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* FollowTheLeader: ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' were runaway successes, and this was one of the many imitators that sprung up in their wake.



* PoorMansSubstitute: Thickly accented German bodybuilder Ralf Möller for thickly accented Austrian bodybuilder Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

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* PoorMansSubstitute: Thickly accented German bodybuilder Ralf Möller Creator/RalfMoeller for thickly accented Austrian bodybuilder Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
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* FridgeBrilliance: The reason why Conan is an AdaptionalNiceGuy in this version? His change in backstory. Most versions had Conan's family die at a young age, but here they are alive and well. Plus the environment He grew up in was far more peaceful than the harsh, barbaric environment other versions were born into.

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* FridgeBrilliance: The reason why Conan is an AdaptionalNiceGuy AdaptationalNiceGuy in this version? His change in backstory. Most versions had Conan's family die at a young age, but here they are alive and well. Plus the environment He grew up in was far more peaceful than the harsh, barbaric environment other versions were born into.
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* FridgeBrilliance: The reason Conan for AdaptionalNiceGuy in this version? His change in backstory. Most versions had Conan's family die at a young age, but here they are alive and well. Plus the environment He grew up in was far more peaceful than the harsh, barbaric environment other versions were born into.

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* FridgeBrilliance: The reason why Conan for is an AdaptionalNiceGuy in this version? His change in backstory. Most versions had Conan's family die at a young age, but here they are alive and well. Plus the environment He grew up in was far more peaceful than the harsh, barbaric environment other versions were born into.
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* FridgeBrilliance: The reason Conan for AdaptionalNiceGuy in this version? His change in backstory. Most versions had Conan's family die at a young age, but here they are alive and well. Plus the environment He grew up in was far more peaceful than the harsh, barbaric environment other versions were born into.
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** "In Days of Old" has an old wizard kidnapping Jezmine in the exactly right amount of lecherous manners as to fly over children's heads, and disturb them when they rewatch as adults.

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** "In Days of Old" has an old wizard kidnapping Jezmine in the exactly right amount of lecherous manners as to fly over children's heads, and disturb them when they rewatch as adults.
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** "In Days of Old" has an old wizard kidnapping Jezmine in the exactly right amount of lecherous manners as to fly over children's heads, and disturb them when they rewatch as adults.
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* MemeticBadass: Evillak, a minor villain from one of the episodes, has been propped up to a memetic status by the ''WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay'' fanbase, who often use him as an InterruptingMeme using his phrase "Now you must still survive Evillak!".
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* IdiotPlot:
** Conan pleaded to Queen Fridgia to restore his parents from stone to flesh. She replied that her magic can only affect the living. Has Conan forgotten about Misha and Sasha? Because the series ended with the siblings not fully restored, this subplot was never resolved.
** ''The Queen of Stygia episode''. A maiden asks Conan for a ride. [[EvilDetectingDog Misha and Sasha are growling at her]]. Seeing this, Jezmine suspect she's trouble and may be linked to Mesmira, as Misha and Sasha are capable of picking the evil sorceress's scent. Conan brushed it off and is proven wrong when the girl lured him to Mesmira.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Jason, stealing Conan's sword and going after [[BullyingADragon Wrath-Amon]] and actually thinking he would win. Wrath-Amon summed it up wonderfully when Jason accused him of cheating by using magic:
-->'''Wrath-Amon''': You think this is a game, boy?!
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* HilariousInHindsight: This line from a serpentman:

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* HilariousInHindsight: This line from a serpentman:serpentman. And no, there's [[NeverSayDie no fatality]]:
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* HilariousInHindsight: This line from a serpentman:
-->'''Serpentman champion''': Conan! I challenge you and your companions to [[Franchise/MortalKombat mortal combat]]!
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic / EarWorm: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8syTIxbG6U Conan! The adventurer! Conan! WARRIOR WITHOUT FEAR!]]'' Seriously, at least fifteen years since watching a single episode, and it can still pop into your head.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic / EarWorm: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8syTIxbG6U Conan! The adventurer! Conan! WARRIOR WITHOUT FEAR!]]'' Seriously, at least fifteen years since watching a single episode, and it can still pop into your head.
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* CatharsisFactor: [[spoiler:Hissah Zul]]'s beheading. The showrunner's seemed to be going for this, since it's the most violent death in the series, and the only decapitation in which we actually see the head go flying off.

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* CatharsisFactor: [[spoiler:Hissah Zul]]'s beheading. The showrunner's showrunners seemed to be going for this, since it's the most violent death in the series, and the only decapitation in which we actually see the head go flying off.
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** ''The Queen of Stygia episode''. A maiden asks Conan for a ride. [[EvilDetectingDog Misha and Sasha are growling at her]]. Seeing this, Jezmine suspect she's trouble and may be linked to Mesmira, as Misha and Sasha are capable of picking the evil sorceress' scent. Conan brushed it off and is proven wrong when the girl lured him to Mesmira.

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** ''The Queen of Stygia episode''. A maiden asks Conan for a ride. [[EvilDetectingDog Misha and Sasha are growling at her]]. Seeing this, Jezmine suspect she's trouble and may be linked to Mesmira, as Misha and Sasha are capable of picking the evil sorceress' sorceress's scent. Conan brushed it off and is proven wrong when the girl lured him to Mesmira.
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Cut for being badly written.


* TheScrappy: Needle, full stop.
** Although in ''WesternAnimation/ConanAndTheYoungWarriors,'' there's a throwaway line strongly suggesting Conan eventually got sick of Needle too and made stew out of him.
** AlasPoorScrappy: His fate in an alternate future was exceptionally cruel. [[spoiler: Set himself transformed him into a crystal statue that was kept for display in his inner chamber. When Conan travelled fifty years into the future and came upon the statue, he saw ''tears'' starting to form in its eyes]]

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* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Hissah Zul]] is a SorcerousOverlord who conquered most of the known lands in a bloody campaign that claimed the lives of Conan's parents, among countless others. Those who Zul does not enslave or wipe out are made to pay him heavy tributes, and live in fear of him as [[AGodAmI a God-like being]] who decides "when we live, and when we die". Upon learning that Conan is destined to slay him, Zul gives his soldiers free reign to raze towns in search of him, which results in the death of Conan's love, Tamira. Zul goes on to have an Amazon who is pregnant with Conan's child assassinated, and engenders hatred of the barbarian among the people by having mercenaries massacre villages with the aid of {{evil knockoff}}s of Conan. Not even Zul's own kin and men are safe from his cruelty; he blinded his own brother before [[SiblingMurder murdering him]] and trapping his soul in a swamp; expresses no regret after discovering that a subordinate that he had poisoned was his own illegitimate son; and [[BadBoss executes his own servants at the slightest provocation]], at one point snarling "[[WeHaveReserves Who cares about that?]]" when it is pointed out that one of his strategies could result in the deaths of many of them. Through it all, Zul repeatedly expresses jealousy over Conan's successes and triumphs, seeing himself as a great man who should be divinely ordained to possess all that the world has to offer.

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* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Hissah Zul]] is a SorcerousOverlord who conquered most of the known lands in a bloody campaign that claimed the lives of Conan's parents, among countless others. Those who Zul does not enslave or wipe out are made to pay him heavy tributes, and live in fear of him as [[AGodAmI a God-like being]] who decides "when we live, and when we die". Upon learning that Conan is destined to slay him, Zul gives his soldiers free reign to raze towns in search of him, which results in the death of Conan's love, Tamira. Zul goes on to have an Amazon who is pregnant with Conan's child assassinated, and engenders hatred of the barbarian among the people by having mercenaries massacre villages with the aid of {{evil knockoff}}s of Conan. Not even Zul's own kin and men are safe from his cruelty; he blinded his own brother before [[SiblingMurder [[CainAndAbel murdering him]] and trapping his soul in a swamp; expresses no regret after discovering that a subordinate that he had poisoned was his own illegitimate son; and [[BadBoss executes his own servants at the slightest provocation]], at one point snarling "[[WeHaveReserves Who cares about that?]]" when it is pointed out that one of his strategies could result in the deaths of many of them. Through it all, Zul repeatedly expresses jealousy over Conan's successes and triumphs, seeing himself as a great man who should be divinely ordained to possess all that the world has to offer.
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* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Hissah Zul]] is a SorcerousOverlord who conquered most of the known lands in a bloody campaign that claimed the lives of Conan's parents, among countless others. Those who Zul does not enslave or wipe out are made to pay him heavy tributes, and live in fear of him as [[AGodAmI a God-like being]] who decides "when we live, and when we die". Upon learning that Conan is destined to slay him, Zul gives his soldiers free reign to raze towns in search of him, which results in the death of Conan's love, Tamira. Zul goes on to have an Amazon who is pregnant with Conan's child assassinated, and engenders hatred of the barbarian among the people by having mercenaries massacre villages with the aid of {{evil knockoff}}s of Conan. Not even Zul's own kin and men are safe from his cruelty; he blinded his own brother before [[SiblingMurder murdering him]] and trapping his soul in a swamp; expresses no regret after discovering that a subordinate that he had poisoned was his own illegitimate son; and [[BadBoss executes his own servants at the slightest provocation]], at one point snarling "[[WeHaveReserves Who cares about that?]]" when it is pointed out that one of his strategies could result in the deaths of many of them. Through it all, Zul repeatedly expresses jealousy over Conan's successes and triumphs, seeing himself as a great man who should be divinely ordained to possess all that the world has to offer.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Despite being LighterAndSofter than the original Creator/RobertEHoward stories, this series is remarkably dark for an animated series that was syndicated for children's viewing, featuring storylines involving slavery, BodyHorror and cannibalism.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Despite being LighterAndSofter than the original Creator/RobertEHoward stories, this series is remarkably dark for an animated series that was syndicated for children's viewing, featuring storylines involving slavery, BodyHorror and cannibalism.cannibalism.

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* CatharsisFactor: [[spoiler:Hissah Zul]]'s beheading. The showrunner's seemed to be going for this, since it's the most violent death in the series, and the only decapitation in which we actually see the head go flying off.
* FollowTheLeader: ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' were runaway successes, and this was one of the many imitators that sprung up in their wake.
* {{Narm}}: Hissah Zul's head twitches and shakes almost constantly in the two-part premiere. He's a lot less Parkinsons-y in the subsequent episodes, though.
* NarmCharm: [[spoiler:Hissah Zul]]'s beheading looks ''[[SpecialEffectsFailure terrible]]'', yet it's still awesome.
* PoorMansSubstitute: Thickly accented German bodybuilder Ralf Möller for thickly accented Austrian bodybuilder Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: As to be expected, the CGI has not aged gracefully, so there's loads of cheesy monsters, bad green screens, and low resolution figures milling about in distant exterior shots of buildings like the tavern in "Red Sonja."

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** Although in ''Conan and the Young Warriors,'' there's a throwaway line strongly suggesting Conan eventually got sick of Needle too and made stew out of him.

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** Although in ''Conan and the Young Warriors,'' ''WesternAnimation/ConanAndTheYoungWarriors,'' there's a throwaway line strongly suggesting Conan eventually got sick of Needle too and made stew out of him.
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* AwesomeMusic / EarWorm: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8syTIxbG6U Conan! The adventurer! Conan! WARRIOR WITHOUT FEAR!]]'' Seriously, at least fifteen years since watching a single episode, and it can still pop into your head.

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* AwesomeMusic SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic / EarWorm: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8syTIxbG6U Conan! The adventurer! Conan! WARRIOR WITHOUT FEAR!]]'' Seriously, at least fifteen years since watching a single episode, and it can still pop into your head.
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** ''The Queen of Stygia episode''. A maiden ask Conan for a ride. [[EvilDetectingDog Misha and Sasha are growling at her]]. Seeing this, Jezmine suspect she's trouble and may be linked to Mesmira, as Misha and Sasha are capable of picking the evil sorceresses' scent. Conan brushed it off and is proven wrong when the girl lured him to Mesmira.
* {{Narm}}: A serpentman mage conjure flying scorpions that throw poison. Pretty scary, until you notice they have [[CartoonyEyes goofy cartoony eyes]] that remove any perceptible threat they might possess.

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** ''The Queen of Stygia episode''. A maiden ask asks Conan for a ride. [[EvilDetectingDog Misha and Sasha are growling at her]]. Seeing this, Jezmine suspect she's trouble and may be linked to Mesmira, as Misha and Sasha are capable of picking the evil sorceresses' sorceress' scent. Conan brushed it off and is proven wrong when the girl lured him to Mesmira.
* {{Narm}}: A serpentman mage conjure conjures flying scorpions that throw poison. Pretty scary, until you notice they have [[CartoonyEyes goofy cartoony eyes]] that remove any perceptible threat they might possess.



* WhatAnIdiot: Jason, stealing Conan's sword and going after [[BullyingADragon Wrath-Amon]] and actually think he will win. Wrath-Amon summed it up wonderfully when Jason accused him of cheating by using magic:

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* WhatAnIdiot: Jason, stealing Conan's sword and going after [[BullyingADragon Wrath-Amon]] and actually think thinking he will would win. Wrath-Amon summed it up wonderfully when Jason accused him of cheating by using magic:

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