History WesternAnimation / CaptainStar

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Captain Star is a raging egomaniac and seems at times completely oblivious to the events surrounding him. However, he is still the best captain in the fleet. In ''Written In The Stars'', with the planet about the be destroyed and Scarlet depressed that her first tenure as acting captain is going to result in them all dying, she asks for a hint on how to save the day, and he easily points her in the right direction.

* ExpositoryThemeTune: Narration plays over the instrumental theme song, explaining the basic back story of the show

* StellarName

* TrueCompanions: Actually something of an aversion. Captain Star's crew are certainly a BadassCrew but their interactions with each other don't seem to indicate that they are actually friends.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: The concept of the series is that the crew has befallen this trope, but none of them seem to have realized it.

* IncitingIncident: Ned Nova's flight from mission control counts as this. After Ned Nova flees from mission control in order to escape from an enforced retirement; mission control changed their policy on retiring old captains. Captain Star's marooning on the nameless planet is apparently now how they deal with retiring certain captains who are [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BoldExplorer adventurers at heart]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: ''Somehow'', we have a children's cartoon where it's about a space hero whose ship is named "the Boiling Hell".

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: ''Somehow'', we have a children's cartoon where about a space hero whose ship is named "the Boiling Hell".

** The most obvious instance of comically shoddy physics in the Low-Flying Moon, which orbits so absurdly low as to audibly zoom past overhead, but somehow has enough density to cause nearby objects to briefly levitate with its gravity.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: The conceit of the series is that the crew has befallen this trope, but none of them seem to have realized it.

* Baby planet: The Low-Flying Moon isn't much bigger than a person.

* The most obvious instance of comically shoddy physics in the Low-Flying Moon, which orbits so absurdly low as to audibly zoom past overhead, but somehow has enough density to cause nearby objects to briefly levitate with its gravity.

** In "The Gravity of the Situation", Star's depression has led him to become so dense that he has sunken through the floor of his workshop - but the top of his head (more specifically his hair) still protrudes out from below. Scarlette immediately pegs it as his toupee even as Jones protests that his hair was all his own - a reference to the longstanding debates over whether or not Shatner wore a hairpiece on ''[[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]''.

Captain Star (1997-1998) was a quirky Anglo-Canadian cartoon parody of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' that ran for only 13 episodes. Captain Star's mission is to visit exotic planets, name them after himself, and sell stuff. However his superiors have stuck him on a nameless planet at the ragged edge of the universe where he naively waits for his next orders, his ego oblivious to the implications that he has been KickedUpstairs.

What makes Captain Star the hero is he saves Mission Control anyway, although you get the feeling that in some of his darker moments a part of him might regret it.

* YourCostumeNeedsWork: Captain Star is kidnapped and forced to take part in a Captain Star lookalike contest at a Captain Star fan convention - nobody there actually believes he's the ''real'' Captain Star except for a small boy who later able to help his crew when they come to rescue him. Even his ''crew'' can't tell which of the contestants is him until he says SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay. (To be fair, it also takes him a minute to figure out which one of the many Scarlettes, Blacks, and Joneses are the right ones.) He loses the contest, albeit because it's been rigged; many of the other contestants (and even the producers of the show ''Star of Space'', who are looking to replace their primadonna lead) are all very impressed with him.