History WesternAnimation / GerryAndersonsNewCaptainScarlet

* FauxAffablyEvil: Captain Black.

* CodeName: Unlike the original series, which only on rare occasions referred to the characters by their real names (the episode "Manhunt" has it happen and point out it's a breach of protocol, for instance), the revival uses the color codes and real names interchangeably. In one episode Scarlet activates an identity scan that clearly [=IDs=] him as "Paul Metcalfe, Captain Scarlet". The original series suggested the real names are usually kept secret, but not so in the revival.

* CodeName: Unlike the original series, which only on rare occasions (maybe no more than once or twice) referred to the characters by their real names, the revival uses the color codes and real names interchangeably. In one episode Scarlet activates an identity scan that clearly [=IDs=] him as "Paul Metcalfe, Captain Scarlet". The original series suggested the real names are usually kept secret, but not so in the revival.

* AchillesHeel: Duplicates can be detected with a DNA scan. Scarlet's "allergy" to them is also retained, though not consistently applied. The revival shows duplicates' eyes occasionally glowing green as well (which is actually visible in-universe, according to the episode "Grey Skulls").

* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: "Dominion" ends with Captain Scarlet infiltrating the Mysteron fortress with a seemingly-recovered Black's help. He seemingly destroys the source of their power and the entire city, then flies home. Pan over to see a surviving Black watch him leave, and as Black walks away, the two green rings of a Mysteron projection are seen on the ground.]]

* CoolBike: The Spectrum Raid Bike. So much so, an entire episode ("Grey Skulls") is basically built around how cool it is.

* DarkerAndEdgier: PlayedWith when compared to the original show. This series, while definitely still darker than most kids shows even fifteen year later, very rarely shows blood, but still has many instances of on-screen deaths like the original does, especially once the series establishes that [[spoiler:the original victim's memories and personality still exist within the duplicate and can, under some circumstances, be revived.]] Yet that doesn't stop them from being shot on sight, thrown off cliffs, killed on-screen etc.

* CloningBlues: Mostly averted. However, Captain Blue takes longer to warm to Scarlet, and several episodes do reflect on Scarlet's angst at being a "human-Mysteron hybrid" as he is described by [[spoiler:a friendly Mysteron]] in the episode "The Achilles Messenger".

* AloneWithThePsycho: Most of the episode "Best of Enemies" has this with Scarlet and Black trapped at the bottom of an arctic lake in a Spectrum Rhino. That said, the events of the episode has Black slowly regain his memories of his pre-Mysteron self, and notably gets kinder as the episode progresses. Sadly, the moment he reaches the ice, he becomes a villain again.

** Captain Ochre also became female, but unusually the gender flip occurred mid-series as a male Ochre appears in the first episode, but by the end of the first season, Ochre is a woman.

* AirborneAircraftCarrier: The Skybase.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Most of the episode "Best of Enemies" has this with [[spoiler:Scarlet and Black trapped at the bottom of a lake in a Spectrum Rhino]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: If it's possible, the 2005 version is even moreso than the original, especially once the series establishes that [[spoiler:the original victim's memories and personality still exist within the duplicate and can, under some circumstances, be revived.]] Yet that doesn't stop them from being shot on sight, thrown off cliffs, etc.

** Captain Ochre also became female, but unusually the gender flip occurred mid-series as a male Ochre appears in the first episode, but by the end of the first season Ochre is a woman.

* RecurringRiff: Sadly the makers of the remake either couldn't or wouldn't license Barry Gray's original music, so a new drumbeat, arguably less effective, is used for the transitions.

* TenMinuteRetirement: Destiny gets one in episode 2.

** The trope can also be applied to Lt. Green, who in the revival is a more active character than the original version who hardly ever left Skybase, and even to an extent Destiny Angel, who becomes the female action lead and plays a major role in many episodes of the CGI version.

* ToTheBatpole: Averted and eliminated utterly in the CG remake. If anything the characters sometimes move around ''too'' much in the early episodes.

* DieHardOnAnX: Destiny Angel vs. a group of Mysteron-controlled pirates in the episode "Fallen Angels". Bad-assery kicked UptoEleven by the fact she actually isn't aware she's offing Mysterons.

** The remake is billed as being "filmed in Hypermarionation" in the opening credits.

* EmeralPower: The Mysterons are an alien race that is never shown on screen. They are instead symbolized by twin rings of green light. Mysteron replicants also have eyes that glow green.

* SupernaturalIsGreen: The Mysterons are an alien race that is never shown on screen. They are instead symbolized by twin rings of green light. Mysteron replicants also have eyes that glow green.

* MixedAncestry: Lieutenant Green has an African-American father and a Trinidadian mother.

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: In "Storm At The End Of The World", Scarlet states that he doesn't like the sound of the town they're investigating because it's called Ragnarok. [[note]] Which means the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end of the world]] in Norse mythology. [[/note]]

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: In "Storm At The End Of The World", Scarlet states that he doesn't like the sound of the town they're investigating because it's called Ragnarok. [[note]] Which means the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end of the world]] in Norse mythology. [[/note]]

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: In "Storm At The End Of The World", Scarlet states that he doesn't like the sound of the town they're investigating because it's called Ragnarok. [[Note]] Which means the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end of the world]] in Norse mythology. [[Note]]

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: In "Storm At The End Of The World", Scarlet states that he doesn't like the sound of the town they're investigating because it's called Ragnarok. [[note]] Which means the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end of the world]] in Norse mythology. [[note]]