History WesternAnimation / OKKOLetsBeHeroes

Originally ''Lakewood Plaza Turbo'', a short that premiered as one of Creator/CartoonNetwork's minisodes, it was expanded into a series of shorts and an app game with the name now changed to ''OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes''. The minisodes were animated by various studios, including Creator/ScienceSARU, Creator/StudioYotta, Creator/MoiAnimation[=/=]Creator/MuaFilm, and Creator/PowerhouseAnimation. On August 1, 2017, it premiered as a full-length series on the network, with Creator/StudioTrigger providing the storyboards for the opening sequence and animation production duties alternating between Creator/DigitalEMation and Creator/SunminAnimation.

Originally ''Lakewood Plaza Turbo'', a short that premiered as one of Creator/CartoonNetwork's minisodes, it was expanded into a series of shorts and an app game with the name now changed to ''OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes''. The minisodes were animated by various studios, including Creator/ScienceSARU, Creator/StudioYotta, Creator/MoiAnimation[=/=]Creator/MuaFilm, and Creator/PowerhouseAnimationStudio. On August 1, 2017, it premiered as a full-length series on the network, with Creator/StudioTrigger providing the storyboards for the opening sequence and animation production duties alternating between Creator/DigitalEMation and Creator/SunminAnimation.

Originally ''Lakewood Plaza Turbo'', a short that premiered as one of Creator/CartoonNetwork's minisodes, it was expanded into a series of shorts and an app game with the name now changed to ''OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes''. The minisodes were animated by various studios, including Creator/ScienceSARU, Creator/StudioYotta, Creator/MoiAnimation[=/=]Creator/MuaFilm, and Powerhouse Animation. On August 1, 2017, it premiered as a full-length series on the network, with Creator/StudioTrigger providing the storyboards for the opening sequence and animation production duties alternating between Creator/DigitalEMation and Creator/SunminAnimation.

Originally ''Lakewood Plaza Turbo'', a short that premiered as one of Creator/CartoonNetwork's minisodes, it was expanded into a series of shorts and an app game with the name now changed to ''OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes''. The minisodes were animated by various studios, including Creator/ScienceSARU, Studio Yotta, Creator/MoiAnimation[=/=]Creator/MuaFilm, and Powerhouse Animation. On August 1, 2017, it premiered as a full-length series on the network, with Creator/StudioTrigger providing the storyboards for the opening sequence and animation production duties alternating between Creator/DigitalEMation and Creator/SunminAnimation.

* CastFullOfGay: The show has a very diverse cast of LGBT characters: Enid and Venomous are bisexual, Red Action is a lesbian, Boxman is pansexual, the Hue Troops are all LGBT+, Gregg is non-binary, Nick and Joff are a gay couple, and there are a number of AmbiguouslyGay or AmbiguouslyBi characters (such as Rad, Raymond, Elodie, RMS, Brandon, Pastel, and Koala Princess.)

* AnAesop: The episodes usually have something good to take away from them. For example, the aesop of "A Hero's Fate" is "it's good to take breaks and have fun once in a while".

* ActionRPG: The battles in the game are real-time, one-button BeatEmUps.

* RealityEnsues: Because Boxman spends most of his time sending robots to attack the plaza, he's been neglecting his ''actual job'' of creating robot minions, which causes his clients to not receive their robots and puts his production schedule below his company's quota, which angers his investors. When Boxman Jr., his latest creation, reduces Boxmore to rubble, Cosma, his main investor, snaps and fires Boxman... out of a cannon into the sun with the help of [[TheStarscream Darrell]].
** Elodie might have renewed her friendship with Enid and apologized to her, but that doesn't means she actually became a better person or that her friendliness extends beyond that. When K.O. suggests that he could enroll in P.O.I.N.T. Prep in the future, Elodie [[KickTheDog cruelly crushes his dreams]], and Enid immediately steps in to defend him rather aggressively in spite of their friendship.
** Two for Mr. Gar
*** His nervousness towards Carol when he was in POINT made him unable to properly seek a relationship with her. By the time he thought of finally confessing, Carol/Silver Spark had already started a relationship with Laserblast, which Rippy Roo points out.
*** While he wasn't really responsible for the Sandwich Incident, he still was more focused on [[SkewedPriorities getting to date Carol (who at the time was openly in a relationship with Laserblast)]] than helping his teammates. With his negligence occurring on top of Laserblast's death/disappearance and Greyman's [[DePower permanent power loss]] all on the same day, it does make sense that Foxtail hates him, as all the factors coming together made it easier for him to be the center of all blame. It doesn't help that Carol also blamed him for the incident at the time, even if she did eventually realize this was wrong.

* BlueIsHeroic: K.O., Enid, and Rad wear blue (Enid and Rad have blue shirts while K.O. has a blue vest), and the plot of the show is about being heroes, specifically K.O. trying to ''become'' a hero.
** However, within the show, the crop tops and vest are only worn because they're Gar's Bodega work uniforms.

* ThemeTuneCameo: At the end of K.O.'s battle against Boxman Jr. in the Season 1 finale "You're In Control", the instrumental extended version from the short "Let's Do It Together" plays throughout.
** Later in the same episode, Lord Boxman gets fired, not only from his job, but also out of a cannon of Darrells into the sun, where he also flies past the "A Cartoon Network Original" tagline and the suspended OK K.O. letters just after said tagline; The first few seconds of the theme tune plays while Earth is still in view.
** In "Let's Fight to the End", an extended version of the theme tune plays during the Plaza Tournament montage that shows various characters advancing through the ranks.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Darrell, Shannon, Raymond, Ernesto, and Mikalya become the new defenders of the Plaza in "Dendy's Video Channel". However, at the end of "Let's Fight 'Til the End", they went back to being evil with Boxman from T.K.O.'s redemption.]]

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: In "The Power Is Yours", K.O. gets the Power of Heart from Kwame. After Rad, Enid, R.M.S. and Brandon start fighting, K.O uses his power to get them to see the error of their ways and focus on working together.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Darrell, Shannon, Raymond, Ernesto, and Mikalya become the new defenders of the Plaza in "Dendy's Video Channel".]]

** K.O., Rad and Enid use a [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower love beam]] to defeat Fink in "K.O. vs Fink". This causes them to be filled with residual emotions afterwards.

* RealityEnsues: Because Boxman spends most of his time sending robots to attack the plaza, he's been neglecting his ''actual job'' of creating robot minions, which causes his clients to not receive their robots and puts his production schedule below his company's quota, which angers his investors. When Boxman Jr., his latest creation, reduces Boxmore to rubble, Cosma, his main investor, snaps and fires Boxman...out of a cannon into the sun with the help of [[TheStarscream Darrell]].

* CastFullOfGay: The show has a very diverse cast of LGBT characters: Enid and Venomous are bisexual, Red Action is a lesbian, Boxman is pansexual, the Hue Troops are all LGBT+, Gregg is non-binary, Nick and Joff are a gay couple, and there are a number of AmbiguouslyGay or AmbiguouslyBi characters (such as Rad, Raymond, RMS, Brandon, Pastel, and Koala Princess.)

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: It's set in the year 201X, so it could be set anywhere between 2010 and 2019. (Season 3 was set in 202X.)

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: It's set in the year 201X, so it could be set anywhere between 2010 and 2019.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the first episode, a FreezeFrameBonus reveals Ginger flying out of the Fitness Dojo into the sky, most likely due to Carol.

* ExtraLongEpisode: There are three episodes that are double the QuarterHourShort length of the others, those being "You're in Control" (the Season 1 finale), "Dark Plaza" (the Season 2 finale), and "Let's Fight to the End" (the penultimate episode of Season 3 and of the overall series).

* AffablyEvil: Lord Boxman and Professor Venomous. Both are like AFatherToHisMen. In "We're Captured", Boxman even tries to balance having a dinner party with Professor Venomous and keeping K.O, Enid and Rad captured and keeping Shannon and Darrell from messing it up (which Shannon almost does by singing "her song" which happens to be [[ToiletHumor The Diarrhea Song]]) with [[TwoTimerDate disastrous]] [[HilarityEnsues results]].

** At the end of the series premiere, Let's Be Heroes, Mr. Gar launches himself from the sky to defeat Darrell. At the end of the series finale, [[spoiler:K.O, who at age [[VagueAge 35+]] has become a level 100 hero and owns Gar's Bodega, launches himself from the sky to take down a futuristic Darrell-like robot named Robbie]].

* BossSubtitles: {{Exaggerated}} ''and'' {{Downplayed}}. Whenever a new character appears, their [[Anime/KillLaKill names usually appear on the screen in bold, big bright words]] and tends to detail their strengths and weaknesses. However, most of them aren't actually "bosses".

* TheyDo: [[spoiler:During the series finale, many characters are shown getting married, and others are heavily implied to be married. Nick Army and Joff and Potato and Colewort are directly shown being wed, while Boxman and Venomous are shown with matching rings.]]

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: [[ShoulderSizedDragon They are the size of small birds]], according to "Everybody Likes Rad?". [[KillerRabbit Though they can still set whole humans on fire]].

* OhMyGods: Characters will often say "Oh my cob!" when scared or shocked. The [[KingOfAllCosmos closest equivalent to God]] in their world appears to be a [[http://ok-ko.wikia.com/amp/ok-ko/Corn_Shepherd giant corn cob.]]

* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Parodied in "Crossover Nexus". The villain Strike takes so long to power up, that K.O. is able to steal his pen gadget to return the powers to Ben 10, Garnet, and Raven. He doesn't even notice that it happens.