History WesternAnimation / JackieChanAdventures

* DancingPants: "Glove Story" has dancing gloves.

* DramaticIrony: Nearly all of season 1, the audience knows who Shen Du is and why the Dark Hand wants the talismans, but the Chans and Captain Black don't fully find out about Shen Du and his talismans until an injured Tohru came to Uncle's shop and told them the demon's name.

* EvilVsEvil: In the GrandFinale, Drago (with all eight demon chi) and Shen Du (with all his talismans) both viciously fight for the Earth right before they both get banished to the Demon Netherworld.

* UltimateEvil: Lo Pei refers to Shen Du as this in the episode, "The Warrior Incarnate".

** Taken UpToEleven with the Dark Chi Enforcers. Their injuries are already played for laughs normally, but when Daolon Wong turned them into immortal warriors they would just poof away after taking mortal injuries, which allowed the writers to ramp up their already pronounced habit of getting into painful situations by putting them through humorous incidents that would normally be fatal.

->''"MagicMustDefeatMagic."''

->''"Magic must defeat magic."''

*** "Magic must defeat magic!"

* FlatJoy: Uncle [[InsufferableGenius insufferably]] asks the Section 13 agents what did they ''learn'' after seeing Jackie defeat Shendu by taking out the Rat Talisman. They reply 'magic must defeat magic' with this tone.

* TheMenInBlack: Section 13 is a secret government agency that carries out espionage and law enforcement, at first only against ordinary organized crime. But after Captain Black and some of his men discover that demons are real, Section 13 starts trying to deal with supernatural threats, but with varying results; as their superiors are still skeptical, while Uncle has to remind Black that "magic must defeat magic" multiple times.

** A repeated statement by Uncle is that "magic must defeat magic!" and, sure enough, whenever a magic-empowered enemy appears (which is like 99.9% of the [[BigBad major enemies]]) they are completely immune to everything but magical attacks (or martial arts, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs magically-empowered martial arts]]) and by the middle part of the series Captain Black and his subordinates don't even bother to do more than [[TheMainCharactersDoEverything tell Team Chan where to go]] and arrest any defeated human goons the chaos leaves behind.

* AbsenteeActor: Jackie and Jade were the only characters to appear in every episode.
** Uncle was absent for three episodes in Season 2.

** It also turns out that magic as powerful as the Chinese Zodiac-based one within the Talismans cannot be destroyed, just transferred from one recipient to another, which means that Jackie's [[CuttingTheKnot attempt to]] [[NoMacGuffinNoWinner get rid of them]] in the second season [[HereWeGoAgain just leads to another worldwide scavenger hunt]], only this time for magically-empowered ''animals'' instead of talismans.

* ClassyCane:* Valmont from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' carries around a black cane. It's revealed in the Season 1 finale that it actually [[HiddenWeapons conceals]] some type of energy blade, which he uses to slice his way out of a prison cell. The cane then essentially vanishes after its big moment.

* ClipShow: Played with in 'Déjà Vu' where Jackie is forced by the 'Déjà-Vu Stone' to relive moments from his past. While many scenes did consist of clips, many of them are also re-animated to where things did not turn out the way it originally did.

* ContinuityDrift: In the season 2 episode ''Through the Rabbit Hole'', it is stated Uncle did not start his study of magic until somewhere in the late 1970s or possibly early 1980s (and thus has no knowledge about magic when Jade travels back in time to the 1970s and meets him there). Yet, in the season 3 episode ''A Night At The Opera'' it is stated Uncle has been familiar with magic since his youth; studying theater magic at school as a child before becoming interested in Chi magic and abandon his study for opera star to continue on that path.

** Uncle seemed to have only elementary knowledge of magic during the first season. He was unable to cure Jackie when injected with a potion that would turn him into stone and had to look up his signature spell in a book in order to pull Shendu's astral form out of Jade.

* ZenSlap: Uncle, who is a wise Chinese magician, frequently gives a very special kind of slap (striking the forehead with two fingers) to Jackie, or whoever annoys him or argues with him.

--->''Jade:''' Didn't say which uncle.

** 'The J-Team' (season 2, episode 2) opens with a stunt reminiscent of 'Shanghai Knights', as Jackie and Captain Black use a hanging flag to escape certain death

** Early on in the second season, the bad guys are distributing the Talismans among each other. Finn gets both the talisman that bestows {{Immortality}} and the one that gives its user a HealingFactor. Feeling that healing is redundant to an immortal, he trades it to one of his fellows for a different talisman. In the ensuing TrainTopBattle, Finn ends up getting slammed into a mountainside at top speed. Being immortal, he survives the blow... and is completely sidelined for the rest of the fight and is unable to do anything other than pathetically whimper that "immortality hurts."

** {{Parodied}} with the Old Monk from the "[[Recap/JackieChanAdventuresS2E16TheLotusTemple Lotus Temple]]" episode. He is a Buddhist monk with supernatural powers (including [[LevitatingLotusPosition levitating in the lotus position]]) who [[ProverbialWisdom speaks in cryptic proverbs]], and nonetheless, he turns out to be [[MonsterOfTheWeek the villain of the episode]] and a dark Chi sorcerer who is after the magical Scroll of Hung Chao.