Hoodies up and TAKE ACTION!
The Action Pack is a Netflix children’s animation that premiered on January 4, 2022.
The series is about four super powered kids who go around helping others and being trained by there teacher Mr. Ernesto and his robotic dog Plunky. Each episode is about the kids learning what it means to be a hero and learning a lesson in the end.
This show contains the following tropes:
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Why would a professional paleontologist allow kids to work on a real digsite? Also, why is she moving artifacts from the museum's archaeology department?
- Art Shift: Mr. Ernesto's mission briefings are animated in an 8-Bit style reminiscent of classic video games. The "A Netflix Original Series" title card uses the same style.
- Barrier Warrior: One of Clay’s powers allows him to create spherical forcefields he calls “invinci-balls”.
- Combo Platter Powers: Clay can shapeshift… and create spherical forcefields he calls “invinci-balls”. Oh and he has X-Ray Vision too.
- Continuity: Surprisingly for a preschool show, there are tightly-knit story arcs and Character Development that actually sticks, such as Cold Snap's reform.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The "Fizzles", a disease that can be spread when you get close to an infected person, which quickly takes over the town. Based on the time the show was produced, only one thing comes to mind.
- Exploiting the Fourth Wall: In the Christmas special, Mr. Ernesto leans over the barrier of a Split-Screen Phone Call.
- Expressive Accessory: The ears on Wren's hoodie droop when she is sad.
- Fast as Lightning: Watts can use his electric powers for Super-Speed.
- Five-Token Band: Watts is Jewishnote , Treena is African-American, Wren is Hispanic, Clay is Indian, and Mr. Ernesto is Black/Hispanic.
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Genius Bonus: Some of the punny names aren't obvious at first. For example, Rom, the boy with technology powers, gets his name from "read-only memory".
- Objectshifting: Clay has the ability to turn into inanimate objects. Supposedly this is an extension of his Rubber Man powers, but that doesn’t explain how he can transform into things like electrical devices that work.
