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=== Tropes for ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|ThunderCats (2011)]]'', 0-B ===
==0-9==
* [[Seventh -Episode Twist]]: Episode 7, "Legacy" is when we learn the history of the Thundercats, the exact nature of their historical conflict with Mumm-Ra, and the game changes. They don't just need the Sword and Book of Omens, now they need to unite the Animals and find ''three'' other mystical stones.▼
 
==A==
▲* [[Seventh Episode Twist]]: Episode 7, "Legacy" is when we learn the history of the Thundercats, the exact nature of their historical conflict with Mumm-Ra, and the game changes. They don't just need the Sword and Book of Omens, now they need to unite the Animals and find ''three'' other mystical stones.
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: In "Berbils," mercenary slaver the Conquedor wields a [[BFGBig Freaking Gun]] that fires giant, brightly-colored globs of [[Sticky Situation|adhesive goo]] to stop attacks, while his [[Cute Machines]] victims the [[Beary Funny|Ro-Bear]] Berbils later retaliate by building a [[Covered in Gunge|green slime]] dispensing turret gun in defense of their village.
* [[Absurdly High Stakes Game]]: In "The Duelist and the Drifter," when Lion-O [[Throwing Down the Gauntlet|challenges]] [[Master Swordsman]] the Duelist to a fight, and [[The Bet|raises the stakes]] to winning the Duelist's collection of trophy blades, the Duelist insists that since Lion-O has only ''one'' sword to offer in return, the boy should agree to give up his ''life'' if he loses. Lion-O agrees to the terms.
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: [[Played With]] in "The Duelist and the Drifter," where several swordsmen in an [[Adventure Town]] [[Invoked Trope]] this in the local sword competition, each bragging of their blade and striking a towering, giant boulder to see how deeply it cuts (one prideful [[Pig Man]] sees his sword [[Subverted Trope|shatter on impact]].) Only Lion-O succeeds, cleaving the boulder in two with a classic [[Diagonal Cut]], and winning a hefty purse.
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* [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]]: Mumm-Ra's [[Futuristic Pyramid]] is the long-abandoned variation, with Mumm-Ra as its single [[Living Relic]] inhabitant until he begins marshalling his forces. Much more capacious than it first appears, it's inferred as the source of all his army's [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]]. {{spoiler|This is due its origins as a [[The Battlestar|battlestar]] so massive and populated it housed enough people to invade a planet.}}
* [[Adventure Rebuff]]: The Drifter delivers several [[Reverse Psychology|suspiciously]] ambivalent ones to Lion-O when he enters the Swordsmans' Town:
{{quote| '''The Drifter:''' "This is a Swordsmans' town, stranger, and they duel for keeps. ''Leave'', before it's too late. Or don't, [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|I don't care]]."}}
* [[Adventure Towns]]: While not always towns in the strictest sense, the Thundercats travel somewhere new every episode.
** In "The Duelist and the Drifter" The Swordsmans' Town is the first real city Lion-O sees outside of Thundera. Even before entering, he is warned of the danger found therein, particularly for young, cocksure swordsmen like himself. Lion-O ''likes'' adventure.
** In "Berbils," the Ro-Bear Berbil village seems a sweet [[Sugar Bowl]], until the Thundercats bear witness to slavers kidnapping the villagers.
** In "Sight Beyond Sight" an elephant village is plagued with a wasp problem the Thundercats try to solve.
** In "Native Son" Lion-O and Tygra discover a [[Hidden Elf Village|Hidden Tiger Village]] with a [[Town Withwith a Dark Secret|dark secret]].
* [[Adventures in Coma Land]]: In "Trials of Lion-O" the Spirit Stone forces Lion-O to undertake a [[Vision Quest]] in a [[Mental World]] to prove his worth and overcome his personal issues, {{spoiler|so that he might earn the right to be resurrected.}}
* [[Advice Backfire]]: In "Song of the Petalars" Lion-O mistakenly views Emrick's well-meant advice that [[ItsIt's the Journey That Counts]] through his [[Proud Warrior Race]] lens, assuming that he and his Thundercats should live [[Like You Were Dying]] and [[The Last Dance|rush to engage]] an army of Lizard pursuers. They end up needing rescue by a [[Deus Ex Machina]].
* [[An Aesop]]:
** "Omens Part One" "Sight is useless without action." It's not enough to notice wrongdoing, you must do something about it.
** "Ramlak Rising" teaches us that [[Revenge Before Reason|revenge]] can turn us into [[He Who Fights Monsters|jackasses]] that alienate all of our friends and family.
** "Song of the Petalars": [[ItsIt's the Journey That Counts]]. Life is short, so live it to its fullest.
** "The Duelist and the Drifter": Power alone is rigid; you must be flexible to succeed.
** "Between Brothers": Do not confuse a preference to avoid conflict with weakness or pacifism.
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]/[[Broken Aesop]]: In "Song of the Petalars," Emrick (questing to restore his people to their homeland) impulsively confronts a bird so large he's outmatched and Lion-O must save him. Lion-O complains of his teenaged stupidity. Later, Lion-O (questing to save his people and their homeland), in his [[Justified Trope|teenaged stupidity]], impulsively confronts enemy forces so large he's outmatched and a [[Deus Ex Machina]] must save them. When Lion-O attempts this ''again'' in "Old Friends" Panthro quickly [[Lampshade Hanging|loses]] his patience.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Courtesy of fellow [[Cartoon Network]] program ''[[MAD (Animation)|MAD]],'' the skit "[[LOLcats|ThunderLOLCats]]" combines the series premise with in-universe references to dozens of [[Memetic Mutation|internet memes]], starring [[Will Friedle]] as Lion-LOL.
* [[After the End]]: An [[Ontological Mystery]] and [[Driving Question]] of the series first arc: How did Thunderian civilization regress so that most forms of [[Lost Technology|technology]] are considered lost relics of a bygone age?
* [[Afterlife Antechamber]]: In "Trials of Lion-O," after the Spirit Stone activates to force Lion-O's [[Adventures in Coma Land]], he wakes up in a metaphysical waystation where [[Spirit Advisor]] Jaga awaits to provide exposition about Lion-O's impending [[Vision Quest]] and open the gateway to his [[Mental World]]. Once Lion-O is finished there, he travels back to the antechamber for another talk with Jaga.
* [[Age Cut]]: In "Into the Astral Plane," Tygra is bitterly glowering when a closeup on his face begins a [[Flash Back]], fading into a smiling, big-eyed, gawky, [[Adorkable]] adolescent version of himself.
* [[Ain't Too Proud to Beg]]: One stockaded Lizard prisoner sincerely begs for mercy from Lion-O, only for his compatriot to cynically spit that you [[Can't Argue Withwith Elves|Can't Argue With Cats]].
* [[Alien Blood]]: In "Ramlak Rising" the [[Giant Squid]]/[[Man-Eating Plant]] [[Hybrid Monster]] the Ramlak is shown to have a strange blue ichor dripping from the severed ends of tentacles that Lion-O slices off when it first surfaces from the [[Sand Is Water|Sand Sea]] and attacks. When Lion-O strikes a mortal blow, its revealed that the monster's blood is, appropriately enough, ''water.''
* [[Alien Invasion]]: In "Journey to the Tower of Omens" a massive invading army [[We Will Use Manual Labor in Thethe Future|comprised]] of multiple [[Slave Race|Slave Races]] housed in a giant [[The Battlestar|Battlestar]] are depicted invading a planet to serve as [[Planet Looters]], combing over land and sea in seach of a [[MacGuffin]] called the [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome|War Stone]], by order of their commander.
* [[Alien Sky]]: Third Earth orbits a [[Useful Notes/Planets (useful notes)|gas giant]] with a great spot visible on its surface. Two moons are also visible. (Third Earth is implicitly a moon of said gas giant)
* [[Alike and Antithetical Adversaries]]: The series begins with homogenous [[Catfolk]] heroes versus a heterogenous group of villains, but the Thundercats meet other races over time, coming to realize that such alliances are necessary to defeat Mumm-Ra.
* [[All Crimes Are Equal]]: [[Downplayed Trope|Downplayed]]. When Lion-O attempts to [[Shaming the Mob|shame]] a [[Powder Keg Crowd]] of Thunderian townspeople by announcing that stockaded Lizard scavengers "don't deserve this [harassment]," their pointman replies: "These barbarians deserve ''death''!" And with that, an [[Angry Mob]] is born. The surprise comes when King Claudus is incredulous at Lion-O's attempt to ''stop'' them.
* [[All -Encompassing Mantle]]: Part of the Clerics' [[Full -Body Disguise]].
* [[All Myths Are True]]: "[[Lost Technology|Technology]]?" Real. [[Big Bad|Mumm-Ra]]? Real. [[Great Big Book of Everything|Book of Omens]]? Totally real.
* [[All of Them]]: In "Between Brothers", when discussing the Lizard army that has surrounded the Elephants' village.
{{quote| '''Panthro''': Bad news. The entire village is surrounded.<br />
'''Cheetara''': How many troops?<br />
'''Panthro''': If I had to guess, I'd say "All of them." }}
* [[All Planets Are Earthlike]]: [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] with Third Earth, which, while superficially similar and suspiciously habitable, is just as often a fantasy world with many organic structures deliberately mixed-and-matched or given a [[Mouse World]] level of detail, as art director Dan Norton explains [http://tv.ign.com/articles/117/1178363p2.html here].
* [[All There in the Manual]]: There's the [http://crewofomens.tumblr.com Crew Blog] and the [http://soundslikejeff.wordpress.com/ Sound Designers' Blog], and the [http://dingo107.deviantart.com/ Art Director's DeviantArt Account].
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: Thundera is besieged and falls to Mumm-Ra, Grune and the Lizards.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]/[[Continuity Reboot]]: Of 1985's ''[[Thundercats (Animation)|Thundercats]]''
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]:
** Because [[Fur Is Skin]] for the Thundercats. In particular, Panthro, who codes as a [[Bald Black Leader Guy]], is pale blue-gray with black hair.
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* [[Animal Eyes]]: Thunderian Cats have slitted pupils, but visible sclera, while Lizards have fully yellow eyes with slits.
* [[Animal Jingoism]]: [[Played for Drama]]. The Thundercats hold themselves up as the [[Superior Species]], and practice [[Fantastic Racism]] against Dogs and Lizards. {{spoiler|It's a legacy of the Cats serving as Mumm-Ra's overseers back when he was conquering planets.}}
* [[Animal Nemesis]]: "Ramlak Rising" (yet a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to ''[[Moby Dick (Literature)|Moby Dick]]'') gives us a peculiar [[Inverted Trope|Inversion]]. Ahab-[[Homage]] Captain Koinelius Tunar, a [[Fishmen|Fishman]] who sails the [[Sand Is Water|sand sea]], has sworn vengeance on the creature who destroyed his home and took his [[An Arm and Aa Leg|eye and leg]]. His nemesis the Ramlak is a giant [[Planimal]], a [[Man-Eating Plant]] that's [[Hybrid Monster|hybridized]] with the ambulatory capabilities of a [[Giant Squid]]. Like Captain Ahab, Tunar has degenerated into prizing [[Revenge Before Reason]], and shares Ahab's fate almost exactly, while quoting his dialogue.
* [[Animal Stereotypes]]:
** Frequently [[Playing Withwith a Trope|played with]] with Third Earth's Animals in concert with [[Intelligent Gerbil]] characterizations. Cats are [[Cats Are Mean|mean]], [[Cats Are Magic|magic]], [[Cats Are Superior|superior]], Lions are the [[King of Beasts]], [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]], and so on.
** The Elephant villagers, while very wise, notably [[Subverted Trope|subvert]] the classic "an elephant never forgets" by collectively having [[Forgetful Jones|incredibly poor memories]], for which they are apparently infamous.
* [[Animal Theme Naming]]/[[A Dog Named "Dog"]]: Prevalent amongst the Animals, with a few [[Odd Name Out|odd names out]].
* [[Anime Hair]]: Lots. All over the place.
* [[Animesque]]: Though the original series' [[Rankin/Bass Productions|Rankin/Bass]] also outsourced production to Japan, the reboot's look and animation by [[Studio 4 C|Studio 4°C]] are now explicitly touted as [http://tv.ign.com/articles/118/1180012p1.html major selling points]. The Snarf short "Butterfly Blues" even proudly bears the stamp "Made in Japan!"
* [[Anywhere but Their Lips]]: In "Into the Astral Plane" Cheetara gives Lion-O a [[Motivational Kiss|motivational]] peck on the cheek before he begins his risky journey.
* [[Apathy Killed the Cat]]: Thundera at large is confident in its [[Medieval Stasis]] and magic weapons. Technology is a fairy tale, and anything for sale in the [[Black Market]] is obviously a fake.
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** The Sword of Hattanzo, based on a zil-bel, as detailed [http://soundslikejeff.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/thundercats-episode-8-sonic-swordplay/ here.]
* [[Awakening the Sleeping Giant]]: [[Played Straight]] and [[Lampshaded]] in "Between Brothers" when the usually pacifist Elephants, previously [[Obstructive Code of Conduct|constrained]] by a need to meditate on their every dilemma, decide to engage the [[Lizard Folk|Lizards]] directly:
{{quote| '''Wilykit''': You just woke a village of sleeping giants!}}
 
==B==
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Performed in [[Flash Back]] by Grune and Panthro during a battlefield [[Body Count Competition]].
* [[Backstory]]:
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* [[Bag of Holding]]: Tookit the thief has one called the "Forever Bag" capable of holding several warehouses worth of stolen goods in a sack that's roughly 2-3 feet tall.
* [[Balcony Speech]]: King Claudus gives one in a public arena dedicating some celebratory games to the memory of Panthro.
* [[Barefoot Cartoon AnimalsAnimal]]s: The entire Animal cast so far, [[The One Who Wears Shoes|except]] Leo, Panthera and the Swordmaker. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] for Cats, who can use their foot claws to climb structures like the giant tree featured in their games. Most Cats make a point of wearing spats for fashion's sake, but there are exceptions such as Pumyra.
* [[Bat Signal]]: In "Song of the Petalars," this appears as an [[Empathic Weapon|empathic]] power of the Sword of Omens. Lion-O's [[By the Power of Grayskull]] causes the Eye of Thundera to project his [[Iconic Logo|royal emblem]] into the sky just before Lion-O and his Thundercats enter a battle {{spoiler|Which brings a nearby Panthro to the rescue}}.
* [[Battle Cry]]:
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** "For the pride!"
** "[[Church Militant|Clerics]], to the death!"
* [[Beary Cute]]: The Ro-Bear Berbils, which are small robotic bears who help the ThunderCats and other people on Third Earth.
* [[Beary Funny]]: The Ro-Bear Berbils, helpful, rainbow-hued [[Cute Machines|robotic teddy bears]] who love to build and repair things.
* [[Beast Fable]]: Surprisingly, shaping up to be this, in concert with the [[Intelligent Gerbil]] characterization of Third Earth's residents.
* [[Beast Folk]]: The Cats and Mumm-Ra, the most [[Humanoid Aliens]] of Third Earth's [[Petting Zoo People]].
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: Jaga [[Encyclopedia Exposita|quotes]] from the Book of Omens to [[Lampshade Hanging|explain]] Lion-O's destiny:
{{quote| '''Jaga''': "For it was written that he would be born of fire, a king to lead his people to victory, against ancient spirits of evil."}}
* [[Bedsheet Ghost]]: In "The Forest of Magi Oar," the Thunderkittens tease Cheetara when she reports feeling the presence of spirits by playing at being ghosts under a tent canvas. While they're stumbling under it, they knock their heads together.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:
** [[Downplayed Trope|Downplayed]] in "Omens Part 1" with Cheetara's nick-of-time [[Conveniently -Timed Attack From Behind|dispatching]] of a mugger headlocking Lion-O (which he finds rather [[Embarrassing Rescue|awkward]])
** [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] in the same episode when Lion-O and friends try to save some Lizard prisoners from abuse, only to trigger lynch mob sentiments and a brawl which ''Claudus'' has to stop.
** Played straight in "Omens Part 2" with Claudus and Tygra saved {{spoiler|by the Clerics, then by Lion-O, when surrounded by [[Walking Tank|Walking Tanks]].}}
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* [[Big Entrance]]:
** In "Omens Part 1" Grune arrives in a [[Captain Morgan Pose]] atop a gigantic geode hauled by four-dozen Lizard slaves because he's [[Too Important to Walk]].
** In "Omens Part 2" Mumm-Ra is revealed [[Wreathed in Flames]] while a vortex with swirling [[Red Sky, Take Warning|red clouds]] opens in the sky above his head, [[Dramatic Thunder]] booms and a [[Dramatic Wind]] blows, all backed by [[Con Lang]] [[Ominous Chanting]].
* [[Big Fancy Castle]]/[[Bright Castle]]: Thundera has a beauty, with its very own Sphinx, until the Lizards invade.
* [[Big No]]/[[Slow No]]: Lion-O, when Claudus is stabbed.
* [[Birth -Death Juxtaposition]]: The Petalars are introduced during a [[Rite of Passage]] as a new baby is born. A wizened elder welcomes him into the world with a philosophic [[Final Speech]], then peacefully collapses and withers away.
* [[Black Box]]: Lion-O purchases a piece of what he suspects is [[Lost Technology]] from a [[Friend in Thethe Black Market]], and spends quite a bit of time puzzling over it and diagramming it, but he only realizes its function when he sees a Lizard use one {{spoiler|to blow up a wall.}}
* [[Black Market]]: Lion-O apparently makes a habit of traveling through Thundera's back alleys to frequent his friend Jorma's shop in search of "certain hard-to-find collectibles". Cheetara assumes the wares are forgeries.
* [[The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In]]:
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* [[Blade Reflection]]: The mechanism of the Sword of Omens' "sight beyond sight," in which Lion-O sees a frightening vision of Mumm-Ra.
* {{spoiler|[[Blank Book]]: The Book of Omens.}}
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Cheetara (blonde), Pumyra (brunette), and Wilykit (redhead).
* [[Blood Sport]]: Thundera's "Games" are a [[Chase Fight]] race where kicking and punching are entirely acceptable methods of getting ahead.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]:
** During [[The Siege]] of Thundera. A sky full of arrows, Claudus cutting through a wave of Lizards, even Claudus getting stabbed in the back and falling into pool of water, not one drop of blood is found.
** [[Playing Withwith a Trope|Played with]] in "Song of the Petalars" the Cats cut and shoot through Lizard troops ''bloodlessly,'' but Tygra's shots are shown to ''pierce'' the Lizard's bodies.
** In "Between Brothers", {{spoiler|Panthro's arms get caught in the collapsing Astral Plane; when the smoke clears, the severed stumps are covered in glowing blue energy.}}
** In "Native Son", a character is ''stabbed'' by {{spoiler|Tygra's father, Javan}}, but after the knife is pulled out there isn't a drop of blood on it. {{spoiler|Though in this case, it's possibly somewhat justified as it turns out that Tygra's clan were [[Dead All Along]].}}
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** "Sword of Omens, give me [[Precognition|Sight Beyond Sight]]"
 
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