Trope Namers / Western Animation

Animation is the source of many unique tropes, but also uses tropes from other media. Here are the Trope Namers of Western Animation.

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Trope namers:

• Adventure Time
  • Drama Bomb

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• Animaniacs
  • Potty Emergency

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• Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • Elemental Nation
  • Face Stealer
  • Tasty Gold
  • Victory Is Boring

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• Batman: The Animated Series
  • Batman in My Basement
  • Clock King

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• Batman: The Brave and the Bold
  • The Music Meister

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• Beavis and Butt-Head
  • Heh Heh, You Said "X"

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• Captain Planet and the Planeteers
  • All Your Powers Combined
    • All Your Colors Combined
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power
  • What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?

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• Care Bears
  • Care-Bear Stare

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• Chowder
  • Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand

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• Clerks: The Animated Series
  • Who Is Driving?

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• Code Lyoko
  • Super Smoke

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• The Critic
  • Apocalypse Wow (via an Apocalypse Now parody)
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed

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• Danny Phantom
  • Fake-Out Make-Out

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• Daria
  • Hitler Ate Sugar

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• Darkwing Duck
  • Let's Get Dangerous!

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• Dave the Barbarian
  • Someday This Will Come in Handy

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• Dexter's Laboratory
  • What Does This Button Do?

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• Dora the Explorer
  • Swiper, No Swiping!

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• Dudley Do-Right
  • Dastardly Whiplash (cross-reference to Dastardly & Muttley)
  • Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help

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• Ed, Edd n Eddy
  • No-Neck Chump
  • Planet Baron

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• The Fairly OddParents!
  • Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas
  • Sure, Let's Go with That

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• Family Guy
  • Big Stupid Doo Doo Head
  • Intercourse with You
  • It Was His Sled
    • Not His Sled

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• The Flintstones
  • Flintstone Theming
  • Great Gazoo
  • Have a Gay Old Time

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• Freakazoid!
  • Laugh with Me!
  • Relax-o-Vision
  • Throw a Barrel at It

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• Futurama
  • Big Book of War
  • "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
  • Bowel-Breaking Bricks
  • Especially Zoidberg
  • Hugh Mann
  • Lonely Together
  • Made Myself Sad
  • My Friends... and Zoidberg
  • Ocean Madness
  • Roswell That Ends Well
  • Start My Own
  • Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks
    • Stuffy Old Tropes About the Buttocks
  • Tastes Like Purple
  • That Makes Me Feel Angry
  • Where No Parody Has Gone Before (After the episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", an episode that is an Affectionate Parody, in a series that is brimming to the top with such parodies/references, to everything Star Trek).
  • "X" Makes Anything Cool
  • You Mean "Xmas"

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• Gargoyles
  • Xanatos Gambit
    • Thanatos Gambit
  • Xanatos Speed Chess

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• George of the Jungle
  • Watch Out for That Tree!

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• G.I. Joe
  • And Knowing Is Half the Battle
  • The Baroness

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• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
  • President Evil (a Resident Evil parody featured in "Brown Evil")
  • Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth

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• Halloween Is Grinch Night
  • Go to the Euphemism

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• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)
  • By the Power of Grayskull!

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• I Am Weasel
  • I Am Not Weasel

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• Invader Zim
  • Rise of Zitboy

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• Jackie Chan Adventures
  • Immortality Hurts
  • Magic Must Defeat Magic

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• The Jetsons
  • George Jetson Job Security

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• Justice League
  • And the Adventure Continues
  • The Greatest Story Never Told
  • Heroes Unlimited
  • You Are a Credit to Your Race

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• Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
  • The Earth-Prime Theory

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• Kim Possible
  • Give Geeks a Chance
  • Sick and Wrong

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• King of the Hill
  • The Big Rotten Apple

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• The Legend of Zelda (1989)
  • Well, Excuse Me, Princess!

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• The Little Rascals
  • He-Man Woman Hater

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• Looney Tunes
  • Acme Products
  • And Call Him "George"
  • Duck Season, Rabbit Season
  • Earth-Shattering Kaboom
  • Elmuh Fudd Syndwome
  • Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
  • Hair-Raising Hare
  • Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales
  • A Pig Named "Porkchop" (Porky Pig)
  • Porky Pig Pronunciation
  • Pronoun Trouble
  • Rascally Rabbit
  • Roadrunner PC
  • Roadrunner Vs Coyote
  • That's All, Folks!
  • Those Wily Coyotes
  • WackyLand
  • Where's the Kaboom?
  • Wrong Turn at Albuquerque

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• The Magic School Bus
  • A Lizard Named "Liz"

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• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
  • Stormalong Harbor (Type II example of Not-So-Safe Harbor)

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• Megas XLR
  • Conveniently Empty Building

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• Mickey Mouse
  • All Hail the Great God Mickey! (Named after an episode of The Nostalgia Critic)
  • Mickey Mousing
  • Mocky Mouse

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• My Life as a Teenage Robot
  • Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal

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• My Little Pony
  • 20% More Awesome (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
  • The Night That Never Ends (My Little Pony TV Specials)

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• Over the Garden Wall
  • The Old North Wind

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• The Penguins of Madagascar
  • Nose Nuggets

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• Phineas and Ferb
  • Squirrels in My Pants

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• Pinky and the Brain
  • Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?

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• The Powerpuff Girls
  • So Once Again, the Day Is Saved

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• The Real Ghostbusters
  • The Real Spoofbusters

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• The Ren & Stimpy Show
  • Space Madness

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• Rick and Morty
  • Immortality Field
  • Real Fake Door

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• Rocket Power
  • Celebrity Is Overrated

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• Rocky and Bullwinkle
  • Fractured Fairy Tale
  • Wayback Trip

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• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  • Christmas Town
  • Island of Misfit Everything

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• Schoolhouse Rock!
  • My Hero, Zero
  • "Schoolhouse Rock!" Lesson

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• Scooby-Doo
  • Blind Without 'Em (Velma would always exclaim a variation of this whenever she lost her glasses)
  • Let Me at Him! (Scrappy's Catchphrase)
  • Let's Split Up, Gang!
  • The Meddling Kids Are Useless
  • "Scooby-Doo" Hoax
  • Scooby-Dooby Doors
  • Scooby Stack
  • The Scrappy (and the Scrappy Index)
  • You Meddling Kids

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• Silly Symphonies
  • The Big Bad Wolf

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• The Smurfs (1981) (see Comic Books for comic original examples)
  • If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You

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• Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM)
  • Fastest Thing Alive
  • Reversible Roboticizing
  • Unwilling Roboticisation

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• South Park
  • Brake Angrily
  • Chewbacca Defense
  • Drugs Are Bad
    • Drugs Are Good
  • Giving the Sword to a Noob
  • La Résistance ^note Named in the South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut movie
  • Move Along, Nothing to See Here
  • My Future Self and Me
  • Pals with Jesus
  • They Killed Kenny Again
  • A Very Crappy Index
  • You Bastard!

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• SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Camping Episode
  • I've Heard of That — What Is It?
  • No Matter How Much I Beg

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• Static Shock
  • Burger Fool

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• Stanley
  • Great Big Book of Everything

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• Steven Universe
  • Giant Woman
  • Permafusion

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• Strawberry Shortcake
  • Strawberry Shorthand

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• Superfriends
  • Legion of Doom
  • This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman
  • Wonder Twin Powers

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• Super Mario World
  • I Fell for Hours

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• Teen Titans
  • One, Two, Three, Four, Go!

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• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Index in a Half Shell (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987))
  • UltimateGamer386 (Back to the Sewers)

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• Tex Avery MGM Cartoons
  • Screwball Squirrel

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• The Tick
  • Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress
  • If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!
  • Nigh-Invulnerability

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• Tom and Jerry
  • Cat Concerto

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• The Transformers
  • Autobots, Rock Out!
  • Hate Plague
  • The Starscream

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• VeggieTales
  • The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
    • Royals Who Actually Do Something

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• The Venture Bros.
  • Powered by a Forsaken Child

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• Wacky Races
  • Dastardly Whiplash (cross-reference with Dudley-Do Right)
  • Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
  • Wacky Racing

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