Western Animation / I.N.K. Invisible Network of Kids

Welcome to Pinkerton Academy, a experimental boarding-school built in the middle of a park. It has only two teachers, 32 students, a computer-operated kitchen that prepares all your favorite foods and makes them nutritionally balanced, and a main classroom with glass-domed walls and a tree growing through it. Surely this would be a paradise, except for one minor problem.

Meet your teacher, Miss Sadie McBeth, a rather psychotic 20-something witch who has made it her mission in life to control, enslave and basically torture kids any way she can... If Miss McBeth had her way, Pinkerton would have been transformed into a totalitarian hell-hole long ago.

Fortunately, there's one thing that keeps getting in her way: the Invisible Network of Kids. These four Pinkerton students joined forces and formed a spy organization dedicated to blocking, subverting and basically just driving Miss McBeth even crazier than she already is. These for kids are the only thing standing in the way of McBeth and total domination of the school. And these intrepid heroes are...

• Vin: The school pretty boy, with the ego to match. This orphan views himself as an action hero and will not hesitate to jump in to a mission. The only thing he values more than his friends is his unending quest to find out who his parents are and what happened to them.
• Trixie: The unofficial leader of the team. She remains behind in the secret headquarters and guides the others through missions against McBeth. But she isn't afraid to get her hands dirty when she needs to. Trixie, by far, is the most practical and level-headed member of the group, which occasionally leads to her coming off as cold to the people around her, but she's just trying to find the best way to get the job done.
• Newton: Pinkerton's resident Child Prodigy. This 7-year-old has an I.Q. of 240, attends school with kids who are 12 or 13 and keeps near-perfect grades. He has recently decided to pull back to 98% to give himself a break. But Newton is still a kid at heart, which is best shown by his affinity for practical jokes and anything gross. If it makes rude noise or blows up in people's face, he's all over it. Newton is the resident tech-head and is responsible for building all of I.N.K.'s gadgets.
• Zero: The team bruiser. A goth girl loner with a mysterious past, she views herself as a kind-hearted rebel and joined I.N.K. to lend her muscle to the side of good. She is a trained fighter and is fully capable of flattening anyone else at Pinkerton. Zero seems fascinated by Asian culture. She is extensively trained in Kung-Fu, among other fighting styles and routinely enjoys sushi at meals. Zero places great value in strength, especially her own. She is terrified of being seen as a coward and the one time she lost a fight, to a cybernetically enhanced bully, she almost broke down in tears.

I.N.K. Invisible Network of Kids^note Known as Mission : Invisible ! in France is a French animated series produced by Samka Productions that premiered in 2010 on France 3 and Gulli. It was a Short-Runner that lasted for just one season and 26 episodes, and flew under the radar in the US; but still gained an English dub and was dubbed in many other languages.

The distribution rights for the series are now in the hands of Jetpack Distribution.

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I.N.K. Invisible Network of Kids features examples of:

• Actually Pretty Funny: In "Saving Agent Newton" when Mr. Soper lists a few pranks Newton pulled in the past, he says this about the last one.
• Adults Are Useless: Subverted with Mr. Soper, who's actually very good teacher and cares about each of his students. Played absolutely straight with Miss McBeth. She's lousy at math, has trouble pronouncing big words, can't even spell her own goldfish's name right and, oh yeah, is utterly crazy.
• Amazon Chaser: Vin has a crush on Zero, who is taller and stronger than he is and could easily kick his ass if she wanted to.
• Ambiguously Brown: Trixie has dark skin, but her exact ethnicity is vague.
• Amnesiacs are Innocent: In "Macbeth Feels the Sting", when Macbeth's invention backfires on her and turns her into a nitwit, she completely forgets how evil and strict she used to be. The kids waste no time in taking advantage of this.
• And Knowing Is Half the Battle: The "Science Club" shorts
• Artistic License: In "Round Up the Usual Suspects" Macbeth has hidden camera footage stored on DVDs, yet the footage has tracking lines like on VHS.
• Badass Adorable: Zero.
• Bamboo Technology: There is literally nothing Newton can not make bubblegum do.
  • In "Ego Ergo" Zero playfully makes fun of how nearly all his inventions involve gum.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Subverted in "Mission Forgotten?" when Macbeth stops Zero and Vin from showering until they break and confess. They're both filthy, though Zero doesn't have flies buzzing around her like Vin does.
• Berserk Button: Go ahead, pick on someone smaller than you while Zero's around, I dare you.
• Big Eater: Ben
• Bottle Episode: Most of them. We rarely see any places outside of the school.
• Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: In "Armed to the Teeth" Miss McBeth puts these on Vin and uses them to control him.
  • Esentially Vin has Dock Ock arms coming out of his mouth.
• Break the Cutie: Trixie in "The Queen's Game".
  • Zero in "Burt the Brute" when a suped-up Burt beats her up and locks her in a safe. When the gang get her out she's close to tears.
    • It's a bit hard to see with her pale skin, but she did shed one tear.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: Double subverted in "The Queen's Game".
• Child Hater: Miss McBeth.
• Child Prodigy: Newton, of course. Also, Trixie is shown to be a natural at chess.
• Clip Show: "Round Up the Usual Suspects"
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: Pervy from "The New Student" has these. She loses them after her Heel–Face Turn.
• Decoy Getaway: Each member of INK has an inflatable double they can put in their place when they need to go somewhere in a hurry.
• Distinguishing Mark: Zero's biggest embarrassment? The pink pony-shaped birthmark on her left shoulder.
• Dress-O-Matic: The opening sequence shows how Newton, after ignoring his alarm clock for too long, is launched out of his bed and lands on a chair, after which a robot puts him into his daytime clothes.
• Dumb Is Good: In "Macbeth Feels the Sting" Macbeth gets stung by her own invention; flies that turn people into idiots. In addition to making her dumb(er) it also makes her nicer. Later, she invents another type of fly to act as the opposite to the other one, turning people evil while keeping their intelligence the same.
• Elaborate University High: The school has a tree-dome and an actual automatic kitchen!
• Embarrassing Old Video: In the final episode, INK find one of Miss Macbeth and blackmail her with it.
• "Eureka!" Moment: Often a lesson or speech Mr. Soper gives will inspire Macbeth's scheme of the day.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In "Lovestruck Stinkbomb" when it looked like Zero and Vin were going to fall to their deaths, Miss McBeth looked genuinely concerned.
  • In "Burt the Brute" Burt started having second thoughts about his alliance with Macbeth when she revealed her plan to go from stuffing kids in garbage cans they can easily fit in to garbage cans the size of thimbles. Though he still goes along with it after some convincing.
• Evil Brit: Miss McBeth
• Evil Is Hammy: Miss McBeth. Every time she appears on screen, she chews the scenery to a hilarious degree.
• Evil Teacher: Miss MacBeth, obviously.
• Fan Disservice: Occasionally Miss McBeth will get into a sexy outfit for her musical number.
• F--: In "Burt the Brute" when Macbeth is grading the kids' tests she just gives zero scores to everyone.
• Former Child Star: I.N.K find out that Miss McBeth of all people was once a teen pop star that went by Valentine Bergonia, and an old music clip of hers winds up being broadcasted in front of the entire student body. An embarassed McBeth fully expects them all to laugh at her, but she's taken aback when the kids cheer in admiration and ask for an encore.
• Fractured Fairy Tale: The episode "Donkeyboy", which mashes together the Pied Piper with Pinocchio and throws in a giant robotic 'Big Bad Wolf' for good measure.
• Freudian Excuse: Miss McBeth, oh dear lord, Miss McBeth! Certain serial killers have had more pleasant upbringings than she did.
• Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult: Miss MacBeth. At the end of each term, she incinerates all of the toys she has confiscated.
• Gag Nose: Macbeth's nose.
• Genius Ditz: Miss McBeth even fails at basic mathematics, but creating mind control devices and other complex things? Not a problem.
• Here We Go Again!: The final episode ends with INK making a new enemy in Macbeth's Spear Counterpart.
• Humiliation Conga: In "Saving Agent Newton" Newton tricks Macbeth into doing a series of humiliating tasks.
• Hypnotic Eyes: One of Miss McBeth's favorite weapons against people.
• Identical Stranger: Subverted with Charlene in "The Queen's Game". She doesn't look completely identical to Trixie, but she looks close enough that Trixie can impersonate her.
• Inspector Javert: Ernest DeLoop from the final episode.
• Interrupted Declaration of Love: In "Back to the Past" Zero attempts to confess her feelings to Vin before MacBeth erases her from existence, but she disappears before she can finish.
• Kick Chick: A flying kick is Zero's primary attack.
• Large Ham: Miss McBeth. Oh. So. Very. Much. It's pretty apparent the character's voice actress is having the time of her life recording her lines.
  Miss McBeth: It's too bad that zero is too high...because you have...MINUS TWELVE!!! And for each negative number, you copy one thousand times 'I am a lowly worm when it comes to math'!
• Lean and Mean: Miss McBeth.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: In "Mission: Forgotten?" Newton invents a device that specifically erases memories of INK.
• Let's Duet: Miss Macbeth and Miss Frank in "Macbeth Feels the Sting".
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Whenever Mr. Soper is let in on what's going on, he's proven himself to be a valuable ally.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Van, short for Vanessa, is not really mean, just a self-absorbed airhead. The only time she said anything mean was when she was under the effects of a truth ray.
• Magic Skirt
• Mission Control: Newton and Trixie are this to "field agents" Vin and Zero.
• Modern Major General: Ms. McBeth, a math teacher who's terrible at math and teaching, but very skilled in multiple other matters.
• Money Fetish: The burglar in "Santa Claws", to the point where Soper manages to distract him for several hours by reading a book about money.
• Morality Pet: McBeth's pet goldfish, Vagner.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Vagner is supposed to be a goldfish, but has teeth like a pirahna.
• Mysterious Past: Very little is known about Vin and Zero's pasts.
• Naughty Nurse Outfit: Macbeth in "Patient Zero". She attempts to look like a Hospital Hottie, but she has no medical knowledge and she's not a hottie!
• Non-Nude Bathing: In the episode "Voodoo Shampoo", all kids shower in either their underwear or bathing suits. Justified since the shower scenes take up a large portion of the episode and would require an impossible amount of Scenery Censor if this trope was not in effect.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Zero.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Somehow McBeth has a hard figuring out who the I.N.K. agents are under their disguises, despite their voices and clothes being very recognizable.
• The Password Is Always "Swordfish":
  • In "The Butterfly Effect" the password to Macbeth's safe was Vagner, the name of her goldfish.
  • In another episode the password to Macbeth's computer is actually 'password', because the computer told her to 'enter password'!
• The Pollyanna: Miss Frank, Macbeth's substitute in "Macbeth Feels the Sting", when not under the effects of Macbeth's meanness potion.
• Professional Butt-Kisser: Daryl to Miss McBeth. Even when under the influence of a truth-ray he has nothing but really nice things to say about her.
• The Psycho Rangers: The Shadow Avengers: Daryl, Van, Burt and Hector are recruited by Miss McBeth to serve as her own version of I.N.K, and function as the counterparts to Trixie, Vin, Zero and Newton, respectively.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Mr. Soper.
• The Runaway: Zero apparently ran away from her parents. The principal, Mr. Soper, allowed her to enroll herself at Pinkerton.
• Running Gag: In every episode Miss McBeth discovers the identities of I.N.K., but something usually makes her forget. Zero's favorite method of retribution involves suspending kids from the coat rack by their undies.
• Sadist Teacher: Miss McBeth.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: In "The Truth, the Whole Truth" it's revealed Soper knows what happened to Vin's parents.
• Series Continuity Error: According to "A Strict Diet" Miss Macbeth hates food and can only eat tasteless nutrition paste- but in "Santa Claws" she's trying to cook a turkey for her Christmas dinner.
• Serious Business: Anytime Miss McBeth gets the upper hand, the kids see it as the end of the world.
• Shipper on Deck: In "Lovestruck Stinkbomb" Mr. Soper shows that he supports Vin/Zero. Though he still doesn't tolerate them sneaking off at night.
• Shout-Out: At one point Vin and Zero have a face-off that sees them battling across the treetops, until it devolves into a tickle fight, anyway.
  • The school the show takes place in is called Pinkerton Academy. All the characters hate the school, just like Rivers Cuomo hated Harvard!

• The Stoic: Zero. Though she gets quite a lot of Not So Stoic moments.
• The Stool Pigeon: Daryl is the only student at Pinkerton who actually wants to get on Miss McBeth's good side to the point where he is prone to tattling on the protagonists whenever he can.
• Teen Superspy
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Kind of. Zero is several inches taller than Vin, made especially clear in "Pinkertomb" when they switch clothes.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Zero and Trixie fit this trope nicely.
• Tragic Keepsake: Vin owns a pendant inscribed with a note from his long-lost mother. He loses it on a mission and Miss McBeth finds it.
• Tsundere: Zero is Type B for Vin.
  • Zero is even tsundere for her pet bunny in "The Robot Rabbit Group".
    Zero: (talking to her bunny) Okay, you don't budge, you hate to be petted, you bite anyone who touches you and you are a rat, got it?
• Two-Teacher School: A literal case!
  • In "The Outcast" a bunch of other teachers show up to assembly, most of them in shadow, but Soper and MacBeth are the only teachers that get any focus.
• Tyop on the Cover: In "Voodoo Shampoo" the title is misspelled as "Vodoo Shampoo".
• Verbal Tic: In "Ego Ergo" after getting her ego inflated, Zero starts putting emphasis on words like 'I' and 'me'.
• Villain Song: Miss McBeth gets one song for Once an Episode.
  • A few times INK joined in, turning it partly into a "The Villain Sucks" Song.
• Vocal Dissonance: Despite being a preteen girl, Zero speaks with the voice of a adult woman.
• We Want Our Jerk Back!: "The Ghost of Pinkerton"
• "What Do They Fear?" Episode: In "Pinkertomb", Miss McBeth's new plan is to scope out what the students fear the most.
  • Newton is afraid of a mummy he once saw in a scary movie. Considering how young he is, this one's pretty understandable.
  • Trixie's biggest fear is, quite oddly, a metronome from when she was taking piano lessons, which doesn't scare her so much as it gives her anxiety.
  • Vin's biggest fear calls itself "Mom", which might hint to Vin having not had a great time in foster care...
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Zero is scared of chickens.
• Will They or Won't They?: Vin and Zero. As the first season progresses, it becomes more and more obvious that they're an item; they just never say it out loud.
• Would Hit a Girl: Burt, at least in the case of Zero since she can stand up for herself.
• Younger Than They Look: Miss McBeth. Believe it or not, she's canonically in her twenties.

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