History WesternAnimation / DragonBooster

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: The show is quite fond of ending most episodes this way, capping off the events with AnAesop and a joke or slapstick gag.

* FantasticRacism: This crops up between humans and dragons sometimes, one episode even worked to [[AnAesop reveal and remedy the human heroes' own racism towards dragons.]]

--> '''Kitt:''' Open mouth, insert dragon-sized foot.

** Phistus' huge [[DropTheHammer war-hammer]]
** Pyrrah's [[LaserBlade hacksaw]]

''Dragon Booster'' (2004-2006) was a Canadian-created show from Creator/NerdCorpsEntertainment (as their first original animated series) that aired on Creator/{{CBC}} in Canada and the Creator/ToonDisney network in the U.S.

* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Word Paynn seems to have cameras everywhere in Dragon City, letting him spy on the heroes whenever he wants.

** And again, that's only Down and Mid City. We're unsure of how Sun City and most of the Academy view him. He might play the trope straight there, if the usually bombastic Race Marshall Budge's deferential response to his presence at the races is any indication.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Artha in "Misjudged", when he angrily asks his dragball partner, Kawake, why he didn't block a winning shot from Moordryd and Cain only to learn that Kawake is a paraplegic. Kitt's lampshading doesn't help him feel any better about it, either.

** Word Paynn of all people grabs it in "No Paynn, No Gain". He plants and tries to remotely detonate a Black Mine pod that he's loaded with highly toxic dragonsbane in the Penn Crew's tent. When it doesn't go off, Word, apparently having watched the Dragon Booster universe's equivalent of WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner too much as a child, goes to inspect it. Sure enough, it picks that moment to detonate and infects him.

** Word Paynn of all people grabs it in "No Paynn, No Gain". He plants and tries to remotely detonate a Black Mine pod that he's loaded with highly toxic dragonsbane in the Penn Crew's tent. When it doesn't go off, Word, apparently having watched the Dragon Booster universe's equivalent of [[WesternAnimation WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner]] too much as a child, goes to inspect it. Sure enough, it picks that moment to detonate and infects him.

* IdiotBall: Sadly common, usually so Artha can look more heroic and less ThisLoserIsYou. Memorable ones are "Three Times a Hero" (scheduling conflict), "The Stand" (taking free gear from a shady new corporation when your BigBad is a gear maker), and "The Mouth That Roared" (was there seriously that little reason to trust Lance?)

*** "The Horn of Libris" is the first episode to reveal that Black is one of the draconium colors of balance alongside Gold, Red, Green, and Blue, and Moordryd's dragon Decepshun willingly gives her Mag energy to help Beau and the Penn Racing Crew's dragons stop the gray dragon Libris's rampage.
*** The episode "Pride of the Hero" is full of these: Artha jumps onto ''Decepshun'' of all dragons and directs her to follow a bonemark possessed Beau and Moordryd back to Word's citadel. She does so without any protest beyond a slight QuizzicalTilt. In direct contrast to this, just minutes before this Beau has willingly allowed Moordryd to climb onto him. Even Moordryd himself is taken aback by this, although he quickly subverts it by hijacking Beau with the Furox bonemark. After Artha manages to talk both of them down, the episode ends with Moordryd considering that Beau willingly chose him and Artha, having recovered Beau, acknowledging that "there's a hero in everyone", maybe even Moordryd. Even before all of this, Word sarcastically yells that Moordryd "might as well be helping him [Dragon Booster]" while railing at Moordryd over losing that episode's race and his other recent failures.

** Defied by Propheci after his debut episode. Despite letting Artha and company go free as thanks for saving him, he goes right back to his old human-hating ways from that point on.

'''Word:''' "Fun". ''(Chuckles, then explodes)'' When's the last time you won a race!? You are a disgrace to the name of Paynn! You’re supposed to be a ''winner!'' Your stupid pride cost you that race. And worst of all, you had to be saved by the Penn brat. You are defeated by the Dragon Booster at every turn. [[{{Foreshadowing}} You might as well be]] ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} helping]]'' [[{{Foreshadowing}} him!]] Out of my sight! ''You disgust me!''

'''Word:''' "Fun". ''(Chuckles, then explodes)'' When's the last time you won a race!? You are a disgrace to the name of Paynn! You’re supposed to be a ''winner!'' Your stupid pride cost you that race. And worst of all, you had to be saved by the Penn brat. You are defeated by the Dragon Booster at every turn. [[{{Foreshadowing}} You might as well be]] ''[[{{Foreshoadowing}} helping]]'' [[{{Foreshadowing}} him!]] Out of my sight! ''You disgust me!''

'''Word:''' "Fun". ''(Chuckles, then explodes)'' When's the last time you won a race!? You are a disgrace to the name of Paynn! You’re supposed to be a ''winner!'' Your stupid pride cost you that race. And worst of all, you had to be saved by the Penn brat. You are defeated by the Dragon Booster at every turn. [[{{Foreshadowing}} You might as well be ''helping'' him!]] Out of my sight! ''You disgust me!''

'''Word:''' "Fun". ''(Chuckles, then explodes)'' When's the last time you won a race!? You are a disgrace to the name of Paynn! You’re supposed to be a ''winner!'' Your stupid pride cost you that race. And worst of all, you had to be saved by the Penn brat. You are defeated by the Dragon Booster at every turn. [[{{Foreshadowing}}You might as well be ''helping'' him!]] Out of my sight! ''You disgust me!''

*** In the episode "Pride of the Hero", Artha jumps onto ''Decepshun'' of all dragons and directs her to take him to Word's citadel. She does so without protest. In direct contrast to this, just minutes before this Beau has willingly allow Moordryd to climb onto him[[note]] mind you, Beau sent Moordryd ''flying'' when he attempted this in the first episode[[/note]]. Even Moordryd himself is taken aback by this, although he quickly subverts it by hijacking Beau with the Furox bonemark. After Artha manages to talk both of them down, the episode ends with Moordryd considering that Beau willingly chose him and Artha, having recovered Beau, acknowledging that "there's a hero in everyone", maybe even Moordryd.

'''Word:''' "Fun". ''(Chuckles, then explodes)'' When's the last time you won a race!? You are a disgrace to the name of Paynn! You’re supposed to be a ''winner!'' Your stupid pride cost you that race. And worst of all, you had to be saved by the Penn brat. You are defeated by the Dragon Booster at every turn. You might as well be ''helping'' him! Out of my sight! ''You disgust me!''

* DesignatedGirlFight: Between Marianis[[note]] Dragon Fish crew leader[[/note]] and Spynn[[note]] Voice of the Dragon crew member[[/note]] whenever a disagreement in the Council of Twelve escalates into an all-out street brawl despite them not having an issue with each other otherwise. Averted with Pyrrah since there aren't any other [[SmurfettePrinciple female crew members]] for her to fight.[[note]]Female crew members are shown in the meetings but seemingly don't take part in the fighting[[/note]]

* DesignatedGirlFight: Between Marianis[[note]] Dragon Fish crew leader[[/note]] and Spynn[[note]] Voice of the Dragon member[[/note]] whenever a disagreement in the Council of Twelve escalates into an all-out street brawl.

* HumansAreBastards: According to the ''[[WordOfGod History of Draconis]]'', the reason the first Dragon-Human War began was that the dragons of all 12 Draconium Empires, after centuries of fighting each other for their human masters'/allies' campaigns of conquest, realized that they were simply being used as beasts of war and revolted. While the original Dragon Booster was able to reestablish peace and unity between dragons and humans, there are still some, like Propheci and the Orange Prophets Crew [[note]] the dragons (and not all of them), not their riders[[/note]], who remain bitter enough about it to implicitly attempt to start a second war in which dragons will emerge the undisputed victors.

* SaveTheVillain: Throughout the series, Artha and Beau have found themselves having to save Moordryd in "Pride of a Hero", Propheci in "The Track of Doom", and Cain in "Cain's Mutiny" from suffering a DisneyVillainDeath.