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* [[Abdicate the Throne]]: King Cryos does this at one point after becoming worried that he's letting personal priorities interfere with his duty.

* [[Cosmic Horror Story]]: Take a look at the impending doom and monstrous [[Planet Eater]], then try to dispute this.

* [[Clip Show]]: The episode Graveheart has a crisis in his leadership role.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The Prison Planet arc. Though the series was already fairly dark and edgy by 90's Saturday morning standards, the arc was considerably much grittier than the episodes that preceded it.

* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Brother]]: The clip show episode reveals that part of the reason why Graveheart is so humble is because his kid brother died in a raid on Planet Fire that Graveheart was leading.

* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Femur, and depending on your viewpoint, {{spoiler|Jade and Tekla}}.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The unstoppable Beast Planet and its demonic extensions. It doesn't spread madness, but no matter what happens, '''nothing can harm it.'''

* [[Evil Chancellor]]: Averted with the Vizier. Despite displaying outright contempt for the other members of the alliance, he admits that he does respect them. Played straight later on when {{spoiler|an evil duplicate of him turns up.}}

* [[Eviler Than Thou]]

** Somewhat subverted in the second season, as you get to see the faces of a few troopers and the ones from Rock and Fire do indeed have unique faces. Played straight with Bone and Ice however, since the former never shows the common trooper without their "smart suits", and the latter all resemble their king down to the mandibles.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: all of the races hate all of the other races, mainly due to the history of mutual raiding. This really causes trouble in the series, particularly when {{spoiler|the people of Fire lose their planet and must emigrate to the moons of Rock.}} Comes with [[Fantastic Slurs]] as a matter of course.

** [[The Hero]]: Graveheart

** [[The Lancer]]: Cryos/Jade

* [[Kuudere]]: Jade is a Type 2. Her "dere" side comes out most frequently around Graveheart, but as the series progresses we see her gradually warming up to other Alliance members as well.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Apparently, Graveheart's "I'm just a miner'' annoys Jade even more than the audience. Femur has been known to do this as well.

* [[Moment Killer]]: Femur's bad timing almost gets him throttled by Jade.

* [[Moral Guardians]]: Well, ''kind'' of. ''Girls' Night Out'' was not shown in the U.K. by Sky, supposedly due to strobe lighting, but attention has been drawn to the fact that ''GNO'' saw a lot of sexual innuendo and featured the female characters trashing a bar in a brawl. The problem is that a lot of later events do not make sense if you have not watched a key scene in this episode.

* [[Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: A lot. Distances and sizes are probably the most egregious. [[MST3K Mantra|Well, it's a cartoon]])

** Case in point: they've managed to get from one end of their system to the other in a matter of hours.

* [[Serkis Folk]]

* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Each of the planets are defined by a single geographical type (Usually whatever their name is): Ice - ice, Rock - rocks, Fire - volcanoes, Bone - swamps, Jungle- jungles, Sand - sand. This is one of the few [[Justified Trope|justified]] examples, as virtually all of the planets seen are artificial.

* [[Tsundere]]: Zera, who's pretty fiery for an ice maiden.

* [[Twist Ending]]: A really dark one, by the standards of a children's show. See [[Book Ends]] above.

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Graveheart had an experience of this when his little brother was killed on planet fire.

* [[The Voiceless]]: General Voyd, who often acts as a tiebreaker between Generals Blokk and Lampray. Possibly the direct representation of the Beast's judgement.

* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: In the episode where Tekla and Graveheart try to persuade Lord Mantle to join their alliance, Vox plays a recording of the last stand of planet Water from Tekla's home solar system. The inhabitants of Planet Water turned their entire world into a wave motion gun to try and destroy the Beast. The result was less than impressive. The battle moons also use these as their main weapon.

* [[Working Class Hero]]: As Graveheart often reminds us, [[Catch Phrase|he's just a miner]], but he's a very capable leader. This instance of this trope isn't used to cast any disparagement on upper-class or educated people, though, as royalty like Prince Pyrus and King Cryos are shown to be just as heroic.