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* DisproportionateRetribution: They start a war on humanity because they had blown up their city out of paranoia. Thing is, they rebuilt said city instantly, AND there's no indication that any Mysterons died.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: They start a war on humanity because they a group of astronauts had blown up their city out of paranoia.paranoia (wrongly believing it to be a weapon system). Thing is, they rebuilt said city instantly, AND there's no indication that any Mysterons died.
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* KillAndReplace: The Mysterons possess the ability to create an exact likeness of an object or person, but first,
they must destroy.

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* KillAndReplace: The Mysterons possess the ability to create an exact likeness of an object or person, but first,
they must destroy.
only by killing the target first.
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* [[HeWhoMustNo:tBeSeen They Who Must Not Be Seen]]: All that's ever seen of them are twin rings of green light.

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* [[HeWhoMustNo:tBeSeen [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen They Who Must Not Be Seen]]: All that's ever seen of them are twin rings of green light.

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* [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen They Who Must Not Be Seen]]: All that's ever seen of them are twin rings of green light.
* KillAndReplace: The Mysterons possess the ability to create an exact likeness of an object or person, but first, they must destroy.

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* [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen [[HeWhoMustNo:tBeSeen They Who Must Not Be Seen]]: All that's ever seen of them are twin rings of green light.
* KillAndReplace: *KarmaHoudini: They are sometimes able to get away with their plans.
*KillAndReplace:
The Mysterons possess the ability to create an exact likeness of an object or person, but first, first,
they must destroy.
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* ButtMonkey
* {{Keet}}
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: According to promotional material, he's Irish. Depending on the episode, his accent ranges from very light to non-existent. According to his backstory, he was born in Dublin but grew up in New York, which may be a retroactive justification.

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{{Keet}}: He's the most excitable agent.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: According to promotional material, he's Irish. Depending on the episode, his accent ranges from very light in his first appearance to non-existent.non-existent in later ones. According to his backstory, he was born in Dublin but grew up in New York, which may be a retroactive justification.

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* ButNotTooBlack: Officially African-American, but very light-skinned, and [[SpecialEffectsFailure live-action inserts of her hands on the controls were white]].
* TokenMinority: The first African-American character in an Anderson production (simultaneously with Lieutenant Green, who was Trinidadian).



* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: According to promotional material, he's Irish; the accent he had in the show is anything but.

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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: According to promotional material, he's Irish; Irish. Depending on the episode, his accent ranges from very light to non-existent. According to his backstory, he had was born in the show is anything but.Dublin but grew up in New York, which may be a retroactive justification.

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* KillAndReplace: The Mysterons possess the ability to create an exact likeness of an object or person, but first, they must destroy.

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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: InvertedTrope. In the "Attack on Cloudbase" in Symphony's dream, he is the last person to die before the dream ends.



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* ActionGirlActionGirl: As with all of the Angels, she is an excellent pilot, and laments her inability to help the other Angels during the Mysterons' assassination attempt on her life.




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* SacrificialLion: In Symphony's dream of the "Attack on Cloudbase", Rhapsody is the first to be killed.



* DamselInDistress: In "Manhunt", where she's kidnapped by Captain Black

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* DamselInDistress: In "Manhunt", where she's kidnapped by Captain BlackBlack.



* AcePilot

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* AcePilot
AcePilot: Destiny explicitly states after seeing her pull out of a near-fatal dive that only Melody could have pulled it off.



* AcePilot

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* AcePilot
AcePilot: A very unusual example. Even after she ejects when battling the false Angels, she still gives her fellow Angels target locations.
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* TheWoobie: He didn't ask to be turned against his friends and comrades any more that Scarlet did; it's just that the latter got the lucky escape that he didn't. It does leave the way open for him to be rehabilitated in the same way.

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* TheWoobie: He didn't ask to be turned against his friends and comrades any more that Scarlet did; it's just that the latter got the lucky escape that he didn't. It does leave the way open for him to be rehabilitated in the same way.
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* HighVoltageDeath: As Captain Blue makes clear: "High voltage is the one thing that can kill you."

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* HighVoltageDeath: As His AchillesHeel, as Captain Blue makes clear: "High voltage is the one thing that can kill you."

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* HonorBeforeReason: Bluntly put, may be the reason he often chooses to stick with Scarlet when going into dangerous situations unless explicitly ordered to stay out, considering that he ''would'' die in such situations where Scarlet has at least a better chance of getting out.



* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: The entire reason why the war of nerves started was because Captain Black had ordered the crew of the Martian Exploration Vehicle to open fire on the Mysterons even though the purpose of the mission was to make peaceful contact with the aliens and not attack them simply because he believed that the Mysterons were about to open fire on him and his crew.
* ColdSniper: Has shades of this, like shooting a target in the heart, through his glass, all while maintaining his creepy stoicism.

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* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: The entire reason why the war of nerves started was because Captain Black had ordered the crew of the Martian Exploration Vehicle to open fire on the Mysterons even though the purpose of the mission was to make peaceful contact with the aliens and not attack them them, simply because he believed that the Mysterons were about to open fire on him and his crew.
* ColdSniper: Has shades of this, like shooting a target in the heart, heart or through his glass, glasses, all while maintaining his creepy stoicism.



* EvilSoundsDeep: When under the control of the Mysterons.



* EvilSoundsDeep: When under the control of the Mysterons.



* LikeFatherLikeSon: His own Dad was a doctor.
* TheMedic: Spectrum's primary medic, responsible for (among other things) analysing Scarlet after he was Mysteronised.

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* LikeFatherLikeSon: His own Dad father was a doctor.
* TheMedic: Spectrum's primary medic, responsible for (among other things) analysing Scarlet after he was Mysteronised.Mysteronised and helping him recuperate after he's injured.

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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Unlike the other members of Spectrum who were former military of police officers, he's a former criminal.
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* BadassBaritone
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* HighVoltageDeath: As Captain Blue makes clear: "High voltage is the one thing that can kill you."
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* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Fatal wounds heal completely in just a few hours.

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* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Fatal wounds heal completely in just a few hours. (The one exception, stated by Captain Blue, is a HighVoltageDeath.)

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* TheHeroDies: in "Attack On Cloudbase", he is finally killed by The Mysterons. [[spoiler: Subverted. It turns out to be a nightmare that Symphony was having.]]
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* MemeticBadass: Shot? Doesn't kill him. Blown up? Doesn't kill him. Any other sort of thing that would normally hurt a real-life human being? ''Doesn't kill him.''

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* MemeticBadass: Shot? Doesn't kill him. Blown up? Doesn't kill him. Any other sort of thing that would normally hurt a real-life human being? ''Doesn't kill him.''
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* MemeticBadass: Shot? Doesn't kill him. Blown up? Doesn't kill him. Any other sort of thing that would normally hurt a real-life human being? ''Doesn't kill him.''
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* BigDamnHeroes: He arrives in the nick of time to save The Director General of The United Asian Republic from a Mysteron assassin at the beginning of "Winged Assassin."
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* ForgetAboutHisPowers: His ability to sense when a Mysteron is nearby doesn't show up in every episode.

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* ForgetAboutHisPowers: ForgotAboutHisPowers: His ability to sense when a Mysteron is nearby doesn't show up in every episode.
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* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: The entire reason why the war of nerves started was because Captain Black had ordered the crew of the Martian Exploration Vehicle to open fire on the Mysterons even though the purpose of the mission was to make peaceful contact with the aliens and not attack them simply because he believed that the Mysterons were about to open fire on him and his crew.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: While explaining Scarlet's newly found retro-metabolism to him, he tells Scarlet that's he exactly the way he was before the "episode", making it sound as though he was referring to the first episode rather then referring to the incident that resulted in him becoming indestructible in the first place.
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* ForgetAboutHisPowers: His ability to sense when a Mysteron is nearby doesn't show up in every episode.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Regardless of what his agents have to do to complete their assignments, White always understands and accepts the consequences of their actions.



* FallenHero

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* FallenHeroFallenHero: He was once a respected agent of Spectrum before he was converted by the Mysterons.



* PetTheDog: In the episode "Manhunt", he kidnaps Symphony and attempts to kill her, however he chooses not to go through with it at the last minute, and allows to Symphony to escape, at the expense of having to use the SPV he had hijacked.

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* PetTheDog: In the episode "Manhunt", he kidnaps Symphony and attempts to kill her, however he chooses not to go through with it at the last minute, and allows to Symphony to escape, at the expense of having to use the SPV he had hijacked.hijacked to distract Spectrum from himself.



* AcePilot

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* AcePilotAcePilot: The apparent leader of the Angels.



* TheMedic

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* TheMedicTheMedic: Spectrum's primary medic, responsible for (among other things) analysing Scarlet after he was Mysteronised.



* CriminalMindGames

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* CriminalMindGamesCriminalMindGames: The Mysterons often describe their campaign as a 'war of nerves', often providing hints of their future plans for no apparent reason than to psyche Spectrum out and leave them desperately trying to stop a plan that they can't fully predict.



* EvilSoundsDeep

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* EvilSoundsDeepEvilSoundsDeep: The Mysterons' projected voices always sound deep.
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Unlike the other members of Spectrum who were former military of police officers, he's a former criminal.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: His own Dad was a doctor.
* TheMedic
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* CareerEndingInjury: According to tie-in material, he ended up with a back injury which forced him to give up [[Series/Stingray1964 Stingray]] to Troy Tempest.
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Real Name: Paul Metcalfe. Spectrum's primary agent. Captain Scarlet was killed shortly after the Mysterons' declaration of war and was reconstructed by them to serve as one of their agents. However events led to him being freed from their control and now being virtually indestructible, he became Spectrum's greatest asset in their fight against the Mysterons.

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Real Name: Paul Metcalfe. Spectrum's primary agent. Captain Scarlet was killed shortly after the Mysterons' declaration of war and was reconstructed by them to serve as one of their agents. However However, events led to him being freed from their control and now being virtually indestructible, he became Spectrum's greatest asset in their fight against the Mysterons.



* TheLancer: Though on rare ocassion this falls to Lieutenant Green.

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* TheLancer: Though on rare ocassion occasions, this role falls to Lieutenant Green.



Real Name: Conrad Turner. Former Spectrum agent and the Mysteron's primary agent. Captain Black led the mission to investigate the alien signals coming Mars. Discovering the Mysteron's complex, he mistook their scanner for a weapon and opened fire, leading to the Mysterons declaring war against the Earth, taking him over to serve as their primary agent.

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Real Name: Conrad Turner. Former Spectrum agent and the Mysteron's Mysterons' primary agent. Captain Black led the mission to investigate the alien signals coming Mars. Discovering the Mysteron's Mysterons' complex, he mistook their scanner for a weapon and opened fire, leading to the Mysterons declaring war against the Earth, taking him over to serve as their primary agent.



* TheDragon: As the Mysteron's primary agent on Earth.

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* TheDragon: As the Mysteron's Mysterons' primary agent on Earth.



* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: According to promotional material, he's Irish, the accent he had in the show is anything but.

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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: According to promotional material, he's Irish, Irish; the accent he had in the show is anything but.

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* DeathIsCheap: Even in situations that would normally kill an ordinary person, he manages to recover.




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* RedIsHeroic: He wears red and is a brave and reliable man.
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* RedRightHand: His eyes are glazed, making him look even more cold and remorseless.

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