* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: In "The Duelist and the Drifter," when Lion-O [[ThrowingDownTheGauntlet challenges]] MasterSwordsman the Duelist to a fight, and [[TheBet 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. 
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: PlayedWith in "The Duelist and the Drifter," where several swordsmen in an AdventureTown {{Invoke|d 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 PigMan sees his sword [[SubvertedTrope shatter on impact]].) Only Lion-O succeeds, cleaving the boulder in two with a classic DiagonalCut, and winning a hefty purse. 
* AdaptationDistillation: 
** The [[WordOfGod stated]] [[http://tv.ign.com/articles/117/1176532p2.html aim]] of showrunner Michael Jelenic. 
** [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] when series composer Kevin Kliesch worked under producers' requirements to [[RearrangeTheSong rearrange]] and [[TruncatedThemeTune truncate]] the original's ThemeTune from [[http://www.examiner.com/soundtracks-in-national/kevin-kliesch-interview-part-2-a-new-thundercats-series-for-a-new-generation two minutes to ten seconds]] while retaining its signature elements. 
* AdvancedAncientAcropolis: Mumm-Ra's FuturisticPyramid is the long-abandoned variation, with Mumm-Ra as its single LivingRelic 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 OffscreenVillainDarkMatter. [[spoiler: This is due its origins as a [[TheBattlestar battlestar]] so massive and populated it housed enough people to invade a planet.]] 
* AdventureRebuff: The Drifter delivers several [[ReversePsychology suspiciously]] ambivalent ones to Lion-O when he enters the Swordsmans' Town:

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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: In "The Duelist and the Drifter," when Lion-O [[ThrowingDownTheGauntlet challenges]] MasterSwordsman the Duelist to a fight, and [[TheBet 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.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: PlayedWith in "The Duelist and the Drifter," where several swordsmen in an AdventureTown {{Invoke|d 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 PigMan sees his sword [[SubvertedTrope shatter on impact]].) Only Lion-O succeeds, cleaving the boulder in two with a classic DiagonalCut, and winning a hefty purse.
* AdaptationDistillation:
** The [[WordOfGod stated]] [[http://tv.ign.com/articles/117/1176532p2.html aim]] of showrunner Michael Jelenic.
** [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] when series composer Kevin Kliesch worked under producers' requirements to [[RearrangeTheSong rearrange]] and [[TruncatedThemeTune truncate]] the original's ThemeTune from [[http://www.examiner.com/soundtracks-in-national/kevin-kliesch-interview-part-2-a-new-thundercats-series-for-a-new-generation two minutes to ten seconds]] while retaining its signature elements.
* AdvancedAncientAcropolis: Mumm-Ra's FuturisticPyramid is the long-abandoned variation, with Mumm-Ra as its single LivingRelic 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 OffscreenVillainDarkMatter. [[spoiler: This is due its origins as a [[TheBattlestar battlestar]] so massive and populated it housed enough people to invade a planet.]]
* AdventureRebuff: The Drifter delivers several [[ReversePsychology suspiciously]] ambivalent ones to Lion-O when he enters the Swordsmans' Town:

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