"In a world of chaos and disarray
Brother and sister save the day!"
"When might and magic work as one
A villain's plan can be undone!"
Yin Yang Yo is an
Animated Series currently appearing in
Toon Disney's Jetix block Disney XD. It retains the same creative team behind
The Fairly Oddparents and
Danny Phantom, so naturally
there are quite a few similarities.
Yin and Yang are twin rabbits. Yin, the studious and socially aware girl, is constantly mortified and embarrassed by her dirty, disheveled, violent, greedy and self-indulgent (but still miraculously on the side of good) brother, Yang. Together, they study the ancient art of Woo Foo under the tutelage of grumpy
old panda Master Yo, who once had his own Woo Foo glory days.
Yin's studies are Woo Foo magic; Yang's are Woo Foo combat, hence the "might and magic" standard above. They both are eager to prove themselves, partly because they want to master what they've learned, but also because the
Big Bad has rendered it so
the entire world thinks Woo Foo is stupid and laughable. The problem is that, as twins and polar opposites, they get on each other's nerves and get in each other's way often. But when they do finally set aside their differences and actually work together, they prove formidable.
This series provides examples of:
- Affectionate Parody: Or Shout Out — you decide.
- All Girls Like Ponies: Or Twonicorns, as the case may be.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Yin seems to fall instantly for anyone she knows, if they become tainted with evil. Even Coop the chicken.
- Anvilicious
- Artifact Of Doom: Ironically, most of the power items are in Yo's Woo Foo Armory. But the villains get their hands on it, and Hilarity Ensues.
- Beta Baddie: Several, including Carl, The Evil Cockroach Wizard and an action figure brought to life who now has a vendetta against Yang.
- Big Bad: The Night Master in Season 1. Eradicus in Season 2.
- Book Dumb: Yang
- Brother Sister Team: The titular bunnies.
- Butt Monkey: Dave. Ironically, his ability to ask other plants and trees for help makes him one of the most powerful (good) characters.
- Calling Your Attacks: "Yincinerate! Yangarang! Transfoomate!" et. al.
- Card Carrying Villain: "Carl, The Evil Cockroach Wizard!"
- Color Coded For Your Convenience
- Cute Bruiser: Being pink and blue bunnies, both twins qualify.
- Deflector Shields: Foo Field
- Different As Night And Day: Yin and Yang
- Doomy Dooms Of Doom
- Dragons Up The Yin Yang
- Drop What You Are Doing: Yo, on the occasion of realizing his students are about to let Sealed Evil In A Can out.
- Evil Sorcerer: Carl The Evil Cockroach Wizard
- Eviler Than Thou: Played for laughs between Carl and his brother Herman.
- Fountain Of Youth: Master Yo
- Getting Crap Past The Censors: Various, starting with Yang yelling "Pellets!" whenever he's annoyed.
- The sheer amount of time they use the word "sucks" (as in "This sucks!!") is mind-boggling, especially for family friendly Disney.
- Green Lantern Ring: Yin's magical abilities
- Gross Up Close Up: When Carl turns the twins ugly.
- Gross Out Show
- Harmless Villain: Up and down in regards to Carl, the Evil Cockroach Wizard.
- Heart Symbol: Yang leaves them behind him [where a cartoon character would ordinarily leave a puff of smoke] as a wake when he realizes his crush likes him back.
- Hilarity Sues
- Hot Mom - Coop's mother
- Hypocritical Humor
- Invisibility - well, Yinvisibility and Yangvisibility.
- Jerk Ass - Yang, at varying levels.
- The Jimmy Hart Version:
- Yang and Carl are stuck together and an ersatz version of the theme to "The Odd Couple" plays.
- There's a chase scene wherein the music is a near-miss of "Yakety Sax".
- Joker Jury
- Ki Attacks
- Last Of His Kind - Master Yo is quite fond of telling anyone who will listen that he is the last panda on the planet.
- Lets Get Dangerous: Carl, when he was wiping the floor with Night Master's Elite Mooks in season one finale.
- My Name Is Not Durwood - Saranoia does this to Yang everytime she (Saranoia) appears on the show, the nickname Mark
- Not So Harmless: Carl in seson one finale even though he was helping good guys
- Parental Abandonment: Yin and Yang's rabbit parents have not made an appearance so far, so Yo the panda is their only parental figure.
- Yo is somehow their father, but forced to forget by Chai and Ti when they were born. The identity of their mother is still a mystery, though.
- Parental Bonus
- Parental Favoritism: Saranoia's Freudian Excuse
- Pink Girl Blue Boy: Yin and Yang
- Plot Relevant Age Up: An enemy does this to Yin and Yang.
- Positive Discrimination
- Pungeon Master: Rubber Chucky.
- Right Behind Me
- Shadow Discretion Shot: Coop's first transformation into Evil!Coop has one.
- Split Screen
- Stalker With A Crush: Coop the chicken has the dig on for Yin, and Yang has the dig on for Yin's friend Lena.
- Stealth Pun - At an all-bear formal party, Yang asks where the bathroom is. A bear politely indicates the woods. Yang looks confused for a moment, then smacks his forehead and says, "Duh, of course."
- Straw Feminist: Saranoia
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Yin's eyelashes and
hairearpin.
- Theme Tune Rap
- Thick Line Animation
- Twin Telepathy: Yin and Yang occasionally hit the same thought at the same time and/or finish each other's sentences when they're separated and in danger.
- The Un Favorite: Saranoia's rants indicate she was one of these growing up.
- Wonder Twin Powers: The Woo Foo Aura results in a giant energy form made up of Yin and Yang working together so their Battle Aura combines into a half-pink, half-blue Battle Bunny.
