History WesternAnimation / HuntikSecretsAndSeekers

* SuperEmpowering: Cherit, who can give other titans a temporary boost.

* TheMenInBlack: The Suits
* MadScientist: Organization member Klaus.

* AChildShallLeadThem: [[spoiler:Sophie]] becoming the leader to the Casterwill elders is viewed this way.
** This even gets deconstructed a bit, since the pressure of being a leader, partly spurred on by the malicious visions of the future The Legendary Titan of Fate, Arc show, causes [[spoiler:Sophie to have serious doubts and fears about her future as a leader. It takes Lady Nimue performing a HeroicSacrifice before confronting Kiel head on to finally help Sophie push past these fears.]]

* TenMinuteRetirement: It's more like 10 seconds. Anyway, during the climax of Den and Harrison's final fight at the end of Season 2, after Den muses to Harrison how [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Harrison has become strong enough to be the bully but not strong enough to be strong without being a bully]], Den decides he isn't getting through to his brother by fighting him and gives up. This really doesn't last, though. Vigilante calls to Den, awakening a Powerbonded form that envelops Den with its Cindercloak ability, and Den gets back in the fight. Amusingly, Harrison does call Den out for fighting almost immediately after "giving up", but Den then remarks about Vigilante inspiring Den the will to keep fighting to get through to Harrison.

** Momax - the Museum of Modern Art (or MoMA) located in New York, Venice and Bilbao.

* OrdinaryHighschoolStudent: ...Or college student, it's kinda unclear. (Though Focauld Casterwill does mention LeBlanche took Sophie to Venice for high school, after leaving it vague until Season 2, anyway.) Lok starts out this way, but it doesn't last long at all.

* ParentalSubsitute: Going along with the Seeker penchant for implied or explicit lack of biological parents, there are many Seeker mentors who also act or are looked up to in some fashion as {{Parental Substitute}}s.

* OrdinaryHighschoolStudent: ...Or college student, it's kinda unclear. (Though Focauld Casterwill does mention [-LeBlanche=] took Sophie to Venice for high school, after leaving it vague until Season 2, anyway.) Lok starts out this way, but it doesn't last long at all.

** In another example that's more of a TearJerker: When The Betrayer proclaims that Dante "is no more", Zhalia immediately breaks down crying (despite being in her disguise).

** An odd case occurs with Annette and Billie, two Huntik Foundation operatives currently working in Nostradamus's Tower as museum personnel alongside Peter. Both characters are new to Season 2. The English version's closed captions and dialogue [[NameDrop]] Billie, but never indicate Annette's name at all. Conversely, the Italian version does Name Drop Annette, but not Billie.

** [[spoiler:The Holotome]] Lok and the gang find later turns out to be [[spoiler:The Betrayer's Legendary Titan of Betrayal, Demigorgan]]

* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Lucas Casterwill is this to Sophie. Guy's got a lot of unaddressed and directly unacknowledged hang=ups, and these lead him to be so fearful for the safety and security of himself, the Casterwills as a whole, and his sister in particular that he's gone through rather reprehensible means of coercing Sophie into hiding. Twice-over, Sophie is tested in Lucas's presence. She passes both times, but both times aren't enough to fully convince him that his way is fearful cowardice that underestimates and infantilizes Sophie. [[CoolBigSister Zhalia]] and [[BigBrotherInstict Dante]] prove to be much better older siblings to Sophie than Lucas ever truly does, [[HeelFaceTurn even after the conclusion of "The Spiral War"]].

* GoodPowersGoodPeople[=/=]BadPowersBadPeople: Similar to the interplay between HowDoIShotWeb and InstantExpert within the show, as detailed below, Huntik [[TropesAreTools utilizes]] and [[PlayingWithATrope plays with]] the Seeker powers and Titans used by the various Seeker factions throughout it.
** The most fundamental way this is done is via coding certain powers as 'good guy' and 'bad guy'. You can tell this is done by noticing which side uses which powers, like antagonists' preference for Poisonfang. Furthermore, there often equivocal abilities used by a given side, such the good guys using Dragonfist and the bad guys using Thundercut. Nimblefire, Shadowspeed, and Cutrace also function in the same way as coding.
** Huntik also likes to [[BadPowersGoodPeople play with]] [[GoodPowersBadPeople these tropes]]. Sometimes, a Seeker will utilize powers that on the surface seem like they belong to the wrong faction. And often when they do, the character using them are still just as heroic or villainous as they always were. Note how often [[JediMindTrick Simplemind]] is used: it tends to be used more by the good guys, particularly Dante and Zhalia, then the bad guys like [=DeFoe=].
** And then there are the times when a character using strange or off-faction powers are meant to be [[{{Foreshadowing}} narratively significant]]. Some prime examples of this include [[spoiler: Zhalia's penchant for Shadowspeed, Mindsight, and Venomhand, alongside her using Strix, mark her allegiance to The Organization. Or how Rassimov's esoterically dark and destructive abilities that seemingly no other Seeker wielded before are huge red flags that indicate his eventually revealed position as leader of the Blood Spirals. Many of his powers are used by other Spirals, including in weaker variations, like his Darkvoid and the weaker Abyssalfall. Dark Pharaoh, the "new toy" he gives to one of The Organization suits he commanded, is also a Titan occasionally shown be used by Casterwill Hunters among the Spirals.]] Likewise, one of ways [[spoiler: Harrison's HeelFaceTurn is cemented narratively is shown through his use of Dragonfist alongside Den's to blindside TheBetrayer. Up to that point, he had only ever used the antagonistic Thundercut.]]

* CantCatchUp: In Season 2, Sophie has a lot more trouble in her fights than the others. Justified because she's not a combat specialist like [[TheAce Dante]] nor is she settling into the role of TheHero like Lok has since becoming The Champion of Casterwill, and yet her family history makes villains target her (and makes her determined to face up to them). Plus, Lok is so much TheProtector for Sophie that he rarely lets her finish her fights--but if he doesn't jump in she often wins anyway.

** Lok asks a newly met Sophie to help with his history homework. She says no since he just slept through history class, so Lok bets he can finish the CrosswordPuzzle she is struggling with in 2:00 minutes in exchange for her help. Since he's good with puzzles, he completes it in under 90 seconds without scratching anything out, much to Sophie's surprise.

** While it may seem like Dante and his group of Seekers learn and master everything instantaneously, a closer inspection shows that not every episode or event happens explicitly serially. As relatively small and/or minor as they may be, [[TimeSkips gaps in time do pass by]]. It is often within these off-screen gaps that our heroes and their adversaries are implied and indicated to have been training, and what the viewers see is the on-screen fruits of this training in action. There are even multiple occasions where we see snippets of this on-screen, as is the case with both Den and especially Harrison in the Season 2 episode "Boys Will Be Seekers."

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Early Season 1 Huntik was still getting its footing and rhythm down. During that timeframe, a number of different things and oddities can be noticed that feel somewhat out of place in context with the remainder of the show.
** One example from the very first episode is the sharply odd outburst of Lok [[RefusalOfTheCall refusing Dante's suggestion to go to the Huntik Foundation for help and protection from The Organization that's now gunning for him]]. In a vacuum, it could be argued to make sense, accounting for the very stressful afternoon/evening he's just had and the information overload he's being forced to deal with. Still, looking at who and how Lok is throughout most of Huntik, or even just looking at the Lok from the very next episode, this [[IJustWantToBeNormal loud cry for normalcy]] [[CharacterizationMarchesOn really doesn't make sense coming from Lok]], who has, including at the start of this same episode, dreamed of being a treasure-hunting adventurer for as long as he can remember. It almost comes off as [[RuleOfDrama forced]], which isn't helped by how [[JumpedAtTheCall quickly he 180°s]] by the next episode. A few episodes later even has Lok note how he wished he had been let in on the whole Seeker secret sooner.

* DwindlingParty: [[LotusEaterMachine How the trap on Medea Island worked]]. The Huntik team, Cherit included, were each compelled by an island woman or girl to follow their deepest yearnings that allegedly could be fulfilled on that very island. First Dante is led away to find medicine for Metz, than Sophie to learn about her family's history and secrets. A little later on, Lok is led off by a girl claiming to have a puzzle left behind by Lok's father, Eathon Lambert, and finally so is Cherit when he's asked to help watch and teach small island kids for another islander. Zhalia is the only one left to do anything about it, since she denies the old woman tempting her with a powerful weapon. It takes her over two days before enough of a fire is lit under her to begin figuring out what's going on.

** Similarly, two episodes before the first season ends, Rassimov secretly confers with Shauna and Wind, who are riding a Titan (Shakrit) of the latter, saying they'll get their revenge on the Casterwills soon enough. Come Season 2, all three are revealed to be part of the Blood Spirals, a conspiracy the Casterwill's have opposed since ancient times, and are now back in the open.

* EldritchAbomination: The Nullifiers mentioned in season one are said to be this and bent to destroy all life. In season two we are shown one of their scouts, and [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111210114620/huntik/images/thumb/b/b7/Void.jpg/520px-Void.jpg the thing]], aptly named [[PowerOfTheVoid Void]], even resembles Chtulhu. The stylized imagery of the [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/huntik/images/4/41/Nullifier.png/revision/latest?cb=20120716154933 creatures as a whole]] is no less eldritch, considering they're not even humanoid.