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  • Acting for Two: As usual, Grey Griffin voices many characters throughout the show, including Mrs. Sartori, Cotton, Camille (in Season 3), Loretta, and a few other minor characters.
  • The Cast Show Off: Everyone in the cast does their own singing.
  • Celebrity Voice Actor: Sterling K. Brown, Dan Stevens, Joan Jett, and GZA are included in the cast.
  • Children Voicing Children: Playing With. Wolf is implied to be not much older than eleven, but her voice actress, Sydney Mikayla, was sixteen when the show premiered.
  • Creator's Favorite Episode: Rad Sechrist has said on Twitter that "Mute-Eat-Mute World" is his favorite episode.
  • Dawson Casting: Kipo and Benson are both voiced by actors in their twenties.
  • Dub Name Change: In German, Charlemagne is usually called Karl der Große (Charles the Great), so Scarlemagne was likewise changed to Scarl der Große.
  • Executive Meddling:
    • Kipo was originally a normal human. Her having mutant powers was a request from executives who believed Kipo needed something special. Her odd skin colour is a holdover from the comics, where many characters had crazy skin tones, kept in order to foreshadow the eventual twist.
    • The show's artsyle is also a result of this. The animators were concerned about their ability to render the art style, and there were plans to switch to a more "anime" appearance to accommodate Studio Mir before the same executive that greenlit the show demanded that the original art direction be kept.
    • Benson's reveal of his sexual orientation. Dreamworks executives had no issue with one of the main protagonists being openly LGBT. In fact, their only note concerning it was that he had to explicitly say "I'm gay."
    • The crew went to great lengths to ensure fans this was not the case for the show's brief run, as they'd always intended it to just be three seasons as it felt like the natural length for the story (and in fact production of the entire series was completed even before the first season was released).
  • Fake Nationality: Japanese American actress Karen Fukuhara voices Kipo, who is of mixed black and Korean descent.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: The short-lived 2015 Kipo webcomic. The website was taken down in early 2019, before the first teaser trailer for the show was released. Some of the pages are still available to view on the creator's DeviantArt page, but you'll need to fire up the Wayback Machine if you want the rest.
  • The Other Darrin: In her debut appearance, Camille is voiced by Joan Jett. When she returns in Season 3 (most likely for budgetary reasons), Grey Griffin voices her. The same goes for Bad Billions being voiced by Guy Lockard in Season 3 instead of his original actor GZA.
  • Queer Character, Queer Actor: Asher is non-binary, just like their voice actor River Butcher.
  • Shrug of God: The nature of the apocalypse that occurred 200 years before the beginning of the show. Sechrist states he and all the writers have their own separate theories concerning it, and that no one in-universe knows any details either. There are also no plans to ever explore it, since whatever they'd decide on would inevitably be too divorced from the main plot to matter, and Wolkoff additionally noted that no answer would satisfy all the fans anyway.note 
  • Tribute to Fido: The white Mega Bichon is based on Bill Wolkoff’s dog Oatmeal.
  • Two Voices, One Character: Kipo ‘s mother Song is voiced by Jee Young Han, but during her time as a Mega Monkey, her sounds are provided by Dee Bradley Baker.
  • Whole-Plot Reference: A human child emerges from an Apocalypse Bunker after their home is attacked and subsequently has adventures in the Ruins of the Modern Age, which are populated with (among other things) various groups of anthropomorphic animal mutants. The Walking Dead may have been the main inspiration for Kipo, but are we sure Kamandi wasn't an influence here?
  • Word of Gay: As shown here, Rad Sechrist — the creator of Kipo — confirmed that Asher is non-binary. Troy was also confirmed to be pansexual.

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