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* ShipwreckStart: Invoked in the 90s reboot, which begins with Adam washing up on the shore of a tropical island like he's the survivor of a shipwreck. As he explores the island he discovers an alien ship buried under the sand. It soon after becomes apparent there was no shipwreck, he's the first of the Tomorrow People and he got there by instinctively using his {{Teleportation}} ability.
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** In the 1990s version, Kevin Wilson was Adam Pearce's only acting role.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Monsoon Man", when Middlemas asks if they're allowed to park, Wilkie scoffs, "Double attempted murder AND kindapping. And that's just today! Psh, you're wetting your pants over a parking ticket!"
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Monsoon Man", when Middlemas asks if they're allowed to park, Wilkie scoffs, "Double attempted murder AND kindapping.kidnapping. And that's just today! Psh, you're wetting your pants over a parking ticket!"
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* ApocalypseHitler: In "Hitler's Last Secret", Hitler is re awakened from his suspended animation in a Bavarian mountain ready to take control of the new Fourth Reich.
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* ApocalypseHitler: In "Hitler's Last Secret", Hitler is re awakened re-awakened from his suspended animation in a Bavarian mountain ready to take control of the new Fourth Reich.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In "Hitler's Last Secret", John explains, straight faced, that "Genes are those body cells known as the DNA molecule." Which is about as biologically accurate as saying "Fribble fribble rhubarb, fribble fribble ploo," and only slightly better grammatically.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In "Hitler's Last Secret", John explains, straight faced, straight-faced, that "Genes are those body cells known as the DNA molecule." Which is about as biologically accurate as saying "Fribble fribble rhubarb, fribble fribble ploo," and only slightly better grammatically.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The slow and painful process of 'breaking out' (i.e becoming a Tomorrow Person) which just ''happens'' to occur in one's teenage years...
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The slow and painful process of 'breaking out' (i.e e., becoming a Tomorrow Person) which just ''happens'' to occur in one's teenage years...
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Origin Story from the 90s series had a different theme song and different visual and sound effects for teleportation. Adam had long hair. Megabyte looked younger. Lisa and Kevin were prominently featured. Adam and Megabyte didn't interact with each other until the final scene despite being best friends in subsequent episodes. First time teleporters always landed in the ocean close to the home base island in The Origin Story, but never in later episodes.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: "The Lab", the group's HomeBase below the London Underground.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: "The Lab", the group's HomeBase below the London Underground.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Origin Story from the 90s series had a different theme song and different visual and sound effects for teleportation. Adam had long hair. Megabyte looked younger. Lisa and Kevin were prominently featured. Adam and Megabyte didn't interact with each other until the final scene despite being best friends in subsequent episodes. First time First-time teleporters always landed in the ocean close to the home base island in The Origin Story, but never in later episodes.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: "TheLab", Lab," the group's HomeBase below the London Underground.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: "The
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* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: ''Homo superior'' are biologically unable to kill people, so they arm themselves with [[TheParalyzer stun guns]].
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* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: ''Homo superior'' are biologically inherently unable to kill people, so they arm themselves with [[TheParalyzer stun guns]].
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the 90s series an old man is frequently seen taking his tortoise for a (leisurely) walk down the pavement. This is never commented on.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the 90s series series, an old man is frequently seen taking his tortoise for a (leisurely) walk down the pavement. This is never commented on.
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* InWorkingOrder: In the 90s remake, the kids use a crashlanded spaceship as headquarters. While it cannot fly, it can act as homing beacon for Tomorrow People, heal them when they nearly drown, enhance their telepathic abilities, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking whip up the best orange juice known to man]].
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* InWorkingOrder: In the 90s remake, the kids use a crashlanded crash-landed spaceship as headquarters. While it cannot fly, it can act as homing beacon for Tomorrow People, heal them when they nearly drown, enhance their telepathic abilities, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking whip up the best orange juice known to man]].
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* MonsterThreatExpiration: Occurs in "The Culex Experiment". Every time Culex directs one of her mosquitoes at a disposable guest character, it stings them into a coma within a few seconds. But when she traps Ami with one of them, it buzzes around her menacingly for several minutes until her friends teleport her to safety. At the climax, Culex unleashes a whole ''swarm'' of them at a small group of heroes and they apparently don't manage to sting anyone before the Tomorrow People casually freeze them to death.
* MotiveDecay: Jedikiah. In "The Slaves of Jedikiah", the shapeshifting android was not really villainous, but was perpetrating his apparently-evil deeds because he was under orders from a kind alien who mistakenly believed humans to be dangerous and barbaric. In his various reappearances, Jedekiah is simply evil, and obsessed with revenge, conquest, and the eradication of ''Homo superior'' — and the Tomorrow People already seem to know this to be his natural personality ahead of time.
* NoEndorHolocaust: At the end of "The Blue and the Green", the Tomorrow People solve the problem that aliens are about to cause all humans to commit extreme violence by knocking the entire world unconscious so they only dream about committing violence. What happens to everyone who was driving a car, travelling by plane, being operated on, etc., is never addressed.
* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: Done with ''space'' travel rather than time travel in "Wolds Apart", when the characters visit a planet of Human Aliens. As there are no dark-skinned people on that world (or at least that part of it), Elizabeth isn't able to accompany her companions in public.
* MotiveDecay: Jedikiah. In "The Slaves of Jedikiah", the shapeshifting android was not really villainous, but was perpetrating his apparently-evil deeds because he was under orders from a kind alien who mistakenly believed humans to be dangerous and barbaric. In his various reappearances, Jedekiah is simply evil, and obsessed with revenge, conquest, and the eradication of ''Homo superior'' — and the Tomorrow People already seem to know this to be his natural personality ahead of time.
* NoEndorHolocaust: At the end of "The Blue and the Green", the Tomorrow People solve the problem that aliens are about to cause all humans to commit extreme violence by knocking the entire world unconscious so they only dream about committing violence. What happens to everyone who was driving a car, travelling by plane, being operated on, etc., is never addressed.
* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: Done with ''space'' travel rather than time travel in "Wolds Apart", when the characters visit a planet of Human Aliens. As there are no dark-skinned people on that world (or at least that part of it), Elizabeth isn't able to accompany her companions in public.
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* MonsterThreatExpiration: Occurs in "The Culex Experiment". Experiment." Every time Culex directs one of her mosquitoes at a disposable guest character, it stings them into a coma within a few seconds. But when she traps Ami with one of them, it buzzes around her menacingly for several minutes until her friends teleport her to safety. At the climax, Culex unleashes a whole ''swarm'' of them at a small group of heroes and they apparently don't manage to sting anyone before the Tomorrow People casually freeze them to death.
* MotiveDecay: Jedikiah. In "The Slaves ofJedikiah", Jedikiah," the shapeshifting android was not really villainous, but was perpetrating his apparently-evil deeds because he was under orders from a kind alien who mistakenly believed humans to be dangerous and barbaric. In his various reappearances, Jedekiah is simply evil, and obsessed with revenge, conquest, and the eradication of ''Homo superior'' — and the Tomorrow People already seem to know this to be his natural personality ahead of time.
* NoEndorHolocaust: At the end of "The Blue and theGreen", Green," the Tomorrow People solve the problem that aliens are about to cause all humans to commit extreme violence by knocking the entire world unconscious so they only dream about committing violence. What happens to everyone who was driving a car, travelling by plane, being operated on, etc., is never addressed.
* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: Done with ''space'' travel rather than time travel in "WoldsApart", Apart," when the characters visit a planet of Human Aliens. As there are no dark-skinned people on that world (or at least that part of it), Elizabeth isn't able to accompany her companions in public.
* MotiveDecay: Jedikiah. In "The Slaves of
* NoEndorHolocaust: At the end of "The Blue and the
* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: Done with ''space'' travel rather than time travel in "Wolds
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* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: The Galactic Federation, who will spend a lot of time talking about a problem but are reluctant to take action. Due to this, on two occasions Timus had to secretly enlist the aid of the Tomorrow People to deal with two specific problems. However at the end of the final story the Federation decides to change this.
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* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: The Galactic Federation, who will spend a lot of time talking about a problem but are reluctant to take action. Due to this, on two occasions occasions, Timus had to secretly enlist the aid of the Tomorrow People to deal with two specific problems. However However, at the end of the final story the Federation decides to change this.
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* PyramidPower: Done in the Nineties revival. The plot is that an immortal Egyptian pharoah is trying to recreate the circumstances required when the stars align to give him great power, which requires him to move a bunch of obelisks all over Europe (supposedly explaining why they were brought to London, Rome etc in the nineteenth century). The protagonists point out that this would mean he would have to have built a central focusing pyramid in the middle of them, in central London...they then look behind them and see the pyramidal top of the Canary Wharf Tower. Note this was years before it was used as the Torchwood Tower in ''Doctor Who''.
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* PyramidPower: Done in the Nineties revival. The plot is that an immortal Egyptian pharoah pharaoh is trying to recreate the circumstances required when the stars align to give him great power, which requires him to move a bunch of obelisks all over Europe (supposedly explaining why they were brought to London, Rome etc etc. in the nineteenth century). The protagonists point out that this would mean he would have to have built a central focusing pyramid in the middle of them, in central London...they then look behind them and see the pyramidal top of the Canary Wharf Tower. Note this was years before it was used as the Torchwood Tower in ''Doctor Who''.
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** On one occasion when they were being kidnapped and experimented upon by the establishment, they responded by actually ''kidnapping the Prime Minister''. Once the situation was explained to the Prime Minister, the dear old chap was only too happy to help.
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** On one occasion when they were being kidnapped and experimented upon by the establishment, they responded by actually ''kidnapping the Prime Minister''. Minister.'' Once the situation was explained to the Prime Minister, the dear old chap was only too happy to help.
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* StevenUlyssesPerhero: The first episode the 1990s remake to come into his powers was named "Adam Newman". Adam as in the name of the first man, and Newman as in "New man" — first of a new species of human.
* SubspaceOrHyperspace: John theorizes that their form of teleportation involves travel through hyperspace. They later learn that Tomorrow People who do not successfully "Break out" (ie. come into their powers) get lost in hyperspace and eventually lose bodily cohesion. Elizabeth is saved from such a fate in her introductory episode. John later adjusts their Jaunting belts to "change the angle" at which they enter hyperspace, as justification for a special effect change. In the Big Finish series, one of the villains is the insane, disembodied consciousness of a Tomorrow Person who had become stuck in hyperspace.
* SubspaceOrHyperspace: John theorizes that their form of teleportation involves travel through hyperspace. They later learn that Tomorrow People who do not successfully "Break out" (ie. come into their powers) get lost in hyperspace and eventually lose bodily cohesion. Elizabeth is saved from such a fate in her introductory episode. John later adjusts their Jaunting belts to "change the angle" at which they enter hyperspace, as justification for a special effect change. In the Big Finish series, one of the villains is the insane, disembodied consciousness of a Tomorrow Person who had become stuck in hyperspace.
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* StevenUlyssesPerhero: The first episode the 1990s remake to come into his powers was named "Adam Newman". Newman." Adam as in the name of the first man, and Newman as in "New man" — first of a new species of human.
* SubspaceOrHyperspace: John theorizes that their form of teleportation involves travel through hyperspace. They later learn that Tomorrow People who do not successfully "Break out"(ie. (i.e., come into their powers) get lost in hyperspace and eventually lose bodily cohesion. Elizabeth is saved from such a fate in her introductory episode. John later adjusts their Jaunting belts to "change the angle" at which they enter hyperspace, as justification for a special effect change. In the Big Finish series, one of the villains is the insane, disembodied consciousness of a Tomorrow Person who had become stuck in hyperspace.
* SubspaceOrHyperspace: John theorizes that their form of teleportation involves travel through hyperspace. They later learn that Tomorrow People who do not successfully "Break out"
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* TeenIdol: Mike Holoway, who played [[TheDanza Mike Bell]], was a singer and drummer in the band Flintlock, who were very popular amongst the teen crowd. His 'popstar' persona was carried over into the show, where his character would play in a band called "The Fresh Hearts". In one episode he was shown to be writing a song and even asking TIM for advice.
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* TeenIdol: Mike Holoway, who played [[TheDanza Mike Bell]], was a singer and drummer in the band Flintlock, who were very popular amongst the teen crowd. His 'popstar' persona was carried over into the show, where his character would play in a band called "The Fresh Hearts". Hearts." In one episode he was shown to be writing a song and even asking TIM for advice.
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* WeatherControlMachine: The Nineties remake had a villain who was an American cereal magnate with such a machine; in a more thoughtful example than most, his EvilPlan was to use it to destroy the corn harvest of the United States in order to make his own stockpiles more valuable a la Egypt in Literature/TheBible.
* WeAreAsMayflies: The original series featured a time traveling character called Peter who, despite being over 100 years old, looked about 12. In typical Tomorrow People style, when they speculate on how old his (physically elderly) grandfather is, the best guess they can come up with is "older".
* WeDidntStartTheFuhrer: In the episode "Hitler's Last Secret", it is revealed that Hitler was [[spoiler:a shape-shifting alien]].
* WeAreAsMayflies: The original series featured a time traveling character called Peter who, despite being over 100 years old, looked about 12. In typical Tomorrow People style, when they speculate on how old his (physically elderly) grandfather is, the best guess they can come up with is "older".
* WeDidntStartTheFuhrer: In the episode "Hitler's Last Secret", it is revealed that Hitler was [[spoiler:a shape-shifting alien]].
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* WeatherControlMachine: The Nineties remake had a villain who was an American cereal magnate with such a machine; in a more thoughtful more-thoughtful example than most, his EvilPlan was to use it to destroy the corn harvest of the United States in order to make his own stockpiles more valuable a à la Egypt in Literature/TheBible.
* WeAreAsMayflies: The original series featured a time traveling character called Peter who, despite being over 100 years old, looked about 12. In typical Tomorrow People style, when they speculate on how old his (physically elderly) grandfather is, the best guess they can come up with is"older".
"older."
* WeDidntStartTheFuhrer: In the episode "Hitler's LastSecret", Secret," it is revealed that Hitler was [[spoiler:a shape-shifting alien]].
* WeAreAsMayflies: The original series featured a time traveling character called Peter who, despite being over 100 years old, looked about 12. In typical Tomorrow People style, when they speculate on how old his (physically elderly) grandfather is, the best guess they can come up with is
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* WholePlotReference: "Worlds Away" was inspired by ''Chariots of the Gods''. It's revealed that the Pyramids of Egypt were the result of aliens.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: in one episode they encounter a NegativeSpaceWedgie. A ship entering the wedgie immediately exits the way it came it, but with around eight hours passing for the crew. Inexplicably, the crews' watches stop.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: in one episode episode, they encounter a NegativeSpaceWedgie. A ship entering the wedgie immediately exits the way it came it, but with around eight hours passing for the crew. Inexplicably, the crews' watches stop.
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* TakeAThirdOption: "The Blue and the Green" involves an alien species whose life cycle involves feeding on violent emotions, which they instinctively provoke telepathically in surrounding life-forms, to complete their pupation. A brood of these aliens hidden away on Earth has reached this stage, and the Tomorrow People are faced with a dilemma: if they don't stop the aliens' pupation, their telepathic influence will cause widespread violence and a massive death toll, but if they do, the aliens will all die; either option involves condoning the deaths of innocent people and breaking one of the Tomorrow People's most fundamental principles. They escape the dilemma by putting every human on Earth to sleep during the vital time period, so that they can experience the violent emotions without acting on them. (The episode carefully avoids addressing the fact that putting everyone to sleep while they're going about their daily lives -- flying aircraft, operating heavy machinery, etc. -- would itself result in the deaths of a significant number of innocent people.)
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* ContagiousPowers: In the first season of the 1990s series, Megabyte is the only one of the characters without powers, but then (surprise!) he gets them in the last episode of that season.
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* ContagiousPowers: In the first season of the 1990s series, Megabyte is the only one of the characters without powers, but then (surprise!) he gets them in the last episode of that season. In 'The Living Stones', new Tritagonist Jade Weston [[spoiler: breaks out as a Tomorrow Person in the final episode]].
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Origin Story from the 90s series had a different theme song and different visual and sound effects for teleportation. Adam had long hair. Megabyte looked younger. Lisa and Kevin were prominently featured. Adam and Megabyte didn't interact with each other until the final scene despite being best friends in subsequent episodes.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Origin Story from the 90s series had a different theme song and different visual and sound effects for teleportation. Adam had long hair. Megabyte looked younger. Lisa and Kevin were prominently featured. Adam and Megabyte didn't interact with each other until the final scene despite being best friends in subsequent episodes. First time teleporters always landed in the ocean close to the home base island in The Origin Story, but never in later episodes.
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* EverybodyDiesEnding: "The Thargon Menace" has an unusually high body count, with practically every guest character dying.
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* KillEmAll: "The Thargon Menace" has an unusually high body count, with practically every guest character dying.
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* SeiesFauxnale: Season three's "The Revenge of Jedikiah" was meant to be the end of the series, as Roger Price had got fed up with his own creation by that point. So much that he planned to end it by the killing off the whole cast at the end of the season, but he was talked out of it.
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* SeiesFauxnale: SeriesFauxnale: Season three's "The Revenge of Jedikiah" was meant to be the end of the series, as Roger Price had got fed up with his own creation by that point. So much that he planned to end it by the killing off the whole cast at the end of the season, but he was talked out of it.
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* SockSpeak: Notably {{averted}} with TIM, who actually speaks much more naturally than many of the non-electronic advanced aliens. One of the Big Finish audios comments extensively on how unusual this is.
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* SockSpeak: SpockSpeak: Notably {{averted}} with TIM, who actually speaks much more naturally than many of the non-electronic advanced aliens. One of the Big Finish audios comments extensively on how unusual this is.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In Monsoon Man, when Middlemas asks if they're allowed to park, Wilkie scoffs, "Double attempted murder AND kindapping. And that's just today! Psh, you're wetting your pants over a parking ticket!"
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In Monsoon Man, "Monsoon Man", when Middlemas asks if they're allowed to park, Wilkie scoffs, "Double attempted murder AND kindapping. And that's just today! Psh, you're wetting your pants over a parking ticket!"
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** Misako Koba (Hsui Tai) was another castmember who acted in the show reluctantly. She decided to focus on raising a family in instead of pursuing an acting career.
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** Misako Koba (Hsui Tai) was another castmember who acted in the show reluctantly. She decided to focus on raising a family in instead of pursuing an acting career.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Origin Story from the 90s series had a different theme song and different visual and sound effects for teleportation. Adam had long hair. Megabyte looked younger. Lisa and Kevin were prominently featured. Adam and Megabyte didn't interact with each other until the final scene despite being best friends in subsequent episodes.
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--> '''Dr. Culix''': The boy on the bike? He's seen too much. Get him!
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--> '''Dr. Culix''': Culex''': The boy on the bike? He's seen too much. Get him!
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* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: ''Homo superior'' are biologically unable to kill people, so they arm themselves with StunGuns.
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** Kenny was Stephen Salmon's only acting role. He was dropped after the first season due to his notoriously bad acting. He didn't have an interest in acting and later became an electronic engineer.
** Misako Koba (Hsui Tai) was another castmember who acted in the show reluctantly. She decided to focus on raising a family in instead of pursuing an acting career.
** Kenny was Stephen Salmon's only acting role. He was dropped after the first season due to his notoriously bad acting. He didn't have an interest in acting and later became an electronic engineer.
** Misako Koba (Hsui Tai) was another castmember who acted in the show reluctantly. She decided to focus on raising a family in instead of pursuing an acting career.
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* BloodlessCarnage: "The Revenge of Jedekiah".
* [[ManInAKilt Boy in a Kilt]]: Andrew Forbes.
** Stephen Jamison wears one in "The Doomsday men."
* [[ManInAKilt Boy in a Kilt]]: Andrew Forbes.
** Stephen Jamison wears one in "The Doomsday men."
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* BloodlessCarnage: In "The Revenge of Jedekiah".
* [[ManInAKilt Boy inJedekiah", John and Elizabeth are gunned down by soldiers with fully automatic assault rifles. Not only do they (barely) manage to survive their injuries, but when we see them sprawled on the floor, there isn't a Kilt]]: Andrew Forbes.
** Stephen Jamison wears one in "The Doomsday men."trace of blood.
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* BriarPatching: In "The New Gods". An ancient alien consciousness leads John to destroy its idol, thinking it to be the source of the being's power. In fact, the idol was restraining its power, so its destruction set it free.
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* BriarPatching: In "The New Gods". An Gods", an ancient alien consciousness leads John to destroy its idol, thinking it to be the source of the being's power. In fact, the idol was restraining its power, so its destruction set it free.
* BusmansHoliday:
** In "The Vanishing Earth", Ginge takes a holiday at the seaside. While visiting the haunted house at a funfair, he gets captured by an alien criminal Spidron who is mining the Earth for its rare minerals.
** The fittingly-named "A Much Needed Holiday" sees the group take a holiday to a primitive planet to get over the tragic events of "The Dirtiest Business", only to stumble across a population enslaved by aliens mining for diamonds.
** In "The Vanishing Earth", Ginge takes a holiday at the seaside. While visiting the haunted house at a funfair, he gets captured by an alien criminal Spidron who is mining the Earth for its rare minerals.
** The fittingly-named "A Much Needed Holiday" sees the group take a holiday to a primitive planet to get over the tragic events of "The Dirtiest Business", only to stumble across a population enslaved by aliens mining for diamonds.
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** The group's 'sap' friends Ginge and Chris, from Seasons 1 and 2 respectively, are not heard from or seen again after their respective appearances.
** Kenny and Carol simply vanish from Season 2 and Season 3 respectively ([[AllThereInTheManual apparently they were sent away to the Galactic Trig]]) to be replaced by Elizabeth.
** Tyso and Stephen disappear between seasons 4 and 5 (which was apparently due to ExecutiveMeddling since the powers wanted Mike to be the 'star' of ''The Tomorrow People'').
** Kenny and Carol simply vanish from Season 2 and Season 3 respectively ([[AllThereInTheManual apparently they were sent away to the Galactic Trig]]) to be replaced by Elizabeth.
** Tyso and Stephen disappear between seasons 4 and 5 (which was apparently due to ExecutiveMeddling since the powers wanted Mike to be the 'star' of ''The Tomorrow People'').
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** The group's 'sap' "sap" friends Ginge and Chris, from Seasons 1 seasons one and 2 two respectively, are not heard from or seen again after their respective appearances.
**Kenny and Carol simply vanish from Season 2 and Season 3 respectively ([[AllThereInTheManual apparently they were sent away to the Galactic Trig]]) to be replaced by Elizabeth.
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* FictionalUnitedNations: The Galactic Federation seem to be roughly along these lines, especially in the last story "War of the Empires": They have a council made up of members of different races and accord developing worlds protected planet status that officially bars advanced aliens from interfering with them, but in practise they have no real way of enforcing their laws and their attempt to broker peace between the Thargons and Sorsons ends in failure (although they promise to reform and get rid of the bureaucracy they are mired in after the Tomorrow People narrowly prevent Earth being caught in the crossfire of the war).
* HumanSubspecies: The titular race is characterized in-universe as ''Homo superior'', the next step in human evolution.
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* HumansAreWhite: Elizabeth was once forced to sit out their visit to a Human Alien planet because there weren't any black people on that world. A native asked her if she was from the same planet as the other Tomorrow People, then commented that there must be "an interesting variety of skin color" on Earth when she said yes.
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* HumansAreWhite: "Worlds Away", Elizabeth was once forced to sit out their visit to a Human Alien planet because there weren't any black people on that world. A native asked her if she was from the same planet as the other Tomorrow People, then commented that there must be "an interesting variety of skin color" on Earth when she said yes.
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* {{Keet}}: Tyso.KirkSummation: The series manages a few, notably in "A Rift in Time" when the Tomorrow People debate the values of their version of history with the representatives of a 20th century Roman Empire:
-->'''Gaius''': How can one man rule unless others obey? How can one be free without slaves?
-->'''Elizabeth''': How can any man rule wisely without first learning to obey? How can any man be free while others are enslaved? How can anyone achieve greatness while others are prevented from fulfilment?
** She possibly tops that when she dismisses Colonel Masters' claim that weaponising telepaths will put an end to war, pointing out that's what people have thought about every new weapon:
-->They even thought that the old English longbow would put an end to war, after the carnage it caused at the Battle of Agincourt. Well, there've been a few wars since Agincourt, haven't there, Colonel?
-->'''Gaius''': How can one man rule unless others obey? How can one be free without slaves?
-->'''Elizabeth''': How can any man rule wisely without first learning to obey? How can any man be free while others are enslaved? How can anyone achieve greatness while others are prevented from fulfilment?
** She possibly tops that when she dismisses Colonel Masters' claim that weaponising telepaths will put an end to war, pointing out that's what people have thought about every new weapon:
-->They even thought that the old English longbow would put an end to war, after the carnage it caused at the Battle of Agincourt. Well, there've been a few wars since Agincourt, haven't there, Colonel?
* MonsterThreatExpiration: Occurs in "The Culex Experiment". Every time Culex directs one of her mosquitoes at a disposable guest character, it stings them into a coma within a few seconds. But when she traps Ami with one of them, it buzzes around her menacingly for several minutes until her friends teleport her to safety. At the climax, Culex unleashes a whole ''swarm'' of them at a small group of heroes and they apparently don't manage to sting anyone before the Tomorrow People casually freeze them to death.
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* NoAntagonist: "The Blue and the Green" ultimately.
* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: Done with ''space'' travel rather than time travel in "Wolds Apart", when the characters visit a planet of Human Aliens. As there are no dark-skinned people on that world (or at least that part of it), Elizabeth isn't able to accompany her companions in public.
* PubertySuperpower: New teeps begin manifesting their powers in a dramatic "breaking out," their head suddenly crowded with overheard voices via telepathy and, more dangerously, teleporting instinctively with no destination in mind, winding up stuck in hyperspace forever.
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** After the first season, Carol and Kenny were sent to the Galactic Federation's headquarters The Trig to work as ambassadors for Earth.
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** After the first season, Carol and Kenny were sent to the Galactic Federation's headquarters The Trig to work as ambassadors for Earth. This due to Sammie Winmill deciding not to renew her contract and Stephen Salmon being such an appalling actor they didn't bother bringing him back.
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* SecretKeeper: Chris and Ginge.
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* SecretKeeper: Chris and Ginge.SeiesFauxnale: Season three's "The Revenge of Jedikiah" was meant to be the end of the series, as Roger Price had got fed up with his own creation by that point. So much that he planned to end it by the killing off the whole cast at the end of the season, but he was talked out of it.
* ShaggyDogStory: "The Dirtiest Business" sees the group trying to help a Russian telepath named Pavla escape from the KGB, only for her to sacrifice herself at the end of the episode.
* ShaggyDogStory: "The Dirtiest Business" sees the group trying to help a Russian telepath named Pavla escape from the KGB, only for her to sacrifice herself at the end of the episode.
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* SurrealThemeTune: Written by [[Series/DoctorWho Dudley Simpson]].
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* SurrealThemeTune: Written by [[Series/DoctorWho Dudley Simpson]].SockSpeak: Notably {{averted}} with TIM, who actually speaks much more naturally than many of the non-electronic advanced aliens. One of the Big Finish audios comments extensively on how unusual this is.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: The first episode the 1990s remake to come into his powers was named "Adam Newman". Adam as in the name of the first man, and Newman as in "New man" — first of a new species of human.
* SubspaceOrHyperspace: John theorizes that their form of teleportation involves travel through hyperspace. They later learn that Tomorrow People who do not successfully "Break out" (ie. come into their powers) get lost in hyperspace and eventually lose bodily cohesion. Elizabeth is saved from such a fate in her introductory episode. John later adjusts their Jaunting belts to "change the angle" at which they enter hyperspace, as justification for a special effect change. In the Big Finish series, one of the villains is the insane, disembodied consciousness of a Tomorrow Person who had become stuck in hyperspace.
* TakeMeToYourLeader: Lampshaded in an episode when a species called the Sorsons arrive on Earth and make this request, TIM mentions that the Sorsons have been monitoring Earth broadcasts for a long time and are aware of the cliché:
-->The Sorsons are not without a sense of humour.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: The first episode the 1990s remake to come into his powers was named "Adam Newman". Adam as in the name of the first man, and Newman as in "New man" — first of a new species of human.
* SubspaceOrHyperspace: John theorizes that their form of teleportation involves travel through hyperspace. They later learn that Tomorrow People who do not successfully "Break out" (ie. come into their powers) get lost in hyperspace and eventually lose bodily cohesion. Elizabeth is saved from such a fate in her introductory episode. John later adjusts their Jaunting belts to "change the angle" at which they enter hyperspace, as justification for a special effect change. In the Big Finish series, one of the villains is the insane, disembodied consciousness of a Tomorrow Person who had become stuck in hyperspace.
* TakeMeToYourLeader: Lampshaded in an episode when a species called the Sorsons arrive on Earth and make this request, TIM mentions that the Sorsons have been monitoring Earth broadcasts for a long time and are aware of the cliché:
-->The Sorsons are not without a sense of humour.
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* DownerEnding: "The Dirtiest Business".
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* DownerEnding: "The Dirtiest Business".Business" ends with the Russian girl who breaks out killing herself to save the lives of others, leaving Mike distraught.
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* PutOnABus: After the first season, Carol and Kenny were sent to the Galactic Federation's headquarters The Trig to work as ambassadors for Earth
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** After the first season, Carol and Kenny were sent to the Galactic Federation's headquarters The Trig to work as ambassadors forEarthEarth.
** After season three, Tricia Conway is said to have become a law enforcement agent with the Federation and is working off-world. This was due to Anne Curthoys being unable to reprise the role as she had begun work on a soap opera.
** After the first season, Carol and Kenny were sent to the Galactic Federation's headquarters The Trig to work as ambassadors for
** After season three, Tricia Conway is said to have become a law enforcement agent with the Federation and is working off-world. This was due to Anne Curthoys being unable to reprise the role as she had begun work on a soap opera.
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* WholePlotReference: "Worlds Away" was inspired by ''Chariots of the Gods''. It's revealed that the Pyramids of Egypt were the result of aliens.
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* ButtMonkey: What scenes Tyso was in, he was either the butt of a joke, or in a position where he was rarely pleased to be seen.
