Line #13 WesternAnimation/ZorroGenerationZ


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3	Another Creator/RickUngar creation. This time the story of Literature/{{Zorro}} is updated to 2015, and the latest descendant of the de la Vega line is a 17-year-old teenager named Diego who takes up the mantle of Zorro with help from his mute friend Bernardo. To replace the famous Tornado, we now have a CoolBike called Tornado Z that helps transport Diego to fight against Pueblo Grande's corrupt mayor, Horace Hernando Martinez.
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5	Compare ''WesternAnimation/Phantom2040'' and ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury''.
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9	* ActionGirl: Along with Zorro, the city is also defended by the Scarlet Whip, a superheroine with a CoolCar and twin laser whips.
10	* AdaptationalWimp: García is a useless imbecile instead of the bumbling but decent fighter he was in ''Series/Zorro1957''. All in all, this version of him seems more inspired by his portrayal in ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfZorro1997''. He does, however, get a DayInTheLimelight episode that shows him to be a fairly decent detective ... when Martinez allows him to be.
11	* AscendedFanboy: In a flashback to one of Diego's birthday parties, both Diego and Maria are thrilled when Diego's grandfather shows up in his Zorro costume. Diego grows up to become the next Zorro, of course, and Maria's Scarlet Whip persona is basically Zorro's DistaffCounterpart. Which may explain why Maria/Scarlet Whip was initially hostile towards Diego when she first met the new Zorro; she saw him as a poser who could not live up to the legend of The Fox.
12	* BadassBiker: The new Zorro uses a CoolBike in place of the usual CoolHorse.
13	* BeneathTheEarth: The city has an entire civilization of homeless people living in the caverns and subway tunnels beneath it.
14	* BrokeEpisode: The Tornado Z is totaled, and Diego is unable to get it immediately fixed because his father has temporarily cut him off from his trust fund. Cue Diego taking on a series of humiliating jobs, such as car wash employee and BurgerFool, to try and raise money for repairs.
15	* CaptainErsatz:
16	** Don Payaso is basically ComicBook/TheJoker, even down to wearing a purple tuxedo.
17	** Scarlet Whip is one for the comic book character ComicBook/LadyRawhide.
18	* CloakOfDefense: Zorro's cloak is resistant to gunfire.
19	* CoolBike: The Tornado Z, a high-tech motorcycle used by the new Zorro, and named after the original Zorro's CoolHorse.
20	* CuteMute: The geeky, introverted Bernardo. Exactly why he cannot speak is never made clear.
21	* DaddysLittleVillain: The Scarlet Whip is fine with dismantling her father's criminal operations, but is wary of actually exposing her father as a criminal.
22	* TheDragon: Itchy [[HookHand the Hook]], who is notably the only one of the Dons who remains loyal to the mayor after Gloria Sheffield's hostile takeover of the criminal underworld of Pueblo Grande.
23	* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: The future looks a lot like the present outside of the laser weapons. The guns strongly resemble the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' early "dustbuster" incarnation of phasers.
24	* FourIsDeath: The show's most formidable villains are the appropriately-named Fearsome Four. When they revolt against Mayor Martinez he is terrified for his life even though he is the head of both all law enforcement '''and''' all organized crime in the city. Luckily for him and Zorro they only show up twice.
25	* GadgeteerGenius: Bernardo builds and maintains all of Zorro's gear, and also acts as his MissionControl.
26	* GratuitousSpanish: Because the main cast are all depicted as being of Hispanic descent and Pueblo Grande is most likely in southern California.
27	* HumongousMecha: The mayor gets MechaMooks called "Digi-Dons" in "The Wounded Fox." They eventually rebel against him, and try to demolish his headquarters using a giant robot made from the contents of a junkyard.
28	* LaserBlade: Everyone has laser swords, and a lot of people have laser whips.
29	* LeftHanging: [[spoiler:The show ends with Mayor Martinez losing his reelection campaign... to an even bigger crook.]] The intro to a second season was released, but the season itself never followed. [[spoiler:Strangely, the Season 2 intro makes it look like Mayor Martinez still would have been the main villain.]]
30	* LegacyCharacter: There have been many Zorro's over the years. Diego is just the most recent.
31	* LivingWithTheVillain: The heroic Scarlet Whip is secretly the corrupt mayor's daughter, Maria.
32	* MagicalRealism: Most of the show is fairly sci-fi due to its TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture setting, however, Diego sometimes receives dreams where his grandfather acts as a SpiritAdviser and one episode had him pep-talked by a young Native American girl [[spoiler:that he found out was his deceased grandmother]]. The episode "A Z In Time" had Diego travel back in time and team up with the original Zorro after taking a bad fall... somehow, and the ending [[spoiler:confirms that it was not AllJustADream and was in fact a StableTimeLoop]].
33	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is the golden feather given to the de la Vega family really lucky? Zorro does have some bad luck once the feather is taken from him. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:it's revealed that the real feather was never stolen in the first place]], so...
34	* MorphWeapon: Zorro's single weapon can rearrange into several modes: LaserBlade, [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Darth Maul]]-esque laser staff, laser whip, and a standard laser blaster.
35	* MutualMasquerade: Diego and Maria have no idea of each others' secret identities, [[spoiler:until the last episode.]]
36	* MyHorseIsAMotorbike: Tornado Z is a CoolBike, replacing the original Zorro's CoolHorse Tornado.
37	* MythologyGag: Originally, Maria's costumed identity was going to be the Black Whip, probably based on the film ''Zorro's Black Whip'', actually about a masked heroine. Presumably this was changed to make her more distinct from the black-clad Zorro. It's also a reference to ComicBook/LadyRawhide, a popular "Bad Girl" spin-off of the 1990s Zorro comics who wore red and used a whip.
38	* PaperThinDisguise: Scarlet Whip's method of distinguishing herself from her civilian identity... she puts on red shades, a pink wig, and wears a red trenchcoat. That's it.
39	* {{Recycled IN SPACE}}: Zorro [-IN THE FUTURE!-]
40	* TheSpeechless: Bernardo is a mute.
41	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Being athletic teens with cool technology but no actual crime fighting experience means that Diego and Maria's first outings as costumed heroes is not exactly smooth; Diego is trapped by the mayor and needs Scarlet Whip's help to escape and their constant arguing is a sharp contrast to their teamwork in later episodes. Reality swings in the other way, though, as they do get better and become very competent superheroes with experience.
42	* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Hilariously subverted in the pilot, where Zorro and Scarlet Whip have a spitting contest over who is a better hero, and the bad guys [[http://spectrumofmadness.blogspot.com/2010/11/zorro-generation-z-new-generation-part.html take advantage of their distraction to shoot Scarlet Whip off of a roof]].
43	* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The series was originally aired in 2006 while its setting is 2015, nine years apart. Things are mostly the same with the exception of the laser weapons, robots and holographic projectors.
44	* WhipSword: The Scarlet Whip wields twin laser whips; {{Laser Blade}}s with the reach and flexibility of a whip.
45	* ZorroMark: Naturally. Into the seat of an enemy's pants, usually.

Context WesternAnimation / ZorroGenerationZ