!!Animated Series:

* AnimationAgeGhetto: On the one hand, it's a LighterAndSofter version of Conan. On the other hand, as listed below, episodes featured concepts that many other contemporary cartoons wouldn't or couldn't touch. Also, the series features a numbers of references to the original stories that kids likely wouldn't get.
* 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.
* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/ConanTheBarbarian here]].
* FridgeBrilliance: The reason why Conan is an 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.
* HilariousInHindsight: This line from a serpentman. And no, there's [[NeverSayDie no fatality]]:
-->'''Serpentman champion''': Conan! I challenge you and your companions to [[Franchise/MortalKombat mortal combat]]!
* 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!".
* {{Narm}}: A serpentman mage 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.
* 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.
** "In Days of Old" has an old wizard kidnapping Jezmine in the exactly right amount of lecherous as to fly over children's heads, and disturb them when they rewatch as adults.

!! Live-Action Series

* CatharsisFactor: [[spoiler:Hissah Zul]]'s beheading. The 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.
* 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 [[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.
* 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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