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* CardCarryingVillain: all the members of Kyle’s RoguesGallery.



* EvilSorcerer: the brothers Silas and Murray, two of Kyle’s most frequent enemies.



* MindControlDevice: The Cortex uses one of these on Phillip in “Horn Control” in order to get the Dimension Pants. To do so he lets Phillip put Kyle through a series of disgusting tests. At the end of the episode, the device is turned against him.



* RoguesGallery: Kyle’s rogue’s gallery isn’t as big as that of most superheroes, but he does have at least 4 recurring enemies: The Cortex, Glass Skull, and a duo of evil wizards.

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* RoguesGallery: Kyle’s rogue’s gallery isn’t as big as that of most superheroes, but he does have at least 4 recurring enemies: The Cortex, Glass Skull, and a duo of evil wizards.wizards: Silas and Murray.


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* WizardClassic: Silas and Murray. Robes? Check. Magic staffs? Check! Beard? Check!
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** Kyle himself isn't exactly immune to this either, like in the episode "The Pink Feather" when he used his powers to beat Amanda at everything despite her just wanting her brother to be proud at her.

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** Kyle **Kyle himself isn't exactly immune to this either, like in the episode "The Pink Feather" when he used his powers to beat Amanda at everything despite her just wanting her brother to be proud at her.

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* BigBrotherBully: Although he and Amanda are usually on good terms, Kyle can be this towards her at times. Especially when he gets jealous at Amanda.



* ChildProdigy: Amanda. In “Get Smarter” she even wins several science contests in a row.



** In “Get Smarter”, the ScaryLibrarian wants to destroy Kyle’s hometown because he didn’t return a book on time.

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** In “Get Smarter”, “Fee, Fine, Foe”, the ScaryLibrarian wants to destroy Kyle’s hometown because he didn’t return a book on time.



* HeroForADay: In “The Pink Feather”, Amanda becomes a superhero in herself when she pulls the titular Pink Feather from the stone. Soon she becomes the town's number one hero, stealing the spotlight away from Kyle. At the end of the episode she apparently looses her powers again in a fight with a mud monster [[spoiler: only to reveal that she still has the feather and just waits till she needs it again]]



* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: The Pink Feather from the eponymous episode is of the “sword in the stone” variety. Only Amanda is able to pull it from the stone and become a superhero



**Kyle himself isn't exactly immune to this either, like in the episode "The Pink Feather" when he used his powers to beat Amanda at everything despite her just wanting her brother to be proud at her.



* WomenAreWiser: Amanda, Kyle's younger sister. She writes a blog and overall has more commonsense than her older brother.

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* WomenAreWiser: Amanda, Kyle's younger sister. She is a ChildProdigy who writes a blog blog, has won multiple awards, and overall has more commonsense than her older brother.
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* CoolCrown: the pink crown Kyle gave to Rebecca in “Princess Perfectpants”. Unfortunately, it turned her into an evil princess.


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* DisproportionateRetribution: on more than one occasion:
** In “Dry Clean Only”, Phillip’s mother sends a killer robot after Kyle’s mom after she accidently ruined the dimension pants by putting them in the washing machine.
** In “Get Smarter”, the ScaryLibrarian wants to destroy Kyle’s hometown because he didn’t return a book on time.
** And in “Unicrone Penalty Box”: the penalty for failing as a mentor to a dimensional hero: 900 years of imprisonment in the titular Unicrone Penalty Box.


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* MyBelovedSmother: Phillip’s mother. Hence why he is reluctant to visit her.


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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Kyle has this reaction in “Unicrone Penalty Box” after he deliberately sabotages an important test and thus has Phillip branded as a bad mentor (because he thought Phillip was ashamed of him and wanted to learn him a lesson), but then learns that because of failing the test Phillip will be send to the Unicrone Penalty Box for 900 years.


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* PrincessesPreferPink: Pretty much everything in the princess dimension is pink.
* RoguesGallery: Kyle’s rogue’s gallery isn’t as big as that of most superheroes, but he does have at least 4 recurring enemies: The Cortex, Glass Skull, and a duo of evil wizards.


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* TrashOfTheTitans: Kyle’s bedroom ends up like this several times, most notably in the episode “Dry Clean Only”.


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* WardrobeMalfunction: the Dimension Pants may only be dry cleaned. Thus, when Kyle’s mom accidently puts them in the laundry in “Dry Clean Only”, the pants no longer work properly, gaining a mind of their own and zapping both Kyle and everyone around them. They have to be taken to Phillip’s mother to be repaired.
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* GiantEnemyCrab: in "Viking Games", Thora unleashes one on Phillip and Kyle after the two refuse to fight each other any longer in the titular viking game. The crab even follows them back to their home dimension and is still bothering Phillip by the end of the episode, but Kyle, having promised to keep secrets from now on, refuses to tell Phillip about the crab's [[AttackItsWeakPoint weak spot]].

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* FlushingToiletScreamingShower: Kyle does this to Phillip in the episode "Viking Games" in an attempt to make him tell where he tried to sneak off to last night.



* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Apparently, "doctor" means "he who wears" in Unicorn.
* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: the evil tablet-robot that Kyle once gave to his dad is eventually defeated when he falls into the ocean and shorts out.

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* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Apparently, "doctor" means "he who wears" in Unicorn.
Unicorn. When Kyle finds out, he is not amused and spends an entire episode trying to proof that he can be a real doctor (as in, someone who practices medicine).
* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: the evil tablet-robot that Kyle once gave to his dad in the episode "I Tabby" is eventually defeated when he falls into the ocean and shorts out.

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* CampingEpisode: the episode “Dr. Dimensionpants Camp” is this for both Kyle and his dad, and Glass Skull and his daughter.



* EnemyMine: Glass Skull and Kyle once actually teamed up to stop a school play which starred Rebecca. Kyle because he wanted the lead role next to her and doesn’t like the idea of her kissing another boy, Glass Skull since he didn’t want her to be in the play at all.

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* EnemyMine: Glass Skull and Kyle once actually teamed up to stop a school play which starred Rebecca. Rebecca in a role where she got to kiss her male co-star. Kyle because he wanted the lead role next to her of the co-star and doesn’t like the idea of her kissing another boy, Glass Skull since he didn’t want her to be in the play at all.



* GoofyPrintUnderwear: When Kyle looses his pants in a fight with an evil tablet-robot, it is revealed he wears white boxers with red hearths. And judging by Phillips reaction, it's not the first time he wore these kind of boxers.

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* GoofyPrintUnderwear: When in "I Tabby", when Kyle looses his pants in a fight with an evil tablet-robot, it is revealed he wears white boxers with red hearths. And judging by Phillips reaction, it's not the first time he wore these kind of boxers.



* InevitableWaterfall: both Kyle’s dad and Rebecca are threatened with one of these in “Dr. Dimensionpants Camp”. Eventually Mr. Lipton saves both himself and Rebecca since Kyle and Glass Skull are too busy fighting each other.



* KillerTeddyBear: Kyle's own teddybear becomes one of these after he discards it into another dimension, where it gains sentience and combines with various mechanical parts to become a robot.

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* KillerTeddyBear: in "Robo-Teddy", Kyle's own teddybear becomes one of these after he discards it into another dimension, where it gains sentience and combines with various mechanical parts to become a robot.

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* CombatTentacles: many dimensional monsters have these.



* EnemyMine: Glass Skull and Kyle once actually teamed up to stop a school play which starred Rebecca. Kyle because he wanted the lead role next to her and doesn’t like the idea of her kissing another boy, Glass Skull since he didn’t want her to be in the play at

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* EnemyMine: Glass Skull and Kyle once actually teamed up to stop a school play which starred Rebecca. Kyle because he wanted the lead role next to her and doesn’t like the idea of her kissing another boy, Glass Skull since he didn’t want her to be in the play at all.



* WomenAreWiser: Amanda, Kyle's younger sister.

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* WomenAreWiser: Amanda, Kyle's younger sister. She writes a blog and overall has more commonsense than her older brother.
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* EnemyMine: Glass Skull and Kyle once actually teamed up to stop a school play which starred Rebecca. Kyle because he wanted the lead role next to her and doesn’t like the idea of her kissing another boy, Glass Skull since he didn’t want her to be in the play at
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Glass Skull truly loves his daughter Rebecca, even though she doesn’t want to be evil.


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* TheShowMustGoOn: the director of Kyle’s school play has this attitude, and not even the fact that the whole stage is transported to a slimy dimension and the actors get eaten by giant snails will stop him. He even forces both Kyle and Glass Skull to step in as understudies for the lead roles after the main actors are taken out.


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* SpoiledBrat: Rebecca, Glass Skull’s daughter.
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* ScaryLibrarian: Kyle once had to deal with one when he borrowed a book about all knowledge in the world, but forgot to return it on time.

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* ScaryLibrarian: Kyle once had to deal with a supernatural one of these when he borrowed a book about all knowledge in the world, but forgot to return it on time.time. Her fee for not returning the book on time? [[DisproportionateRetribution The total destruction of Kyle's home town]].
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* CostumeCopycat: The Cortex wears a copy of Dr. Dimensionpants' costume in the episode "The Cortex in the Vortex".

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* BabysittingEpisode: In the episode “Poppacorn” Phillip has to take care of a baby unicorn.



* {{Hammerspace}}: Dr. Dimensionpant’s UtilityBelt contains multiple objects that are way too large to fit in there.



* MonsterClown: Frankenclown.

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* MonsterClown: Frankenclown.Frankenclown from the episode "mentors only".



* ShowdownAtHighNoon: the episode “Pranks-A-Lot” starts with one of these between Dr. Dimensionpants and a cactus creature in a Wild West-themed dimension.



* UtilityBelt: Dr. Dimensionpants’ belt contains a wide array of usefull (and less usefull) tools, like mechanical arms and a fan.



* WomenAreWiser: Amanda

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* WomenAreWiser: AmandaAmanda, Kyle's younger sister.
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* ComedyAsAWeapon: how the MonsterClown Frankenclown is eventually defeated. [[Spoiler:Kyle shows him footage of some of his most humiliation moments on Phillips tablet, causing Frankenclown to laugh himself to death]]

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* ComedyAsAWeapon: how the MonsterClown Frankenclown is eventually defeated. [[Spoiler:Kyle Kyle shows him footage of some of his most humiliation moments on Phillips tablet, causing Frankenclown to laugh himself to death]]death
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* ComedyAsAWeapon: how the MonsterClown Frankenclown is eventually defeated. [[Spoiler:Kyle shows him footage of some of his most humiliation moments on Phillips tablet, causing Frankenclown to laugh himself to death]]


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* GoofyPrintUnderwear: When Kyle looses his pants in a fight with an evil tablet-robot, it is revealed he wears white boxers with red hearths. And judging by Phillips reaction, it's not the first time he wore these kind of boxers.


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* KillerTeddyBear: Kyle's own teddybear becomes one of these after he discards it into another dimension, where it gains sentience and combines with various mechanical parts to become a robot.


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* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: the evil tablet-robot that Kyle once gave to his dad is eventually defeated when he falls into the ocean and shorts out.

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* MonsterClown: Frankenclown.
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* FlyingFirepower: Kyle can fly and shoot lightning.


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* ShockAndAwe: one of Kyle's powers is shooting lightning from his hands.
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* BabysitterFromHell: The Cortex once disguised himself as a babysitter to infiltrate Kyle's house and steal his dimension pants.
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* CassandraTruth: Kyle is not actually trying to keep his identity a secret, but whenever he tries to tell people that he's Dr. Dimensionpants, they don't believe him.


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* {{Expy}}: Give Kyle blond hair and make Phillip a dog, and they are quite clearly [[JohnnyTest Johnny and Dukey]].


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* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Apparently, "doctor" means "he who wears" in Unicorn.


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* WomenAreWiser: Amanda
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* {{Crossdresser}}: Both Kyle and Dr. Dimension Skirt end up as this when Glass Skull causes their outfits to be switched at the dry cleaning.
* DistaffCounterpart: Dr. Dimension Skirt to Kyle

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* MonsterProtectionRacket: Dr. Dimensionsocks, another Dimensional super hero, launches large meteorites into dimensions, and then 'conveniently' shows up to save said dimension from that meteorite, always demanding a large reward in return.



* MyBrainIsBig: The Cortex, one of Kyle's enemies, has a huge head.



* SmugSuper: Dr. Dimensionsocks, another Dimensional super hero. He only saves dimensions if the inhabitants pay him great sums of money for it, and later Kyle finds out Dr. Dimensionsocks is actually behind the meteorites that threaten the dimensions he "saves".

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* SmugSuper: Dr. Dimensionsocks, another Dimensional super hero.Dimensionsocks. He only saves dimensions if the inhabitants pay him great sums of money for it, and later Kyle finds out Dr. Dimensionsocks is actually behind the meteorites that threaten the dimensions he "saves".
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* SmugSuper: Dr. Dimensionsocks, another Dimensional super hero. He only saves dimensions if the inhabitants pay him great sums of money for it, and later Kyle finds out Dr. Dimensionsocks is actually behind the meteorites that threaten the dimensions he "saves".
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* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his talking Unicorn.
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* TransformationSequence: Kyle goes through when when he puts on the magic pants that give him his powers.

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* TransformationSequence: Kyle goes through when one of these when he puts on the magic pants that give him his powers.
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* HornyViking: Thora, the Unicorn hunter.

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* HornyViking: HornyVikings: Thora, the Unicorn hunter.
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* HornyViking: Thora, the Unicorn hunter.


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* SkullForAHead: Glass Skull, one of Kyle's enemies.

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''Dr. Dimensionpants'' is a Canadian animated television series. The series focusses on Kyle Lipton, a normal kid, until he is visited by a talking unicorn named Phillip, who gives him "The Dimensionpants". When he wears them, he becomes a superhero called Dr. Dimensionpants. Now Kyle has all the superhero powers he ever wanted, along with responsibility. With the help Philip, Dr. Dimensionpants learns his powers to save the universe, while dealing with normal kid issues.

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''Dr. Dimensionpants'' is a Canadian animated television series. series, Created by Brad Peyton (''[[Film/CatsAndDogs Cats & Dogs 2: Revenge of Kitty Galore]]'', ''Film/Journey2TheMysteriousIsland''). The series is produced by DHX Media and TELETOON.

The series focusses on Kyle Lipton, a normal 12-year-old kid, until he is visited by a talking unicorn named Phillip, who gives him "The Dimensionpants". When he wears them, he becomes a superhero called Dr. Dimensionpants. Now Kyle has all the superhero powers he ever wanted, along with responsibility. With the help Philip, Dr. Dimensionpants learns his powers to save the universe, while dealing with normal kid issues.



* CoolPet: Phillip, though he acts more like a friend and sidekick than actual pet.

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* CoolPet: Phillip, though he acts more like a friend friend, mentor and sidekick than actual pet.


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* GreenEyes: Kyle has these while he is Dr. Dimensionpants.


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* MulticoloredHair: Phillip has rainbow-colored tail and manes.
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* ScaryLibrarian: Kyle once had to deal with one when he borrowed a book about all knowledge in the world, but forgot to return it on time.
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''Dr. Dimensionpants'' is a Canadian animated television series. The series focusses on Kyle Lipton, a normal kid, until he is visited by a talking unicorn named Phillip, who gives him "The Dimensionpants". When he wears them, he becomes a superhero called Dr. Dimensionpants. Now Kyle has all the superhero powers he ever wanted, along with responsibility. With the help Philip, Dr. Dimensionpants learns his powers to save the universe, while dealing with normal kid issues.

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!!This series provides examples of:
* AnotherDimension: multiple of them in fact, and Kyle can visit them at will
* BadassMustache: Kyle gains one of these when in his heroic alter-ego.
* CoolPet: Phillip, though he acts more like a friend and sidekick than actual pet.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: all of Kyle’s powers come from his pants. Without them, he’s just a normal boy.
* ChristmasEpisode: the two-parter “Best Christmas Yeti / Christmas Eve Of Destruction”
* KidHero: Kyle.
* TransformationSequence: Kyle goes through when when he puts on the magic pants that give him his powers.
*{{Unicorn}}: Phillip.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld

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