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'''''Storm Hawks''''' (2007-2009) is an animated action/adventure series involving giant flying motorcycles, powerful crystals, and a gang of plucky teens out to save the day. A [[Cliché Storm|flurry of clichés]] thrown together, it is saved from being boring by being just [[Rule of Fun|plain fun]].
The show is set in a fictional world called Atmos, a largely mountainous world consisting of scattered landmasses known as terras. Because of the geography, travel is largely dependent on flight. The technology of Atmos is based around [[Power Crystal|energy-generating crystals]], used to power the various devices in the series. Patrolling the skies of Atmos are the Sky Knights, groups of warriors who pilot motorcycle-like vehicles that can semi-transform into flying machines. These warriors are loosely managed by the Sky Council.
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** Slightly subverted in that, at the end of the pilot, the man telling Aerrow and company that he can't officially make them Sky Knights by way of being too young subtly (or rather not so subtly) indicates that rules aside he thinks they're Sky Knights already.
* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: I.J. Domiwick
* [[Aerial Canyon Chase]]: Aerrow tries this to defeat the Dark Ace. As demonstrated earlier in the episode, the very end of the canyon is so narrow, one must turn their fliers to motorcycle mode to get through, and then back again as to not plummet to the ground. The trick here is that, earlier in the fight, Aerrow had stuck a wrench into the Dark Ace's wing mechanism, preventing him from retracting them.
* [[Age of Titles]]: "Age of Heroes"
* [[Air Hugging]]: Massively averted. Refreshingly, all of the main male characters are completely comfortable with touching one another, and no one makes a big deal of it.
* [[Air Jousting]]
* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]: They sell them like cars (complete with sleezy used car salesmen). And apparently, they don't mind selling them to teenagers.
* [[The Alcatraz]]: Zartacla ([[Shout-Out|which is "Alcatraz"]] [[Sdrawkcab Name|spelled backwards]]).
* [[Alien Lunch]]
* [[Aliens and Monsters]]
* [[All-Natural Gem Polish]]
* [[A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away]]
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The Screaming Queens.
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Piper
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* [[Canada, Eh?]]: The Blizzarians
* [[Cargo Cult]]: The natives from "Shipwrecked", who start worshipping the Condor, but don't take too kindly to Stork (who's been stranded with it).
* [[Cast
* [[Chained Heat]]: Done hilariously in "Life with Lugey" between the raptor and Stork.
** In "Age of Heroes", Stork does this to the Raptors when they're chasing the Condor through the pipes.▼
** In "Life with Lugey", this is done by Aerrow to Hoerk.▼
** In "Payback", Marge uses this tactic to get rid of the Talons attacking her ship.▼
* [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]: Averted. Dove and her peers are tough, brave warriors and defended their Terra until the very end.
** Though they DO like eating cheese.
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* [[Collapsing Lair]]
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: The Producers from "Terra Neon".
* [[Conspicuous CGI]]: Averted for the most part, as the show pulls off the [[Cel Shaded]] look pretty well.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: "Fire and Ice" and just about any time the cast's in [[Lethal Lava Land|the Wastelands.]]
* [[Cool Gate]]: The door in the tropical temple that Stork finds {{spoiler|actually leads to the Far Side}}.
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** Also that super ship they built in "Velocity", from all the discarded parts and weapons.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Stork.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]
* [[Crystal Prison]]: Captured sky knights get thrown into one of these in "Cyclonia Rising".
* [[Curious as a Monkey]]: The Merb kids from "Scout's Honor". Especially Owlsley, who's always taking things apart.
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* [[False Friend]]: {{spoiler|Lark in "Best Friends Forever" (actually Cyclonis in disguise).}}
* [[Fan Service]]: Stork
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]
* [[Fight Unscene]]: Always that exact same impact star animation. If you're lucky, it might be a different colour!
* [[Final Battle]]: The series finale, somewhat subverted in that {{spoiler|the villain escapes}}.
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* [[Expressive Mask]]: The goggles worn by Talons.
* [[Friendly Sniper]]: Finn, of course.
* [[Fumbling the Gauntlet]]: In "A Wallop For All Seasons", the Sky Knights travel to Junko's home, where Piper accidentally bumps into someone. She raises her hands placatingly - and Junko hastens to intervene, because this is how his people challenge each other to a fight.
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: "Energy Crisis" and the Suit of Untold Vengeance, or S.U.V.
** What about the episode "Home Movie Night"? Use Plenty of Caution Handling Unstable Crystals, or U.P.C.H.U.C.
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** Anarchis, the preproduction version of Cyclonis, was an adult.
* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: The {{spoiler|Murk Raiders}} arrive just in time to tip the balance of the final battle.
* [[Goth]]: Master Cyclonis
* [[Great Escape]]: "Escape!"
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* [[Improvised Armor]]:
** Wren and Dove's pots and pans. Strangely, they're still using them in later episodes, when they would have had access to better stuff.
** The armour that Stork made in "The Black Gorge" out of random junk. It even has [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427185528/http://stormhawks.ytv.com/default.aspx?obj=WEAPON&id=23 its own page] on the official website.
* [[In a Single Bound]]
* [[Infant Immortality]]: "A Little Trouble"
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* [[The Infiltration]]
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Stork is a twenty-something-year-old Merb hanging out with a bunch of 14-year-olds, though he seems to have the mentality of a teenager, rather than that of someone older.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: The [[Stalker with a Crush|Chicken]] keeps trying to achieve this with Radarr, but with little success.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]] - "What Got Into Finn?"
* [[The Jailer]]: Mr. Moss
* [[Just a Kid]]: The initial reaction to the current generation of Storm Hawks. It even prevented them from being officially registered. Fortunately, all their hard work pays off and they get unofficially recognized as worthy successors and heroes in their own right.
* [[Keep-Away]]: The Storm Hawks play this game as practice, much to Starling's frustration.
* [[Keet]]: Finn.
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*** [[BS Raven|This Troper]] is calling [[Rule of Cool]]. Or [[Rule of Fun]].
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Junko. Though with [[Extreme Omnivore|his tastes]] it's a matter of perspective.
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Though the Storm Hawks are heroes, they're still mostly just young people who like to play. But when they get serious, ''watch out''.
* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]: In "Radarr Love", Aerrow decides to split the team up for some reason after they've just escaped from a cell. The two groups soon run into each other again, almost attacking each other.
** Happens again in "Payback", after {{spoiler|the Condor gets destroyed}}.
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* [[The Messiah]]: Aerrow
* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]
* [[Missing Mom]]: Everyone.
* [[Mooks]]: The Talons
* [[More Dakka]]: Snipe's battleship in "A Little Trouble."
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** Backfired on Finn, when he tried to put too many cannons on his ride. The added weight kept throwing off his aim.
** The super-ship created by the crews in Velocity. It's basically just a flying gun battery.
* [[Musical Assassin]]: Ravess. So much so that she had a Talon fly while playing a violin just so she would have live music while she fought. She frequently forced Talons to practice different instruments with her, and punished anyone who interrupted. Not to mention building a [[Death Ray|Energy Cannon]] that was powered by music.
* [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]]: Junko's allergy to Murk Raiders and Sky Sharks has come in handy. Often leads to a [[Sneeze of Doom]].
* [[My Rule Fu Is Stronger Than Yours]]: In one episode, the Storm Hawks compete with the Rex Guardians for a powerful crystal. The competition was made up of several challenges that tested a member of each squadron, and while the Storm Hawks won every challenge, the Rex Guardians used various [[Loophole Abuse|absurd technicalities]] to win the competition. {{spoiler|When the Dark Ace shows up, however, the Rex Guardians discover that their laws do very little good against someone who doesn't follow them, and it's up to the Storm Hawks to [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right|beat him their way.]]}}
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*** Fanon suggests that her real name might be {{spoiler|Lark.}}
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Radarr!
* [[Nonverbal Miscommunication]]: Oddly enough, considering their closeness, Aerrow is hopeless at figuring out what Radarr is trying to tell him, no matter how obvious it is to the viewers. Of course, the rest of the team is usually no better at it, and most of Radarr's desperate attempts to tell them anything end with him giving up in frustration.
** Happened in the episode "A Wallop For All Seasons", and Piper nearly got into a fight with a female Wallop because of it.
* [[No One Could Survive That]]
* [[Nostalgic Music Box]]: Plays as Cyclonis fixes the photo-crystal in "Five Days". Slowly changes to an [[Ominous Music Box Tune]] as the camera focuses on the face of the previous Master.
* [[Not So Different]]
* [[Oh Crap]]: In "The Key," {{spoiler|The Dark Ace makes this expression at Aerrow's [[Barehanded Blade Block]].}}
* [[Ominous Floating Castle]]: {{spoiler|Cyclonia is a Type 3, once adapted with 'far side' technology. Thankfully it crashed in the wastelands instead of on top of anything important.}}
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* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Possibly parental death at the hands of the Cyclonians.
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: Most villains.
* [[Power Crystal]]: As noted, they're the basis of Atmosian technology.
* [[The Power of Rock]]: Done in "The Storm Hawks Seven". Finn uses his powered up guitar to take on Ravess's powered up violin.
* [[Precursors]]: Remnants of their civilization are seen in "Forbidden City" and "Shipwrecked". The [[Precursors]] are later revealed to be {{spoiler|from the far side of Atmos.}}
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{{quote|'''Stork:''' ''(mockingly)'' That'll never come in handy, Stork. You're wasting your time, Stork. Hmph. ''(smirks)'' I was right, the rest were wrong.}}
* [[Punk Punk]]
▲* [[Ram by Braking]]:
▲** In "Age of Heroes", Stork does this to the Raptors when they're chasing the Condor through the pipes.
▲** In "Life with Lugey", this is done by Aerrow to Hoerk.
▲** In "Payback", Marge uses this tactic to get rid of the Talons attacking her ship.
* [[Recap Episode]]: "Home Movie Night" ''might'' count. It doesn't really explain what has happened throughout the series, but it's basically a filler episode with clips from previous episodes.
* [[Recruit Teenagers with Attitude]]: Double subversion.
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* [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves]]: Inverted with the Dark Ace, who was well rewarded for his betrayal.
** But in the end this trope is played straight {{spoiler|when he pretty much disintegrates when Master Cyclonis pumps too much energy into him during the binding}}
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Stork, in Payback, after Repton {{spoiler|blows up the Condor. He single handedly liberates all of Terra Bogaton.}}
* [[Rummage Sale Reject]]: While not impossibly outlandish, the clothes worn by almost all of the characters looks to be stitched together from different pieces of fabric. This is most likely for the [[Punk Punk|punk]] feel, and [[Rule of Cool]]. The pieces of metal that they place randomly on their bodies, however, appears to be [[Goggles Do Nothing|completely]] [[Armor Is Useless|useless]].
** A better example would be the armor worn by Wren and Dove, which consists mostly of kitchen appliances.
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* [[Saw It in a Movie Once]]: In the pilot episode, Aerrow performs a dangerous stunt that he claims to have seen in a cartoon.
* [[Scenery Censor]]: "Stratosphere"
* [[Scenery Porn]]: [http://fuckyeahstormhawkscreens.tumblr.com/post/16644255490/today-seemed-like-a-good-day-to-spam-some-scenery Atmos is] [https://web.archive.org/web/20121126141652/http://stormhawks.ytv.com/default.aspx?obj=TERRA&id=3 a pretty place.]
* [[Screwed by the Network]]: There was a nine-month wait between seasons 1 and 2.
* [[Shapeshifting]]: The Gorge Sloths in "The Black Gorge"
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* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Aerrow in "Escape".
** Radarr, too.
** Played with hilariously in "Stratosphere" where Stork makes his first appearance in that episode wearing nothing but a towel and losing it not one minute later. Cue screaming and drooling fangirls/boys.
** And most of the cast in "Shipwrecked", for the entire episode.
** Finn has the most in number, if not in total screentime. Besides "Shipwrecked", there's "Siren's Song", "Stratosphere", "What Got Into Finn", and "Royal Twist".
* [[Shout-Out]]: "What Got Into Finn" has a few moments where Stork plays homage to [[Looney Tunes|Wile E. Coyote.]]
** And one of the background extras in "Dark Waters" highly resembles a [[
** Staldorf and Watler, from "Terra Neon", are an obvious reference to [[Statler and Waldorf]].
** A lot of the style of the show seems to be mirroring that of the the [[Mad Max]] movies. Especially the clothing and apparent combinations of modern and old technologies. They have ships that fly, but they still use record players.
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* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Wren's hen to Radarr.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Several of the terras exert this in relation to their inhabitants.
** Terra Gale's inhabitants mostly use wind crystals- which cause "gales". Taking it just a little farther, inhabitants of Terra Gale speak with French accents. Gale sounds like Gaul, the ancient name for France.
** The Rex Guardians, the Sky Knights of Terra Rex (which means "king"), speak with high-and-mighty British accents and act like aristocracy.
** In a show where most people have avian [[Theme Naming]], you'd think the Raptors are an exception. [[Fridge Brilliance|Then you remember that raptor is another name for the group of birds of prey.]]
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* [[Title-Only Opening]]: The pilot episode, to avert a [[Spoiler Opening]].
* [[Tongue on the Flagpole]]: In "Fire and Ice", Leugey gets his tongue stuck to a wall of ice.
* [[Took a Level
* [[A Twinkle in the Sky]]: The ''Condor'' turns into this when Radarr gets behind the wheel.
* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: Finn attempts one of these in "The Last Stand". He rolls face-first into a rock.
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* [[What Measure Is a Non Unique]]
* [[Wham! Episode]]: In "Payback," {{spoiler|the Condor is ''blown to smithereens'' and Repton suffers a [[Disney Villain Death]].}} In "The Key," {{spoiler|[[The Bad Guy Wins]].}}
* [[What Could Have Been]]: In the original concepts for this show, the Storm Hawks are a bunch of prison kids who escape into the Wastelands, where they meet Piper (named Oriole here). In addition to the war against Cyclonia, the plot involves their quest for the Helix, an artifact that held the world together in the past. The Helix is broken up into numerous crystal fragments around the world and [[Gotta Catch Em All|it's the Storm Hawks' job to find them]] with help from the Guardian of the Helix, the White Hawk. (Who, incidentally, is the one who leads Oriole to the others in the first place.) Instead of Master Cyclonis, we have Master Anarchis ([[Epileptic Trees|Cyclonis's mother?]]), a fashionista who was formerly exiled to the Terra of Thorns by her brother, Heron, the rightful king of Cyclonia. Piper is a well-traveled, crossbow-wielding adventurer. Finn is younger and smaller ([[Small Girl, Big Gun|but still the main turrets guy]]), has a knack for telling [[Con Man|tall tales]], and fights with energy blades in hand-to-hand combat. Junko has a temper, although he tries to control it. Stork is an expert metal-smith and a loyal friend who is largely confined to the Condor due to a leg injury. Also, there are living storms -- all of which have their own names and personalities -- that were released when the Helix was dismantled, tearing up the crust and creating the terras, making the current Atmos a [[After the End|post-apocalypic world]]. Some of this can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20110825104218/http://disneyxd.disney.in/shows/storm_hawks/index.html here], although other things like the Helix plot are no longer up.
** There are several references to the original plot, with Piper calling a Helix Crystal "The most powerful Crystal in existence" and being afraid of Master Cyclonis taking it. Stork also mentioned the Terra of Thorns when he was naming the most dangerous places on Atmos.
* [[Whole-Episode Flashback]]: "Origins", which is just that, an origins episode.
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* [[Wronski Feint]]: In one episode, Aerrow tries this to defeat the Dark Ace by flying through a hole in a canyon. As demonstrated earlier in the episode, the very end of the canyon is so narrow, one must turn their fliers to motorcycle mode to get through, and then back again as to not plummet to the ground. The trick here is that earlier in the battle, Aerrow stuck a wrench into the Dark Ace's wing mechanism earlier in the fight, preventing him from retracting them. The results are explosive...
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: {{spoiler|Master Cyclonis finally has enough of Snipe screwing up; she doesn't kill him outright, instead she throws him into the wastelands where he will surely die anyhow!}}
* [[You Killed My Father]]: Never explicitly said, per se, but see [[Fanon]].
* [[You Taste Delicious]]: Aerrow and Piper were eavesdropping on the Big Bad, Master Cyclonis, when she sensed them outside and threw a catering cart at the door, knocking the two of them down. Cyclonis then went over to Piper, who had some cream on her face. She ate it and then said that it was "not bad, except for the sour Storm Hawk aftertaste".
* [[You Will Be Spared]]: Repton does this to Stork in the episode "Fire and Ice".
** Also done in the episode "The Masked Masher", with Cyclonis saying something of the sort to Piper.
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