Mind Your Own Beeswax
Mind Your Own Beeswax features examples of:
- A Day in the Limelight: The episode "You'll Be the Death of Us" focuses on Master Fae as he follows Cassandra's tips because he is the only SDD member unaffected by the outbreak.
- Agony of the Feet: There is a frequent Running Gag where Marcus drops his phone and occasionally laboratory assets onto his feet. This is lampshaded in "You'll be the Death of Us" when Marcus shows Benjamin a video on his phone.Marcus: Ben, are you paying attention?Benjamin: Sorry, I was expecting you to drop your phone on your foot again.
- This is Double Subverted in "Stuff I Don't Do" when Marcus drops his phone after getting scared by Colonel Steven. Determined not to let this happen again, he tries to catch his phone with his free hand, but instead of grabbing it, grazes it with his fingertips, pushing it backwards and causing it to land on a balloon on the floor, bounce back and hit him in groin.
- Animal Espionage: Cassandra becomes a bumblebee when she sleeps. With nothing better to do, she spies on supervillains and sends the SDD anonymous tips. Unlike normal espionage, Cassandra does this alone.
- Anti-Hero: Cassandra's morality can be described as questionable. For the most part, she's a cranky older woman who fights with her family and believes that violence is the answer to most things, but after adapting to city life, she becomes far more docile, but will still resort to violence if provoked.
- Astral Projection: Cassandra's superpower effectively works the same way as astral projection. The only difference is that she can wake up at any time and is a physical entity in the real world.
- Bee Afraid: Every villain eventually notices Cassandra spying on them and most react with fear. Odd-Ball being the exception.
- Camp Gay: An unnamed male coworker in "Something In the Water" wears mascara and an open coat with cropped skinny jeans. He doesn't have any speaking roles and is kind of just... there.
- Cassandra Truth: Likely what inspired the character's name. Marcus is hesitant to believe Cassandra at first because her calls could just be pranks, but when they come true, Marcus believes her and begins warning others, who laugh at him.
- Child Prodigy: Justified; Benjamin Weber is an Artificial Human meant to represent peak human genetics. His brain is highly developed and he stays young for far longer than a normal human. He looks like a prepubescent child, but is actually 15.
- Code Name: Every superhero uses a codename despite none of them having secret identities, as the SDD provides them housing.
- Covering Up Your Gray: Subverted in "Secret Society". During the family argument, Marline accuses Cassandra of dying her hair, but Cassandra simply yells at her stating that the reason she has no gray hairs is because she doesn't let things worry her.
- Dying to Wake Up: Cassandra and her family manually wake themselves up by stinging their own heads. Cassandra gets killed a lot when spying on people and has led a few villains to think there's a bee's nest somewhere in their lair.
- Experienced Protagonist: Cassandra is introduced having many different skills. However, her only knowledge of humans comes from social media browsing and watching press conferences.
- Family Disunion: Downplayed in that Cassandra's family is told by their counselor that Cassandra should try taking a vacation as it might help with her anger issues and help the family solve their own problems.
- Fantastic Diet Requirement: Made very clear; sprites derive all of their calories from the sugar in fruit and flower nectar. Fat and starch seem to cause them intestinal distress.
- Fatherly Scientist: Marcus Weber is the one who created Benjamin and treats him like a son.
- Finger in the Mail: In "Love, Mock and Hate", Marcus opens a cardboard box addressed to Benjamin and finds Phobos' disassembled body inside. He doesn't know what it is and shows it to Benjamin, who, completely deadpan, simply comments "Oh dear...".
- Found Footage Films: A trope that's used very often in this show.
- In several scenes, Cassandra sits in front of her laptop at night watching press conferences.
- In "Unmasking You", Benjamin shows footage recorded by the bodycam of Phobos during a slideshow as the events of breaking into Cassandra's vacation home and getting disassembled by her plays out.
- 20% of the episode "Loathe Machine" is played from the perspective of the interviewers' cameras.
- Hidden Elf Village: The inhabitants of Apple Island, a Floating Continent, are hidden by a cumulonimbus cloud and have a bustling community.
- Hidden Villain: Odd-Ball is the show's true antagonist. He kidnaps world leaders and other strong figures in order to steer the world into chaos, but usually gets driven away before he can do anything. He isn't physically shown on-screen until the final episode of season 1, "Busted". Prior to this, only his airship would be shown. It turns out that he's a sprite just like Cassandra and seeks revenge on humans for kidnapping everyone on his home island.
- Human Disguise: Cassandra is a sprite who uses illusion magic to disguise herself as a human and blend into human society.
- Humongous Mecha: The city of Korbin (the city most of the show takes place in) is patrolled by a giant robot about half the size of a skyscraper. It exists to deter people from committing crimes and an alternative to police pursuit.
- Ideal Illness Immunity: Sprites are immune to human diseases. When Dr. Hazardous releases his engineered virus in "You'll Be the Death of Us", Cassandra and Master Fae, an SDD superhero who is also a sprite, are unaffected. This has subsequently led to Cassandra being harassed by the press wondering how she managed to stay healthy.
- Induced Hypochondria: In "Unmasking You", Cassandra tries to get Colonel Steven to think that he's hallucinating by speaking into his ear in bumblebee form. Her plan was to get Colonel Steven to take the day off, which ends up working.
- Kaiju: The villain "Strange Beast-Master" specializes in creating giant monsters capable of leveling cities.
- Little Old Lady Investigates: The entire barebones plot of this show, except Cassandra isn't that old.
- Never Mess with Granny: Cassandra is shown to be very athletic for her age (given, she's only 56) and knows how to exploit pressure points. She utilizes her insect reaction speed to achieve this.
- Our Fairies Are Different: Cassandra and everyone on Apple Island are called sprites, which are a type of fairy. They don't have wings and their height is half that of a human.
- Pants-Positive Safety: Parodied in "Green and White". Colonel Steven is ordered by Odd-Ball to drop all of his weapons. He pulls the pistol from his holster, puts it on the ground and Odd-Ball thinks that's it, but then Colonel Steven reaches into his pants and pulls out another pistol, a rifle, and then a rocket launcher. Odd-Ball incredulously asks him how he keeps those in his pockets, to which Colonel Steven responds saying that he has no pockets.
- Plague Episode: In "You'll Be the Death of Us", Dr. Hazardous unleashes an engineered virus upon the region Korbin is located in, infecting nearly everyone.
- Robot Girl: Phobos and Deimos are both this. They are twin androids that double as police officers and mech pilots. Their designs are modeled after motorcyclists.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Benjamin talks like this around Colonel Steven because both Marcus and Benjamin thought it would be funny if Colonel Steven thought he actually talked like that.Colonel Steven: Dr. Benjamin Weber, your presence is requested in room 414.Benjamin: Anticipate my advent in approximately 120 to 300 seconds.
- Superman Substitute: General Sentinel is this.
- Superpowerful Genetics: Cassandra and her massive family all share the ability to become bumblebees at sleep. They typically use it to pollinate the year-round apple blossoms on their farm.
- Synthetic Plague: The supervillain Dr. Hazardous uses genetically modified viruses as his weapon of choice.
- Technologically Blind Elders: Mostly averted in that Cassandra is actually pretty good at working her laptop and knows how internet protocol works, but in "Super Defense", Cassandra sneaks into Marcus's bedroom while he's sleeping, struggles to operate his phone in bumblebee form and resorts to pulling Marcus's finger across the screen, but she has no idea how to find his phone number and goes back and forth for several minutes. She does eventually figure it out.
- Uplifted Animal: AquaValor is this. He is a genetically altered and cybernetically enhanced great white shark. He is obedient and behaves like a noble samurai.
Charlie's Colorforms City
, and presented by Tyler Maxwell. The show educates children about colors, shapes, and size; the show is co-produced for Netflix by 9 Story USA and IoM Media Ventures (formerly DHX Studios Halifax). The series premiered on Netflix on March 22, 2019, with Season 1 consisting of 13 episodes. Several new episodes (marketed as 3 additional seasons) were released on November 30, 2021. Another 11 episodes (marketed as 2 seasons) were released on June 13, 2022.Charlie's Colorforms City features examples of:
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Every humanoid character has varying vibrant skin colors.
- Ambiguously Human: Charlie's friends would look completely human if it weren't for their wacky colors, but the other citizens of Colorforms City are short and have exaggerated features.
- An Aesop: Every episode ends with a moral.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In "Charlie Gets Big", Charlie learns that it sucks to be a giant.
- Babysitting Episode: In "Silliest Charlie", Charlie, his friends, and even his neighbors, all gather up to cheer up a grouchy baby.
- Band Episode: In "Rock Star Charlie", Charlie and his friends start a rock band, but can't decide where to play.
- Birthday Episode: In "Birthday Charlie", it is Charlie's birthday and he forgot to invite people to his party.
- Fairy Tale Episode: This is the format of the entirety of season 4.
- Fake Interactivity: The show runs on this.
- Free-Range Children: Neither Charlie, nor his friends' parents are brought up at any point and they seem to live by themselves.
- Hiccup Hijinks: In "Charlie and the Lightning Hiccups", Charlie gets the titular hiccups, which causes Miss Weather to turn into various different animals and objects every time he hiccups.
- Medium Blending: The main characters and the background characters are animated in 3D and 2D respectively.
- Pirate Episode: The episode "Charlie Is a Pirate".
- Sick Episode: In "Sick Charlie", Charlie gets sick with something he calls 'story sneezes', which causes a remix of the previous episodes to take place.
- Space Episode: In "Charlie's Space Mission", Charlie goes to space with his friends and has several mishaps with his spaceship.
- Wingding Eyes: Charlie gets heart eyes at certain points, most notably in the episode "Charlie's Little Brother".
