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* SacrifticialLion: Not a "killed" example of this trope obviously, but in the second season, how does the viewer know that Jukido, the evil traitorous organization, is serious about its anti-ethical ideals? [[spoiler: Off-screen, they attack and severely injure "Panther", which is why Panther doesn't appear after that.]]
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* SacrifticialLion: SacrificialLion: Not a "killed" example of this trope obviously, but in the second season, how does the viewer know that Jukido, the evil traitorous organization, is serious about its anti-ethical ideals? [[spoiler: Off-screen, they attack and severely injure "Panther", which is why Panther doesn't appear after that.]]
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** Note that this is only in Battlezone matches; in championship shots, the whole point is throwing dudes off an elevated rotating platform.
*SacrificialLion: SacrifticialLion: Not a "killed" example of this trope obviously, but in the second season, how does the viewer know that Jukido, the evil traitorous organization, is serious about its anti-ethical ideals? [[spoiler: Off-screen, they attack and severely injure "Panther", which is why Panther doesn't appear after that.]]
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* FriendOrIdolDecision: In one episode, it's revealed that one of the Machine's children is a big fan of Red Dragon, and since Red Dragon and the Machine are friends, would Red Dragon mind coming over to the Machine's house one day to hang out? The Red Dragon promises he'll be there. However, the Red Dragon then meets a very pretty female astronaut who, after they hit it off, invites the Red Dragon to watch a rocket launching right from the base. Hey, an opportunity like this doesn't come along every day, and the Machine's a cool guy, surely he would understand, right?...it turns out the Red Dragon chose to hang out with the Machine's family after all. He just couldn't do it, he just couldn't break a promise. The astronaut understands, however, and extends another invitation for much later on.
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* FriendOrIdolDecision: In one episode, it's revealed that one of the Machine's children is niece and nephew are a big fan of Red Dragon, and since Red Dragon and the Machine are friends, would Red Dragon mind coming over to the Machine's house one day to hang out? out when they're visiting? The Red Dragon promises he'll be there. However, the Red Dragon then meets a very pretty female astronaut who, after they hit it off, invites the Red Dragon to watch a rocket launching right from the base. Hey, an opportunity like this doesn't come along every day, and the Machine's a cool guy, surely he would understand, right?...it turns out the Red Dragon chose to hang out with the Machine's family after all. He just couldn't do it, he just couldn't break a promise. The astronaut understands, however, and extends another invitation for much later on.
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Clearly the inspirations are both [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestling]] (each of the fighters has a {{gimmick}} and the whole thing is rather {{kayfabe}} heavy) and the ''MortalKombat'' series (with such things as life bars, the general aesthetics of the characters and different areas where matches take place, and even a couple actors from the games appearing; also, from TheMovie, Chris "Red Dragon" Cassamassa (Scorpion) and Hakim "The Machine" Alston (Liu Kang's first fight)).
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Clearly the inspirations are both [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestling]] (each of the fighters has a {{gimmick}} and the whole thing is rather {{kayfabe}} heavy) and the ''MortalKombat'' ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series (with such things as life bars, the general aesthetics of the characters and different areas where matches take place, and even a couple actors from the games appearing; also, from TheMovie, Chris "Red Dragon" Cassamassa (Scorpion) and Hakim "The Machine" Alston (Liu Kang's first fight)).
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Overall, the whole thing is kind of silly, but in a SoBadItsGood way.
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''WMAC Masters'' is a choreographed martial arts competition show produced by the Summit Media Group (better known as Creator/FourKidsEntertainment).
WMAC stands for the World Martial Arts Council, an organization dedicated to the competition of the world's best martial artists, all competing for the "ultimate prize", the dragon star, which acts as a championship belt of sorts. For the most part, these competitions take the form of one-one-one obviously choreographed martial arts battles, though other demonstrations and tournaments are shown.
WMAC stands for the World Martial Arts Council, an organization dedicated to the competition of the world's best martial artists, all competing for the "ultimate prize", the dragon star, which acts as a championship belt of sorts. For the most part, these competitions take the form of one-one-one obviously choreographed martial arts battles, though other demonstrations and tournaments are shown.
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''WMAC Masters'' is a choreographed martial arts competition show produced by the Summit Media Group (better known as Creator/FourKidsEntertainment).
[[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids Entertainment]]).
WMAC stands for the World Martial Arts Council, an organization dedicated to the competition of the world's best martial artists, all competing for the "ultimate prize", thedragon star, Dragon Star, which acts as a championship belt of sorts. For the most part, these competitions take the form of one-one-one obviously choreographed martial arts battles, though other demonstrations and tournaments are shown.
WMAC stands for the World Martial Arts Council, an organization dedicated to the competition of the world's best martial artists, all competing for the "ultimate prize", the
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!!This Show Demonstrates Examples Of The of the Following Tropes:
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''WMAC Masters'' is a choreographed martial arts competition show produced by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment.
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Tropes aren\'t arguable. And I don\'t think anyone was comparing this to UFC at the time.
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* LighterAndSofter: Arguably this to the UFC, which at the time was still in its "There are no rules!" phase.
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The first reveal is that "Warlock" and "Tracer" are actually traitors working for Jukido. But the viewer probably saw that coming since Warlock and Tracer were always assholes. The real twist is the second reveal, because it turns out a third WMAC Master was working with them as an accomplice...and the accomplice is comic relief ''Tsunami'' of all people!!!]]
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* TheUnintelligible: Yuji "Cyclone" Noguchi only spoke in Japanese and relied on Bam to translate for him, he did however say one English sentence when he was pushed to by Tracer "Get out of my face Tracy".
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Clearly the inspirations are both ProfessionalWrestling (each of the fighters has a {{Gimmick}} and the whole thing is rather {{Kayfabe}} heavy, if laughably so) and the ''MortalKombat'' video game series (with such things as life bars, the general aesthetics of the characters and different areas where matches take place, and even a couple actors from the games appearing; also, from TheMovie, Chris "Red Dragon" Cassamassa (Scorpion) and Hakim "The Machine" Alston (Liu Kang's first fight)).
The first season was hosted by Shannon Lee, the daughter of BruceLee, and was very much AnAesop Of The Week show, with awkward life lessons imparted in every episode. The second season ditched Lee, limited the aesops to AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle segments at the end, and introduced an EvilCounterpart organization Jukido that sought to usurp the Dragon Star in a MythArc (one eventually LeftHanging). This coincided with a distinct [[GrowingTheBeard uptick in quality]].
The first season was hosted by Shannon Lee, the daughter of BruceLee, and was very much AnAesop Of The Week show, with awkward life lessons imparted in every episode. The second season ditched Lee, limited the aesops to AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle segments at the end, and introduced an EvilCounterpart organization Jukido that sought to usurp the Dragon Star in a MythArc (one eventually LeftHanging). This coincided with a distinct [[GrowingTheBeard uptick in quality]].
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Clearly the inspirations are both ProfessionalWrestling [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestling]] (each of the fighters has a {{Gimmick}} {{gimmick}} and the whole thing is rather {{Kayfabe}} heavy, if laughably so) {{kayfabe}} heavy) and the ''MortalKombat'' video game series (with such things as life bars, the general aesthetics of the characters and different areas where matches take place, and even a couple actors from the games appearing; also, from TheMovie, Chris "Red Dragon" Cassamassa (Scorpion) and Hakim "The Machine" Alston (Liu Kang's first fight)).
The first season was hosted by Shannon Lee, the daughter of BruceLee, and was very muchAnAesop Of The Week [[AnAesop an aesop]] of the week show, with awkward life lessons imparted in every episode. The second season ditched Lee, limited the aesops to AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle segments at the end, and introduced an EvilCounterpart organization Jukido that sought to usurp the Dragon Star in a MythArc (one eventually LeftHanging). This coincided with a distinct [[GrowingTheBeard uptick in quality]].
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: "Superstar" Ho Sung Pak's backstory. Apparently he used to be really full of himself, and it almost got him killed when someone he pissed off eventually returned for a rematch...with several of his buddies. "Star Warrior" Ho Yung Pak had to save his brother's life, and Ho Sung Pak has been more humble ever since.
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: "Superstar" Ho Sung Pak's backstory. Apparently Apparently, he used to be really full of himself, and it almost got him killed when someone he pissed off eventually returned for a rematch...with several of his buddies. "Star Warrior" Ho Yung Pak had to save his brother's life, and Ho Sung Pak has been more humble ever since.
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* MeaningfulName: All of the martial artists' ki symbols. Hakim "The Machine" Alston got his name because he had to gain iron control of his own emotions in order to prevent another screw-up like the time he lost his temper at Steve. "Red Dragon" was the name of the first martial art Chris Casamassa trained in. "Superstar" harkens back to Ho Sung Pak's tenure as a film movie star. "Olympus" is named after the time Herb Perez won the 1992 Gold Medal in the Olympics. Richard Branden sketches yin yang symbols as a hobby, hence "Yin Yang Man". "Bam", a.k.a. Willie Johnson, shouts "Bam" instead of a kiai. "Mouse", or Michele Krasnoo, had really high-pitched kiais as a child. "Great Wolf" is the translation for Jamie Webster's Native American name. "Baby Doll" Bridget Riley's father gave her that nickname as a child. Eric Betts claims to be able to move as fast as a "Panther". Hien Nguyen got the idea for "Tsunami" from Bruce Lee's admonishment to move fluidly like water instead of in a rigid fashion. Johnny Lee Smith got the name "Tiger Claw" from his tiger claw technique. Finally, Taimek's name is Aztec for "Striking Eagle", so that's his ki symbol. There were no explanations revealed for the other ki symbols, such as why Michael Bernardo calls himself "Turbo" or why Ho Young Pak calls himself "Star Warrior" for example.
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* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattleAndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: "Do what's right! Don't fight!" is often repeated in this show. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], if you were taking a class from any real-life martial arts sensei worth his/her salt (and a lot of the actors on this show are actual martial arts teachers), one of the ''first'' things you would learn is that martial arts is theoretically supposed to be used to ''avoid'' fights whenever possible; attacking opponents is for self-defense only if they start a fight with you first. Also, the "Code of the Dragon Star" provides a lot of opportunity for knowing being half the battle.
* BreakTheHaughty: "Superstar" in his backstory, see above Arrogant Kung Fu Guy trope entry. Hakim "The Machine" Alston is another example; in his backstory, he thought he was hot stuff until his sensei made him fight a guy named Steve. Steve kicked Hakim's butt, which made Hakim so mad that he knocked Steve to the ground and started beating on him, disgracing his sensei in the process. Hakim still thought he had something to prove, though, so he challenged Steve to an "unofficial" match where they would fight without gloves, "for keeps". But Steve won the match by ''breaking Hakim's arm and leg'', which was Hakim's own fault since Hakim was in such a berserker rage that he was in an "attack attack attack" craze, and Steve was just defending himself. Hakim was so ashamed of himself that he went into training in solitude to learn how to control his anger, and eventually he and Steve managed to make up and be friends.
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* FeudEpisode: At one point in the show, Great Wolf and Tiger Claw got into a heavy feud, despite having been close friends beforehand. The reason is because in their backstory, Tiger Claw taught Great Wolf a very dangerous move in which the user jumps up and clamps both of his feet onto each side of his opponent's head, which results in a guaranteed knockout. But Tiger Claw only taught Great Wolf the move on the condition that both Tiger Claw and Great Wolf never use the move on ''each other''. The problem is, during the feud episode, Great Wolf breaks his promise and uses the move on Tiger Claw. This gets Tiger Claw royally pissed off at Great Wolf. Eventually, the feud is resolved in a later match when Great Wolf uses the move again but Tiger Claw figures out how to block it this time, and now that Tiger Claw has a defense against the move, Tiger Claw is willing to forgive Great Wolf and they both move on.
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* FeudEpisode: At one point in the show, Great Wolf and Tiger Claw got into a heavy feud, despite having been close friends beforehand. The reason is because in their backstory, Tiger Claw taught Great Wolf a very dangerous move in which the user jumps up and clamps both of his feet onto each side of his opponent's head, which results in a guaranteed knockout. But Tiger Claw only taught Great Wolf the move on the condition that both Tiger Claw and Great Wolf never use the move on ''each other''. The problem is, during at the feud beginning of the "Broken Promise" episode, Great Wolf breaks his promise and uses the move on Tiger Claw. This gets Tiger Claw royally pissed off at Great Wolf.Wolf, because Great Wolf had ''already'' broken his promise once before, but at the time had seemed sincere in apologizing about it and had promised not to make that mistake again. Eventually, the feud is resolved in a later match when Great Wolf uses the move again but Tiger Claw figures out how to block it this time, and now that Tiger Claw has a defense against the move, Tiger Claw is willing to forgive Great Wolf and they both move on.
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* MagicalNativeAmerican: Great Wolf. [[spoiler: Complete with a prophetic dream like a seer, too! Although the prophetic dream turns out to be wrong about Tsunami, so maybe Great Wolf isn't ''that'' magical...]]
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* FriendOrIdolDecision: In one episode, it's revealed that one of the Machine's children is a big fan of Red Dragon, and since Red Dragon and the Machine are friends, would Red Dragon mind coming over to the Machine's house one day to hang out? The Red Dragon promises he'll be there. However, the Red Dragon then meets a very pretty female astronaut who, after they hit it off, invites the Red Dragon to watch a rocket launching right from the base. Hey, an opportunity like this doesn't come along every day, and the Machine's a cool guy, surely he would understand, right?...it turns out the Red Dragon chose to hang out with the Machine's family after all. He just couldn't do it, he just couldn't break a promise. The astronaut understands, however, and extends another invitation for much later on.
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* Mooks: The ninjas that are sent to battle the Masters in the battlezones and in the cage. The ones in the cage wear regular ninja outfits, but the ones in the battlezones wear differently-colored costumes depending on the battlezones. They are not as skilled as the Masters and thus usually go down quickly; they're only there to make the matches slightly more difficult. The only exception is [[spoiler: the ninja who manages to beat both Superstar and the Machine at once...but he wasn't really a ninja, he was the WMAC Master Warlock in disguise as part of a plan to win the Dragon Star that ultimately didn't work.]]
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* Mooks: {{Mooks}}: The ninjas that are sent to battle the Masters in the battlezones and in the cage. The ones in the cage wear regular ninja outfits, but the ones in the battlezones wear differently-colored costumes depending on the battlezones. They are not as skilled as the Masters and thus usually go down quickly; they're only there to make the matches slightly more difficult. The only exception is [[spoiler: the ninja who manages to beat both Superstar and the Machine at once...but he wasn't really a ninja, he was the WMAC Master Warlock in disguise as part of a plan to win the Dragon Star that ultimately didn't work.]]
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* Mooks: The ninjas that are sent to battle the Masters in the battlezones and in the cage. The ones in the cage wear regular ninja outfits, but the ones in the battlezones wear differently-colored costumes depending on the battlezones. They are not as skilled as the Masters and thus usually go down quickly; they're only there to make the matches slightly more difficult. The only exception is [[spoiler: the ninja who manages to beat both Superstar and the Machine at once...but he wasn't really a ninja, he was the WMAC Master Warlock in disguise as part of a plan to win the Dragon Star that ultimately didn't work.]]
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* RingOut: This only happened twice. The first time was during Kid Carmichael's debut at the Danger Dock battlezone; Yin Yang Man had been winning the match in terms of life points, and one more good hit would've finished Kid Carmichael off. However, at the very last minute Kid Carmichael managed to knock Yin Yang Man off the docks into the water, instantly winning the match. The second time was during the Red Dragon vs Machine match at the Mayan Mystery battlezone; the Machine managed to knock Red Dragon into the water, instantly winning the match.
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* CardCarryingEvil: A sort-of example with "Jukido", the evil treacherous organization that shows up in season two. Jukido is composed of martial artists who don't want to live by the code of the Dragon Star, meaning they don't want to disciplined, honorable, respectful, courageous, loyal, forgiving, wise, or compassionate. So they formed Jukido so they could use their martial arts skills however they wanted to regardless of the cost to others, and to this end are willing to do things like [[spoiler: severely injure Panther off-screen or attempt to rig a match between Red Dragon and Warlock by having a ninja attack ''only'' Red Dragon, although Red Dragon won anyway, or finally ''steal the Dragon Star''.]]
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* CardCarryingEvil: CardCarryingVillain: A sort-of example with "Jukido", the evil treacherous organization that shows up in season two. Jukido is composed of martial artists who don't want to live by the code of the Dragon Star, meaning they don't want to disciplined, honorable, respectful, courageous, loyal, forgiving, wise, or compassionate. So they formed Jukido so they could use their martial arts skills however they wanted to regardless of the cost to others, and to this end are willing to do things like [[spoiler: severely injure Panther off-screen or attempt to rig a match between Red Dragon and Warlock by having a ninja attack ''only'' Red Dragon, although Red Dragon won anyway, or finally ''steal the Dragon Star''.]]
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* AmericanDream: This sums up Baby Doll's motivations. One episode centers around a loss of confidence Baby Doll suffers, and we see a flashback of Baby Doll as a little girl riding a carousel at an amusement park. Her father keeps encouraging her to try to reach out and grab hold of a "brass ring" as the carousel moves her towards it on the cycle. The problem is, she never actually managed to grab it, and the flashback ends there. Baby Doll gets her confidence back when she's reminded of the ''rest'' of what happened: her father congratulated her for trying her best to grab the brass ring, and the actual lesson he was trying to impart to her at the time was not necessarily that she always had to win, but that she always at least had to ''try''.
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* TookALevelInBadass: All the Masters, actually, because according to the backstory of this show, every Master has to first go through training as one of the generic ninja enemies for the already-Masters to beat up on; once a ninja distinguishes himself/herself, that ninja is then promoted to Master. Tsunami is revealed to have been a former ninja, for example, and we see the debut of Kid Carmichael right after the latter graduates from being a ninja.
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* SacrificialLion: Not a "killed" example of this trope obviously, but in the second season, how does the viewer know that Jukido, the evil traitorous organization, is serious about its anti-ethical ideals? [[spoiler: Off-screen, they attack and severely injure "Panther", which is why Panther doesn't appear after that.)
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* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: [[spoiler: ''Averted!'' In season two, Great Wolf has a prophetic dream in which an evil, "Jukido" version of the referee destroys the Dragon Star declaring it to be a fake, but then Tsunami bursts in as the hero with the real Dragon Star in his hands. As it turns out, Tsunami is himself a traitor, he's the accomplice who helps steal the Dragon Star for Warlock and Tracer.]]
* RedHerring: Two of them, one per season. In the first season, [[spoiler: when a ninja knocks both Superstar and The Machine off the platform, "Turbo" is suspected of having been the ninja because of a suspicious comment Turbo had made earlier about being determined to win the Dragon Star at all costs. It turns out it was Warlock, not Turbo]]. In the second season, [[spoiler: Chameleon is suspected of having been Tracer and Warlock's accomplice in stealing the Dragon Star from the women's Dragon Star match since Tracer was frequently seen talking to her. Nope, Chameleon was actually disgusted at Tracer's advances, and as Olympus correctly points out, if Chameleon were the accomplice it would not have been necessary to ''steal'' the Dragon Star, because Chameleon won that match and thus would've gotten the Dragon Star anyway! Instead, Chameleon screamed in fear upon noticing the Dragon Star was gone, so obviously the accomplice wasn't her. It turns out the accomplice was Tsunami, of all people.]]
* RedHerring: Two of them, one per season. In the first season, [[spoiler: when a ninja knocks both Superstar and The Machine off the platform, "Turbo" is suspected of having been the ninja because of a suspicious comment Turbo had made earlier about being determined to win the Dragon Star at all costs. It turns out it was Warlock, not Turbo]]. In the second season, [[spoiler: Chameleon is suspected of having been Tracer and Warlock's accomplice in stealing the Dragon Star from the women's Dragon Star match since Tracer was frequently seen talking to her. Nope, Chameleon was actually disgusted at Tracer's advances, and as Olympus correctly points out, if Chameleon were the accomplice it would not have been necessary to ''steal'' the Dragon Star, because Chameleon won that match and thus would've gotten the Dragon Star anyway! Instead, Chameleon screamed in fear upon noticing the Dragon Star was gone, so obviously the accomplice wasn't her. It turns out the accomplice was Tsunami, of all people.]]
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* ShockingSwerve: The end of season one. It's a Dragon Star match between Hakim "The Machine" Alston and "Superstar" Ho Sung Pak. Who wins? [[spoiler: Neither, because ''a ninja knocks them both off the platform with one attack''! We don't find out who that mystery ninja was until season two; it turns out it was Warlock in disguise. He was trying to win the Dragon Star for Jukido, but failed to realize in advance that the WMAC organization does not award the Dragon Star to ninjas.]]
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* ShockingSwerve: The end of season one. It's a Dragon Star match between Hakim "The Machine" Alston and "Superstar" Ho Sung Pak. Who wins? [[spoiler: Neither, because ''a ninja knocks them both off the platform with one attack''! We don't find out who that mystery ninja was until season two; it turns out it was Warlock in disguise. He was trying to win the Dragon Star for Jukido, but failed to realize in advance that the WMAC organization does not award the Dragon Star to ninjas.]]
* ShockingSwerve: The end of season one. It's a Dragon Star match between Hakim "The Machine" Alston and "Superstar" Ho Sung Pak. Who wins? [[spoiler: Neither, because ''a ninja knocks them both off the platform with one attack''! We don't find out who that mystery ninja was until season two; it turns out it was Warlock in disguise. He was trying to win the Dragon Star for Jukido, but failed to realize in advance that the WMAC organization does not award the Dragon Star to ninjas.]]
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* FeudEpisode: At one point in the show, Great Wolf and Tiger Claw got into a heavy feud, despite having been close friends beforehand. The reason is because in their backstory, Tiger Claw taught Great Wolf a very dangerous move in which the user jumps up and clamps both of his feet onto each side of his opponent's head, which results in a guaranteed knockout. But Tiger Claw only taught Great Wolf the move on the condition that both Tiger Claw and Great Wolf never use the move on ''each other''. The problem is, during the feud episode, Great Wolf breaks his promise and uses the move on Tiger Claw. This gets Tiger Claw royally pissed off at Great Wolf. Eventually, the feud is resolved in a later match when Great Wolf uses the move again but Tiger Claw figures out how to block it this time, and now that Tiger Claw has a defense against the move, Tiger Claw is willing to forgive Great Wolf and they both move on.
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*** [[spoiler: However, the anagram finder didn't reveal Tracy Swedom's true nature, because the Masters were called away before they could run a the finder on him, and Tracy Swedom took advantage of the opportunity to erase his particular incriminating anagram from the finder, before walking away gloating in song.]]
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: "Superstar" Ho Sung Pak's backstory. Apparently he used to be really full of himself, and it almost got him killed when someone he pissed off eventually returned for a rematch...with several of his buddies. "Star Warrior" Ho Yung Pak had to save his brother's life, and Ho Sung Pak has been more humble ever since.
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The first reveal is that "Warlock" and "Tracer" are actually traitors working for Jukido. But the viewer probably saw that coming since Warlock and Tracer were always assholes. The real twist is the second reveal, because it turns out a third WMAC Master was working with them as an accomplice...and the accomplice is comic relief ''Tsunami'' of all people!!!]]
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* ShoutOut: Two of the characters on the show have ties to MortalKombat: The Machine appeared in the first movie as a random fighter, while Superstar is Liu Kang's model in the games.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: In a memory flashback, Babydoll is show with her dad, who doesn't age as Babydoll progressively ages in the flashback.
