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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: ''The Hunchback of Nowhere'' is one of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', while ''Squatting Tiger, Hidden Dog'' is another one of ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''.
* [[All Just a Dream]]{{spoiler|...[[Or Was It a Dream?]]}}: "Cowboy Courage".
* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Birds, it would seem.
* [[Always Someone Better]]: Eustace's brother Horst, who was better at pretty much everything.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]: The titular dog is pink with black spots.
** Also, Katz is a fire engine red cat with purple stripes, Shirley the Medium is a green chihuahua, the Duck Brothers are bright blue with green, purple, and red eyes and neck markings, and there has been a chicken with an electric blue wattle (Although, to be fair, the chicken and ducks were from outer space. Maybe they're the fowl versions of [[Human Aliens]]?)
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: "Modern" China looking '''considerably''' more like Ancient China in ''Squatting Tiger, Hidden Dog''.
* [[Asian and Nerdy]]: Di Lung is about as [[Ethnic Scrappy|stereotypically]] Asian as cartoon characters get, and also [[Genius Ditz|about as talented]].
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* [[Cyberspace]]: Played straight in "Hard Drive Courage". On an interesting note, Cyberspace is depicted as the actual inside of a computer. You know, chips, motherboards, the usual. Plus ''a lot'' of green binary code.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Not all the monsters Courage meets are [[Exclusively Evil]] or hostile - some of them are just [[Chaotic Neutral]] or even friendly. In fact in some cases they even need Courege's help.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: This could be disputed, as the entire series was darker than most other animated series; however, most episodes from the final season are significantly more dramatic in nature compared to other seasons, especially the first. In fact, the show's two
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Courage's Computer, as well as Shirley the Medium.
** Katz can be rather snarky as well. "Pity..."
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* [[Sand Is Water]]: One episode has the titular character forced by Eustace's mother to hunt a sand whale, who is trying to get his accordion back from Eustace's mother. And Courage is forced to row a boat in the sand. Another slight subversion, considering that the ground only worked like water for the sand whale, and [[Magic A Is Magic A|not the rowboat]].
* [[Scare Chord]]: HMMM. I believe that all of the Title Cards had one of these playing in the background. Especially Perfect and Wrath of the Librarian.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: A lot of the shots of the farm house either at night or at sundown are awfully pretty for a [[Nightmare Fuel]], [[Crapsack World]].
** To elaborate, the show uses a technique of overlaying photos with animation, so the skies you see are (mostly) pictures, although exaggerated or altered.
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* [[Secret Ingredient]]: The secret ingredient in all of Muriel's cooking is vinegar.
* [[Sexophone]]: Plays when the General takes off his uniform to reveal his [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|stomach-entering]] outfit in ''Muriel Blows Up''; needless to say, [[Audience Surrogate|the Lieutenant is every bit as confused as the audience probably is]].
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Freaky Fred has one.
* [[Smart People Build Robots]]: In ''Courage VS Mecha-Courage'', Mecha-Courage is built by [[Asian Rudeness|Di]] [[Insufferable Genius|Lung]].
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* [[Snowlems]]: A living snowman (sounding suspiciously like [[Sean Connery]]) became a villain due to [[Hollywood Global Warming]].
* [[Solar CPR]]
* [[Space Whale]]: A dangerous predator, in "Last of the Starmakers".
* [[Space Whale Aesop]]: "Swindling only begets swindling, as selfishness [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|begets banana-head]]."
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* [[Staring Contest]]: Katz and Courage have an [[Cooking Duel|epic duel to the death]] in the form of a staring contest.
* [[Stock Audio Clip]]: Quite a few. See the trope page for details.
* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Eustace is pretty much a carbon copy of his parents. Lampshaded in "The Sand Whale Strikes", when the Sand Whale has confused Eustace for his father, Ickett. Eustace pulls out a picture of his father (who looks exactly like him with a huge beard) and says "I don't see the resemblance."
* [[Sunglasses At Night]]: Di Lung does this in ''Cabaret Courage'', ''Fishy Business'', and ''The Nutcracker''. Also, Cajun Fox does this {{spoiler|in ''Ball of Revenge''}}.
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