History WesternAnimation / Robotix

* NoSell: When the Terrakors steal the food from the human snip, one crew member tries to defend it by smacking the Terrakor with a frying pan. [[SarcasmMode For some reason, this fails to have any meaningful effect on the war robot the size of an office building.]]

* YouNeverAsked: Compucore uses the "You didn't ask me about it" excuse twice when asked by Exeter's crew why she didn't explain something to them before.

Unlike most animated shows, ''Robotix'' was not a 22-minute cartoon, but was rather a series of fifteen six-minute shorts that aired as part of the ''WesternAnimation/SuperSunday'' half-hour with other animated shows, including ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} and the Holograms'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'' and ''Bigfoot And The Muscle Machines''. While ''Jem'' and ''Inhumanoids'' had enough success to be turned into full-fledged series, ''Robotix'' was cancelled after its debut season (as was ''Bigfoot'').

* YouNeverAsked: Compucore states this verbatim twice when asked by Exeter's crew why she didn't explain something to them before.

** Exeter has a ''wonderful'' moment of this when he says that "the traitors can eat dirt," meaning that he's condemning them to slow death by starvation (or a faster, painful death by trying to eat the poisonous plants on the surface).

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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Subverted, as all robotic cast members are actually organic, sentient aliens with their minds forcefully uploaded into mechanical bodies that weren't even ment for this kind of procedure in the first place.

Unlike most animated shows, ''Robotix'' was not a 22-minute cartoon, but was rather a series of fifteen six-minute shorts that aired as part of the ''Super Sunday'' half-hour with other animated shows, including ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} and the Holograms'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'' and ''Bigfoot And The Muscle Machines''. While ''Jem'' and ''Inhumanoids'' had enough success to be turned into full-fledged series, ''Robotix'' was cancelled after its debut season (as was ''Bigfoot'').

* {{Fembot}}: Completely averted with Narra; as a literal face-equipped hockey puck on four legs, she inhabits one of the least humanoid, not to mention feminine, Robotix units in the story.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Kanawk again. He points out that there's no guarantee that the Protectons can fix their ship, their ship is most likely damaged beyond repair, and that they don't really have an obligation to help the Protectons other than altruism. To make matters worse, the food on Skalorr is toxic to humans, and they only have a few days' worth of it. Does it make sense to try to fix a broken starship, wasting valuable resources while they starve to death, or is it better to go to the Terrakors, who ''do'' have a working ship ready to go, and might prove more amenable to their needs?

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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The Terrakors are the bad guys, and they're (well, originally) reptiles. Protectons are ape-like in appearance.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: subverted, as all robotic cast members are actually organic, sentient aliens with their minds forcefully uploaded into mechanical bodies that weren't even ment for this kind of procedure in the first place.
* TelescopingRobot: Many characters do this, varying from expanding limbs to producing tons of weapons from inside their bodies. Bront takes this tropes to the extreme, once fashining peg legs longer than his own height to cross an acid lake and on another occasion transfoming into a very long ladder to allow his teammates avoiding a deathtrap.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Narra is the only female Protecton in the series as well as the only female character in general.

* DesignatedLoveInterest: Near the end, Argus calls Narra "my beloved Narra". That's the only indication we get that the two were an item.

* {{Squick}}: Whenever Robotix take damage, small bits such as bolts fall off their frames and the bigger the blow they receive, the squickier the metallic sounds they make become, so, for example, [[spoiler: when Goon rips Jerrock's arm off]], you can almost feel the weight of the injury.

Unlike most animated shows, ''Robotix'' was not a 22-minute cartoon, but was rather a series of fifteen six-minute shorts that aired as part of the Super Sunday half-hour with other animated shows, including ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} and the Holograms'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/BigfootAndTheMuscleMachines''. While ''Jem'' and ''Inhumanoids'' had enough success to be turned into full-fledged series, ''Robotix'' was cancelled after its debut season (as was ''Bigfoot'').

The series follows the conflict between the peaceful Protectons and the warmongering Terrakors on the alien world of Skalorr, and a group of humans who get caught up in the conflict. It was produced by Creator/SunbowEntertainment and Marvel Productions, and was animated in Japan by Creator/ToeiAnimation, which also animated other cartoons featured on the ''WesternAnimation/SuperSunday'' block.

* Fembot: Completely averted with Narra; as a literal face-equipped hockey puck on four legs, she inhabits one of the least humanoid, not to mention feminine, Robotix units in the story.

* Squick: Whenever Robotix take damage, small bits such as bolts fall off their frames and the bigger the blow they receive, the squickier the metallic sounds they make become, so, for example, [[spoiler: when Goon rips Jerrock's arm off]], you can almost feel the weight of the injury.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The Terrakons are the bad guys, and they're (well, originally) reptiles. Protectons are ape-like in appearance.