Gear's is "evil" purple (red in ''Rocket Knight''). Also, there's an awful lot of green on the baddies' uniforms and vehicles.
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: Most non-robotic [[Mooks]] are reduced to this when you "kill" them in
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: ''
* [[Green Hill Zone]]: The first stage is a grassy plain with no environmental hazards.
* [[Hailfire Peaks]]: In a particularly impressive example, the second level in ''
* [[Harder Than Hard]]: The Japanese and European versions of ''
* [[The Hero]]: Sparkster, of course.
* [[Heroic Mime]]: Played with in that ''no'' character has any lines. Characters may be shown apparently conversing, but we can only infer what they're talking about by what happens immediately afterward.
* [[Horse of a Different Color]]: There are more than a few exotic steeds in the series. Triceratops or [[Mechanical Horse|mechanical]] ostrich, for example.
* [[Human Cannonball]]: Not being enough launching yourself with a jetpack in the seventh level of ''Sparkster'' (SNES) you are shot into space with a cannon.
** In the original ''Rocket Knight Adventures'', the king shoots Sparkster into the pig battleship in this fashion after Stage 3.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Sparkster and Axel Gear have a giant robot fight in the first game.
* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: The difficulty levels include names like "Child" and [[Harder Than Hard|"Crazy Hard"]].
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha]]: The enemies have a massive and varied arsenal of animal-like vehicles and autonomous machines. Also, each game features at least one boss fight where Sparkster and Axel Gear pilot giant mechs and engage in a giant-sized boxing match. ''
* [[I See London]]: Enemies are stripped to their underwear when defeated in ''Rocket Knight Adventures'', ''Sparkster''
* [[Jerkass]]: Axle Gear, no doubt about it.
* [[Jet Pack]]: Look at the title.
* [[The Kingdom]]: Zebulos. Renamed to Zephyrus in ''Rocket Knight''.
* [[Large and In Charge]]: The emperor in the first game,
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: [[Dragon Ball|Gold]] [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sparkster]] and [[Star Wars|the Pig Star]], at the very least.
* [[Magic Knight]]: Sparkster and Axle Gear to a certain degree.
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* [[Mini-Mecha]]: There are several varieties of enemies that pilot these.
* [[Mirror Boss]]: Axel Gear, the only recurring enemy in the series.
* [[The Napoleon]]: Captain Fleagle from the first game, who even dresses like the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Ominous Pipe Organ]]: Axel Gear is seen playing one at the end of the aforementioned [[Band Land]] {{spoiler|the sixth level of ''Sparkster'' for SNES}}.
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: Unlock the Crazy Hard of
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: [[All There in the Manual]]; Sherry and Cherry's mother died from unknown causes years before
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Mifune Sanjulo, Sparkster and Axle Gear's former teacher
* [[A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil]]:
* [[Razor Wind]]/[[Sword Beam]]: Sparkster and Axle's swords can do this, except, for some reason, in ''
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: The emperor in the first game.
* [[Rearrange the Song]]: The first level themes from the first game and its sequel see multiple rearrangements over the course of the series, and most of the music in the SNES game is rearranged versions of tracks from the sequel. Then rearranged again in the ''Rocket Knight''. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Orchestral style]]
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Most of the enemies in ''
* [[The Rival]]: Axel Gear.
** {{spoiler|[[Rival Turned Evil]]: It was their master's choice to make Sparkster the new leader that led to Axel Gear's path of evil
* [[Robotic Reveal]]: {{spoiler|After you fight him normally and "kill" him, Emperor Devligus Devotindos in the first game is revealed to be not only a [[Terminator]]-like robot, but one of many such robots stocked aboard the Pig Star
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Sparkster and the other Rocket Knights are heavily armored, sword-wielding opossums with the ability to fly about with rocket packs and fire waves of energy from their swords, not to mention occasionally piloting [[Humongous Mecha]], flying through walls of bricks or solid steel, flying through space without a spaceship... yeah. Arguably shades into [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] territory.
* [[Save the Princess]]
* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: Sparkster himself.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** The side-scrolling shooter (or in one part of the Mega Drive sequel, ''[[Rocket Punch|puncher]]'') segments contain minibosses strongly reminiscent of ''[[Gradius|Gradius's]]'' bosses, to the point of having a series of shields blocking a vulnerable "core" (usually the vehicle's pilot). More speculatively, it's possible that the mech fights are intended as a [[Shout-Out]] to Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. Another boss is a shout out to the boss of the waterfall in the original Contra.
** {{spoiler|In the Golden Sparkster ending from the Climax Studios' game, Bill Rizer shoots at Sparkster, proclaiming revenge. This acts as a continuation of the ''Contra: Shattered Soldier'' ending with the Sparkster cameo
* [[Space Does Not Work That Way]]: The series has been guilty of this from time to time.
** [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|Sparkster Can Breathe In Space]]: This is one of the biggest offenders considering how fast he travels in space.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]:
** The name of the world the series takes place in is supposed to be named for the titular country in Samuel Butler's ''Erewhon'', but because of the way the Japanese version of this got initially rendered into English, the name became "Elhorn". This appears to be treated with equal validity to "Erewhon" by fans and references, even today.
** In the Japanese version of the games, the kingdom Sparkster lives in is called "Zephyrus", but was mistranslated as "Zebulos" in the English version and remained unchanged for years. For the new ''Rocket Knight'' game, Konami has dropped "Zebulos" for the English version in favor of the original "Zephyrus".
* [[Spike Balls of Doom]]: Sometimes bosses and minibosses carry them.
* [[Sprite Polygon Mix]]: ''Rocket Knight''.
* [[Steampunk]]: [[Schizo-Tech|Sort of.]] The setting combines [[Steampunk]] elements with more traditional fantasy and sci-fi elements.
* [[Super Mode]]: Gold Sparkster in ''
* [[Ten-Second Flashlight]]: Can get pretty irritating in levels with a lot of enemies or traps.
* [[Tennis Boss]]: The miniboss in the fourth level of the first game tosses explosives at you. You can't reach him with your normal attacks, so you have to hit the bombs back at him to damage him.
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: Happens very, very frequently, with [[Shoot Em Ups|Shoot Em Up]] and (rudimentary) [[Fighting Game]] segments breaking up the platforming.
* [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]: The last normal level of each game is on an enemy space station (slightly modified in ''
* [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]: In a rather odd example, Axel Gear always lives to fight another day, while the [[Big Bad]] always dies.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: Zebulos's enemies tend to be ugly, or at least to belong to species with morally ambiguous or downright negative stereotypes.
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