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You can watch the original on [http://www.youtube.com/show?p=ZGHTL85TNSc YouTube] or [http://www.hulu.com/voltron-defender-of-the-universe Hulu].
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== Lion Voltron ==
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* [[Captain Obvious]]: Keith, every time they form Voltron - telling them what they do every time.
* [[Caramelldansen Vid]]
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: [[Wicked Witch|Haggar's]] [[Right
* [[Chickification]]: While Allura was a really girly girl to begin with, she learned quickly; she was able to pilot Lance's lion (Red Lion) and hold the Blazing Sword with no problems at all by Episode 23, and Keith later teaches her judo. Unfortunately, her character's progress plateaued in the American-written second season, which had her father's ghost [[Deus Ex Machina|continually solving problems for her]].
* [[Combining Mecha]]
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* [[Ermine Cape Effect]]: Even when not fancied up, even in uniform, Allura still wears her [[Requisite Royal Regalia|tiara]].
** King Zarkon is a straight case, always sitting on his throne, wearing his cape and heavy-looking crown.
* [[
* [[
* [[Fairytale Wedding Dress]]: A dress made for Allura to wear on her possible future wedding.
* [[Fanfare]]: Notable in that ''Voltron's'' score has one, while ''GoLion'' does not.
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Allura, especially when she isn't piloting the blue lion. There's a reason she was the picture of the trope.
* [[Fighter Launching Sequence]]
* [[Five
** ''Configuration 1''
*** [[The Hero]]: Keith
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** Oh, and memo to the erstwhile pilot of the Blue Lion: We female fans salute you for this, erm, [http://voltarchive.animation-web.com/Screenshots/LV/Ep41/cap025.htm framing] of your first meeting with Romelle.
* [[Gladiator Games]]
* [[Hey
** And in the sequel the future [[Futurama|Fry]] is Pidge.
* [[Homage]]: It could be unintentional, but Allura's grand dress dress [http://www.sfstlskyway.com/allurawall.jpg bears a resemblance] to [[Sleeping Beauty (Disney)|Princess Aurora's]].
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* [[Mordor]]
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Ladies, you get your selection of four different flavors of Bishounen: Knight-in-white-armor Keith, ladies' man Lance with the leather jacket and tight pants, quiet and thoughtful Sven, and Lotor, who MIGHT have a heart of...*something* underneath all those impulses of conquest. And pick two male characters from Voltron, ANY two male characters from Voltron--at least the ones of legal age--and you WILL find a female-written Slash Fic pairing them.
* [[
* [[Never Say Die]]: The word destroy was always used instead. However there were a few exceptions, Yurak died after being turned [[One
* [[Notable Original Music]]
* [[Opera Gloves]]: The wedding dress Nanny made for Allura. Also part of Romelle's mini-dress of power.
* [[Overlord, Jr.]]: Lotor.
* [[Panty Shot]]: Episode 19. From a trio of five-year-olds.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Both of Allura's parents died years before the events of the show.
** We also don't see Romelle and Bandor's mother when they are introduced, so we assume they've been motherless for some time, and even through the cut-and-paste editing, you can see that their father died in battle.
** Pidge is also a war orphan who eventually was adopted.
* [[Pimped
* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: Galaxy Garrison's job is pretty much [[Mr. Exposition]]. Despite supposed huge amounts of resources at their control, all they do is sit around and talk about what Voltron is doing.
* [[Post Script Season]]: [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|How much more popular was Lion Voltron than GoLion?]] It was so much more popular that World Events Productions actually hired Toei Animation to make 20 new Voltron episodes. Not 20 new GoLion episodes, 20 new Lion Voltron episodes. That just doesn't happen very often.
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* [[Princess Curls]]: Allura/Fala, although they way they are drawn makes them easy to mistake for sideburns.
* [[Princesses Prefer Pink]]: Allura wears pink with everything, even her uniform.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Lance is the Red Oni- impulsive, confrontational, outspoken, rebellious, even a little aggressive- and pilots the Red Lion...but wears blue uniform and civvies. Keith is the Blue Oni- rational, calm, level-headed, prudent, reasonable- but wears red uniform and civvies, and pilots the Black Lion. Curiously, Keith is the [[Hero]] and [[Standardized Leader]] and very idealistic; while Lance is the [[Lancer]] and much more realistic. Further playing with this trope is that Allura has an even mix of both Red Oni and Blue Oni traits, wears pink outfits, and pilots the Blue Lion--and has a crush on one of these guys.
* [[Refusing Paradise]]: {{spoiler|In one episode an angelic being offers eternal paradise to our heroes, who all-but immediately refuse. Internal monologues then confirm their unending devotion to the people of Arus.}}
* [[Robeast]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
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* [[Slippery Swimsuit]]: Happens once to Princess Allura. A high dive while wearing a bikini leads to her top surfacing before she does.
* [[The Something Force]]
* [[Speech
* [[Standardized Leader]]: Keith.
* [[The Starscream]]
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* [[Super Robot]]
* [[Super Robot Wars]]: GoLion appears in ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'', which actually fueled [[Epileptic Trees]] that ''W'' would see an American release. {{spoiler|It didn't.}}
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Sven, especially when it comes to the [[Ro Beasts]] and the Drules.
* [[Throw It In]]: The voice actor for Pidge did it as a joke after his more realistic voices for the character were rejected. That was the one they went with.
* [[Tomboyish Name]]: This troper was quite surprised to find out that Romelle is almost always a male name.
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* [[Warrior Prince|Warrior Princess]]: Allura.
* [[Villainous Crush]]: Lotor's infatuation with Allura appears to be his motivation for much of the series, and his hatred of Keith.
* [[White
* [[Wicked Witch]]
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Every encounter the titular robot has with a robeast who is a physical threat to Voltron is an example of this.
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* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Not only Voltron, but the Robeasts as well (they tended to be piloted vehicles in this version).
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: In the first episodes, it is explained that Haggar took the form of a "Space Angel" and "defeated" Voltron by breaking him into five lions. Considering that the lions are pretty formidable individually, this is a pretty heavy "huh?"
* [[Nobody Can Die]]: At least in the American dub.
* [[Old School Dogfighting]]: the air team vehicles got to do a bit of this before the need to form Voltron arose
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