Line #46 WesternAnimation/MonaTheVampire


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_9686.jpeg She's a nice ordinary girl in an extraordinary world!]]
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3	''Mona the Vampire'' was a Canadian/French animated series [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted]] from a series of British children's books written by Sonia Holleyman and Hiawyn Oram. Produced by Canada's Creator/{{Cinar}} and France's Creator/{{Alphanim}} for Creator/{{YTV}}, the show ran from 1999 to 2003 with 65 episodes over 4 seasons.
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5	The show is about Mona Parker, an average girl living in an average small town. Not that she's content with it. Obsessed with the supernatural and the unexplained, Mona's [[MrImagination overactive imagination]] leads her to believe that all kinds of paranormal creeps and occurrences are drawn to her town. To stop these baddies and solve these mysteries, Mona dons a wig, fangs, and a cape that could give Dracula a run for his money to assume the identity of the heroic Mona the Vampire. Assisting her are her faithful pet cat Fang, along with her two best friends, Charley Bones and Lily Duncan, who join her in thwarting the scary monsters and freaky phenomenon they are convinced occurs around town under their own special alter egos, Zapman and Princess Giant.
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7	!!Show us your tropes! ''HEY MONA!!'':
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9	* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted. It's not that they aren't helpful, it's just that--to Mona, anyway--they have no clear understanding of what's going on when supernatural forces are at work. Occasionally, her [[FamilyMan father will play along]] often by giving her [[SmallRoleBigImpact the thing that will help her defeat the monsters]] knowing her imagination will do the rest.
10	* AdaptationalNationality: Mona and the rest of the characters were British in the original books, but Canadian in the adaptation.
11	%%(insufficient explanation)* AgentScully: Angela, to the point that she has NO IMAGINATION whatsoever. Ironically, that actually saves Mona and her friends when they confronted with a Wendigo (no, not [[VideoGame/XMen that]] one).
12	* AlphaBitch: Angela, a snobbish, rich classmate who hates Mona and her friends. A subversion in that, while she acts like an Alpha Bitch, she's not very popular.
13	* BabySittingEpisode: "Robot Baby Sitter", which features the introduction of the babysitter, Belinda, who was responsible for Angela before Mona. There are some other episodes revolving around this as well.
14	%% (context is needed) * BigfootSasquatchAndYeti
15	%% (insufficient explanation)* BlondeBrunetteRedhead:
16	%% ** Charley, Mona, and Lily.
17	%% ** Or, Angela, Mona, and Lily.
18	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Whether it's slime, computers or the like, Mona will believe that something's wrong when people are obsessed with something/not acting themselves.
19	* CatsAreMagic: In Mona's eyes, this is what Fang is. This actually was a plot point in an episode involving a mummy.
20	* CatsAreMean: Averted with Mona's pet cat Fang.
21	* CloserToEarth: Charley has the most common sense out of the main three and will often be the first to question Mona's logic, but he's still somehow convinced to go along with it.
22	* CombatStilettos: Princess Giant wears a pair of red high heels.
23	* CompanyCrossReferences: In "The Bogeyman Cometh", an WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} plush can be seen in Charley's room in a flashback. Both ''Arthur'' and ''Mona the Vampire'' were produced by Creator/{{Cinar}}.
24	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: "Tighten his laces!"
25	* CrazyPrepared: In "Vampire Hunter", Angela destroys the tape records Charlie and Lily use to prove that she had something to do with Nicole being mean to them and Mona. [[spoiler: What she didn't expect was that there actually ''was'' a back-up tape recorder--taped to Fang!]]
26	* CropCircles: One episode had Mona dealing with aliens making crop circles. In reality, it was two people advertising a cornfield maze.
27	* CuteLittleFangs: Mona, though they are fake.
28	* DressedInLayers: One episode had Mona taking off a short-sleeved dress, revealing her long-sleeved vampire outfit underneath.
29	* DrugsAreBad: In one episode, Mona is pulled through a mirror into a Negaverse. In that universe, the normally nice Charley and Lily are bullies. This is shown by having Lily replace the flower she normally wears in her hair with a marijuana leaf.
30	* ExpositoryThemeTune: "Here's a nice, normal girl in an ordinary world / Show us your fangs / YAY, MONA!"
31	* TheFaceless: The face of Angela's mom is always out of view.
32	* FelonyMisdemeanor: In ''There's No Place Like Gnome'', the town gets riled up when their gnomes start getting picked off like flies.
33	* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Mona imagines herself being one of these to protect the neighborhood.
34	* FunWithAcronyms: In ''The Men In Dark Suits'', Mona states that UN means "Uranus Nerexene" although Charlie states it as "United Nations". Mona lampshades that those two were always mixed up.
35	* GhostStory: If it's not vampires, mummies, bigfoot, dolls, etc., there's always a ghost involved.
36	* HarmlessElectrocution: In "Robot Baby Sitter", Belinda is jolted out of her seat and in mid-air momentarily after Mona shuffles her feet across the carpet, and gives a static shock.
37	* HereWeGoAgain: After Mona 'frees' her mother from the influence of an old band she likes, her dad finds out about a Sci-fi convention based on a show he watched. Mona then states this.
38	* JerkassHasAPoint: Angela is an AlphaBitch, but she isn't wrong about Mona being delusional.
39	* KiddieKid: Mona and her friends are supposed to be 10, but with their imaginations they act more like 6-year-olds.
40	* KlaatuBaradaNikto: Mona uses this as an incantation in "Witch Watch".
41	* LackOfImagination: In "Spirit Of The Woods", when trying to get inside of [[AlphaBitch Angela]]'s mind, Mona, Charlie, and Lily join hands and start chanting "Think like Angela" over and over, until they imagine they're in Angela's dream. Said dream is a large vacant field, which they decide is indicative of just how unimaginative Angela is.
42	* LegoGenetics: Mona uses dinosaur D.N.A. ordered from a comic book to make her own T-Rex and it works.
43	* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Lily (whose SecretIdentity is a blonde princess) and Mona (whose SecretIdentity is a black-haired vampire).
44	* LittleKnownFacts: Mona will often just make facts up.
45	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane:
46	** Through Mona's eyes--and also her friends'--there's always supernatural stuff going along. However, many of the episodes can be figured out through the evidence placed in the show. For example, an episode where lots of snakes are seen around town and a woman dressing up as Medusa is based on the warm weather and the fact that the woman is ''playing'' Medusa in a production.
47	** However, similar to ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', some episodes have premises that cannot work without the presence of a real supernatural element, making which situations are Mona's imagination and which are genuine supernatural incidents an AmbiguousSituation.
48	* TheMenInBlack--er, Dark Suits.
49	* [[MrImagination Ms. Imagination]]: Mona.
50	* MurderousMannequin: "Night of the Living Mannequin" What Mona believes are mannequins being used to take over the town [[spoiler: are really just mannequins being remade and modeling a new fashion line.]]
51	* NewKidStigma: In the episode "Bird Boy", a new student named Robin comes to Mona's school. He's made fun of by [[TheBully George]] and [[AlphaBitch Angela]] for his very bird-like appearance, and no one stands up for him. When flocks of birds start attacking people who've been mean to Robin, Mona starts seeing Robin as turning into a large bird creature and sending them after people.
52	* {{Ninja}}: The subject of ''The Ninja's Curse'' involved Charlie obtaining a pair of cursed nunchucks from his Aunt Cassandra.
53	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot:
54	** In their time, Mona and her friends have battled Ghosts, nature spirits, aliens, monsters, robots and even a sentient computer virus.
55	** One episode involved Mona building a model "Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}asaurus".
56	* NoMereWindmill: While all the things Mona believes she's taking on aren't real, on some occasions, they ARE up to no good. For instance, in the episode "Would You Like Fries With That?", Mona believes that the new fast food restaurant that opened up in town, Bin Burgers, is actually a front for an AlienInvasion, and that the "special sauce" for their burgers is special [[MindRape Mind Control]] sauce. None of these assumptions are real, of course. However, it later turns out that Bin Burgers stole the recipe for their special sauce from a rival company that hadn't established itself in town yet.
57	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Mona's trump card is lightning bolts she can shoot from her fingertips. In reality, she's just not a vampire at all. Pretty misleading to monster fans if you think about it.
58	* PerverseSexualLust: A G-Rated example, combined with TrappedInTVLand and RefugeeFromTVLand. In the episode "Terror in Toon Town", Lily falls in love with the [[ShowWithinAShow cartoon character]] Stretch Junior, who takes her inside his world and then escapes into Lily's school.
59	* PoliceAreUseless: Subverted. The police is good at handling their job. The thing is that Mona usually somehow defeats the 'supernatural threats' all by herself and the sheriff knows about their exploits. He doesn't do anything about it because he only sees it as make-believe.
60	* IRejectYourReality: Mona always insists her explanation for what happened is correct.
61	%% (insufficient explanation) * RichBitch: Angela, Mona's rival. The pilot explains that her parents won the lottery and thus it explains her personality.
62	* ScaryScarecrows: One in the pilot episode ''Night of the Living Scarecrow''. Played with and subverted for these reasons: One, what one was the scarecrow was really the caretaker of the church...but then we find out there's a second hat, so there might really be a living sacrecrow.
63	%% (insufficient explanation) * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Charley and George.
64	%% (tropeslashing's not allowed) * ShoutOut[=/=]{{Homage}}:
65	** The episode "Limo to Loserville" involved a [[Film/TheCar big black car that attacked people]], or more specifically called them names to make them feel like "losers".
66	** And there was the episode with a [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer vampire slayer]] trying to put Mona out of business...(Don't worry, they became bestest friends in the end)
67	** When her teacher asks her who {{Creator/Homer}} was, Mona replies "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Isn't he that funny cartoon dad?]]"
68	* ThemeNaming: There's a whole list of episodes with the word Ghoul in them.
69	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mona's adventurous personality is a stark contrast to Lily's shy, quiet demeanor.
70	* TomeOfEldritchLore: Mona's Diary, the Book of the Slimy. Apparently it has some seriously nasty things locked away in its pages.
71	%% (context needed) * TwoGirlsAndAGuy
72	* UnreliableNarrator (Through The Eyes Of A Child): It is suggested in the series that all the adventures are in fact only Mona's imagination, and she and her friends are just playing super heroes.
73	%% (insufficient explanation) * [[OurVampiresAreDifferent [=Vampires=]]]: The title character Mona, and her rival Von Kreepsula.
74	* VampireHunter: The title of one episode, and the titular character Nicole. Apparently she's also the same as Mona and her friends (what with her wild imagination) and was like that [[spoiler: because Angela spread nasty rumors about Mona and the others to her. Fortunately, Vampire and Vampire Hunter reconciled and became friends.]]
75	%% (insufficient explanation)
76	* {{Wendigo}}: Subject of one episode.
77	* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: In ''Red Moon Monsters'', Lily wants the power to be big despite Mona giving her way more awesome ideas for powers.
78	* WholeEpisodeFlashback: ''Red Moon Monsters'' consists mainly of Mona and Lily recalling how they met, and how Lily came up with her Princess Giant persona.
79	* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Bugs?]]: Lily has a terrifying fear of bugs in ''The Dreaded Human Spider'' but gets rid of it just in time to save her friends.
80	* WhyWeNeedGarbagemen: "Monster Trash" takes place amidst a sanitation workers strike, hence the neighbourhood being covered in garbage.
81	* YowiesAndBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy: A bunyip shows up in one episode after an Australian guy opens a new gym, which features a spa using imported billabong mud.

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