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* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: The strength, durability and competency of just about every character fluctuates wildly depending on the needs of the episode's plot.

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'''Supermansion''' is a stop-motion animated series from the creators of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. It's about aging superhero Titanium Rex (Creator/BryanCranston), who is the leader of the League of Freedom. The league contains a wide variety of superheroes, most of which are expy's of other superheroes.

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'''Supermansion'''
''Supermansion''
is a stop-motion animated series from the creators of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. It's about aging superhero Titanium Rex (Creator/BryanCranston), who is the leader of the League of Freedom. The league contains a wide variety of superheroes, most of which are expy's of other superheroes.



* '''Robobot''' (Creator/ZebWells): A robot who converted to Judaism after discovering his creator was Jewish, [[spoiler: though later quit after discovering she just had a Jewish Surname, not an actual Jew]] Jewbot seeks to learn how to be a human in his own way. A parody of ComicBook/TheVision.

You can watch it on [[http://www.crackle.com/ Crackle]], and it is currently airing on Sunday nights on Creator/AdultSwim.

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!!''Super Mansion'' provides examples of the following tropes:

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* '''Robobot''' (Creator/ZebWells): A robot who converted to Judaism after discovering his creator was Jewish, [[spoiler: though later quit after discovering she just had a Jewish Surname, not an actual Jew]] Jewbot seeks to learn how to be a human in his own way. A parody of ComicBook/TheVision.

You can watch it on [[http://www.crackle.com/ Crackle]], and it is currently airing Crackle]]. It used to air on Sunday nights on Creator/AdultSwim.

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!!''Super Mansion''
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!!Super Mansion
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** For the other League Members: Titanium Rex is Franchise/{{Superman}}, Lex Lighting is ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Cooch is ComicBook/{{Tigra}}, Brad is the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and Black Saturn is Franchise/{{Batman}} if he never lost his parents.

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** For the other League Members: Titanium Rex is Franchise/{{Superman}}, Lex Lighting Lightning is ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Cooch is ComicBook/{{Tigra}}, Brad is the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and Black Saturn is Franchise/{{Batman}} if he never lost his parents.



** TheChick: Cooch, who's the only girl until Lightning Lex.

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** TheChick: Cooch, who's the only girl until Lightning Lex.Lex Lightning.



* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Being that he's a FishOutOfTemporalWater from the 50's, American Ranger still has some bigoted values. The first episode has him be outraged that a [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama black man is now president]].
* PowerFist: Titanium Rex and Lightning Lex have a metal right arm due to their Subtonian heritage. [[spoiler:In the season finale, Rex shows that it can transform into an ArmCannon.]]

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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Being that he's a FishOutOfTemporalWater from the 50's, FishOutOfTemporalWater, American Ranger still has some bigoted values. The first episode has him be outraged that a [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama black man is now president]].
* PowerFist: Titanium Rex and Lex Lightning Lex have a metal right arm due to their Subtonian heritage. [[spoiler:In the season finale, Rex shows that it can transform into an ArmCannon.]]
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** For the other League Members: Titanium Rex is Franchise/{{Superman}}, Lex Lighting is ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Cooch is [[Characters/Avengers80sMembers Tigra]], Brad is the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and Black Saturn is Franchise/{{Batman}} if he never lost his parents.

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** For the other League Members: Titanium Rex is Franchise/{{Superman}}, Lex Lighting is ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Cooch is [[Characters/Avengers80sMembers Tigra]], is ComicBook/{{Tigra}}, Brad is the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and Black Saturn is Franchise/{{Batman}} if he never lost his parents.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Gloria, American Rangers wife, and Titanium Rex. To be fair, Gloria thought American Ranger was gone. They still kept up with it after he came back however.
** [[spoiler: He also slept with Dr. Devizo's wife]]. Furthermore, in the very first episode he mentions that he 'banged Dr. Gizmo's wife on the moon!'
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* {{Adorkable}}: Black Saturn uses this word to describe Lex, in that it's the current acceptable replacement for the word "retarded".

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* BadassGrandpa: While he's way past his prime and suffers the typical physical problems of men his age, Titanium Rex is still a FlyingBrick who can totally kick ass, though he was temporarily BroughtDownToNormal when his powers ran out. At the end of the episode, he proceeds to tell Blazarr that as he got older, he learned to make up his failing strength by being sneakier and fighting dirtier.



* OldSuperhero: Titanium Rex

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* OldSuperhero: While he's way past his prime and suffers the typical physical problems of men his age, Titanium RexRex is still a FlyingBrick who can totally kick ass, though he was temporarily BroughtDownToNormal when his powers ran out. At the end of the episode, he proceeds to tell Blazarr that as he got older, he learned to make up his failing strength by being sneakier and fighting dirtier.

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** Rex's Drill Car he used to get to the surface comes up again in the finale [[spoiler: Brad uses it to destroy the mansion in a HeroicSacrifice, stopping Devizo in the process. ]]



** Rex's Drill Car he used to get to the surface comes up again in the finale [[spoiler: Brad uses it to destroy the mansion in a HeroicSacrifice, stopping Devizo in the process. ]]

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* CivilizedAnimal: Cooch is an artificially evolved cat, but still a cat. She goes into heat, wants to eat Omega Pet Bustanuts, a squirrel, and she's five years old. She also has the attention span of a cat - in human terms, "apocalyptic-level A.D.D." (according to Jewbot's brainscan).



* PettingZooPeople: Cooch is a higher evolved cat, but still a cat. She goes into heat, wants to eat Omega Pet Bustanuts, a squirrel, and she's five years old. She also has the attention span of a cat - in human terms, "apocalyptic-level A.D.D." (according to Jewbot's brainscan).
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* DomesticAbuser: [[spoiler: The Omega Pets, Genki is the most obvious one but the others aren't that far behind. ]]

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* DomesticAbuser: DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler: The Omega Pets, Genki is the most obvious one but the others aren't that far behind. ]]
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* '''Black Saturn'''' (Creator/TuckerGilmore): A spoiled rich kid who leaches off his parents, Black Saturn is immature, whiny and an all-around tool. A parody of Franchise/{{Batman}}.

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* '''Black Saturn'''' Saturn''' (Creator/TuckerGilmore): A spoiled rich kid who leaches off his parents, Black Saturn is immature, whiny and an all-around tool. A parody of Franchise/{{Batman}}.
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* NobleBigot: American Ranger is from the 40's so his thinking and mentality is still in that time, meaning he says several things that are considered racist by today's standards. Nothing he says is meant with malice or actual racism however. He would be considered progressive by his own time's standards. If one watches carefully he's probably the most morally upstanding member of the team.

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* NobleBigot: American Ranger is from the 40's so his thinking and mentality is still in that time, meaning he says several things that are considered racist by today's standards. Nothing he says is meant with malice or actual racism however. (When in Washington DC, he mistakes President Obama and Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor for servants.) He would be considered progressive by his own time's standards. If one watches carefully he's probably the most morally upstanding member of the team.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There's another Titanium Rex, who's a talking dinosaur with metal arms who struggles with him over who gets to keep the name.

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* OneSteveLimit: Averted.[[AvertedTrope Averted]]. There's another Titanium Rex, who's a talking dinosaur with metal arms who struggles with him over who gets to keep the name.



* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Played with, in episode 3 Cooch offers herself to Ranger and Saturn to help her while she's in heat but not Brad because she knows with his addictive personality he'll fall in love with her but she eventually sleeps with him after he promises not to fall in love.

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* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Played with, [[PlayingWithATrope Playing With]], in episode 3 Cooch offers herself to Ranger and Saturn to help her while she's in heat but not Brad because she knows with his addictive personality he'll fall in love with her but she eventually sleeps with him after he promises not to fall in love.
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* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Saturn vs Bugula in Season 3. End result is Saturn on the ground with a broken back and pride crying for Rex, while Bugula walks away without a scratch. ]]


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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Bugula gets some major payback on Black Saturn in Season 3. Starting with a scathing "TheReasonYouSuckSpeech" about how he is just a joke, and later a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, culminating in him actually breaking Saturn's back and leaving him crawling on the ground, crying. Considering how Saturn ruined his life and is directly responsible for his kid being taken away, he deserved it. ]]
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* InstantTurnOff: Black Saturn has this reaction when he discovers that he has had a poster of his mom from her porn star days and has been jacking off to it since he was a teenager, (He never realized cause she always wore a mask in them), while working on a case of kidnapped retired supermodel porn stars. He reacts to this with disgust, [[RunningGag and then keeps reacting with disgust whenever he heard about how others would masturbate to her or his Mom talking about her sex escapes from those days throughout the episode]].
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* '''Black Saturn'''' (Creator/TuckerGilmore): A spoiled rich kid who leaches off his parents, Black Saturn is immature, whiny and an all-around tool. A parody of {{Batman}}.

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* '''Black Saturn'''' (Creator/TuckerGilmore): A spoiled rich kid who leaches off his parents, Black Saturn is immature, whiny and an all-around tool. A parody of {{Batman}}.Franchise/{{Batman}}.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Being that he's a FishOutOfTemporalWater from the 50's, American Ranger still has some bigoted values. The first episode has him be outraged that a [[Creator/BarackObama black man is now president]].

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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Being that he's a FishOutOfTemporalWater from the 50's, American Ranger still has some bigoted values. The first episode has him be outraged that a [[Creator/BarackObama [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama black man is now president]].
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** For the villains we have [[VillainousHarlequin Groaner]], who acts as the rational one on a fair number of the heroes missions and constantly points out the lunacy of other characters, especially Black Saturn.
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* ProductPlacement: Very much so and very blatant. Characters will literally stop what they are doing to talk about how great Arby's is and will run a scene with every character holding arby's bags. Video games are routinely advertised as well though the saving grace of those is that the characters are playing the game on an Xbox one on a [[BitingTheHandHumor Crackle ( Sony's streaming network) original show.]]

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* ProductPlacement: Very much so and very blatant. Characters will literally stop what they are doing to talk about how great Arby's Arbys is and will run a scene with every character holding arby's Arby's bags. Video games are routinely advertised as well though the saving grace of those is that the characters are playing the game on an Xbox one on a [[BitingTheHandHumor Crackle ( Sony's streaming network) original show.]]
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* ProductPlacement: Very much so and very blatant. Characters will literally stop what they are doing to talk about how great Arby's is and will run a scene with every character holding arby's bags. Video games are routinely advertised as well though the saving grace of those is that the characters are playing the game on an Xbox one on a [[ BitingTheHandHumor Crackle ( Sony's streaming network) original show.]]

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* ProductPlacement: Very much so and very blatant. Characters will literally stop what they are doing to talk about how great Arby's is and will run a scene with every character holding arby's bags. Video games are routinely advertised as well though the saving grace of those is that the characters are playing the game on an Xbox one on a [[ BitingTheHandHumor [[BitingTheHandHumor Crackle ( Sony's streaming network) original show.]]
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* ProductPlacement: Very much so and very blatant. Characters will literally stop what they are doing to talk about how great Arby's is and will run a scene with every character holding arby's bags. Video games are routinely advertised as well though the saving grace of those is that the characters are playing the game on an Xbox one on a [[ BitingTheHandHumor Crackle ( Sony's streaming network) original show.]]
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* '''Robobot''' (Creator/ZebWells): A robot who converted to Judaism after discovering his creator was Jewish, [[spoiler: though later quit after discovering she just had a Jewish Surname, not an actual Jew]] Jewbot seeks to learn how to be a human in his own way. A parody of {{The Vision}}.

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* '''Robobot''' (Creator/ZebWells): A robot who converted to Judaism after discovering his creator was Jewish, [[spoiler: though later quit after discovering she just had a Jewish Surname, not an actual Jew]] Jewbot seeks to learn how to be a human in his own way. A parody of {{The Vision}}.
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* '''Robobot''' (Creator/ZebWells): A robot who converted to Judaism after discovering his creator was Jewish, [[spoiler: though later quit after discovering she just had a Jewish Surname, not an actual Jew]] Jewbot seeks to learn how to be a human in his own way. A parody of {{TheVision}}.

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* '''Robobot''' (Creator/ZebWells): A robot who converted to Judaism after discovering his creator was Jewish, [[spoiler: though later quit after discovering she just had a Jewish Surname, not an actual Jew]] Jewbot seeks to learn how to be a human in his own way. A parody of {{TheVision}}.
{{The Vision}}.
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* '''Robobot''' (Creator/ZebWells): A robot who converted to Judaism after discovering his creator was Jewish, [[spoiler: though later quit after discovering she just had a Jewish Surname, not an actual Jew]] Jewbot seeks to learn how to be a human in his own way. A parody of {{Vision}}.

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* '''Robobot''' (Creator/ZebWells): A robot who converted to Judaism after discovering his creator was Jewish, [[spoiler: though later quit after discovering she just had a Jewish Surname, not an actual Jew]] Jewbot seeks to learn how to be a human in his own way. A parody of {{Vision}}.
{{TheVision}}.
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* '''Cooch''' (Creator/HeidiGardner): An evolved housecat, Cooch is like any typical cat: absolutely lacking in attention span and barely controllable. A parody of {{Tigra}}.

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* '''Cooch''' (Creator/HeidiGardner): An evolved housecat, Cooch is like any typical cat: absolutely lacking in attention span and barely controllable. A parody of {{Tigra}}.[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Tigra]].
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* '''Titanium Rex''' (Creator/BryanCranston): A FlyingBrick from [[HollowWorld Subtopia]]. The geriatric leader of the team who struggles to keep the team running. A parody of ComicBook/Superman
* '''Black Saturn'''' (Creator/TuckerGilmore): A spoiled rich kid who leaches off his parents, Black Saturn is immature, whiny and an all-around tool. A parody of ComicBook/Batman

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* '''Titanium Rex''' (Creator/BryanCranston): A FlyingBrick from [[HollowWorld Subtopia]]. The geriatric leader of the team who struggles to keep the team running. A parody of ComicBook/Superman
{{Superman}}.
* '''Black Saturn'''' (Creator/TuckerGilmore): A spoiled rich kid who leaches off his parents, Black Saturn is immature, whiny and an all-around tool. A parody of ComicBook/Batman{{Batman}}.



* '''Cooch''' (Creator/HeidiGardner): An evolved housecat, Cooch is like any typical cat: absolutely lacking in attention span and barely controllable. A parody of ComicBook/Tigra

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* '''Cooch''' (Creator/HeidiGardner): An evolved housecat, Cooch is like any typical cat: absolutely lacking in attention span and barely controllable. A parody of ComicBook/Tigra{{Tigra}}.



* '''Robobot''' (Creator/ZebWells): A robot who converted to Judaism after discovering his creator was Jewish, [[spoiler: though later quit after discovering she just had a Jewish Surname, not an actual Jew]] Jewbot seeks to learn how to be a human in his own way. A parody of ComicBook/Vision.

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* '''Robobot''' (Creator/ZebWells): A robot who converted to Judaism after discovering his creator was Jewish, [[spoiler: though later quit after discovering she just had a Jewish Surname, not an actual Jew]] Jewbot seeks to learn how to be a human in his own way. A parody of ComicBook/Vision.
{{Vision}}.
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* '''Titanium Rex''' (Creator/BryanCranston): A FlyingBrick from [[HollowWorld Subtopia]]. The geriatric leader of the team who struggles to keep the team running.
* '''Black Saturn'''' (Creator/TuckerGilmore): A spoiled rich kid who leaches off his parents, Black Saturn is immature, whiny and an all-around tool.
* '''American Ranger''' (Creator/KeeganMichaelKey): Rex's best friend. A WWII-era eagle-themed hero who was recently released from a time tunnel, Ranger is still getting used to the values of the new world.
* '''Cooch''' (Creator/HeidiGardner): An evolved housecat, Cooch is like any typical cat: absolutely lacking in attention span and barely controllable.
* '''Brad''' (Creator/TomRoot): A junkie who was used as a test subject for an experimental SuperSerum, Brad prefers to spend his time getting high rather than do anything useful.
* '''Robobot''' (Creator/ZebWells): A robot who converted to Judaism after discovering his creator was Jewish, [[spoiler: though later quit after discovering she just had a Jewish Surname, not an actual Jew]] Jewbot seeks to learn how to be a human in his own way.

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* '''Titanium Rex''' (Creator/BryanCranston): A FlyingBrick from [[HollowWorld Subtopia]]. The geriatric leader of the team who struggles to keep the team running.
running. A parody of ComicBook/Superman
* '''Black Saturn'''' (Creator/TuckerGilmore): A spoiled rich kid who leaches off his parents, Black Saturn is immature, whiny and an all-around tool.
tool. A parody of ComicBook/Batman
* '''American Ranger''' (Creator/KeeganMichaelKey): Rex's best friend. A WWII-era eagle-themed hero who was recently released from a time tunnel, Ranger is still getting used to the values of the new world.
world. A parody of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica
* '''Cooch''' (Creator/HeidiGardner): An evolved housecat, Cooch is like any typical cat: absolutely lacking in attention span and barely controllable.
controllable. A parody of ComicBook/Tigra
* '''Brad''' (Creator/TomRoot): A junkie who was used as a test subject for an experimental SuperSerum, Brad prefers to spend his time getting high rather than do anything useful.
useful. A parody of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk
* '''Robobot''' (Creator/ZebWells): A robot who converted to Judaism after discovering his creator was Jewish, [[spoiler: though later quit after discovering she just had a Jewish Surname, not an actual Jew]] Jewbot seeks to learn how to be a human in his own way.
way. A parody of ComicBook/Vision.

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* ChekhovsGun: Jewbot accidently looses a finger in Rex's ass during his medical examination. [[spoiler: This ends up allowing the League to escape later when said finger and a head is all Jewbot has left after Dr.Devizo steals his body to create PoweredArmor. ]]

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* ChekhovsGun: Jewbot accidently looses accidentally loses a finger in Rex's ass during his medical examination. [[spoiler: This ends up allowing the League to escape later when said finger and a head is all Jewbot has left after Dr. Devizo steals his body to create PoweredArmor. ]]


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* CrazyPrepared: Cooch has a "Doomsday stash" of various snack foods that she's stockpiling for particularly bad scenarios. [[spoiler:This lets her survive as a warlord in a BadFuture]].

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* BadFuture: Season 2 has an episode dealing with one that is the result of Zenith and American Ranger having sex, with their resultant child bringing devastation to the world and a future Black Saturn being sent back in time to fix it. [[spoiler:The ending of the episode has Modern Black Saturn suggesting that Ranger should run for President, which results in another Bad Future]].



* TheChessMaster: Dr.Devizo, who expertly manipulates his way out of the mansion and the League. The only reason he did not escape was because he didn't account for Lex to be there. [[spoiler: And as it turns out that was staged as part of a bigger plan with Lex to destroy the earth with nuclear winter to start over.]]

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* TheChessMaster: Dr. Devizo, who expertly manipulates his way out of the mansion and the League. The only reason he did not escape was because he didn't account for Lex to be there. [[spoiler: And as it turns out that was staged as part of a bigger plan with Lex to destroy the earth with nuclear winter to start over.]]]] By the end of Season Two [[spoiler:he manages to manipulate his way into becoming a VillainWithGoodPublicity in a position to oversee the League with government backing]].


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* EnemyMine: The season two finale has the League joining forces with the Injustice Club to deal with [[spoiler:the Subtopian invasion]].
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* ReligiousRobot: Robobot, after an existential crisis and learning that his creator's name was Goldstein, turns towards judaism and became Jewbot. That's what he calls himself, to his rabbi's frustration. Season two however reveals that [[spoiler:his creator wasn't Jewish, but a Scientologist.]]
* SeriesContinuityError: In Episode 8 Brad doesn't want Rex to know he's a drug addict but the thing is before this episode he made no attempt to hide this and was everyone knew.

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* ReligiousRobot: Robobot, after an existential crisis and learning that his creator's name was Goldstein, turns towards judaism and became Jewbot. That's what he calls himself, to his rabbi's frustration. Season two however reveals that [[spoiler:his creator wasn't Jewish, but a Scientologist.]]
Scientologist,]] after learning that he later quits religion and becomes Robobot again.
* SeriesContinuityError: In Episode 8 Brad doesn't want Rex to know he's a drug addict but the thing is before this episode he made no attempt to hide this and was everyone knew.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The first episode is an expansion on the pitch pilot, even reusing the old character models to keep continuity.



* ArtEvolution: The character models from the first episode were replaced with newer ones for the rest of the first season and those models were upgraded for Season 2.



** [[spoiler: He also slept with Dr. Devizo's wife]]. Furthermore, in the very first episode he mentions that he 'banged Dr. Gizmo's wife on the moon!'

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** [[spoiler: He also slept with Dr. Devizo's wife]]. Furthermore, in the very first episode he mentions that he 'banged Dr. Gizmo's wife on the moon!'moon!'
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Rex making it to the surface from Subtopia was a one in a million chance, as no other Subtopian managed to survive the trip before or after him. [[spoiler:Also, at the end Season 1, the drill pod he used to get to the surface was destroyed to stop Dr. Devizo's plan to start a nuclear war.]]

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