History Anime / Bakugan

* CharClone:
** Spectra Phantom wears mostly red (including a mask), is blonde, is The Rival, [[spoiler:and is actually named Keith Fermin, the older brother of Mira Fermin]].
** Masquerade doesn't have a thing for red nor does he [[spoiler:actually a she]] have a younger sister, but he is mostly this trope.

* CoolMask: Masquerade and Spectra both wear these, as is par for [[CharClone the Char]] of the series.

* InactionSequence: Like with most [[TabletopGame/YuGiOh card]] and [[TabletopGame/{{Beyblade}} toy]] based games. Although when it's averted, it's averted ''awesomely''! [[spoiler:Laser-Sword Fight!]]

%%* {{Tsundere}}: Runo and Julie ''both'' fit this trope. Come to think of it, Billy and Julie have BelligerentSexualTension as well, except Billy's not part of the main cast so we don't get to see the extended WillTheyOrWontThey like we do with Dan and Runo.

* {{Tsundere}}: Runo and Julie ''both'' fit this trope. Come to think of it, Billy and Julie have BelligerentSexualTension as well, except Billy's not part of the main cast so we don't get to see the extended WillTheyOrWontThey like we do with Dan and Runo.

*** No matter where the Brawlers go, Masquerade and his minions always knew where to find them. Everyone suspects that there is an inside man on the team, though this suspicion doesn't do them any good.

*** Continuing from above, Runo suspects in one episode that Alice is Masquerade's spy, with Dan reluctantly admitting that the evidence isn't in Alice's favor. Alice is genuinely saddened that her friends think she could be a spy and works hard to prove herself. It's not until Alice helps them in a battle that all doubts about her loyalty are erased. [[spoiler:This both serves as foreshadowing and a false reassurance. Alice's loyalty to the team is genuine, but at same time [[TomatoInTheMirror she doesn't know that she's Masquerade]].]]

Spin Master first made reference to a Western reboot of the Franchise in their [[http://www.spinmaster.com/download/SpinMasterLimited-2015Q3FinancialResults-November112015.pdf 2015 Q3 financial report,]][[note]]which also featured a blurry, tentative concept for the lead and a Bakugan[[/note]] then later went mum for a good couple of years before a trademark was filed late in 2017. ''Anime/BakuganBattlePlanet'' is the name for the seemingly more straightforward ''Bakugan'' reboot.[[note]]See the page's references for details.[[/note]] [[http://spinmaster.com/download/SpinMasterCorp.Q42017FinancialResultsConferenceCallMarch_8_2018.pdf According to a couple more]] [[https://www.spinmaster.com/download/SpinMasterCorp.Q12018FinancialResultsConferenceCallMay92018.pdf recent financial reports]], ''Battle Planet'' will be in the currently vogue style of 2 {{Quarter Hour Short}}s and that they're aiming for a tentative release date for the show and its toys in 2019. Said reports also alluded to the possibility of a movie in the discussion phase, and a [[https://www.spinmaster.com/download/SM_2017_Business_Segment_Report.pdf 2017 business report]] also has a couple of shots of the new cast and the Pyrus-using lead (a redesign of Dan Kuso), which have been clipped for convenient viewing [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/bakugan/images/7/7e/BBP_Promo.png/revision/latest?cb=20180619042937 here]] and [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/bakugan/images/8/8b/BBP_Pyrus_Brawler.png/revision/latest?cb=20180619043117 here.]]

Not to be confused with ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}''. Or [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Byakugan]]. Or even ''Manga/{{Bakuon}}''[[labelnote:*]]which, coincidentally, is also a Creator/TMSEntertainment property[[/labelnote]]

** Subverted in the case of the Nethians and Gundalians- they're only using illusions to make themselves appear human to blend in with humans on Earth.

* BoisterousBruiser: Jake’s general personality when [[spoiler:not brainwashed]].
* BoobsOfSteel:
** Julie is unusually well-developed for her age, and her Bakugan partner Gorem is TheBigGuy.
** Mira is also pretty busty for her age, but she wears nowhere as revealing clothes as Julie did.

* MsFanservice: For a kodomo series, Julie sure is ''very'' easy on the eyes. [[BareMidriffsAreFeminine A preference for crop tops]] and short shorts, BoobsOfSteel, dark skin... the list goes on. Mira is one too, albeit more emphasis is placed on her overall looks (though it's pretty obvious she has BoobsOfSteel and very nice, shapely legs...)

* TheThreeFacesOfAdam: Through three series, we've had three different Haos, Darkus, and Subterra brawlers...but [[TheHero Dan]], [[TheLancer Shun]], and [[TheSmartGuy Marucho]] have been there for all four seasons.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Shun's grandfather is brutally humiliated in his debut episode when he falls into his own trap, and the following episode shows him being an incredibly hard and abusive grandfather who wants to turn Shun into a ninja and isolate him from his friends, and he says this seconds after Shun's mother dies. Needless to say, he got exactly what he deserved... [[DubPersonalityChange In the dub at least]], as originally he was nowhere near this harsh with Shun.

*** The Battle Brawlers have six members each that wield Bakugan of a specific attribute, except for Darkus. Alice is the only who doesn't initially brawl, while Masquerade is the main Darkus brawler. While this may have been because Darkus was initially seen as an [[DarkIsEvil "evil attribute]], once Alice accepts that [[spoiler:Masquerade is a part of herself, she becomes the Darkus brawler, inheriting Masquerade's Hydranoid as her own Bakugan]].

*** Continuing from above, Runo suspects in one episode that Alice is Masquerade's spy, with Dan reluctantly admitting that the evidence isn't in Alice's favor. Alice is genuinely saddened that her friends think she could be a spy and works hard to prove herself. It's not until Alice helps them in a battle that all doubts about her loyalty are erased. [[spoiler:This both serves as foreshadowing and a false reassurance. Alice's loyalty to the team is real, but that's because [[TomatoInTheMirror she doesn't know that she's Masquerade]].]]

*** The biggest hint has to be when Masquerade faces an illusory Alice brawling with Excedra. As mentioned above, Alice and Masquerade have never interacted once onscreen before, so [[spoiler:Alice "what Masquerade must overcome" wouldn't make any sense unless there was some connection between the two]].

* DubInducedPlotHole: In the first episode, originally when Shuji goes on to pronounce himself as the "Master of Subterra", Dan's response is one of faked shock, noting that he's never heard of such a title before. In the dub however, he's in shock because he's unaware of what Subterra is... despite the fact he was one of the people who invented the game.

* NeverSayDie: Shun's mom in the dub, which changed the scene of her death to make it look like she simply fell into a coma. Mostly averted otherwise.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Shun’s grandpa outlives his daughter Shiori (Shun’s mother) when she dies from an illness, with no explanation on what happened to his son-in law (Shun’s father), implying that he died too. Being an [[AbusiveParents abusive grandparent]] to Shun, however, he doesn’t care.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Julie's ''entire family'' have dark skin. They avert this trope in the Japanese version, where they are an Australian family with the last name Hayward. The dub changed the name to Makimoto, implying Japanese descent while removing the specific notion they're from Australia.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Shun's grandfather is brutally humiliated in his debut episode when he falls into his own trap, and the following episode shows him being an incredibly hard and abusive grandfather who wants to turn Shun into a ninja and isolate him from his friends, and he says this seconds after Shun's mother dies. Needless to say, he got exactly what he deserved.

* MsFanservice: For a kodomo series, Julie sure is ''very'' easy on the eyes. [[BareYourMidriff A preference for crop tops]] and short shorts, BoobsOfSteel, dark skin... the list goes on. Mira is one too, albeit more emphasis is placed on her overall looks (though it's pretty obvious she has BoobsOfSteel and very nice, shapely legs...)

* BareYourMidriff: Julie and Runo. Runo stops after season 1 while Julie continues until season 4.

** Then, [[spoiler:Runo returns as a (fairly) main character in the second half of ''Mechtanium Surge'', but she's still retired from battling. Mira also comes back, but she's more or less MissionControl now.]]

* {{Cyborg}} : Helios is one. He undergoes cyberization because he couldn't further evolve (it's heavily hinted Viper Helios is his Ultimate evolution) yet he still wanted more power to defeat Drago. He has three cybernetic forms (two in ''New Vestroia'' and one in ''Mechtanium Surge''):

** Infinity Helios from ''Mechtanium Surge'' is a streamlined, [[DarkIsNotEvil Darkus]] version of Helios that ditches a lot of the tacked-on [[ReferenceOverdosed mecha-reference weapons]], so he only retains the ChestBlaster. Infinity Helios also completely ditches the wings for a JetPack that contains a plethora of [[HomingLasers lasers]] that [[{{Roboteching}} robotech]] towards their targets. He also retains the ability to combine with [[MechaExpansionPack a BakuNano]] (essentially miniaturized and significantly improved Battle Gear), his being a set of [[WaveMotionGun big-effin beam guns]]. Helios loves his [[MoreDakka dakka]].

** [[spoiler:Season 2 of New Vestroia made battling more lethal.]]

*** The second BigBad outdos him by [[spoiler:''leveling an entire city and killing off all the Bakugan!'' To clarify, there's no attempt to cover up that destroying the city killed millions of people, in fact its ''very'' heavily implied it did. Thank goodness the Brawlers SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong.]]

** Before that however, New Vestroia married this trope. All the Vexos use Mecha Bakugan by the end of the season:
*** Altair, the first Mecha Bakugan and a FlawedPrototype that's used by Lync roughly a quarter of the way into New Vestroia. Can also [[CombiningMecha combine]] with its' companion trap Wired to form a significantly more powerful form.

*** Boriates, the rather berserker-like Mecha Bakugan that's used by Volt.

*** Metalfencer, an early power up for Helios.

** King Zenoheld starts off with Farbros, a mecha dragon with immense firepower. It turns into a full-fledged battle suit when the Assail System is combined with it. But the most fearsome weapon he ever used was the Alternative, a continent-sized starship with garrisons of disposable attack bots, ''SAVAGE'' firepower that ''ripped a gaping hole in a moon'', then ''vaporized said moon", and the power to wipe out planets at the flick of a wrist.

** Just covering a few missed ones. There's [[http://images.wikia.com/bakugan/images/9/93/Farbros.jpg Farbros]] a mehanical dragon, then there's [[http://images.wikia.com/bakugan/images/9/9d/Krealms2.JPG Krakenoid]], [[http://images.wikia.com/bakugan/images/1/1a/Pashibaru.PNG Percival]], [[http://images.wikia.com/bakugan/images/4/43/Bakugan-battle-brawlers-20090609061512480.jpg Hydranoid]] (all three of his forms) and [[http://images.wikia.com/bakugan/images/2/2c/Apollonir_Bakugan_form.png Apollonir]], the video game gives us [[http://images.wikia.com/bakugan/images/e/e4/Bakugan_Wii_screenshot_210--screenshot.jpg Leonidas]].