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* BadassGrandpa: The Flying Walrus is in his 60s, but is still able to give Jake a fight. Other than Hobie (a literal giant), he was arguably the wrestler who Jake had the hardest time beating.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Kodiak Mack is just a normal human in a bear costume, yet he's able to punch through solid trees and drag a large bed with two giants sleeping in it.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Kodiak Mack is just a normal human in a bear costume, yet he's able to punch through solid trees and drag a large bed with two giants sleeping in it.
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* CurbStompCushion: Jake's dragon powers allow him to make short work of most of the other wrestlers, though each one of them either gets a hit or two in or forces Jake on the defensive.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Apparently neither the other wrestlers nor the audience find it suspicious when "Dragonfire" uses his claws and tail, easily lifts Hobie, breathes fire, and flies during his matches. Fu Dog was also somehow able to sit in the audience undisguised and cheer loudly without drawing attention to himself
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* AdultFear: It's bad enough Hobie worries his parents sick about when he runs away from home, but it gets worse when he unwittingly tells his greedy manager about the existence of giants, prompting said-manager to capture all the giants so he can force them to wrestle.
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* FromBadToWorse: It's bad enough Hobie worries his parents sick about when he runs away from home, but it gets worse when he unwittingly tells his greedy manager about the existence of giants, prompting said-manager to capture all the giants so he can force them to wrestle.
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* WeirdCurrency: At the end of the episode, when Trixie sells all her clothing merchandise to one of the giants, she finds out too late that giants use fish as money.
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When an8 year old 8-year-old giant named Hobie runs away from home to join a popular wrestling league, Jake must go undercover as a wrestler and beat the young giant in the ring so Hobie's greedy manager will release him from his contract, allowing Jake to take Hobie back home to his parents.
[[caption-width-right:350:Let's get ready to rrrrrumble!]]
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* FiveOClockShadow: Jonathan sports this when he first gets up in the morning to find that Jake has made his parents breakfast.
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* PermaStubble: Jonathan sports a five o'clock shadow when he first gets up in the morning to find that Jake has made his parents breakfast.
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* FiveOClockShadow: Jonathan sports this when he first gets up in the morning to find that Jake has made his parents breakfast.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Hobie has a great love of wrestling and was able to seek out and join a professional league by himself, but he also understands that he's an odd-one-out when it comes to most giants and that his parents would take no pleasure in being forced to fight.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Despite Hobie's large amount of baby fat, he's able to easily grab Jake and leap high into the air for a massive frog-splash.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Jake's inability to talk with Hobie out of earshot of King Hammer results in tycoon learning that there is an entire village of giants out there for him to exploit.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Jake's inability to talk with Hobie out of earshot of King Hammer results in the tycoon learning that there is an entire village of giants out there for him to exploit.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Jake's inability to talk with Hobie out of earshot of King Hammer results in tycoon learning that there is an entire village of giants out there for him to exploit.
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* GentleGiant: If Hobie's parents to be believed, giants by-nature are peaceful despite their size.
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* GentleGiant: If Hobie's parents to be believed, giants by-nature by nature are peaceful despite their size.size.
* TheGimmick: Each K.E.W.L. wrestler has some gimmick or theme that they exemplify.
* TheGimmick: Each K.E.W.L. wrestler has some gimmick or theme that they exemplify.
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* TheWalrusWasPaul: Doesn't really exist as anything more than a ShoutOut, but the Flying Walrus hypes himself by shouting "I am the Walrus!" while fighting Jake.
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* ThatPoorCat: A cat can be heard screaming when Hammer throws Jake out of the wrestling center. More justified than most examples since he threw him into a back alley.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: King Hammer is a pretty obvious parody of Wrestling/VinceMcMahon.
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* GentleGiant: If Hobie's parents to be believed, giants by-nature are peaceful despite their size.
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%% ZCE * ProWrestlingEpisode
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* ChekovsGun: Johnathan's rhyme about how to escape a bear chasing you may be cheesy, but it serves Jake well in tripping up the Bear-like wrestler.
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* ChekovsGun: ChekhovsGun: Johnathan's rhyme about how to escape a bear chasing you may be cheesy, but it serves Jake well in tripping up the Bear-like wrestler.
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* ChekovsGun: Johnathan's rhyme about how to escape a bear chasing you may be cheesy, but it serves Jake well in tripping up the Bear-like wrestler.
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* MeaningfulEcho: Johnathan's rhyme about how to escape a bear chasing you may be cheesy, but it serves Jake well in tripping up A variation. Throughout the Bear-like wrestler.episode, Jake's parents leave sticky notes everywhere for their son as a way of letting him know they love him. Towards the end, when he makes breakfast for them, he leaves them two halves of a sticky note message saying he loves them.
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* YourCostumeNeedsWork: When Jake presents himself to King Hammer as Dragonfire, King Hammer remarks that the dragon "costume" looks fake.
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: When Jake presents himself to King Hammer as Dragonfire, King Hammer remarks that the dragon "costume" looks fake.
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* CostumeTestMontage: Trixie and the rest of Team Dragon have Jake try on several different outfits for his Dragonfire persona.
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* AdultFear: It's bad enough the Giant parents are worried sick about their run-away son, but it gets worse when he unwittingly tells his greedy manager about the existence of giants, prompting said-manager to capture all the giants so he can force them to wrestle.
* AnAesop: Parents are always looking out for their kids, and it's important to cherish that.
* AnAesop: Parents are always looking out for their kids, and it's important to cherish that.
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* AdultFear: It's bad enough the Giant Hobie worries his parents are worried sick about their run-away son, when he runs away from home, but it gets worse when he unwittingly tells his greedy manager about the existence of giants, prompting said-manager to capture all the giants so he can force them to wrestle.
* AnAesop:Parents Good parents are always looking out for their kids, and it's important to cherish that.
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* GoodParents: Jakes parents are this, but at times, he's too annoyed at them to see he has it good. The same goes with the giants who ask Jake for his help finding their missing son.son Hobie.
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* ParentsInDistress: A variation where it's not the main character's parents in trouble: it's Hobie's parents.
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* FunWithAcronyms: The wrestling league Hobie and Jake both join is called the King Extreme Wrestling League, or K.E.W.L., which sounds like "cool".
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* AdultFear: It's bad enough the Giant parents are worried sick about their run-away son, but it gets worse when he unwittingly tells his greedy manager about the existence of giants, prompting said-manager to capture all the giant giants so he can force them to wrestle.
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* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: Played with. It's not Halloween, but all the other wrestling competitors have such crazy gigs and costumes that all Jake has to do is dress in a mask and spandex, and nobody suspects he's a dragon.
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* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Played with. It's not Halloween, but all the other wrestling competitors have such crazy gigs and costumes that all Jake has to do is dress in a mask and spandex, and nobody suspects he's a dragon.
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* AnAesop: Parents are always looking out for their kids, and it's important to cherish that.
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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Jake, when his opponent chomps down on his tail during a wrestling match.
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* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: Played with. It's not Halloween, but all the other wrestling competitors have such crazy gigs and costumes that all Jake has to do is dress in a mask and spandex, and nobody suspects he's a dragon.
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* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: Played with. It's not Halloween, but all the other wrestling competitors have such crazy gigs and costumes that all Jake has to do is dress in a mask and spandex, and nobody suspects he's a dragon.dragon.
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: When Jake presents himself to King Hammer as Dragonfire, King Hammer remarks that the dragon "costume" looks fake.
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: When Jake presents himself to King Hammer as Dragonfire, King Hammer remarks that the dragon "costume" looks fake.
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* GoodParents: Jakes parents are this, but at times, he's too annoyed at them to see he has it good. The same goes with the giants who ask Jake for his help finding their missing son.
* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: Played with. It's not Halloween, but all the other wrestling competitors have such crazy gigs and costumes that all Jake has to do is dress in a mask and spandex, and nobody suspects he's a dragon.
* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: Played with. It's not Halloween, but all the other wrestling competitors have such crazy gigs and costumes that all Jake has to do is dress in a mask and spandex, and nobody suspects he's a dragon.
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* GoodParents: Jakes parents are this, but at times, he's too annoyed at them to see he has it good. The same goes with the giants who ask Jake for his help finding their missing son.
* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: Played with. It's not Halloween, but all the other wrestling competitors have such crazy gigs and costumes that all Jake has to do is dress in a mask and spandex, and nobody suspects he's a dragon.
* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: Played with.
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* GoodParents: Jakes parents are this, but at times, he's too annoyed at them to see he has it good. The same goes with the giants who ask Jake for his help finding their missing son.
* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: Played with. It's not Halloween, but all the other wrestling competitors have such crazy gigs and costumes that all Jake has to do is dress in a mask and spandex, and nobody suspects he's a dragon.
* GoodParents: Jakes parents are this, but at times, he's too annoyed at them to see he has it good. The same goes with the giants who ask Jake for his help finding their missing son.
* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: Played with. It's not Halloween, but all the other wrestling competitors have such crazy gigs and costumes that all Jake has to do is dress in a mask and spandex, and nobody suspects he's a dragon.
