History WesternAnimation / Cyberchase

* BelligerentSexualTension: Matt and Inez

* ChildProdigy: Inez mostly, but might (occasionally) apply to Matt and Jackie as well

*** This troper only heard it in two episodes, "Totally Rad" and "On the Line".

* MagicSkirt: Jackie's small blue skirt/skort--8 seasons and nothing

* PowerCrystal: The Crystal of Kalmoor.

* ShipTease: It exists in the show and is fairly amusing at times. [[FanDumb And that's all we'll say.]]

** {{Expy}}: Anyone who's watched [[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog]] will notice how similar Hacker is to Robotnik. They're both the LargeHam [[BigBad Big Bads]] of their respective series, and Hacker's lackeys are also expies of Scratch and Grounder.

On PBS airings, the episodes end with a live-action segment (called "Cyberchase For Real"), where a pair of recurring characters (Harry and Bianca) demonstrate how the episode's math lesson can be used in their own lives.

* CatchPhrase: Jackie's "Move! I gotta pace!" when she needs to think.

* DeadHatShot: PlayedWith in the odds episode, as the Hacker is deceived in this manner. When Matt's [[IconicItem yo-yo]] outside one of two doors, the Hacker believes the cybersquad had been sucked into cyberspace and chooses to go through the other door. ''He'' winds up getting sucked into cyberspace instead as the protagonists watch from a safe distance before admitting [[GambitRoulette they were merely guessing which door would suck the unlucky opener into cyberspace at random]].

* DilatingDoor: in the episode where the Cybersquad meets Ava, the very impractical door that they use to get into the factory

** TheBigGuy / TheMentor / TeamMom: Motherboard; not dumb, but essentially useless thanks to the virus; occasionally Dr. Marbles

* GlobalCurrency: snelfus

* HeelFaceTurn: Before the events of the pilot, [[BigBad Hacker]] turned against Motherboard.

* JackassGenie: Warren

-->'''Jackie''': Cyberspace is doomed, ''doomed'' I tell you, DOOOOO-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOO-OOMED!

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the very first episode, we learn that it was the kids' attempt to use a library map that allowed Hacker to breach Motherboard's defenses.

* PetTheDog: anytime Hacker decides to show he has a heart

** Creech can get like this too. In fact, it's how they met. Matt and Jackie decided to make fun of Inez's vocabulary which led to her quitting the Cybersquad temporarily and working with Creech for most of Creech's introduction episode.

* SummonEverymanHero: three Earth kids sent InsideTheInternet

* TeamPet: Digit to a certain extent

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: A bit of a BrokenAesop in that no character is ever seen going from 'evil' to 'good' for real. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] [[YourMileageMayVary (sort of)]] in that that would complicate the plot and not make it a show about math and science.

* BelligerentSexualTension: [[YourMileageMayVary Matt and Inez]]
* BerserkButton: Inez being called "short" or "tiny".

* ContinuityNod: Lots of recurring characters and the story arcs that are actually present always reference earlier ones

* DependingOnTheWriter: Is [[RunningGag Hacker's wig gel]] used for styling his wig or gluing it to his head? Does it come in cubes or a tube?
** Considering what Hacker's like, this inconsistency [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome might actually make sense]].

* ExposedToTheElements: Inez and Jackie. In certain episodes when they travel to very cold or snowy cybersites, both girls are well protected at least from the waist up, but Inez still wears shorts. And if you thought that was bad, Jackie still wears an even tinier skirt, which leaves the majority of her legs open to freezing temperatures!
** Worth noting that even Cyber-citizens have this too sometimes.

* FakeDefector: Almost every time that Digit goes back to Hacker's side.
** Almost?

** TheHero: Matt [[UnfortunateImplications and all that entails]]
*** This may go in an entirely different direction, depending on [[YourMileageMayVary how you view]] [[SchmuckBait his tendency to act like]] the IdiotHero
** TheSmartGuy / ChildProdigy: Inez

** TheChick / TeamPet: Digit; Jackie is occasionally TheChick as well, but [[TropesAreNotBad that's not a bad thing]]

* [[HoYay/WesternAnimation Ho Yay]]: Jules and Matt, one-sided on Jules' part

* IdiotHero: [[YourMileageMayVary Matt]]

* NoEnding: The last episode ever made of Cyberchase was the good guys and Hacker against Ledge.

** Considering that PigLatin has a variant in almost every known modern language, [[WhatAnIdiot probably not one of his better ideas.]]

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Inez is about as sesquipedalian as a nine-year old can get.

* ShorterMeansSmarter: Well, Buzz is shorter and smarter than Delete, but neither of them are smart. Additionally, Inez is TheSmartGuy of the the three main characters and the smallest (but [[TheNapoleon she doesn't like being reminded of that]]), but in this case, all of them are smart.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Falls firmly on the idealistic side, with occasional forays into cynic territory for about 5 minutes

* UpTheRealRabbitHole: Cybercitizens will call Earth "the real world"
** It's actually kind of logical in a way. Since they're generally in the company of or are speaking to Earthlings when they do this, it ''is'' the real world to those same Earthlings and they wouldn't want to confuse them. Possibly a case of PandaingToTheAudience.

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* DeadHatShot: PlayedWith in the odds episode, as the Hacker is deceived in this manner. When Matt's [[IconicItem yo-yo]] outside one of two doors, the Hacker believes the cybersquad had been sucked into cyberspace and chooses to go through the other door. ''He'' winds up getting sucked into cyberspace instead as the protagonists watch from a safe distance before admitting [[XanatosRoulette they were merely guessing which door would suck the unlucky opener into cyberspace at random]].

* XanatosRoulette: A heroic example in the odds episode.

* DeadHatShot: In the odds episode, the Hacker is deceived in this manner. When one protagonist leaves her hat outside one of two doors, the Hacker believes they had been sucked into cyberspace and chooses to go through the other door. ''He'' winds up getting sucked into cyberspace as the protagonists watch from a safe distance before admitting [[XanatosRoulette they were merely guessing which door would suck the unlucky opener into cyberspace at random]].

* CosmopolitanCouncil: "The Case of the Missing Memory"

* CosmopolitanCouncil

* DingSportswearPantyhoseAndTropes

* ArtEvolution ([[ItGotWorse Somewhere An Animator Is Crying]])
** After having several seasons being traditionally animated, switching to Flash seemed very, VERY wrong.

** Considering what Hacker's like, this inconsistency might actually make sense.

* DilatingDoor: in the episode where the Cybersquad meets Ava, the door they use to get into the factory

** I always thought that Cyber-clothing projected a protective aura since even Cyber-citizens have [[ExposedToTheElements this sometimes.]]

*** Considering that he's a pretty strong IdiotHero, I think the UnfortunateImplications [[YourMilageMayVary either are gotten rid of altogether or go in an entirely different direction]].
** TheSmartGuy: Inez
*** Just TheSmartGuy? Girl just might qualify for ChildProdigy. What 9-year-old knows the scientific family name for hawks?

* {{Leitmotif}}: Listen for a soft techno beat when the kids go into educational mode.

* MagicSkirt: Jackie's small blue skirt--8 seasons and nothing
** I always thought she wore a skort. You know; a skirt/shorts hybrid that wouldn't show anything regardless?

** Case in point: In the first episode on Sensible Flats, she knows the scientific family hawks belong to. Definitely a possibility for ChildProdigy.
** Creech can get like this too.
*** Isn't that how they met? Matt and Jackie decided to make fun of Inez's vocabulary (for some reason) which lead to her quitting the Cybersquad temporarily and working with Creech for most of Creech's introduction episode

** Ada Lovelace→Lady Ada Byron Lovelace

** Inez is still vaguely smarter than her teammates by virtue of both being younger than they are by two years and also because Matt is a bit of an IdiotHero and Jackie is a [[LargeHam a drama queen]] while Inez is generally calmer and more sensible.

* TwoferTokenMinority: The entire human cast. We've got a black girl, a hispanic girl, and -- oddly enough for this genre -- the sole male human is also white.

** It's actually kind of logical in a way. Since they're generally in the company of or are speaking to Earthlings when they do this, it is the real world to those same Earthlings. Then again YourMilageMayVary.

*** Isn't that how they met? Matt and Jackie had a WhatAnIdiot moment over Inez's vocabulary which lead to her quitting the Cybersquad temporarily and working with Creech for most of Creech's introduction episode

* ContinuityNod: lots of recurring characters, and the story arcs that are actually present always reference earlier ones

* ExposedToTheElements: Inez and Jackie. In certain episodes when they travel to very cold or snowy cybersites, both girls are well protected at least from the waist up, but Inez still wears shorts. And if you thought that was bad, Jackie still wears an even tinier skirt, which leaves the majority of her legs open to freezing tempratures!

-->'''Matt''': And the award for best dramatic outburst of the day goes to... Jackie!