History Series / LevelUp

A 2012 Live Action show on CartoonNetwork. The pilot movie aired in November 2011 and follows the adventures of a group of gamers who call themselves "Never Fail" and cooperate well together on a MMORPG called "Conqueror of All Worlds". However, they are unaware that they go to the same school, where they hate each others' guts. During a usual gaming session, the three unwittingly open a portal in the game to their world which is exactly the opportunity that the game's main villain, Maldark, was waiting for. He starts sending his minions to take over the real world. But Never Fail also find that if the monsters can become real, so can their weapons. Thus they take it upon themselves to put aside their hatred for each other, stop the monsters, and prevent Maldark from getting through.

* EvilIsNotAToy: Max leaks his 10th most evil programmed villain, the Merchant, to help promote his expansion pack of the game. [[spoiler: Since he's the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain of the Week]], [[TheDogBitesBack the Merchant retaliates]] and plots [[TheStarscream to be the #1 villain.]]

* DebtDetestor: Lyle

''Level Up'' provides the following tropes:

* ShoutOut: In the first episode, when the group clean up Bob the Babarian, he's wearing an outfit similar to Ed's of ''EdEddAndEddy''

** The series is set in [[KingsQuest Daventry]] Hills.

* {{Adorkable}}: Wyatt, the "socially awkward wimp". One girl said it was her type as opposed to overly macho guys.

* ButterflyOfDoom: A case could be made for parody (or taking the phrase too literally) when the Blast-A-Ton fired a butterfly that flew to a leak and exploded.
* CurbstompBattle: Bob the Barbarian vs Elves.

* EekAMouse: Lyle can face trolls, in the real world, but can't handle mice.

* {{Expy}}: Of ''WorldOfWarcraft'' obviously.
* TheFace: In the game world Never Fail lets Wyatt do all the talking with other players because he's TheCharmer. In the real world, however, he's {{Adorkable}} and Lyle's the one with school-wide friends.

** TheLeader: Wyatt. In "Acid Spitting Mini-dragons" Lyle and Max frankly admit they can't have a successfull raid without his leadership.
** TheLancer: Lyle. Who better than a popular jock to contrast the adorkable nerd? Or fill in when he can't lead.
** TheSmartGuy: Max, the supergenius who created the game. Never Fail goes to him when they have a tech problem.
** TheBigGuy: Dante the aggressive guy with the club. He's also Never Fail's tank in the game world.
** TheChick: Angie. The sole girl of the group and, as the non-gamer, sees herself as the voice of reason.
* ForScience: Consider this quote from Max "If it bleeds code, its a leak. If it bleeds blood, it'll be a crying shame, but at least the mystery will be solved." This is presumably the reason for his experiments too.

* HatesBeingTouched: Max created a body suit that would shock anyone that touched him.

* {{Jerkass}}

* {{Keet}}: Dante, full stop. His energy is non-stop and quirky.

** Paid tribute to in "Leroy", when Lyle's old friend Leroy ruins their carefully planned raid in the game, though he actually did this on purpose to screw them over.

-->--''Boys....Where's my Fist Of Schoolage?''

* PilotMovie: The BigDamnMovie received excessive promotion a month in advance of airing, even getting YouTube spotlights on promoted videos. In other words, you can bet your ass this was another series in the making.

** TheId: Dante who acts on impluses and is always eating.

** TheEgo: Wyatt is a mix of both and mediates them. Its seen most clearly in the 3rd act of the movie.

** {{BFG}} Wyatt's Blast-A-Ton which has to be held in two hands.
** MagicStaff / MagicWand: Lyle's Thunder Pole. Its big enough to be the former but he only uses it as the latter.

** Also, does Max remind anyone of [[IronMan Tony Stark?]]

After the movie [[spoiler: and Maldark's defeat]], the series continues their adventures as they fight against random sprite that wander into their world while also dealing with typical teenage life.

** TheHero: Wyatt
** TheLancer: Lyle
** TheSmartGuy: Max
** TheBigGuy: Dante
** TheChick: Angie

* LetsGetDangerous: Angie doesn't normally take leak busting seriously but when she does

* TheFace: In the game world Never Fail lets Wyat do all the talking with other players because he's TheCharmer. In the real world, however, he's {{Adorkable}} and Lyle's the one with school-wide friends.

* EccentricTownspeople: There are some oddball students at this high school, from the oddly-sensitive bully to the piercing enthusiast who kept her braces on as a body modification after she didn't need them any more. The aptly-named Weird Carl is actually one of the more normal ones.

** Dante, who even shouts "Leroy Jenkins!" before charging in to an attack. {{Lampshaded}} in the film:

* DisproportionateRetribution: Leroy may have been a major {{Jerkass}}, but he really didn't get deserved to be attacked by a giant troll. In Never Fail's defense, that was an accident: The troll was supposed to attack his character in the game, not come out into the real world and find him.

* {{Jerkass}} Max is rude, usually cowardly, and by his own admission, doesn't care about anyone else's well being.

* SwissArmyGun: Wyatt's Blast-A-Ton. It has over 100 modes.

* PilotMovie: The BigDamnMovie received excessive promotion a month in advance of airing, even getting YouTube spotlights on promoted videos. In other words, you can bet your ass this was another series in the making.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: the object in the title of the episode "Charm Bracelet"