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An [[All CGI Cartoon]] from [[Mainframe Entertainment]], makers of ''[[Re Boot]]''. ''Shadow Raiders'' tells the story of a quartet of planets divided by war for generations as they band together to defend from [[Planet Eater|The Beast.]] Princess Tekla, not just the [[Last of His Kind|last survivor of her kind]] but her ''solar system'', flees along with the Beast armada to warn the people of [[Single Biome Planet|planets]] Fire, Bone, Rock and Ice about the coming threat. In an [[Enemy Mine]] situation, Graveheart of planet Rock, King Cryos of Ice and Princess Tekla [[Pursued Protagonist|fight off her pursuers]] and band together. From there, the story chronicles the struggles to form an [[The Alliance|Alliance]] against the Beast; battling prejudice, hatred, and suicidal pigheadedness. And that's just ''[[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|among each other!]]''
The main cast includes:
* '''Graveheart''' -- ''"[[Working Class Hero|I'm just a miner.]]"'' Not just a [[Big Damn Heroes|big hero]], but also [[The Heart]] who keeps the warring temperaments of the Alliance to working together. Surprisingly humble, open, and level headed.
* '''Princess Tekla''' -- The [[Smart Guy|brain]] of the group, she's sensitive and somewhat [[My Greatest Failure|haunted by the death of her planet]]. She's a [[Chrome Champion|silver]] [[Robot Girl]] who is somewhat naive about [[Horrible Judge of Character|who to trust]], though she gets better about it.
* '''King Cryos''' -- [[The Stoic]] king of Ice, the personification of [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]. Also an incredibly [[Overprotective Dad]] to Lady Zera.
* '''Jade''' -- [[The Lancer]] to Graveheart, she's a proud warrior to Graveheart's humble miner. Distrustful and somewhat disdainful of others, undeservedly (at least when not talking about Femur).
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* [[Ape Shall Never Kill Ape]]: One of the reasons Jade, as an offworlder, is immediately suspected in the murder-mystery seventh episode. "We of Fire never kill our own!"
* [[Apocalypse How]]: the basis of the series. The Beast Planet is a [[Planet Eater]], and its combination of ability to travel between galaxies and actively seeking out "prey" could bump it to a Class X-2 threat.
* [[Bar Brawl]]: When the girls have a [[Girls' Night Out Episode|night out]], they have ''fun''...
* [[The Baroness]]: General Lampray.
* [[Battle Couple]]: [[Official Couple]] Graveheart and Jade definitely qualify.
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* [[Cain and Abel]]: Femur and Sternum.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Graveheart's "I'm just a miner."
* [[Camp Gay]]: ''Pelvis''.
* [[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.
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Sometimes they did not even ''bother'' with the radar: King Cryos actually says that Graveheart's companions damn him to death. ''He uses the word "damn!"'' When they at least acknowledged the radar they still had more blatant sexual innuendo than many prime-time shows of the time. In an early episode, Graveheart asks Jade if she "remember(s) that tunnel?" in a moment of high tension. Jade stares at him and wants to know how he can think of that ''now.'' In the second series, a slightly tipsy Jade tells Tekla that Graveheart came out of the tunnel "wearing nothing but a salute!" Either that was one hell of a game of truth or dare or the show's [[Official Couple]] were pretty wild back in the day...
** Jade once says "I'd rather nurse a beast drone".
* [[Girls' Night Out Episode]]: In ''Girl's Night Out'', the girls (And Pelvis, for whatever ''that'' means) head out to a bar and have ''[[Bar Brawl|fun...]]''
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Jade is even ''called'' an Amazon, which is especially notable considering humanity has never even appeared in the show.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Femur has a real thing for women who are not from his planet. He hits on Lamprey in his introductory episode (until she reveals her true nature as his enemy), and then flirts with the "reactivated" Tekla up until it is revealed she is being possessed by Lamprey. His steadiest "crush" is Jade, blunt-spoken warrior-woman of Rock, whom he flirts with through the entire series. His brother also seems attracted to her when they meet in the final episodes, and there seems to be something between Graveheart and Tekla throughout the series. And then there is [[Puppy Love|Pyrus and Zera]], despite the [[Fridge Logic|complications]] of a fire/ice romance...
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** This, surprisingly, also goes for it's troops. Beast Drones, due to being composed of null matter, can and will shrug off all attacks made on them unless it hits the containment unit. It's also their way of psychologically attacking enemies, since rarely do their prey know where to hit, and fruitlessly aim at their stomachs and heads. Hilariously they turn into [[Glass Cannons]] if you know where to aim, since Zera once killed a drone by ''flinging rocks at it''.
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Let's face it, the accuracy of the Beast Drones drops measurably when firing at heroes when compared to firing at the [[Red Shirt|RedShirts]]. Unlike your typical kids cartoon though, ''a lot'' of those get atomized onscreen.
** Hilariously used in one episode. Whereas normal troopers will explode with their ship if it's even grazed by a Drone's attack, the heroes' ship (which is the exact same ship used by their mooks) survives two or three direct hits and the only thing knocked out was the engines.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: The heroes have an amazing knack for hitting the tiny containment unit of the Beast Drones when not using the heavy sonic cannons.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Arguably Femur, almost certainly Sternum and Jade.
* [[The Juggernaut]]: While the heroes destroy the Beast Drones by truckloads, the Beast itself {{spoiler|shrugs off all attempt to stop it, including ramming a planet into it, detonating a planet turned into a bomb inside it, and teleporting it to unknown parts of the universe. The last one only forces it to shift targets.}}
* [[Jumped At the Call]]: King Cryos. "You can count on Ice to be the first to stand at your side."
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Femur, who stole the Battle Moons and got a good many people killed while they stole them back, {{spoiler|and then he turned and fled in the battle of Remora, actually calling Lamprey and begging for a deal to sell out the other members of [[The Alliance]]. Of course, his own people threatened revolt afterwards so he ''had'' to make amends or be executed by his own race, but he still ends the series as Emperor of Bone, even after his bigger, stronger and smarter brother returns from his forced exile.}}
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* [[Market-Based Title]]: It was called "Shadow Raiders" in Canada because Canadian kid's TV shows can not have the word "war" in the title. For this reason, another [[Merchandise-Driven]] show by Mainframe was named "[[Beast Wars|Beasties]]" in Canada...
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: Based on ''"War Planets"'', a toy line of planetoids with various gadgets that popped out.
* [[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.
* [[Morality Pet]]: Pyrus seems to be something of this to Femur, as the otherwise amoral and treacherous ruler of Bone has a definite soft spot for the young prince of Fire. In a more literal fashion, the seedling of Planet Jungle that Femur is charged with tending could be seen this way.
* [[Never Accepted in His Hometown]]: Graveheart. {{spoiler|Until the series final, that is.}}
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Averted all to hell and back. One episode, "J'Accuse," seems devoted to doing nothing ''but'' saying variations on the words murder, kill, and the titular die as often as possible. Fitting, considering it is about a murder case.
* [[No Flow in CGI]]
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* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: The reptilian representatives of the Alliance are treacherous, cowardly, disgusting, and fulfill the [[Token Evil Teammate]] quota. Their entire ruling class promotes backstabbing as a way of life. They even get a pretty vicious [[Take That]], as the final victim of the the Beast is Planet Reptizar.
* [[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.
* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|[[Ramming Always Works|Planet Fire]], [[Self-Destruct Mechanism|Planet Jungle]], and the [[Transporters and Teleporters|Prison Planet]].}}
* [[Serkis Folk]]
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