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Alright Combo Crew, it's tropetime!
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Combo only wears headphones. His mother only dons earrings.
- Accidental Misnaming: There is an occasional gag where someone misnamed Combo as "Congo".
- Affectionate Parody: Combo Panda is this to Kung Fu Panda.
- Age-Inappropriate Art: Combo has played some T-rated games throughout his career, such as Monster Hunter: World and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
- Animate Inanimate Object: Sometimes, the mentioned video game will become anthropomorphic and talk to Combo Panda for a short while, because of the Rule of Funny.''(old Roblox logo is shown sitting on a couch with a pile of burgers)Roblox logo: You, what? You mean like me?!Combo: Classy as always, Roblox...Roblox logo: Hey, you ain't so classy, me the buddy! As a matter of fact, you're just- (farts) Hoo-whoops, sorry! Guess I had too many Krabby Patties for long. (pulls out Combo's credit card) Found some chump's credit card on the floor. Heh heh.Combo: Wealthy, as always..
- Anti-Climax: In his gameplay
of Sonic Forces:Combo: I bet you'll never guess what I named him [the Avatar]! He's named... *breathes* Combo Panda.- Overlaps with Blatant Lies in this case. The 100,000 subscribers special promised a face reveal of Combo Panda. It first appears as a guy wearing a panda head, but taking off the head, it reveals to be the animated Combo Panda himself!
- Overlaps with Blatant Lies in this case. The 100,000 subscribers special
- Art Evolution: The art style of Combo and friends slightly changed in late 2019, with everything having thinner outlines.
- Art Shift: The section telling how Combo learned to swim in his speedrun of New Super Mario Bros. U is presented with crude crayon drawings.
- Badass Adorable: Combo's appearance can be adorable, but he calls himself hardcore.
- Badbutt/Mascot with Attitude: For starters, Combo proclaims himself as a Hard Core gamer and his tone is similar to a Hot-Blooded teenage corenote gamer's.
- Big Ball of Violence: Before the intro starts on his gameplay on the Team Rumble gamemode on Fortnite, Combo hosts a wrestling match between The Gewf Troope and The 21 Pilots -1, just after he starts the match, they attack him, resulting into one of these.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: Big Gil, Combo Panda
- Big "NO!": When Combo discovers that Big Gil can't fit through the door into the house, thus unable to play games together with Combo
- Black Bead Eyes: Big Gil dons them.
- Camera Abuse: At the end of each video, Combo fistbumps and punches the camera, breaking it and showing up a continue screen.
- Catching Some Z's: In one of his latest gameplays, Combo is shown sleeping this way during one scene when he wakes up at 3 AM to get his chocolate, but it turns out to be dark chocolate.
- Catchphrase: Combo Panda has "Alright Combo Crew, it's showtime!" and "Combo bunga!" ("Heh, yeah I do.")
- Compilation Re-release: Hour-long types of videos are occasionally uploaded onto the channel.
- Cutaway Gag: Like the Ryan's Family Review's Lets Plays, Combo Panda has a mountain of them too. However, in recent videos, they seem to be mostly retired.
- Disappeared Dad: Combo's mother is implied to be single, and his father has barely been hinted.
- Evolving Music: Whenever Combo gets upset or angry, the music is artificially slowed down to fit the mood.
- Fireball Eyeballs: When Combo is heavily frustrated or angered.
- Foil: Combo Panda to Big Gil and Peck. Combo is a Badbutt Mascot with Attitude, who is very passionate about gaming and YouTube and speaks with a rowdy, loud voice. Big Gil has a very calm and chill personality, and Peck is rather a quiet Stoic.
- Four-Fingered Hands: Combo dons these.
- Funny Animal: Combo Panda and Big Gil are both fully sapient animals.Combo: We're one funny animal?! Shouldn't it be Funny Animals? Eh, they probably changed Gus'. You're saying Gus ain't funny!
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Big Gil wears maroon headphones and a maroon red shirt.
- Happy Dance: He sometimes dances on his bed.
- Hard Core: Combo Panda portrays himself as such gamer, packed with attitude and trying to win every game he plays.
- Hostile Show Takeover: That One Ninja Player attempts this in ROBLOX Icebreaker.Ninja: Do not praise my skill. As a ninja, I only seek to avenge my-Combo: Okay, that's enough of that already. This is the Combo Panda show.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: In Roblox Jailbreak Episode 3:Combo: The heli-cop-ter. Nope! And, they're both on me for that terrible helicopter pun.
- Kawaiiko: Combo's kawaii self in Making a Mii on Nintendo Wii UCombo: Heh.
- Meaningful Name: Combo is a term for combination of actions done in a game, and he's a gamer!
- Medium Blending: Occasionally, an animated photograph of a real panda, named Barry, is shown accompanying Combo.
- MittenHands: Big Gil has these.
- Mythology Gag: In Combo's room, you can see a poster of Gus and another poster showing the unedited thumbnail of Ryan Pirate Adventure Cartoon on Ryan ToyReview.
- No Fourth Wall/Television Portal: Combo is able to interact with those beyond the screennote and even jump into real life for a short moment. This is shown explicitly in this video.
- Parody: Of Let's Play in general.Combo: Hm, am I a parody? Minus that-that of a comedian genius? I'm parodying everything!(Combo parody of Everybody Loves Raymond appears)
- Punny Name: Handrew in the Nintendo Labo videos. He's a hand who constructs the cardboard machines.
- Rage Quit: Whenever he has enough, he puts down the controller and angrily walks out of the room.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Initially deconstructed in ROBLOX Work at a Pizza Place:(in a pink car) This is the manliest car I've ever seen. Just kidding.
- Retraux: The outro is done in the style of Super Mario Bros. 3.
- Robot Me: Robo Combo, who took over Combo Panda's channel briefly.
- Roger Rabbit Effect: An animated Combo Panda goes shopping in Real Life in these videos.
- He and his friends play hide-and-seek at a mall.
- He and his friends play hide-and-seek at a mall
- Running Gag: That One Ninja Player in ROBLOX Icebreakers, constantly breaking the scene and switching sides.
- Shoddy Knockoff Product: This cutaway gag shows a poorly made version of the channel's intro, in which a ripped off version of Combo, named "Combop Pindo" acts as a replacement. This is supposed to parody bootlegged material.Combo: You know what, I wanna see a Combo Panda knockoff though. What would he be called? Combop Panda! No! Combop Pindo!
- Shout-Out:
- Combo Panda signs off by fistbumping the camera. Do you know who does this also?note
- The newer videos' intros are similar to that of MrBeast.
- Species Surname: Combo Panda
- Spin-Off: There is a series called Sunnyside School which focuses on Combo's school life. As Sunnyside School'' doesn’t have its own YouTube account, tropes for it will be included here.
- The Chew Toy: Many sketches depict Peck the Penguin being put in difficult situations, like almost being eaten by a giant caterpillar.
- The Stoic: Peck speaks with a rather quiet and emotionless voice.
- Tailfin Walking: Big Gil walks upright on his tail.
- Tear Jerker: In-Universe and Played for Laughs examples. The death of "Luck-E Charms Bunny"note in his gameplay of Super Mario OdysseyCombo: (sniff) (starts bawling) I FORGOT ABOUT THE DEATH OF THE LUCK-E CHARMS BUN- (returns to bawling)
- ROBLOX Icebreakers has another sad tribute to "Combo's Friend Upstairs", after being frozen.
- This exchange with an anthropomorphic copy of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle in the gameplay of Sonic Forces:Combo: And that game isn't perfect. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle at least had a good lockon.Sonic Adventure 2 Battle: Yeah, nothing beats the classics, so why don't you throw me in for some old time sake?Combo: Oh, uhh, I didn't know you were there. Here's the thing about that. Okay, so I don't really have my GameCube or my Wii anymore. I only got the Wii U, so I can't even play you anymore.SA2 Battle: (sad music plays and background darkens) Oh.
- ROBLOX Icebreakers
- Thick-Line Animation: The art-style from 2017 to 2019.
- Thin-Line Animation: The art-style since 2019.
- Threatening Shark: Averted with Big Gil, but he does become a straight example in Roblox Shark Bite
- Token Human: The bus driver in BEDTIME SLUMBER PARTY SLEEPOVER !! is one of the only humans that has appeared in the otherwise presumably World of Funny Animals Combo Panda takes place in.
- Tuft of Head Fur: Combo has a tuft of blond hair on his head.
- Virtual Celebrity: Combo does not exist in Real Life. He's an animated character. Big Gil and Peck also count too.
- A Day in the Limelight: Packrat in "Packrat Wants to be Part of The Bad Kids Club!!".
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: In "Stuck in VR for 24 HOURS!", Peck wants to permanently wear his VR headset after thinking the real world is too useless for him. His friends try everything, only to fail and give up, however a power outage turns off Peck's VR headset, and after it is taken off him, he realizes that the real world is more fun.
- Animation Bump: When Combo fights the ads to buy a battery in "Robo Combo is Running Low on Battery!!!", the scene's animation combines Flash animation with CGI animated backgrounds.
- Art Shift
- The scenes occasionally switch from 2D motion capture animation to Adobe Flash.
- After Combo Panda upgrades himself in the titular episode and its sequel, he is animated using 3D motion capture for the majority of both episodes.
- In "Stuck in VR for 24 HOURS!", near the middle of the episode, Peck is briefly animated in CGI.
- When Packrat is thinking of some What If? scenarios for his takeover of the school in "Packrat Wants to be Part of The Bad Kids Club!!", his ideas are animated as crude drawings.
- Although this one is more minor, between 4:38 and 5:27 of "Robo Combo is Running Low on Battery!!!", Combo;s appearance has a minor but noticeable difference in animation style.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: In the Spelling Bee episode, Combo, Gus, and Robo-Combo cheated at the spelling bee, causing them to lose.
- Christmas Episode: The episode "Evil Elf on the Shelf Takes Over Christmas!" is this.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Peck gets this in HELP!! PECK IS MISSING!!!.
- Creepy Basement: When Combo and Coco are looking for a possible place for the latter to sleep, the basement is briefly seen and is portrayed as this.
- Elaborate Underground Base: The Combo Crew's secret lair is a common location in the series.
- Evil IPad: Combo's campfire story in this scene involves a possessed tablet.
- "Getting My Own Room" Plot: The episode "WE NEED TO FIND COCO A NEW ROOM!" is this.
- Ghost Story: The episode Spooky Camfire Stories!! The Tale of the HAUNTED TABLET! has the characters telling each other Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
- The Ground Is Lava: In "HELP! A LAVA MONSTER HAS TAKEN OVER SUNNYSIDE!", the Lava Monster's volcano house erupts, causing the entirely of the neighborhood to be flooded with lava for the majority of the episode. It turns out that Packrat was responsible for the volcanic disaster in the episode.
- Spelling Bee: There’s an episode focusing on this.
- Twist Ending:
- In the ending of the Christmas episode mentioned above, Jiffy the Elf tells Combo to do "The Nutcracker Dance". The latter causes the Christmas tree to fall, "killing" Jiffy. Shortly after, it is revealed that Jiffy was a robot being used by Coco.
- In the ending of the Spelling Bee episode mentioned above, Peck the Penguin and Sumpher the Sloth are the final contestants, however, Peck loses after a bee causes him to say the name of the bug for some reason, leaving Sumpher as the Spelling Bee champion.
- Wrote a Good Fake Story: Peck's campfire story explains it all. Peck creates a robotic clone friend that had the same qualities as him. Then one day, Peck's robot betrayed him, and turned Peck into data that would be used to make people believe he was the real Peck. After explaining his story, Peck's fake head falls off, making his friends think that he was truly a robot. However, It turns out the real Peck was pranking them the whole time.
