History Animation / Miniforce

* AscendedExtra: Ipass, who appeared in only three episodes of the first two seasons, makes more frequent appearances in ''Miniforce X'' as the team's MissionControl.

* RecycledAnimation: Many scenes and poses gets reused and reused every episode.

** In the very next episode, she gets [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] but the [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain of the week]].

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Penky and Penko in "Twin Penguin Thieves".

[[caption-width-right:350: Miniforce, ''TRANSFORM!!'' [[note]]From left to right: [[TheBigGuy Max]], [[TheLancer Sammy]], [[TheLeader Volt]], and [[TheChick Lucy]]. Yes, [[ColorCodedCharacters the ones on the top are the same as the ones on the bottom]].[[/note]]]]

The show follows four main characters: [[TheLeader Volt the squirrel]], [[TheBigGuy Max the beaver]], [[TheLancer Sammy the owl]], and [[TheChick Lucy the fox]]. Together, they are part of an animal agent organization known as the Miniforce. They normally live at a house under the care of a human named Suzy. But when the [[BigBad Big Bads]] Nein and Pascal plot trouble and carry out evil plans around their peaceful area, our heroes come to the rescue by transforming into human-like battle suits and putting a stop to their plans, usually involving defeating another villain or a mechamon. In the second season of the show, [[SixthRanger Ray]] the [[MixAndMatchCritters animal chimera]] sometimes tags along to help the Miniforce even.

* TheChick: Lucy is the most level-headed and nicest of the Miniforce.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The premise of Super Dino Power.

* {{Expy}}: The main villain of ''Super Dino Force'', Captain Powerman, operates under a similar M.O. to [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Hawk Moth]], imbuing victims of "injustice" with the power to get revenge. The main difference is that his targets of choice are mistreated inanimate objects.

* AbsenteeActor: Nein, one of the [[BigBad Big Bads]], has very sparse appearances throughout the whole series, only popping up occasionally so that viewers don't forget that he still exists. Pascal has done most of the Big Badding himself as a result. Though Nein has made more frequent appearances on the second season than the first.

* FakeHero: Captain Powerman believes that the Miniforce are these, and that he's the only true hero around.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Dr. Tao the Miniforce scientist

* FiveManBand: The Miniforce tends to play out like this, especially once [[SixthRanger Leo/Rio]] joins.
** TheLeader: Volt.
** TheLancer: Sammy.
** TheBigGuy: Max.
** TheSmartGuy: Leo/Rio.
** TheChick: Lucy, with a hint of [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Guy]] due to her being the most level-headed.

** Captain Powerman in ''Super Dino Force''.

** The same extends to all the {{Sixth Ranger}}s in the series, with the exception of Lina in season 2 of ''Super Dino Power''; she's a white rabbit, but her ranger form is orange.

* BadassInDistress: In "Hypnotic music", Lucy gets hypnotized by Nein after her [[LogicalWeakness super hearing]] leaves her vulnerable to his [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hypnotizing music]].

** The black cat that serves as the most consistent SixthRanger of the series starting in ''Miniforce X'' season 2 is named "Leo" in the YouTube episode titles and "Rio" in the Netflix titles.

* TheMasquerade: The Miniforce operates outside human notice (with the exception, of course, of human enemies they make like Nein). PlayedWith in ''Miniforce X''; the humans become aware of the cast's {{Talking Animal}}s forms for ''being'' talking animals and make frequent-enough TV experiences that Suzy starts charging them rent, and aware of their transformed superheroics, but bizarrely, they don't seem to have connected the two groups as being one and the same.

* TheMasquerade: The Miniforce operates outside human notice (with the exception, of course, of human enemies they make like Nein). PlayedWith in ''Miniforce X''; the humans become aware of the cast's TalkingAnimals forms for ''being'' talking animals and make frequent-enough TV experiences that Suzy starts charging them rent, and aware of their transformed superheroics, but bizarrely, they don't seem to have connected the two groups as being one and the same.

** In "Prophecy of the Peacock", Kao the peacock Buddhist prophet {{Seer}} has predicted that this would happen to Volt as part of the Miniforce's overall fate. Volt tries to prevent this by boarding up Suzy's door, [[YouCantFightFate but ended up getting hit by Suzy anyway]].

* {{Seer}}: Kao the peacock Buddhist priest in "Prophecy of the Peacock" and "Miraculous Courage", who can see into the future.

* FiveManBand: The Miniforce tends to play out like this.
** [[TheLeader The Leader]]: Volt.
** [[TheLancer The Lancer]]: Sammy.
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guy]]: Max.
** [[TheChick The Chick]]: Lucy, with a hint of [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Guy]] due to her being the most level-headed.

* GrimyWater: The Monster of the Week mechamon in "Cause of the Disease" polluted a river into this. Not enough to turn the forest into a total Polluted Wasteland, but definitely enough to give the animals drinking the water quite a bit of poisoning.

** Also subverted by the two black Miniforce agents, Ray and Rio, although their first appearances are antagonistic to the Miniforce.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Ray in "Black Miniforce" is said to be a mutant of one of these in his normal animal form, but it is never specified what animals he is a mix of (some sort of winged animal is definitely one of the animals he is a mix of, though). Nonetheless, he was ostracized by humans for being this trope prior to his meeting Dr. Tao and subsequent Miniforce membership.

** ''Miniforce X'' season 2 introduces Rio, a black cat and [[TheSmartGuy scientific genius]] who's more of a traditional Sixth Ranger (and isn't Ray, despite them being the same color).

* FreakyFridayFlip: In "Go, Miniforce Ranger Suzy!" in ''Super Dino Power'', [[LightningCanDoAnything an electric surge]] causes Volt and Suzy to switch bodies. When a TV remote monster traps the other members of Miniforce, Volt as Suzy has to use a new human-sized pink TransformationTrinket to fight it.

** ''Miniforce X'' season 2 introduces Rio, a black cat and [[TheSmartGuy scientific tinkerer]] who's more of a traditional Sixth Ranger (and isn't Ray, despite them being the same color).

** In "There's Something About Ipas", Volt owns a giant "king peanut" that he even shares with Ipas. Peanuts do not grow in sizes similar to Volt's giant peanut

* AscendedExtra: Ipass, who appeared in only three episodes of the first two seasons, makes more frequent appearences in ''Miniforce X'' as the team's MissionControl.

* TheLancer: Sammy is the most serious-minded member of the Miniforce

** ''Super Dino Power'' introduces Leo, a black cat and [[TheSmartGuy scientific tinkerer]] who's more of a traditional Sixth Ranger (and isn't Ray, despite them being the same color).

* FlyingSaucer: In "Alien Jody", Jody crash-landed on Earth with one of these, and Suzy was a witness to it while trying to sleep.

** Captain Powerback in ''Super Dino Force''.

* {{Expy}}: The main villain of ''Super Dino Force'', Captain Powerback, operates under a similar M.O. to [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Hawk Moth]], imbuing victims of "injustice" with the power to get revenge. The main difference is that his targets of choice are mistreated inanimate objects.

* SelfDestructMechanism: In the final episode, [[spoiler:the Miniforce use such a mechanism built in their robots to deliver the final blow to their battle with Pascal]]. [[spoiler:They survive the explosion because of an automatic safety and healing system built in the robots]].

** The human Suzy doesn't seem to have an issue with talking with and understanding the animal Miniforce team

* {{Expy}}: The main villain of ''Super Dino Force'' operates under a similar M.O. to [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Hawk Moth]], embuing victims of "injustice" with the power to get revenge. The main difference is that his targets of choice are inanimate objects.

A {{Prequel}} movie based on the series was released in 2016, called ''Animation/MiniforceNewHeroesRise''. A sequel series, ''Miniforce X'', began releasing in April 2019.

* EvilTastesGood: In "Fatally Delicious Candy", a candy dispenser robot plant candy in the forest's trees to get its animals addicted to them

A {{Prequel}} movie based on the series was released in 2016, called ''Animation/MiniforceNewHeroesRise''. A sequel series, ''Animation/MiniforceX'', began releasing in April 2019.