History WesternAnimation / SilverSurferTheAnimatedSeries

* GroundhogDayLoop: "The Forever War" has [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]] as a supersoldier created to fight the Kree. Fearing his power, his creators trapped him in a Groundhog Day Loop time anomaly in space in which he fights the same battle over and over again the same way (his own memory getting reset each time). New objects can be drawn in so how he fights exactly the same way against a growing number of ships from different eras is a mystery. The Silver Surfer is not affected by the anomaly and manages to pull Warlock out. By the end Warlock not being able to cope with events that transpired in the real world since the planet he was built to protect was now gone, flies back in the anomaly and goes back to fighting obliviously in the loop, presumably forever.

* WasOnceAMan: In "Learning Curve", the Surfer and a group of researches come across an enormous green blob monster on a universal library planet built by {{Precursors}}. It's actually the precursors (and the crew of a pirate ship) themselves after they devolved into this form and linked up with each other in a hive mind of knowledge.

''Silver Surfer'' was a shortlived AnimatedAdaptation based on the ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' comic book character that ran on Creator/FoxKids in the 1998-99 season.

* AdaptationalModesty: For her appearance Gamora is more covered up.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Among Nebula's crew are a Nova Corps member and Jack of Hearts, superheroes in the comics.
* AdaptationalWimp: Also among Nebula's gang of pirates is Champion, a member of the Elders of the Universe and nigh PhysicalGod.

* GroundhogDayLoop: "The Forever War" has [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]] as a supersoldier created to fight the Kree. Fearing his power, his creators trapped him in a Groundhog Day Loop time anomaly in space in which he fights the same battle over and over again the same way (his own memory getting reset each time). New objects can be drawn in so how he fights exactly the same way against a growing number of ships from different eras is a mystery. The Silver Surfer is not affected by the anomaly and manages to pull Warlock out. By the end Warlock not being able to cope with events that transpired in the real world, flies back in the anomaly and goes back to fighting obliviously in the loop, presumably forever.

* IGaveMyWord: In a particular bit of dramatic irony, Norrin Radd offers his own planet up to Galactus immediately after making a deal with him to become the Silver Surfer to save it and having his memory wiped. Galactus states that that particular planet is off-limits for him and the Surfer because he once "made a deal with an honorable man".

* GroundhogDayLoop: "The Forever War" has [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]] as a supersoldier created to fight the Kree. Fearing his power, his creators trapped him in a Groundhog Day Loop time anomaly in space in which he fights the same battle over and over again the same way (his own memory getting reset each time). New objects can be drawn in so how he fights exactly the same way against a growing number of ships from different eras is a mystery. The Silver Surfer is not affected by the anomaly and manages to pull Warlock out. By the end Warlock not being able to cope with events that transpired in the real world, flies back in the anomaly and goes back to fighting obliviously in the loop, presumably forever.

* GroundhogDayLoop: "The Forever War" has ComicBook/AdamWarlock as a supersoldier created to fight the Kree. Fearing his power, his creators trapped him in a Groundhog Day Loop time anomaly in space in which he fights the same battle over and over again the same way (his own memory getting reset each time). New objects can be drawn in so how he fights exactly the same way against a growing number of ships from different eras is a mystery. The Silver Surfer is not affected by the anomaly and manages to pull Warlock out. By the end Warlock not being able to cope with events that transpired in the real world, flies back in the anomaly and goes back to fighting obliviously in the loop, presumably forever.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Among Nebula's crew are a Nova and Jack of Hearts.

* AdaptationalModesty: For her appearance Gamora is more covered up.

* LeftHanging: The cartoon [[ShortRunners ended with thirteen episodes]], because [[AuthorExistenceFailure Marvel went bankrupt]]. Episode 13 featured Thanos ''destroying all of the cosmos''. The second season was meant to fix this.

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* CompleteMonster:
** "The Planet of Dr. Moreau": The [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Kree Overseers]] are part of a combined intelligence, where their [[BrainUploading brains were placed into a computer]] and they were given dominion of a planet named Morovus. The Master of Zenn-La was put into the combined intelligence and forced by the Overseers to participate in their evil acts. The Overseers rule over a group of Trolls, beings the Kree [[SlaveRace created to be their slaves]], using [[ShockCollar slave collars]] to control them and inflicting pain on them if they disobey. When the Silver Surfer confronts the Overseers for their treatment of the Trolls, the Overseers dismiss the Surfer's arguments, comparing the Trolls to objects. The Overseers believe the Surfer [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill polluted the minds of the Trolls with the hopes of freedom]] and the Overseers send an energy beam to destroy the Trolls on Morovus.
** "Second Foundation": [[CorruptPolitician Prime Minister Kiar]] and [[InsaneAdmiral Admiral Zedrao]] are the military leaders of the Skrull Empire. Due to their failure to defeat the Kree Empire, the Skrull HiveQueen was going to remove them from power, so they kill the Queen instead, dooming the Skrull race to eventual extinction. They pretend the Queen is still alive and take total power for themselves. When Kiar and Zedrao discover there is a royal egg containing a new Queen on the planet Skrullos, they plan to raise the queen themselves and have the queen establish a ruling line where their direct decedents will control the Empire through the [[PuppetKing puppet Hive Queen]]. When Kiar and Zedrao capture Nova, the current Herald of [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]], they plan to force her to summon Galactus to the worlds of the Kree, so that they can win the war by destroying the Kree race.

* IGaveMyWord: In a particular bit of dramatic irony, Norrin Radd offers his own planet up to Galactus immediately after making a deal with him to become the Silver Surfer to save it and having his memory wiped. Galactus states that that particular planet is off-limits for him and the Surfer because he once made a deal with an honorable man.

* BlobMonster: The two-part episode "Learning Curve" is all about this, featuring amorphous aliens called 'Virals' accidentally born from an unstable cure created by the Watchers. Anyone who entered the Universal Library with selfish intentions or attempted to use the information with such an attitude would eventually mutate as well, operating as a collective with the ability to 'control their evolution'. Only the Surfer himself was immune because his powers are derived from the power cosmic of his former master [[CosmicEntity Galactus]]. While he did become a blob before he changed back, he could not unify with the HiveMind.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Variant with Mentor, who is stated to be Thanos' ''brother'' rather than his father. This was apparently due to a typographical error that nobody caught until it was too late.

* {{Crossover}}: Crossed over with ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' during the block's "Head For The Hills" promos advertising the latter series.