History Series / SuperhumanSamuraiSyberSquad

* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: The virus Skorn had various ninja-related powers, including the ability to create illusory duplicates of himself, energy bolts shaped like shurikens, and ninja weapons like nunchuks and katanas.

* Kilokahn -- TimCurry

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: One set of the helper programs formed Drago, a mecha dragon. Hey, why not?

** The moment in the supposed GrandFinale when [[spoiler:Sam urges Malcolm to become Servo in his place]] is probably a reference to the discussed but never-produced sequel to the original Japanese show, where Malcolm's equivalent character would himself have become Gridman's new human partner.

* AllJustADream: In one episode, a Megavirus Monster in Sam Collins's alarm clock gives him a sequence of DreamWithinADream nightmares. Eventually he wakes up for real and defeats it.

Apparently, they thought they were getting cancelled, so they used the ''Gridman'' finale for this blockbuster ending where Kilokhan finds where Sam lives, [[spoiler:fails to kill Malcolm in a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness moment, ''does kill Sam dead'' with an electric jolt before he can enter the net as Servo, there's a touching TakeUpMySword scene with Malcolm, and when Malcolm tries to become Servo, it turns out the Servo program has saved Sam via BrainUploading. Sam battles Kilokhan ''personally'' in the bowels of ''Servo's own program'' (with the villain destroying all of the helper programs except the already-summoned sword and shield) takes the battle to Kilokhan's own turf, and has to use the power surge from the rebooting to wipe it and Kilokhan out for good. He appears to be destroyed too as Kilokhan - along with the area of the net that is him as much as his body - breaks up, but Servo manages to survive, and leaves for parts unknown hoping that he can return to his human life, somehow, someday]]. ''Damn.'' Did we mention this was the Christmas episode? When they had to do more episodes, there was no way to do it ''but'' to tack on a "It all got undone somehow and nobody remembers" ending. And when they had to end the show, it feels like a CutShort as they'd already used up the GrandFinale. The last episode could've been any old episode.

!!''Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* TechnologyMarchesOn
** Kilokahn boasts processing speed of 400 megahertz.
** More or less the whole show basically. The series made considerable use of floppy disks for important information.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: See TechnologyMarchesOn. Anything that involves real-world computers is going to run right into this. Even though the computer is turned into a supercomputer by the Servo program, everything we see onscreen ''still'' looks pretty darn primitive when it isn't digital world battle footage. Also, Sydney's outfits, especially her ''Series/{{Blossom}}''-style hats, are vintage-early 1990s and look positively quaint by today's standards. And the hairstyles looked outdated ''five'' years later; we were on the tail end of EightiesHair.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Sometimes the villain plots were funny, but sometimes they were ''not'' and either would have killed lots of people horribly if Servo hadn't stopped them, or ''must have killed lots of people horribly'' but a kids' show has to gloss over it (again, putting hydrochloric acid in all tap water was not a nice thing to do.) Kilokhan more than once attempted a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness and would have let Malcolm die. Malcolm himself is not the HarmlessVillain he sounds like by this point: he's as gleeful about watching the suffering caused by the "kill a whole lot of people" plans as he is about the "annoy Sam, because why not?" plans so long as he himself isn't in the line of fire, and then there's the FridgeHorror of him: a kid whose ego and paranoia makes him take anything not going his way, or even gestures of kindness, as proof everyone is out to get him, and he wants revenge on everyone around him for these either very minor or completely imagined slights? Many an actual mass-murderer - including some school shooters, are basically people like Malcolm who found guns instead of evil computer programs in need of a MonsterOfTheWeek designer.

* HumongousMecha: Zenon and Drago, which were formed by combining different vehicles and could also transform into armor wore by Servo.

*** Servo + Zenon = Phormo
*** Servo + Drago = Synchro[[note]]Technically Servo just combined with Torb, with Jamb being used as Synchro's weapon.[[/note]]

*** Servo + Torb = Synchro

* ImportationExpansion: Like ''PowerRangers'', the show shot an entirely new plot around the ''Gridman'' fight sequences.

* LovableJock: Tank, who's a football player who generally is a nice guy (and crushes on the resident geek, girl Sydney), as long as Malcolm isn't around.

* NoBudget: And boy did it show.

* DistaffCounterpart / SpearCounterpart: 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.

* KnifeNut: 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?

** Younger tropers might not remember, but around the time this show was being made, Compaq were as ubiquitous as Dell are in 2013, and offered similar bulk discounts for corporate and public-sector clients. Chances are the producers simply phoned up someone in the IT office and asked them if they could borrow a few PCs for props, and Compaq-branded kit was all they had on hand.

* ProductPlacement: 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.

Yet another in the wake of post-''Franchise/PowerRangers'' superhero shows adapted from Japanese ''tokusatsu'' series. Adapted from ''DenkouChoujinGridman'' ("Electric Superhuman Gridman"), '''''Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad''''' (yes, that is [[XtremeKoolLetterz "Syber" with an "S"]]) tells the story of Sam Collins, a high school student, guitarist and video game programmer who, after being hit by a power surge through his guitar, briefly vanishes, only to reappear with a wrist-mounted doohickey!

* CompositeCharacter: While [[DenkouChoujinGridman Naoto Sho and Gridman]] were separate characters who merged together, Sam Collins and Servo are one and the same.

Apparently, they thought they were getting cancelled, so they used the Gridman finale for this blockbuster ending where Kilokhan finds where Sam lives, [[spoiler:fails to kill Malcolm in a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness moment, ''does kill Sam dead'' with an electric jolt before he can enter the net as Servo, there's a touching TakeUpMySword scene with Malcolm, and when Malcolm tries to become Servo, it turns out the Servo program has saved Sam via BrainUploading. Sam battles Kilokhan ''personally'' in the bowels of ''Servo's own program'' (with the villain destroying all of the helper programs except the already-summoned sword and shield) takes the battle to Kilokhan's own turf, and has to use the power surge from the rebooting to wipe it and Kilokhan out for good. He appears to be destroyed too as Kilokhan - along with the area of the net that is him as much as his body - breaks up, but Servo manages to survive, and leaves for parts unknown hoping that he can return to his human life, somehow, someday]]. ''Damn.'' Did we mention this was the Christmas episode? When they had to do more episodes, there was no way to do it ''but'' to tack on a "It all got undone somehow and nobody remembers" ending. And when they had to end the show, it feels like a CutShort as they'd already used up the GrandFinale. The last episode could've been any old episode.

* CompositeCharacter: While [[Denkou Choujin Gridman Naoto Sho and Gridman]] were separate characters who merged together, Sam Collins and Servo are one and the same.

* CombatMedic: Servo was an unusual variant in that he had healing powers, but he didn't restore the other members of the Squad. Rather, he could repair the damage done by the viruses after he'd destroyed them and restore the machines they'd infected to their normal functions.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: 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. The Respect came at the end of the episode where a repeat of the test (due to loss of data earlier) showed his score was on par with Sidney.
* EverythingIsOnline: Telephones, wristwatches, and pompoms, among other things. Considering today's environmentn=, the show wasn't very far off.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Kilokhan's counterpart in the original Gridman is called Khandigi[[TheDevil fer]].

* RuleOfFunny: The effect of the Megavirus Monsters on the real world is usually something comedic, such as turning the school principal into the [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippie he had been in the 1960s]].

* Tanker --- Kevin Castro