Line #22 WesternAnimation/Hurricanes


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3	->''"I've inherited a team in the World Soccer League. The HURRICANES!"''
4	-->--'''Amanda Carey'''
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6	''Hurricanes'' is an animated series created in the 1990s by [[Creator/DiCEntertainment DiC Entertainment]], Siriol Productions and Scottish Television as an attempt to capitalize on the 1994 FIFA [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup World Cup]].
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8	Teenage girl Amanda Carey inherited a soccer team (the Hispanola Hurricanes) from her father. She and the team travel to several locations across the globe to play soccer and/or solve mysteries while battling [[BigBad Stavros Garkos]], owner of the [[OpposingSportsTeam Garkos Gorgons]].
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13	* AccidentalBid: Napper once acquired a McGuffin that way. One of the BigBad's CoDragons accidentally acquired a random item in another auction where the BigBad himself acquired the MacGuffin.
14	* ActionGirl: Amanda Carey.
15	* AllJustADream: Some of the episodes. Some even leave hints that [[OrWasItADream maybe it wasn't]].
16	* AlliterativeName: Cal Casey, Sheila Stone, Hispanola Hurricanes, Garkos Gorgons, Tokyo Typhoons, UsefulNotes/LosAngeles Lasers.
17	* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Italian theme song.
18	* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Not with Helmut and Yorg Beethoven. Helmut is taller and Yorg is more muscular.
19	* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: After each episode ends, there's a segment where somebody (usually Amanda) explains the moral.
20	* TheBadGuyWins: In the episode "Deep Cover", after Wyn and Genghis made some of the Hurricanes miss the upcoming game by causing several injuries, Amanda disguises herself as a man to enter the team. The Hurricanes won the game but, not feeling okay with breaking the rules, even one she considers stupid, she confessed to the league, and victory was officially granted to the Gorgons (a rare case where TheBadGuysWin in the ''very first episode''!).
21	** In "The Boot of All Evil", the Hurricanes and the Gorgons played a match in Australia for the chance of being spokesmen of a new brand of soccer boots. The Gorgons replaced the Hurricanes' boots with cheap knockoffs that fell apart during the game. To win the game, Papillon painted Plato's feet to make it seem like he's wearing boots. The Hurricanes won the game but rejected the contract. It's not clearly stated if the Gorgons got it or not.
22	* BananaRepublic: The Hurricanes were once imprisoned within one ruled by a soccer-obsessed General in "Escape to Freedom".
23	* BerserkButton: Plato is against animal cruelty, be it black market trading of rare animals or domesticating wild animals (wallabies that play soccer).
24	* BigBad: Stavros Garkos.
25	* BigGood: Amanda.
26	* BookDumb: Despite being phenomenal soccer players and dealing with madcamp adventures outside of soccer, Napper never graduated high school. Rude was in the same boat until Napper inspired him to get his high school certificate.
27	* TheButlerDidIt: "The Curse of the Gorgon" had the Hispanola Hurricanes seemingly turned into stone by the legendary Medusa. It turns out they had just been replaced by statues and a butler working for the Hurricanes' host had been bribed into helping.
28	** There's a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] in "Lord Napper of Stepney". Napper inherited his Uncle's fortune [[OnOneCondition on the condition]] he never plays soccer ever again. It's never been stated who would be the next one to get the inheritance until Napper lost it. Until then, the only people who ever hoped to get the money were a relative and the deceased one's business partner and the two of them ever tried to rid themselves of Napper. In the end, the money went to the valet, who never tried to do anything nor had shown any sign of knowing or even hoping to be the next heir.
29	* CantBelieveISaidThat: In an EnemyMine case, Amanda and Stats (Hurricanes) entered a truce with Garkos, Wyn and Genghis ([[OpposingSportsTeam Gorgons]]) to find who's trying to kill commentator Winston Honeychurch. Amanda told the Gorgons they'd have a chance to act like cops. At the first attempt to capture the outside foes, Genghis told them to stop in name of Law. He'd later feel silly for having said that.
30	* ClockTower: Helmut and Yorg Beethoven are grandsons of the man who designed the town's clock tower. It benefits them when a new rule for a tournament the Hurricanes want to enter requires all players to have roots in Hispanola.
31	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Stavros Garkos. The main example of the series.
32	** The series also introduced a villain named Douglas Fir, whose character is similar to Garkos.
33	** Also in that series, when Napper Thompson's uncle died and left his fortune to him on the condition Napper never plays soccer again, Napper became the target of two villains who wanted to get the inheritance. One of the villains was the uncle's former business partner. [[spoiler: Napper lost the inheritance but fortunately it was revealed neither villain was the appointed next heir.]]
34	* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The future that [[spoiler:[[AllJustADream Napper dreams about]] ]]in "The Relegator" is technologically advanced and features people wearing togas.
35	* CuteSportsClubManager: Amanda. While she's of the usual age group for the trope, the team she manages is made of professionals instead of her fellow high schoolers.
36	* DisappearedDad: Amanda's father, who died, leaving his soccer team to her.
37	* DisqualificationInducedVictory: In "Deep Cover", the Hurricanes defeat the Gorgons but are disqualified because one of the Hurricanes playing the game is a girl.
38	* TheDragon: Wyn and Genghis [[CoDragons share this role]].
39	* DragonInChief: Wyn and Genghis once thought they'd get this role when [[BigBad their boss]] fell victim of a mind-altering plant but, when they told him to give them what they're worthy, Garkos said [[spoiler:he'd cut their wages in half]]. Wyn and Genghis then rushed in search for the antidote before he made it official.
40	* DragonWithAnAgenda: While Wyn and Genghis usually have no ulterior motive to help [[BigBad Stavros Garkos]] other than [[OnlyInItForTheMoney the money he pays them]], they once learned about a gold mine during one of the dirty jobs they were doing and decided to steal it so they'd no longer have to work for Garkos.
41	* EnemyMine: Amanda and Stats (Hurricanes) teamed up with Wyn and Genghis (Gorgons) against the outside foe who wanted to kill the commentator in one episode. Said foe even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] the unlikeliness of such alliance by commenting how surprised he was by seeing Hurricanes and Gorgons working together.
42	* EvilerThanThou: Trying to blow up a soccer stadium and kill everyone there just to prevent a potential key witness from exposing a game fixing scheme tops every wrongdoing done by Stavros Garkos.
43	* FeudEpisode: In the episode "Family Feud", Helmut and Jorg (the team's strikers) are feuding with each other because of Helmut's attitude. Thanks to a BatmanGambit by the rest of the team, they realise how stupid they were being and apologize to each other.
44	* ForTheEvulz: This trope appears to be Stavros Garkos's main motivation for his schemes, aside from [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney money]].
45	* FootballHooligans: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Stavros Garkos]], owner of [[OpposingSportsTeam the Garkos Gorgons]], hired some youngsters to act as hooligans to make the World Soccer Association close the Hurricanes' stadium.
46	* TheForeignSubtitle: In Brazil, the series is also known as ''Hurricanes - Os Craques da Bola''. (Hurricanes - The Aces of the Ball)
47	* FriendlyScheming: [[spoiler: In "Family Feud", when Yorg and Helmut start to argue, the whole team arranges a fake kidnapping of Yorg so that Helmut could realise how much does he care for him and come to his rescue.]]
48	* [[TheGameOfTheBook The Game Of The Series]]: a game was made. It was a platform game, where the characters use a football to kill the enemies.
49	* HawaiianShirtedTourist: [[BigBad Stavros Garkos]] had a scene wearing one in one episode. (Noticeable because he usually dresses like a ManOfWealthAndTaste) He actually wasn't on vacation but on a business trip trying to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive persuade]] a nation's regent to allow him to extract oil.
50	* HeroesActVillainsHinder: In "Around the World in 90 Minutes", the protagonists organize a series of soccer matches to be played at an aircraft carrier. The villains seize the carrier and stop the matches out of spite.
51	* HijackedByGanon: In "Escape to Freedom", the Hurricanes were captured by a soccer-obsessed General of a BananaRepublic and forced to play against his soccer team. It was revealed to the viewers but not to the Hurricanes (albeit it's implied the team's owner suspects) [[BigBad Stavros Garkos]] made an agreement to keep them from showing up for an upcoming game so Garkos' own team, the [[OpposingSportsTeam Garkos Gorgons]], would win by default.
52	* IAmOneOfThoseToo: In "Big Sister, Big Trouble", Amanda learns that she has an older half-sister. The sister turns out to be an imposter who's being coerced into spying on Amanda's soccer team by Stavros Garkos. When she claims to come from a town named Schnitzelheim, the Beethoven twins reveal that they were born there.
53	* IOwnThisTown: Stavros Garkos rules the Island of Garkos and has his brother enforce his rules.
54	* IdenticalGrandson: Stavros Garkos IV. Then again, the plot where he appeared was AllJustADream and there's no proof he'll ever exist. Also Amanda Carey's and Jock Stone's counterparts from Stavros IV's time.
55	* InternationalShowdownByProxy: One of Stavros Garkos's desires is to "prove" soccer has been invented at his home land.
56	* {{Leitmotif}}: Stavros Garkos has one. Stavros IV seems to have inherited it.
57	* {{Mascot}}: The Hurricanes have two: Topper the monkey and Dribble the dog.
58	* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Stavros Garkos is rarely seen without his green suit. Think about an overweight version of [[WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures Valmont]] with black hair.
59	* MorallyBankruptBanker: Stavros Garkos owns, among other things, a finance company. Not much is known about how he manages that venture since it was just briefly mentioned and the episode's plot was about a project developed by the laboratories the finance company foreclosed in that episode.
60	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Hispanola Hurricanes Coach Jock Stone is named after real life soccer star Jock Stein.
61	** Also, Jock Stone once phoned Pelé to ask for a favor. When one of the Hurricanes commented about not knowing Jock was friends with Pelé, he understood what they thought and told them it wasn't ''that'' Pelé.
62	* MultinationalTeam: Each of the team's players is a different nationality.
63	* NonActionBigBad: Being a CorruptCorporateExecutive, Stavros Garkos usually dispatches minions to do his dirty work. However, he's not above doing some of it himself.
64	* NonIdleRich: Amanda. Despite being a teenager, she actually gets involved with the management of her soccer team rather than letting her mother do it or sell the team. In fact, her mother even threatens to keep her from getting involved with the team to make sure she'll get good grades.
65	** Stavros Garkos counts as an evil example of the trope. Not only he seems to be quite involved with the Garkos Gorgons, at least where the Hurricanes are concerned, but he also is quite active on the (usually dirty) activities of Garkos Enterprises.
66	* NotMeThisTime: In "Target: Winston", when an explosion almost kills commentator Winston Honeychurch and Stats finds out it wasn't an accident, Stavros Garkos was the first person Amanda suspected of being the culprit. It turns out Garkos was really innocent this time (unusual for an episode where he appears).
67	* OnOneCondition: Napper Thompson once inherited a fortune and a title of nobility on the condition that he never plays soccer ever again. In the end, Napper decided that his loyalty to the Hispanola Hurricanes is more important than money.
68	* OnePhoneCall: Some Hurricanes were mistaken for fugitives and sent to prison. They were given just one phone call (one for the group, not one for each person). Unfortunately Topper, the team's pet monkey, was the only one to answer the phone.
69	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: It's revealed in one episode that Wyn and Genghis would stop working for Garkos if they didn't need the money he pays them.
70	* OpposingSportsTeam: The Garkos Gorgons.
71	* PaperThinDisguise: In one episode, Napper's younger brother Nigel joined a gang of hooligans and [[BigBad Stavros Garkos]] decided to use them to convince the World Soccer Association (that series' version of FIFA) to shut down the Hispanola Hurricanes' stadium. When Nigel saw the hooligans' true colors, he agreed to spy on them. When trying to collect data from Nigel, Napper approached him wearing sunglasses and a fake mustache as a disguise to avoid being recognized by the hooligans. The only hooligan to see Napper in that disguise saw through it.
72	* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Plato, who doesn't like the constraints on his feet, specifically, he wants to wiggle his toes.
73	* RhymesOnADime: Winston Honeychurch often rhymes whilst commentating.
74	* RoboticReveal:
75	** In "Techno-Team", Stavros Garkos uses robot copies of his soccer team's members during a match. Some parts fall off during the game's second half.
76	** In "Relegator", a descendant of Stavros Garkos sends the titular robot disguised as a player back in time to change the result of a match where Garkos waged too much money. The reveal happens in a way that references [[Film/TheTerminator the film]] it parodies. [[spoiler:It was AllJustADream]].
77	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Prince Rupert of Mulravia. He's a Prince who likes to play soccer. His [[DisappearedDad father]] used to be the same way.
78	** Given the kind of power and influence the Garkos Family has over the Island of Garkos, Stavros Garkos, his brother Spiro Garkos and his sister Melinda Garkos are also examples of this trope. Stavros' niece, who expected to obtain a vice-presidency in Garkos Enterprises in exchange for helping him with one of his plots, might also qualify.
79	* SadistTeacher: Spiro Garkos fits this trope as the coach of the Garkos Gorgons Youth Team. He seems to be this to all footballers but Stevie Pepenopolis had it the worst. And he couldn't be reported to Child Welfare because, in the Island of Garkos, he ''heads'' the Department of Child Welfare.
80	* SaveTheVillain: Toro once saved the life of Melinda Garkos.
81	* [[SavingTheOrphanage Saving the Sports Center]]: Stavros Garkos once tried to destroy a Sports Center for underprivileged children to build a parking lot for a theme park. The Hurricanes organized a charity match to save it and Garkos sent [[OpposingSportsTeam his team]] to replace the Hurricanes' adversaries and hurt them so the game would be cancelled. When two of the Hurricanes found out, they blackmailed Garkos into buying and donating the place.
82	* ScarecrowSolution: In "Phantom Fan", Stavros Garkos sends Wyn and Genghis to a stadium he wants to buy so they'll prevent a fund-raising game to take place. The heroes scare them away by pretending to be the titular Phantom.
83	* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Basically how Stavros and Spiro Garkos run the Island of Garkos. Spiro even admitted to Genghis in one episode that the law he planned to exploit to help his brother with his goal for that episode was one he made up for the occasion.
84	** Prince Rupert of Mulravia used to think the same way until Amanda made it clear how much she despised him for that.
85	* TopHeavyGuy: Napper, Toro, Jorg, Wyn Smithe, and Genghis Khan all qualify in this area.
86	* TranslationConvention: Stavros Garkos speaks English even when talking with one of his siblings (Spiro or Melinda) despite the three of them being Greeks.
87	** Plato and Humberto (Plato's big brother and fellow Brazilian) talking to each other in English instead of Portuguese.
88	** Papillon and a guard of a soccer stadium at Papillon's home nation (France) arguing in English instead of arguing in French.
89	** Toro giving an interview in English despite it being in a talk show at his home nation (Spain).
90	* TwoHeadedCoin:
91	** In "Deep Cover", the Gorgons win a coin toss for the right to kickstart a game and Winston says the coin has two heads.
92	** In "Blood Match", when the referee tosses a coin to decide which team will kickstart the episode's first match, one side has Amanda Carey's face and the other has Stavros Garkos'.
93	* VillainExclusivityClause: Stavros Garkos is the main villain of most episodes and no antagonist who doesn't work for him appears in more than one episode. Whatever Garkos does in each episode he appears doesn't affect other episodes.
94	* WeHaveTheKeys: Villain example. In "Techno-Team", Stavros Garkos' finance company takes over a laboratory and he decides to break in to mess with a worker's research so she'll have no choice but help him with one of his plans. When he arrives at night, his henchman Genghis is ready to use a crowbar to open the door when he points out that, as the place's owner, he has the keys.
95	* WhammyBid: The man acting as a proxy for [[BigBad Stavros Garkos]] while attempting to buy the McGuffin Napper Thompson [[AccidentalBid accidentally bought]] was instructed to start with one of those.
96	* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: Some of the Hurricanes don't have clearly defined positions on the team.
97	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Melinda Garkos once fell into a pit full of them, thus prompting the SaveTheVillain case mentioned above. And the hero who saved her was the one previously known for fearing snakes.
98	* YouGetMeCoffee: When Stavros Garkos's niece helped him with a plan hoping she'd become the first woman to become Vice-President of Garkos Enterprises in exchange for her help, the plan failed and he blamed her, stating he'd not hire her even if it was to bring him coffee.

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