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* Amp Ere - Troy Slaten
* Lucky London - Rembrant
* Kilokahn - [[Tim Curry]]
* Malcolm Frink - Glen Beaudin
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* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: Sam's girlfriend Jennifer is head cheerleader. Malcolm also pines for her too.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: In one episode, a Megavirus Monster in Sam Collins's alarm clock gives him a sequence of [[Dream Within a Dream]] nightmares. Eventually he wakes up for real and defeats it.
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* [[An Ice Person]]: Plexton's sister Gramm was an ice virus, although she wasn't nearly as strong as her brother.
* [[As You Know]]: Quite often.
* [[Battle Cry]]: Each member of of the team had (at least) one.
** Sam: "Let's Samuraize, guys!"
** Sydney: "Pump up the power!"
** Tanker: "Let's kick some Giga-Butt!"
** Lucky: "Surf's up!"
** Amp usually has a [[Couch Gag|random battle cry every episode]] he "samurized". Here's a few: "Two for a Dollar!", "Three for a Dollar!", "With a Cherry on Top!"
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Sam's teammates did this repeatedly whenever he was being overwhelmed by a virus and needed help. Sometimes they came in with their "helper programs", other times they simply sent him his sword and shield.
* [[Big Damn Villains]]: In one episode where Servo was [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] and actually began working with the virus, the rest of the Squad came in to stop him with Xenon. Xenon was winning against both Servo and the virus until Kilokahn intervened, using his powers to banish the rest of the Squad from Syberspace.
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Tanker. The only things he likes more than beating up viruses are his friends and football, in that order.
* [[By the Power of Greyskull]]: "Let's Samuraize, guys!"
* [[Clingy MacGuffin]]: The device that allows Sam to become Servo is stuck to his wrist and can't be removed, which probably explains why he's the only one who ever becomes Servo, with one exception.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Amp was frequently called a "space cadet", and in fact it was revealed that he regularly attends space camp. In fact, in his farewell episode, he leaves behind a postcard that reads "Greetings from the Crab Nebula."
* [[Costume Copycat]]: Tanker was forced to take Sam's place as Servo on one occasion when Sam wasn't available.
** On a larger scale, in the toyline, the main Servo figure was repainted numerous times to represent armored versions of Tanker, Syd and Amp (along with the requisite Servo repaints and chromed figures). These armored forms did not appear in the show.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Malcolm Frink, who goes out of his way to insult everyone around him on a regular basis.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]] / [[Spear Counterpart]] : Sam travels to an alternate universe in one episode, where he meets a version of Malcolm who's a nice guy, a computer genius and essentially a male version of main-universe Sydney. Main-universe Malcolm's role is filled by Yolanda Pratchett, the principal's daughter and friend to Sydney and Jennifer, serving as a black female version of Malcolm in that she colludes with Kilokhan and creates the Mega-Virus Monsters.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: In one episode, Amp scored the highest on a national aptitude test. He's very hurt when everyone assumes that there was either a mistake in the scores or that he cheated.
* [[Everything Is Online]]: Telephones, wristwatches, and pompoms, among other things.
* [[Exact Words]]: In one episode, Syd tries to design a "good" megavirus monster, and Kilokhan agrees to animate it, promising that ''he'' won't make any changes. So he gets Malcolm to reprogram it for him.
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* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Most of which come from Amp, and tend to be rather well-written.
{{quote|''''Amp''': Holy [[Mel Gibson]]! That's enough to turn Servo into a [[Lethal Weapon]]!}}
* [[Knife Nut]]: Hock had large knife-like blades on his hands, large knife-like blades in his tail and a large knife-like blade in the center of his face. Notice a pattern here?
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: Or at least power surges.
* [[Man Versus Machine]]
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: Well, duh, but this the toyline was absolutely terrible with [[Palette Swap|Palette Swapped]] Servos. Just a cursory eBay search came up with a half-dozen; not only [[Environment Specific Action Figure]] variants but some labeled as "Syd" and "Tanker" figures.
* [[Misapplied Phlebotinum]]: Malcolm isn't all that interested in helping Kilokahn [[Take Over the World]]; he just wants to make Sam Collins miserable and steal his girlfriend. Malcolm often has to practically trick Kilokhan into going along with his small-scale plans. Of course, this doesn't necessarily prevent Kilokhan from enjoying the mayhem that results.
* [[Monster of the Week]]
* [[Mythology Gag]]: In the [[Alternate Universe]] episode Tank incredulously remarks there's probably one where they're all Japanese.
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** This also applied to {{spoiler|Kilokhan}} himself in the Christmas episode. Malcolm had already {{spoiler|backed Kilokhan's data up on a floppy disk before the battle with Servo that ultimately destroyed him. When Malcolm booted up his computer and tried to reload his files, Kilokhan was revived.}}
* [[Once an Episode]]: Elizabeth, Sam's little sister, calls him to the laundry chute and dumps something mesy on his head. The list includes ice cream, marshmallows, and on one rare occasion, [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|her piggy bank]].
** Other characters have fallen victim to this too. Elizabeth once dropped a bunch of cookies on Tanker, and she dropped a mousetrap on Malcolm. Ouch.
* [[Outdated Outfit]]: Sydney's outfits, especially her [[Blossom]]-style hats, are vintage-early 1990s and look positively quaint by today's standards.
* [[Personality Swap]]: There was a monster that did this. When it used its powers on Servo, he turned evil.
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Recurring fire virus Plexton was one of these, spitting both fireballs and fire waves at his enemies. Kord was another example, being able to generate heat of up to 10,000 degrees Celsius on his body and concentrate that heat into fireballs.
* [[Product Placement]]: Gee did ''COMPAQ'' hope this show would help drum up business?
** Possibly not, as in one of the early episodes Sydney remarks Sam's computer was a piece of crap until becoming Servo somehow turned it into a supercomputer.
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