History WesternAnimation / BraveStarr

As the ExpositoryThemeTune explains, sometime in TheFuture, the planet New Texas is experiencing DaysOfFuturePast with settlers coming to the planet to mine its deposits of "Kerium", an energy-bearing variety of GreenRocks. Unfortunately, the planet has to deal with the threat of Tex Hex, a mystically empowered outlaw who, with his gang, tries to steal as much Kerium as he can, and will overpower anyone in his way.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Outlaw Scuzz tries to pull this a lot whenever the villains are losing, due to his ability to burrow underground. One episode even has him producing mechanical wings from behind his back and flying away the moment Bravestarr breaks into the villains' hideout.

* LastOfHisKind: Thirty-Thirty

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: The two-part "Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd Century", which was never became a Filmation series. The similar ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'' was made by another studio several years later.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: The two-part "Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd Century", which was never produced by Filmation. The similar ''SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'' was made by another studio several years later.

* ScaledUp: In "The Vigilantes" Tex Hex turns himself into a giant dragon in Handlebar's saloon in order to attack Bravestarr. [[CurbStompBattle It doesn't go well for him.]]

* ScaledUp: Tex Hex tries this in "The Vigilantes" by turning into a giant dragon in Handlebar's saloon. [[CurbStompBattle It doesn't go well for him.]]

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: [[MisplacedWildlife Dingo]] Dan, another of Tex Hex's outlaws, is an [[PettingZooPeople anthropomorhic dingo]] who can magically disguise himself as a human.

* VerbalTic: Half of the non-human cast seems to have one of these. Stampede punctuates his speech with bull-like snorts, Vipra hisses like a snake when she talks, Thirty-Thirty whinnies like a horse...

** Bravestarr is brave. And a Native American. And wears a star.

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[[caption-width-right:320:Marshall Bravestarr & his horse buddy Thirty-Thirty]]

''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'' was a SpaceWestern action cartoon produced by {{Filmation}} that aired in 1987 after the success of ''HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse''. It is now being rerun on {{qubo}} late at night.

!!Tropes:

* TheAtoner: Handlebar [[spoiler: is a former criminal. An ex-SpacePirate, no less!]]

* BrokenPedestal ("Fallen Idol")

* DuelingShows: ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'' debuted in 1987, the same year as ''Anime/SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' premiered (in America) and a year after ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers''.

* FantasticRacism[=/=]FantasticSlurs: In one episode, the indigenous Prairie People [[{{DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything}} are called "critters", which is explicitly shown as offensive and wrong]].

* MeaningfulName: Bravestarr is brave. And a Native American. And wears a star.

* NeverSayDie: Averted; the words die, death, and murder are used when appropriate, and the situations ''do'' come up.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Stampede is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant, magic-using cyborg dragon with a head shaped like a cow-skull]]--and, at least for the era when this show was produced, he is frigging ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel terrifying.]]''

* [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Guys]]: The Krang, a race of [[PettingZooPeople cat guys.]]

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Vipra and Sandstorm from Tex Hex's gang. (Although Vipra's actually kind of sexy.)
** Inverted with Handlebar the barkeep. He's the same race as Vipra, but he's a perfectly nice guy.
** Also inverted with Diamondback, a snake-like alien miner who was a recurring character and seemed to be a nice guy.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Stampede is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant, magic-using cyborg dragon with a head shaped like a cow-skull]]--and, at least for the era when this show was produced, he is frigging ''[[NightmareFuel terrifying.]]''

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: As with nearly all of {{Filmation}}'s 1980s series. Even villain Outlaw Skuzz gets to deliver one.

* EasilyForgiven: Vipra in "Who Am I?". She bullies Skuzz to get information on a magic book, uses the magic book to completely overthrow Tex Hex, establishes herself as the new leader of Tex Hex's gang, and even tries to talk directly to Stampede, but by the time the next episode rolls around, she's still in Tex's gang, taking orders as if nothing's happened.

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Skuzz. He's seen smoking a really dirty-looking cigar at all times, can't speak more than a sentence without coughing, and at one point in TheMovie, he actually lights his cigar ''with a stick of dynamite''. None of the other villains look too favorably on his habit, though.

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: As with nearly all of {{Filmation}}'s 1980s series. Even villain Outlaw Scuzz gets to deliver one.

* BadassFurry: A crapload, this being a SpaceWestern, but Thirty-Thirty Most of all.

* [[BarefootFunnyAnimals Barefoot Funny Aliens]]: Evidently, the Prairie People {{do not like shoes}}.

~~WesternAnimation AdventureSeries, SpaceWestern~~

* DuelingShows: ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'' debuted in 1987, the same year as ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' premiered (in America) and a year after ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers''.

More details are available at ThatOtherWiki: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravestarr Wikipedia]] and [[http://bravestarr.org this comprehensive fan site]].

* BadassFurry: A Crapload, this being a SpaceWestern, but Thirty-Thirty Most of all.