History WesternAnimation / JackieChanAdventures

*** To be fair, destroying Shendu's body did little to stop Shendu. In fact, doing so allowed Shendu to become more active in his plans to TakeOverTheWorld as a malevolent spirit.

* PersonalitySwap: An encounter with a chi vampire forces Jade and Uncle to transfer their chi, which includes their personalities.

*** Only in one episode. The rest of the time he can see fine without them.

** The EvilGenius: Ratso (studies quantum physics before becoming a thug)
** TheBrute: Tohru. Right after his HeelFaceTurn, it's Hak Foo.

The first two seasons are available on [[http://www.hulu.com/jackie-chan-adventures Hulu]], the first three are available on [[http://www.youtube.com/show?p=AbxogaeOUEs YouTube]], and the entire series is available on [[http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Jackie_Chan_Adventures/70172452?trkid=2361637#height1230 Netflix]].

* PortalSplat

** Jackie's response of "That's crazy Jade, you're crazy!" in Seasons 1 and 2. Because it is.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Valmont's goons at the end of the time-travel episode.
** Also, the Muntabs, in "Lost City of the Muntabs"

* FridgeBrilliance: The Shadowkhan are rarely consistent in how effective they are, sometimes a handful are more than enough to subdue Jackie and crew, other times they aren't of much concern. By the fourth season, which delves into their history and how Shendu had control over them, you realize that they are effectively puppets. Whenever they are actually competent (such as when Jade inadvertently gained control of them) it is because their controller is nearby and can better direct their efforts. All the other times they are on long range missions and are simply not as independently "smart."
* FridgeLogic: Why was Jackie arrested in "Enter The Viper"? He wasn't caught inside the museum, nor was he caught with any stolen property. The cops just found him running down the sidewalk in front of the museum and slapped cuffs on him.
** Because he was dressed like a cat burglar and fleeing the vicinity of a crime.
** Why is it so amazing when El Toro removes his mask during ''Fright Night Fight'', and why do they hide his face in shadow when we already know what he looks like? His mask has come off more than once previous to this episode.

This show provides examples of:

* ActionGirl - Jade, somewhat as a kid, definitely as an adult (1st version at least)

* AdventurerArchaeologist - sometimes subverted when Jackie actually behaves like a real archaeologist. He relishes these rare opportunities.
* AdventureRebuff - This is how Jade usually gets involved in each plot. This happens at least once EVERY episode and it gets to the point that Jackie gives up telling Jade to stay out of trouble. ("Jade what are you doing...why do I bother to ask?")

* AffablyEvil - Tarakudo is better liked by the human minions than the other {{Big Bad}}s, as well as one of the smarter ones. He is only out to revive his brethren's powers and as long as they acquire them. Since he actively encourages his men to seek them out, they generally like him better than say, Shendu. He takes their failures on the chin, whereas Shen-Du or Dao Long Wong would blow their top off, and often torture them. Of course, [[spoiler: it's also a XanatosGambit on Tarakudo's part, since when the heroes collect all nine masks together that unleashes the demons anyway.]] Some failures also work out well; for instance, when one mask ends up possessing Captain Black.
* AgonyOfDeFeet - A few times.

* AllMythsAreTrue - except for Stonehenge being magic (it's really a UFO landing pad).

* AnachronicOrder - Season Two had several episodes that were set during a time period in the first season (no {{flashback}} or anything), sometimes even explaining how certain events ended up that way. In particular a first season episode opened with Jackie trying to get the snake talisman from a museum. A second season episode set right before it showed he originally found it in a cave in South America and lost it to another archaeologist, who donated it to the museum. Jackie even ends the episode talking about how much easier it is to just walk to the museum.

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle - Well, if you want to know things about Jackie Chan, anyway, the real life version of which would answer kids' questions they had sent in, read by Stacie Chan (no relation), Jade's voice actress.
* AnIcePerson - The Lotus Temple Guardian has ice-rays, and may be some kind of abominable snowman.
* AnimeHair - Uncle, Jackie, Jade, depending on how the episode's art is.
* {{Animesque}} - Not as much as say, ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', but with the Monkey Talisman, yeah.

* AppliedMathematics - Jade references combining the levitation talisman and the speed talisman to fly by saying 'levitation + speed=flight.'
* ArtEvolution - In particular, there's an ArtShift (including visual reactions) in episode 9, season 1, and the Chupacabra episode (the writing seems different for that one too).

* AsianRudeness - Uncle Chan seem like this.
* AsideGlance - Jackie, after Jade finds a talisman in a matter of seconds.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever - First, when Jade's grow-up spell causes her to grow "up" literally. Then, whenever the good guys had to face off with Po Kong, the Mountain Demon. And finally, when Tohru was infused with the chi of said demon, causing him to go on a massive eating binge.

* AxCrazy - Monkey King is the only insane villain in the series.

* BackToBackBadasses - In ''The Tiger and the Pussycat'', Jackie gets split into two and does this with himself...kind of. Uncle and Tohru's Mom do it when fighting mob thugs.
* BadassBoast - Hak Foo on why he does not need the talismans:

* BadassNormal - Jackie proves effective against regular people and is even able to fight competently against superhuman demons, often without assistance from the show's power-granting PlotCoupons. Then again, he ''is'' Jackie Chan.

* BadassGrandpa - Uncle is not someone anyone or any demon would want to mess with. Not only is the group's wizard, but he's the one who taught Jackie martial arts.

* BadassTeacher - Miss Hartman, Jade's elementary school teacher, actually gets an episode in the fifth season where she easily qualifies. She kicks things off by tackling Drago to get him away from Jade; sure, she was infused with the chi of the Sky Demon at the time, but she clearly wasn't ''aware'' of that until ''after'' the fact. She then proceeds to spend the rest of the episode beating down everything hostile in sight protecting Jade with only a few moments getting help from other characters; Demon chi or no, for a middle-aged woman with no known combat experience outside of "dealing with unruly students", that was pretty impressive.

* BaddieFlattery - Jade gives some to Ratso when he catches the tree she's in that was falling.
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil - Uncle explained that this was why Shendu was [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed In A Can]] in the ''first'' place - destroying him created [[EvilPowerVacuum a vacuum that would quickly be filled by previously unknown (possibly even stronger or more numerous) evils.]]

* BavarianFireDrill - Jade excels at this, particularly in the Hollywood episode. That one was also rife with "How do you do that?!"
* BerserkButton - the Dragon Talisman episode revolves around this trope.

* BaseBreaker - Is Jade secretly TheHero to Jackie's DecoyProtagonist, a pretty good TheLancer, a forgettable TheBumblebee, a regrettable TheScrappy, or TheWesley who takes the entire show from good to painful? You decide!
* BigBad - The Demon Sorcerer of Fire, Shendu. A powerful demonic dragon that was turned into a statue centuries ago. Despite spending most of the series either [[SealedEvilInACan in a can]] or [[DeathIsCheap "dead"]]; from start to finish he is the most dangerous opponent the J-team ever faces. There's also Valmont, the DiabolicalMastermind of the Dark Hand.

* BigBadDuumvirate - Shendu and Valmont
* BigNo - Shendu and his family are the biggest offenders. Lampshaded by Jade when they banish the Earth Demon.

* BigScrewedUpFamily - the Demon Sorcerers
* {{Bishounen}} - Valmont.
* {{Bizarchitecture}} - Plenty, particularly the Lotus Temple, which comes complete with Escher Room.
* BondJamesBond - Jackie introduces himself to Origami this way. Origami spends the rest of the episode calling him "Chan Jackie Chan".
* BookEnds - Of a sort; the first episode has Jackie fighting the Dark Hand enforcers, who have high-tech weapons, in a playground; the third season has him fighting the Dark Chi treated enforcers, who have new magical weapons and powers, ...in a playground.

* BlowingARaspberry - Jade does this on occasion, and in the episode where she is infused with the powers of the 12 talismans, her raspberries temporary contain the dragon blast power.

* BoxingKangaroo - Jackie becomes one during the Monkey Talisman episode
* BrainwashedAndCrazy - happens to all those who wear the Oni masks or take on the mark of Tarakudo.
* BrattyHalfPint - Jade quite often, though more tolerable then most.
* BrickJoke - In the monkey talisman episode, Jade yells (in monkey) for help. Several of the nearby pack rush to her aid...including a giraffe, who was a monkey that she changed with the talisman.
* BritishStuffiness - Valmont is a prime example.
* BrokenMasquerade - On a minimum level. The first season Captain Black was TheScully who refused that there was any supernatural things going on. When Shendu is awakened Black got to see him in full view and immediately changed his story. Played for laughs in the second season where he starts believing anything and everything was demon and magic related, and when his supervisors won't believe him he is sent to all manner of psychologists.

* CallForward - During a flashback episode, Jackie mentions the difficulty he's had finding the Snake Talisman. "You'd think it was invisible."
* CallingTheOldManOut - Jackie's dark side in "Viva Las Jackies" insults Uncle, who is yelling for not having eel saliva, by saying to pull his tongue out of his mouth and wring out his spit, which Uncle, upon hearing that, says "You call Uncle an eel!"
* CallingYourAttacks - Villain Hak Foo parodies this. The names can be pretty funny. Examples: "Bunny Flees from Vicious Jackals," "Slumbering Bear Greets the Dawn," "Octopus Fists of Fury," "Minnow Wallops Whale," and "Snake Cuts Grass." [[AgonyoftheFeet "Crying puppy feet! CRYING PUPPY FEET!"]] "SPIDER EATS FLY!" "[[AHandfulForAnEye Spider Eats Earwax.]]" "Wood Chuck Chucks Wood!"

* CanOnlyMoveTheEyes - Uncle and Daolon Wong each try to magically paralyze the other in "Little Valmont, Big Jade". They both end up frozen stiff...while Giant-Jade is fighting Wong's giant ogre right above them.
* CarryingTheAntidote - After [[TakenForGranite magically poisoning]] Jackie, Valmont mocks him for thinking he'd be stupid enough to do this (the Enforcers bring a vial to prove it'll work when Jade arranges a trade later).
* CatGirl - Jade becomes one briefly in the episode "Enter the Cat" because of the effects of a cat statue. Valmont also becomes a Cat-Guy.

* CelebrityToons - NotQuiteStarring notwithstanding, among the best examples of this.
* CharacterDevelopment - Tohru clearly exhibits this throughout the seasons. When we first meet him, he is TheBrute under Valmont and has it out to eliminate Jackie and his family whenever they meet, not to mention he is willing to cut open the stomach of his future best friend. Then, following his HeelFaceTurn he becomes the apprentice for Uncle, the BigGuy and loyal friend to Jackie and a best friend to Jade. And through the following seasons he slowly becomes more powerful in his knowledge of chi magic before becoming a full-fledged Chi Wizard in the GrandFinale.
* ChekhovsBoomerang - The talismans are used repeatedly even after their story arc concludes. Considering their powers and lack of adverse effects, they are very useful as a last resort. They are also justifiably locked up otherwise, since them getting stolen would be bad.
* ChekhovsGunman - Daolon Wong, Drago, and Strike Master Ice's group are all introduced a season before they become the BigBad (or the QuirkyMinibossSquad in the latter's case).
* ChewToy - Jackie, though he's very, very good at dealing with it.
* ChineseLabourer - Jackie's ancestor in ''Showdown in the Old West''
* ChineseVampire - Which is pretty much NightmareFuel. It has the traditional weaknesses, but can grow stronger and overcome them by absorbing the chi of its victims. Most of that episode's comedy comes from Jackie's disbelief at all the seemingly arbitrary rules for fighting it.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder - Shendu.
* {{Chupacabra}} - One episode has one, and El Toro gets turned into one werewolf-style.
* CliffStack - Third episode, with at least three Dark Hand-ers colliding with a wrestler; also in an early season 3 episode.
* ClipShow - Played with in 'Déjà Vu' (Jackie is forced by the 'Déjà-Vu Stone' to relive moments from his past)
** FullyAutomaticClipShow - Used on Jade's catchphrases and Uncle's slaps, among other things.
* ConvectionSchmonvection - Partially averted. In the episode introducing the dragon talisman, Jackie entered a small volcanic cave. Jackie was seen visibly sweating from the steam and later suffered minor burns and ClothingDamage after being too close to hot magma.
* ConservationOfNinjitsu - For the sake of variety, the Shadowkhan would sometimes appear in small groups, and other times as a massive horde numbering in the hundreds, but the latter never seemed any more difficult to defeat than the former.
* ContinuityNod - When Jade is demonstrating her Talisman Powers, she takes her monkey-form from "The Jade Monkey"

* ConspicuousCGI the McGuffins, some more obvious then others (like the Panku box or the talismans when in the Shendu statue).

* CouchGag - The opening sequence will change only slightly each season. It usually will feature the {{MacGuffin}}(s) of the season, the BigBad and the final enemy he knocks out at the end. As a side effect it is an effective visual shorthand to tell you which season you're watching.

* CueTheFlyingPigs - Rooster sitting on the Pig.
* CurbStompBattle - Valmont fighting against Jackie in "The Rock".
* DancingPants - "Glove Story"
* DangerouslyGenraSavvy - after he gets the willys, Tarakudo goes to spy on his enemies and when he finds out they know something that can help them stop him, he tries to eliminate the heroes on his own which he is perfectly capable of doing
* DatingCatwoman - Viper and Jackie's chemistry
* DeadpanSnarker - Tarakudo, full stop.

* DeathDealer - TheDragon to a Bond villain parody. Naturally, there were card puns.
* DeathIsCheap - Shendu after season one. He is then "killed" off again, reborn, resealed, resurrected, and sealed off for good.
* DemonicPossession - Shendu possessed Valmont for almost the entire second season. His spirit soon returns and succeeds in possessing Jackie, as was his original plan.

* DemotedToExtra - Alas, [[BadassDecay poor Valmont]]. As a villain he was [[NumberTwo second]] only to the BigBad in the first two seasons, [[PutOnABus after that though . . .]]
* DeusExMachina - Doubly subverted in 'Re-enter the Dragon' when Uncle has everyone spend much of the episode research a spell that can defeat Shendu, and then he discovers a spell that can defeat Daolon Wong, and then he uses that to have Daolon Wong tell him a spell that can defeat Shendu (which he then uses to end the episode)
* DiabolicalMastermind - Valmont

* DoesNotLikeSpam - Tohru's distaste for fish causes him some problems.
* DopeSlap - Uncle [[RunningGag constantly does this to Jackie]]. Leads to [[FunnyMoments a back-and-forth with Jackie's dark side]].
* TheDragon - Sumo man Tohru, until he turns good. He doesn't really [[GoodIsDumb get weaker]], though, he just rarely solves his problems with violence and gains control of his temper. Hak Foo takes over after that.

* EasilyForgiven - Tohru is a bad guy until his defection at the end of season 1, but somehow escapes criminal charges.

* EasterEgg - The dragon talisman may appear in the background during an episode when it's not in use.

* ElementalPowers - All of the demons.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment – The three main characters of the series all had this in the first episode, The Dark Hand. First, Jackie in the very first scene is shown jumping up and down and using [[ImprovisedWeapon Improvised Weapons]] to dodge flying arrows in a Bavarian castle. Then, Uncle appears to us first as a sweet and caring old guy before going straight to his trademark DopeSlap while telling Jackie “[[AndAnotherThing One More Thing]].” Then, Jade is introduced to us by breaking into underground military instillation of one of the elite police organizations in the world and hijacking one of their mopeds in her first of many attempts to “help” Jackie.
* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting - It ''is'' JackieChan.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep - No one is really quite sure whose uncle Uncle actually is, if anybody's.

* EvilIsDumb - Tohru, and was used, subverted, and spoofed in an episode about Finn, Ratso and Chow, who turn out to be just as bad at being good as they are at being bad.

* ExoticEntree - In the episode where the cast finds the rabbit talisman.
* FakeStatic - Jade, at least twice.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption - Done in so many ways in every season. Where to start...
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms - Sorta averted. Realistic guns are often seen, but almost never fired. Again, just like a Jackie Chan movie.
* FateWorseThanDeath - The Monkey King is trapped in a ventriloquist's dummy, as was Jackie for that episode.

* {{Filler}} - Many episodes, though it is spaced out evenly with the MythArc.

* FindTheCure - Episode 9, "The Rock"

* FiveBadBand - The Dark Hand:

* FiveManBand - The J Team:

* Rimshot: Jade: "Tch. Like Jackie has a dark side." Jackie: "Yes, I do. Her name is Jade." Jade: "Ba-dum bum, tshhh!"
* FoeYay - You can see it in Tarakudo, Jade was definitely looking very delicious to him especially after her run in as the Queen of the Shadowkhan.

* {{Foil}} - Hak Foo to Tohru. Hak Foo is fast, brash, and clever but not intelligent, and relies on martial arts. Tohru is slower, intelligent and quick-witted, more thoughtful and uses strength and intuition to fight.
* {{Foreshadowing}} - The various {{Big Bad}}s of later seasons had one spotlight episode in a prior season that establishes them as being slightly more than a filler villain. In Tarakudo's case, it was fairly stealthy as his image was on a book of spells (and when drawn on Jade allowed her to control the shadowkhan) in a single second season episode, with him only showing up in the fourth season.

* FridgeBrilliance - The Shadowkhan are rarely consistent in how effective they are, sometimes a handful are more than enough to subdue Jackie and crew, other times they aren't of much concern. By the fourth season, which delves into their history and how Shendu had control over them, you realize that they are effectively puppets. Whenever they are actually competent (such as when Jade inadvertently gained control of them) it is because their controller is nearby and can better direct their efforts. All the other times they are on long range missions and are simply not as independently "smart."
* FridgeLogic - Why was Jackie arrested in "Enter The Viper"? He wasn't caught inside the museum, nor was he caught with any stolen property. The cops just found him running down the sidewalk in front of the museum and slapped cuffs on him.

* FriendToAllLivingThings - Jade and the Chans in general. Jade's liking and friendliness towards animals is quite helpful in the third season. She doesn't think rats are cute ("Cuuute" being one of her stock phrases) but isn't about to let Daolon get his [[NightmareFuel *shudder*]] hands on it.
* FourFingeredHands - Every demon except the thunder demon. Not sure if Tso Lan counts, since he has a secondary pair of three fingered hands. Also Quetzalcoatl.
* FullyAutomaticClipShow - "Duh!" and "One more thing."
* GambitPileup - Jackie's walked in on and been walked in on by a number of thieves during otherwise fairly normal archeological digs and the like; sometimes more than one other group will intersect.
* GenerationXerox - Jackie was sent to live with Uncle years before Jade was sent to live with him. Played with in the Old West episode, where Jade assumes that the sheriff's niece was her counterpart, only for Jackie to mention she's described differently. Jade dismisses it as a typo, and a dust cloud hides her replacement with Past! Jade.

* GeniusBruiser - Tohru by the end of the series (if not earlier), both of Farmer [=MacDonald's=] sons, and occasionally Ratso (he used to study theoretical physics).
* GentleGiant - Tohru became one after his HeelFaceTurn.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - Tons in "Glove Story".
* GiantFootOfStomping - Giant-Jade to the Dark Chi Warriors. Valmont is amazed they didn't see it coming.

* GoodCopBadCop - The Ikazuki episode in season four. First, Jade and Jackie trying to get Ikazuki to give them information on Tarakudo, then Finn and Ikazuki trying to persuade Tohru to give them the removal spell.

* GoodIsNotNice - Lo Pei is not too worried about collateral damage, and tends to blast first, ask questions never.
* GotVolunteered - At least twice.
* GottaCatchThemAll - See PlotCoupons
* GrandFinale - "The Powers That Be"
* GrandTheftMe - Poor Valmont...and Jackie...''and''Jade...wow, Shendu likes to jack bodies.
* GrievousHarmWithABody - Chan does this with the unconscious Agent Tag in a JamesBond spoof episode.
* HeKnowsTooMuch - Parodied in ''The Chan Who Knew Too Much''.
* HeroHarassesHelpers - Jackie to Jade.

* HeroicWillpower - When Capt. Black gets an oni mask stuck on him he's able to resist the effects for quite some time, and Uncle says it's because of his inherent goodness.
* HeroStoleMyBike - Jackie is constantly "borrowing" items from total strangers to use as weapons or modes of transportation.

* HesAFriend - HeelFaceTurn, some people who've been gone a while, it happens.
* HeyItsThatVoice - You have [[DannyPhantom Kwan]] playing Jackie, [[{{Comicbook/Superman}} Lex Luthor]] as Captain Black, [[SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperForceGo Mandarin]] as Daolon Wong, [[KimPossible Drakken]] and [[DarkwingDuck Darkwing/Negaduck]] as Hak Foo, [[{{Halo}} Rtas 'Vadum]] as Ratso [[{{Firefly}} Jayne]] as Finn, [[TwentyFour Vladimir Bierko]] playing Valmont and [[JusticeLeague Wonder Woman]] is Viper. And Uncle goes on to be [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Monk Gyatso]]. [[SpongebobSquarepants Patrick Star]] is a (surprisingly competant) mook in one episode.
* HowManyFingers - In the first episode. "Look, fishies!" Jade tries it in season 3 after Jackie's been bitten by a cobra. "What's a Jackie?"
* HumiliationConga - Several of the villains get this over the course of the series. Daolon Wong in particular gets these in nearly every single appearance. There was once a single episode where in attempting to time travel to the past to stop Jackie he ended being teleported to all his most humiliating defeats... and getting injured by being in the middle of situations he was never in in the first place.
* IdenticalGrandson - Almost every main character gets an identical ancestor in ''Showdown in the Old West'', although the only one we know was identical is past-Jackie (most of it is being pictured by the present-day characters).

* TheIgor - One appears in the cat statue episode, although only in voice.

* IJustWantToBeNormal - Jackie in spades.
* ImAHumanitarian - With the monkey talisman, Tohru suggests they turn Jackie into an edible animal.

* ImprovisedWeapon - It's Jackie Chan, so it's pretty much required. Weapons have included furniture, a horse saddle, ''windshield wipers'', Jackie's own shirt...
* InsistentTerminology - In one episode an octopus statue is the MacGuffin of the day, whenever anyone tries to call it a fish, they are always told that it is a multipod...then subverted at the end.

* IncrediblyLamePun - Several; during the Kyoto Octopus heist, one mook grabs a small tree, hoists it over his head (presumably to use as a weapon) and jumps, yelling "Banzai!" Another favorite is when Jackie warns the mooks to be careful because they are at risk of damaging a Babylonian Urn. "What's a Babylonian urn?" "Probably more than we do!"
* InstantExpert - Frequently averted. Occasionally subverted for comic relief, especially if it's the bad guy that fails by his own superpower.
* InSeriesNickname - Viper takes to calling Jackie "Babyface", most likely to annoy him.

* InterestingSituationDuel - All the time
* IntergenerationalFriendship - Jade and Torhu.
* ItBelongsInAMuseum - Except in "Enter the Cat" where Jackie decides that the cat statue is too dangerous even for a museum and destroys it instead.

* JailBake - Subverted when the Dark Hand get themselves sent to prison to find Xiao Fung's portal: it's the Warden's birthday cake, and ruining it gets Valmont sent to solitary.
* JustAStupidAccent - Chinese characters rarely speak any Chinese language, even during the episodes actually set in China. Even more jarringly, the two characters who had been in America for a large portion of their lives - Uncle and Jackie - still had accents, while the one character who supposedly just came over from China - Jade - has a very American accent.
*** This may be justified, albeit weakly, by the fact that Jade is from Hong Kong, where many people have what sounds like an American accent - except her parents don't really have much in the way of accents either.

* KickTheDog - Daolon Wong attempts this, in a literal sense. [[spoiler: It fails; the dog in question is immortal.]]

* KidWithTheLeash - Jade once gained control of the Shadowkhan from a magic marker tattoo she did, unfortunately it slowly made her BrainwashedAndCrazy.
* KillerRabbit - the Shadowkhan Hak Foo summoned are like these. But after eating, they're more killer than rabbit.

* KillerYoYo - Not actually used to attack people, except when Jackie has it, but dangerous all the same.
* {{Koan}} - OW.
* LampshadeHanging - "Seriously, don't you get tired of saying that?" in response to Jackie telling Jade to stay behind the five billionth time.
* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid - [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] when the Monkey King makes a volcano erupt cherry gelatin.
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain - Ratso when he has to remove an Oni Mask from Finn's rear.
* LimitedWardrobe - Although it changes depending on scenario; El Toro wears a nice suit outside of the ring, Jackie and Jade both have archeologist outfits, etc.
* LittleStowaway - Jade did this OnceAnEpisode.

* LivingShadow - The Shadowkhan {{ninja}}s.
* LivingToys - Gnomekop (once) and Super Moose (repeatedly) thanks to the Rat Talisman
* LookBehindYou - During a truck-top fight, Jade warns Finn of an oncoming tunnel. Finn scoffs at the 'trick' and slams into the cliff wall (turns out immortality and healing aren't so redundant.)
* LoopholeAbuse - Jade loves to do this when it comes to following Jackie around, often using Jackie's ExactWords against him. For instance, she is once told by Jackie to stay with Uncle (the character) without thinking that ''he'' is also her uncle. Since he never specified ''which'' uncle to stay with, she stays with Jackie.
* MagicAIsMagicA - In interesting contrast to Eastern {{anime}} magic-users using Western HermeticMagic, most of the spells in the Western-made ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' are Eastern style. Seems to be a variant of [[FunctionalMagic Rule Magic]].
* MagicVersusScience - Science has its uses in its own field, but is ultimately incapable of really doing anything significant against the magical {{Big Bad}}s the cast runs into. As Uncle is wont to point out, "MAGIC MUST DEFEAT MAGIC!"
* {{Mahjong}} - Uncle's favorite game
* MamaBear - Tohru's Mom is shorter than just about any other character. But should someone mess with her baby boy, be it regular mook or mystical henchmen, and she will mess them up.
* MaskedLuchador - El Toro
* McNinja - Subverted. In the first few seasons, the Shadowkhan were ninja (Japanese) working for the demon Shendu (Chinese). This was later explained and used as the arc for an entire season when it was revealed Shendu had taken control of them from a Japanese Oni imprisoned in a mask.
* MediumBlending - In the intro with live action Jackie.

* [[{{Mentors}} Mentor]] - Uncle...specifically, MrExposition. As the series progresses, he becomes the WitchDoctor; his knowledge in magic increases exponentially, to the point of probably being one of the strongest mortal mages on the planet. "One must keep up with forces of evil!"

* MesACrowd - The episode "Jade Times Jade."
* {{MIB}} - Section 13 is a rare heroic version of this.
* MommasBoy - Tohru.
* MonsterOfTheWeek - Most notable in the later seasons, with, Shendu's sibling demons, then the Oni masks and their unique Shadowkhan. Subverted in the last season; Drago is the monster ''every'' week.
* MookCarryover - The Enforcers (Finn, Ratso and Chow) who were always brought in by the current season's big bad. Also Valmont (when possessed by Shendu), the Shadow Khan, and finally Strikemaster Ice, DJ Fist and MC Cobra. Drago [[AvertedTrope averts this trope]] temporarily by firing the Enforcers after one episode.
* MookFaceTurn - Tohru
* {{Mundangerous}} - After running down the side of an exploding building without a problem, Jackie breaks his leg by slipping on one of Jade's toys.

* MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad - Whenever Jade and Paco meet they end up arguing over who is better, Jackie or El Toro.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero - Quite a number of times, often by Jade.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain - Valmont kicking Jackie off a cliff results in Shendu possessing him.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat - In the fifth episode, mind you this show went on for 5 seasons, Jackie is escaping with the Sheep Talisman aboard a train. Pursued by Shadowkhan and Valmont's goons, and after rescuing the driver from certain death after the bridge ahead of the train is destroyed, and the train quickly dives off of the blown-up railway... and without having any Talisman powers, Jackie single-handedly runs across 5 or 6 train cars from the leading train all the way to the end, just narrowly vaulting back to safety while Valmont's goons look on. Ratso flat-out states it:

* NoMacGuffinNoWinner - At the start of season three, Jackie destroys the Talismans so that neither the Dark Hand nor Daolon Wong can get their hands on them. This backfires when the powers within simply seek out new hosts.
* NonSequiturThud - Jackie, several times.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp - Strangely applied, the internal timeframe may not perfectly match the season production but it's made rather clear that several years do pass over the whole series. Jade never gets taller and remains in the same elementary school class with the same teacher. One episode even highlights it, with Jade complaining that she hasn't grown at all since she came to live with Jackie and Uncle. Of course, several TimeTravel episodes show Jade as an adult.
* NotQuiteDead - Shendu after being killed in the end of season 1, but revived in season 3, only to get sealed.
* NotQuiteStarring - Voice actor James Sie as Jackie Chan, with the real Jackie Chan appearing in the title sequence and a live action segment after each episode.

* OffModel - All of season five, but episodes ten and on especially. [[TropesAreNotBad Not necessarily for the worse]], though, as at least in episode ten the writing picks up a little.
* OffscreenTeleportation - Jade's ability to turn up behind Jackie is sometimes explained, sometimes lampshaded.

* OddlySmallOrganization - The Dark Hand
* OhCrap - Drago and co. about halfway into the Spectacu-Larry episode. Watch their faces as he attacks.
* {{Oireland}} - The St Patrick's Day episode involves Jade convincing a bunch of locals that she's a leprachaun simply by dressing up as one. Then again, the locals were right about the curse on the emerald...
* OldMaster - Uncle
* OnceASeason - About 2/3rds of the way through a season they would have the group actually lose one of the talismans etc. to the bad guys, reinforcing that they are still human. As well, the final episode usually had the pieces being united to demonstrate their power and why they didn't want them together in the first place.
* OnlyOneName - Plenty. Valmont, his three main henchmen, Tohru, Paco...the list goes on.

* PapaWolf - Tohru.

* PaperMaster - Origami
* PaperThinDisguise - Finn uses one to try and get a book from Uncle's shop. As he comments to his fellows, "I can't believe he fell for that!"
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish - Subverted and [[LampshadeHanging hung with a shade.]] "Namsilat" will not unlock the Talismans and Captain Black's birthday has nothing to do with any numerical codes.

* PersonalitySwap - An encounter with a chi vampire forces Jade and Uncle to transfer their chi, which includes their personalities.

* PlotCoupon - Talismans, portals, animals, masks, relics. In that order.

* PutOnABus - Valmont gets this treament worse than anyone, to the point even writers seem to [[LampshadeHanging Lampshade]] it at the end of the series. [[spoiler: Valmont is last shown in the series ''working'' as a bus driver.]]
* QuirkyHousehold - The Chan family in general.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad - Chow, Finn and Ratso fulfilled this through several {{Big Bad}}s. Hak Foo comes and goes with every season. Hell, these three kinda delve into PunchClockVillain territory, one episode they got tired of getting beaten up by Jackie and tried to pull a HeelFaceTurn.

* RealityWritingBook - One of these appears in a later episode, when it's rewritten by Shendu. Luckily Jade is left unaffected since she manages to tear out the page that relates to her, leaving her unaltered.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - Valmont's goons at the end of the time-travel episode.

* RecapEpisode - "Deja Vu" sends Jackie through past episodes.
* RecklessSidekick - Jade. ''Always.'' Just look in those big yellow eyes and you'll see her unyielding desire to follow Jackie into adventure. To her credit, she ''does'' prove useful most of the time.
* RedshirtArmy - The Section 13 forces. Normally at least once a season, their base is completely trashed. Once, while fighting the Dark Hand out in the open, they got their butts whooped, most of their vehicles blown up, and a number of them turned into rats. Due to the fact that it's a kid's show, however, none of them die.

* {{Reincarnation}} - It's implied in one episode that Jade is the [[TheChosenOne reborn soul of a Dalai Lama-esque figure]].
* ResistTheBeast - Xu Lin, the cursed guardian of "The Lotus Temple," does this several times, as she is cursed to turn into a monstrous beast whenever someone intrudes in the temple, but she doesn't want to hurt any one. The heroes manage to find the loophole, and at one point she manages to resist the transformation enough to guide herself into going after the BigBad.
* RetiredBadass - Several episodes show that Uncle is pretty skilled himself, though his age doesn't allow him too much action. When he's using the Dog Talisman, however, he can make Hak Foo look like an amateur.
* RetroactiveWish - Ratso, during the time travel episode.
* RewritingReality - Anyone who gets their hands on the Book of Ages, which contains all of history. When Shendu uses it to erase his family's previous defeats, Jade gives herself RippleEffectProofMemory by tearing out a page referring to her (oddly, the demons also remember the original timeline).
* RhymesOnADime - Spring-Heeled Jack
* TheRival - Hak Foo can fill in this role at times for both Jackie and Tohru, as he is skilled enough (and just flat out ''crazy'' enough) to challenge Jackie's martial arts and he is physically powerful enough to also challenge Tohru's strength.

* SavingChristmas - Daolon Wong lays siege to the North Pole, hoping to steal Santa's good chi. Tohru was to fill in for Santa while the rest of the team fight Wong.
* SayMyName - Shendu has an epic one at the end of the third season finale.
* SealedEvilInACan - Usually this is what Jackie is trying to prevent from happening each season.
* SealedEvilInADuel - The series ends with Drago (using the powers of all eight demon sorcerers) and his father Shendu (using all twelve of his talismans) being sealed within another realm to duel for all eternity.
* SelfConstructedBeing - Shendu with some help from the dark hand.
* SharkPool - In the Kyoto Octopus episode.
* ShieldSurf - happens in the first episode. It's also how they get Xu Lin out of the Lotus Temple.
* ShoutOut - ''Enter the J-Team'' was a WholePlotReference to the classic Bruce Lee film, ''Enter the Dragon'', of which Jackie Chan was a stunt man. And speaking of [[Series/TheATeam the J-Team]]...

* ShutUpHannibal - Pulled off on many occasions but it is most sweet with Jade after Shendu's first major defeat.

* SnoopingLittleKid - Take a wild guess...
* {{Snowlems}} - Daolon Wong uses them while attacking Santa's workshop
* SoLastSeason - Lightly applied, Uncle mentioned that the Talisman powers are helpful (and certainly nice for a surprise) but are simply not the most powerful magic in the series.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay - Played with during ''Attack of the J-Clones''. Neither Jackie nor his clone know when Captain Black's birthday is, to his dismay, but Jade figures it out by asking them to take her to Moose World: the real one refuses, since she has homework. Paco's clone gives himself away by pronouncing her name properly. For non-Spanish speakers, "j" is usually pronounced with "y" or "h" sounds - hence, "Yade" from El Toro and the real Paco.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil - The scope of events grows, but each new BigBad isn't necessarily more powerful, just brings with them their own style of problems.
* SouthernFriedGenius - Farmer [=MacDonald's=] sons, to Jackie's delight.

* SouvenirLand - Moose World
* SpaceSuitsAreScubaGear - To facilitate a dramatic "where's the talisman" moment before Jackie removes the hose when it's discovered drifting around inside his suit.
* SpitTake - Finn, upon Tarakudo appearing in his coffee.
* SquirrelsInMyPants - Actually, it's an animated gnome toy....[[ItMakesSenseInContext it makes sense in context]]. Kinda.

* StabTheSalad - Possessed! Jade
* StairsAreFaster - For getting into Section 13, the stairs are a quicker way inside than the phone-booth elevator as demonstrated by Captain Black and Jade. Later averted by Tohru in a different building, who quietly rides an elevator while Jackie and Jade wear themselves out running down stairs.
* TheStarscream - Valmont when it comes to Shendu.
* StockPhrases - A LOT in-show. Jade's gaps and Jackie's exclamations are pretty standard.
* StockSuperpowers - Shendu's Talismans each provide one.
** AnimateInanimateObject - The Rat Talisman causes this.
** {{Animorphism}} - The Monkey Talisman, in a nutshell.
** EnemyWithout - Apparently, the Tiger Talisman splits itself and the user in half; one side is [[IncorruptiblePurePureness sickeningly good]] while the other is [[JerkAss a big jerkass]], [[TookALevelInJerkass assumedly even more so if the original character is a jerkass]]. The process is undone if both halves of the original user hold a half of the talisman each.

** EyeBeams - The Pig Talisman in a nutshell. Noted at one point that an attack that temporarily blinds you is hard to aim.

** HealingFactor - The Horse Talisman, in a nutshell.
** {{Immortality}} - The Dog Talisman gives a Type VI immortality, meaning that you'll survive any sort of injury, but without the [[HealingFactor Horse talisman]], you won't be getting up anytime soon; it does stop and/or revert the aging process if the host's natural age is too high though, so you wouldn't need to worry about [[AgeWithoutYouth making the same mistake Tithonos made]].
** {{Invisibility}} - The Snake Talisman gives you full invisibility; no [[InvisibleStreaker invisible nudity]] here.
** PlayingWithFire - The Dragon Talisman is assumedly the source of much (if not all) of Shendu's firepower. Using it obviously invokes this trope.
** PowerFloats - The Rooster Talisman, though its max speed is [[NotQuiteFlight too low to really be called flight]], unless augmented by the Rabbit Talisman, as explained by Jade.
** SpiritWorld - The Sheep Talisman allows your spirit to leave your body and enter this realm, but you cannot make any sort of contact with the waking physical world until you go back into your body (or, [[GrandTheftMe failing that]], the body of another person who's used astral projection). You ''can'' enter a sleeping person's dream, but good luck convincing them that you're real.
** SuperSpeed - The Rabbit Talisman in a nutshell.
** SuperStrength - The Ox Talisman in a nutshell.
* SummonBiggerFish - By the GrandFinale, Drago is so powerful that Uncle is forced to [[EnemyMine release Shendu]].
* TableclothYank - Several times, once with a ''shirt''.
* TagalongKid - Jade. And Paco is tagging along after ''her''.
* TakenForGranite - The Rat and (on one occasion) Horse Talismans invert this trope.
* TalkingToHimself - James Sie voices both the animated Jackie and Shendu. Also Chow.

* TeamRocketWins - At the start of the second season, the Dark Hand has all twelve talismans, and they use them to run a robbery that can't be beaten by all of Section 13, including Jackie and Jade. Not until the end of the next episode do the good guys turn the tables, and even then, it takes a few additional protagonists to do it.
* TheTeaser - Usually ending with a close-up of a shocked expression on one of the characters (often Jackie)
* TerminatorTwosome - ''J2'', complete with a musical ShoutOut.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics - The monstrous Lotus Temple Guardian has cute little bows on it's whiskers, the same that Xu Lin wears in her hair when not transformed. This is the only sign that the abominable snowman-esque monster is actually a girl.
* TestosteronePoisoning - Obviously what happened to Hak Foo before he joined the Dark Hand.
* TheChosenZero - A group of Warrior Monks discover that Tohru is the Avatar-esque reincarnation that they have been waiting for, and have this reaction when he fails to meet any of their expectations. By the end of the episode, it turns out that Tohru isn't actually the reincarnation at all. [[spoiler:Jade might be.]]

* ThirdPersonPerson - Uncle, on occasion.
* TokenWhite - Although the trope isn't really played, among the good guys Captain Black is the only significant white character.
* {{Tomboy}} - Jade
* TomesOfProphecyAndFate - One of which is '''insanely''' powerful.
* TotallyRadical - Avoided for the most part, which only makes the examples that stick even more poignant. In the episode ''Queen of the Shadowkhan'', Jade says that's she's going to get "the gnarliest tattoo in the history of gnarl!"
* TrademarkFavouriteFood - According to Uncle, be it spells or recipes, "no such thing as too much garlic!" [[PhlebotinumBreakdown Except when there is.]]

* TragicMonster - One episode features an ancient temple hiding great magical secrets, guarded by a hulking Yeti-like monster that viciously hunts down any intruders. As it turns out, this monster is a little girl who wandered into the temple one night years ago, and was cursed to become it's guardian whenever anyone sets foot inside it's walls. Jade, of course, makes friends with her, and they both try to find a way to stop her transformations, though the girl is more concerned with getting everyone out so she doesn't lose control and hurt anyone.

* VampireInvitation - When Hsi Wu loses his tail, Uncle charms the shop so he can't get inside and retrieve it without an invitation. Hsi Wu gets around this by shapeshifting into a kid and befriending Jade at school (unwittingly launching a thousand fanfics).
* VerbalTic - Uncle's "One more thing." One episode had him listing off ingredients he needed and he prefaced each one with his verbal tic.

* VitriolicBestBuds - Uncle and Tohru, especially in the episode, "The Demon Behind".
* VolleyingInsults - Uncle and Tohru's Mom, ALWAYS.
* VoicesAreMental - When Jade and Jackie switch bodies.
* WaitHere - When will he learn?
* WaxingLyrical - When the thunder demon Tchang Zu is revived and discovers that his former realm is now part of Hollywood, with his former palace now a parking garage:

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway - At one point the Dark Hand had all the talismans and used their powers for themselves. Of the twelve that includes {{Flight}}, EyeBeams, and SuperSpeed, Finn ended up with Astral Projection, Motion to the Motionless and Spiritual Balance. It got better when Hak Foo, disdaining the talismans he had (some of the better ones), tossed them to Finn. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]], as Finn later traded the Horse Talisman (healing) for the Pig Talisman (laser eyes). "Immortality ''and'' healing? That's redundant!" Not much later, he's plowed into the roof of a tunnel. He naturally survives, but realizes: "Immortality...hurts."

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy - Valmont.
* WordsDoNotMakeTheMagic - Just chanting any incantation without knowing what you're doing usually causes failure -- [[MagicMisfire sometimes horribly]].
* TheWorfEffect - Tohru gets this occasionally - it's always a sign that someone is particularly strong when they can toss him around like a ragdoll. Shendu does this to him ''twice,'' first when he initially regains his demon form, and again to show that he's powerful even while possessing Valmont.
* XanatosGambit - As the Chan clan found out, it doesn't matter to Tarakudo whether he gets all the masks or they do. The end result is the same.

* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses - Jackie is looking for a sheep's spirit using a pair of magic goggles. When he becomes surrounded by Shadowkhan, Jackie says this phrase.

* LetsGetMikey - At least twice.

''Jackie Chan Adventures'' is debatably Chan's most successful American effort: it ran five seasons, albeit with Chan NotQuiteStarring in the title role, with equal parts comedy and action, the entire show was very much like an animated and magic-heavy version of a Jackie Chan film. He also didn't have to share the spotlight with an English speaking actor like [[RushHour Chris Tucker]] or [[ShanghaiNoon Owen Wilson]]. He did get [[SpotlightStealingSquad overshadowed]] by [[TheWesley a little girl]], though...

--> Doalon: *looks up in terror* "YAAAAAH!" *gets blasted*

-->'''Tchang Zu:''' My palace! These humans have paved my paradise and constructed a...\\

''Jackie Chan Adventures'' is Chan's most successful American effort (at five seasons, albeit with Chan NotQuiteStarring in the title role) with equal parts comedy and action, the entire show was very much like an animated Jackie Chan film. He also didn't have to share the spotlight with an English speaking actor like [[RushHour Chris Tucker]] or [[ShanghaiNoon Owen Wilson]]. He did get [[SpotlightStealingSquad overshadowed by a little girl]], though...

* LampshadeHanging - Seriously, don't you get tired of saying that? in response to Jackie telling Jade to stay behind the five billionth time.

* LittleStowaway - Jade did this many times. Nearly OnceAnEpisode, really.
** Uncle even did it once.

* NotQuiteDead - Shendu after being killed by Jade in the end of season 1, but revived in season 3, only to get sealed.

** "Who else wants a piece of Uncle?"