Morgan Wick: While working on this rewrite, I kept a list of tropes I caught in the episode descriptions, mostly from
Challenge. I'm putting them here for others to add to the entry as they see fit, and in some cases, discuss first:
- Reverse Polarity
- Brainwashed (used roughly every third episode by the Legion of Doom)
- Supervillain Lair (the Hall of Doom, which famously looked like Darth Vader's helmet)
- The War Room
- Whole Plot Reference (the entire "World's Greatest" series)
- Just In Time, Recycled Script (twice in the Challenge season alone some Superfriends are trapped in some strange Alternate Universe and have a time limit to escape before being trapped forever - and the Toyman is the mastermind both times!)
- Time Travel
- Bottomless Magazines (Green Lantern's ring typically ran low if and only if the plot called for it)
- Meanwhile In The Future (variation: in one episode, Aquaman, trapped in prehistoric times, buries his radio and sets it to send a Trouble Alert in the "present day," thus tipping off what has happened to various other missing Superfriends. Another episode played this more straight by using Time Travel in two different ways: when the Legion of Doom stopped three Superfriends' origins from happening, all memory of them was erased immediately, but when the Superfriends went back in time to fix them, they had to stop the Legion's plot in the present day.)
- Two Lines No Waiting (often the Legion would launch one plot as a diversion to their actual goal)
- Has anyone seen "The Giants of Doom"? Did they restore all the Giants to normal, or was that a Snapback? (Of course that's also an Attack Of The 50 Foot Whatever.)
- Sufficiently Advanced Alien (one in "The Final Challenge" who attempts to end the conflict between the Superfriends and Legion by having them fight it out once and for all, not to mention the ones in "History of Doom")
- Balance Between Good And Evil
- Fable Remake (in addition to the World's Greatest season, an episode of Challenge had the Toyman trap the Superfriends in fairy tales)
- Techno Babble
- Possible trope related to Status Quo Is God and Writer On Board ("Superfriends, Rest in Peace" and the cop-out of having the "dead" Superfriends turn out to be robot duplicates)
- After The End ("History of Doom")
- Super Hero Origin ("Secret Origins of the Superfriends" and "History of Doom")
- Reset Button (fairly common)
- Deus Ex Machina ("History of Doom," or so all the characters think; may be the aformentioned "possible trope")
- Non Idle Rich Though this obviously could refer to Batman, I'm proposing it as a hypothetical explanation for the otherwise inexplicable: The Wendy and Marvin Season. Picture: Wendy and Marvin are in fact a pair of rich kids (but not Spoiled Brats) with a superhero fixation, whose parents buy for them the ultimate Super Hero Fantasy Camp, complete with preplanned "adventures" for the kids to "help" the Superfriends with. Looked at that way, their season on the show makes a surprising amount of sense.
Ununnilium: No objections here. `.` Not sure what the possible tropes would be.
Morgan Wick: Umm... actually, I think there's only one.
Wardog: Moving the moon is hardly the most extreme case of
I am not making this up stupidity. In this episode,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwoi8kKCDGA
, at about 2:23, Sinestro
cuts the moon in half!. (But don't worry - Superman later welds it back together with his heat vision).
The Evil Dr Bolty: Is there a trope for Luthor's ability to present monitor footage of every event in all of history?
