History WesternAnimation / JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures

* GoryDiscretionShot: Surprisingly plentiful, but most prominent in "Ndovu's Last Journey". There is a fight in an elephant graveyard. A villain falls and we see (from '''his point of view''', no less) him fall towards the business end of an elephant skeleton's tusk. The view cuts away before impact, but we do hear a rather nasty sound effect and see other characters flinch. The other is killed by the titular elephant stomping on him, implying the man's head was crushed.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Just after the end of "Rage's Burning Wheel", the audience in explicably shown a clip of Questworld ''deleting Saturn''. (Or rather, the file ''of'' Saturn.) It's really just an excuse to zoom around in 3D (which was groundbreaking at the time.)

** Jonny's mom died — the cause is unknown. An episode fully explains Hadji's family. [[spoiler:Short answer: He's actually a prince who was smuggled out of his homeland as an infant due to his traitorous uncle and cousin. Said cousin kills the uncle in a flashback, and said cousin [[KarmicDeath gets his]], allowing Hadji to take his birthright, which he shares with his mother.]]

** General Tyler from "Alien in Washington", he refuses to called off the Space Test Defenses due to an Alien race asking Earth to halt them at once. Then, he ignores The Vice President and Dr. Quest's warning about calling them or else the Invason will occurred, he is even rude to Commander Bennett when he tries to say something, he even orders the MP to shoot Race if tries anything to stop him from arresting the Vice President.

** General Tyler from "Alien in Washington", he refuses to called off the Space Test Defenses, he ignores The Vice President and Dr. Quest about calling them off, he is even rude to Commander Bennett when he tries to say something, he even orders the MP to shoot Race if tries anything to stop him from arresting the Vice President.

** Agent Hinkle from "Without a Trace", when Dr. Quest and Race are framed for kidnapping the president, he brutally interrogates them, Dr. Quest asks to prove his innocence, Hinkle would not give him anything especially a Bathroom breathe until they come clean. He even tells Race that Commander Bennett has been antarctica.

* TyrannosaurusRex: The one and only time-travelling episode of the show, "The Edge of Yesterday", featured Jonny and Jessie spending a short time in the late Cretaceous being chased by a ''T. rex'', of course.

** Jonny in "Return of the Anasazi": "Hey, Jess? You're not going to like this. [[Film/{{Poltergeist}} They're he-re!]]"

%%* BlankBook

%% Jessie.

* TheAtoner: Kumar Mukharno was never really on board with his brother Dja'Long Mukharno's plan to use the shadow puppet for his own greed, and in the end helps to stop it. But he still tries to get away and is arrested.

* BigBad[=/=]BigBadEnsemble: Mostly evenly shared by Dr. Zin, Jeremiah Surd and Ezekiel Rage. It's interesting to note that Dr. Zin was the BigBad in [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest classic JQ]], while Surd and Rage were created for the re-imagining.

* BlankBook

* ChekhovsSkill: In "The Darkest Fathoms", Jonny is seen to be practicing how to escape from being tied up. Later in the episode, he's captured by pirates and uses this skill to get free (and save Jessie and his dad while he's at it).

* FieryRedhead: Jessie.
** Belle Bonnet had red hair... and her ghost was quite literally on fire.

* GrandTheftMe: In "Cyberswitch", Jeremiah Surd, ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan''-strength power in cyberspace and mostly immobile in the real world, switches bodies with Race. The switch is quickly discovered and reversed.
** And then he tries to move to ''Jonny's'' body. Fortunately Jonny is better at fighting in Questworld than Race is.
* GreatEscape: Subverted in "Digital Doublecross". Before getting arrested, Surd left a safeguard in case he ever got caught: a sleeper virus in Questworld that would trap Jonny and/or Jessie when they played a game in the system. He's was the only one who knew the abort code, so he would be able to trade that for his freedom. Race takes down the guards and springs him from the high-security prison, but when Surd tells him the abort code, Race simply hands him back to prison with no consequence – the prison authorities were in on the "escape attempt" from the beginning.
** CardboardPrison: And yet, in the very next episode ("Thoughtscape"), Surd is out of prison and wreaking havoc like always. So much for that "high security" prison.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Lance Falk, one of the second season writers, has argued fervently against the canonicity of the 1980s series and 1990s telefilms.
** It was [[WordOfGod official policy]] for the writers of the second season that ''nothing'' that came between them and the original series was canon.

* TheJerseyDevil: In "The Spectre of the Pine Barrows" it at first appears to be part of a ScoobyDooHoax, but then turns out to be RealAfterAll.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: The Anasazi, although they're more like ''Alien'' Native Americans. The trope is hilariously subverted in "Trouble on the Colorado", though: Jonny and co. meet one old man who turns out to be completely ordinary person, who only knows Jonny's name because it's written on the dog's collar, and he only guessed that the enemy has a helicopter because he saw one recently, as opposed to identifying the trail a helicopter would leave behind after taking off.
** Of course that didn't stop him (nor his wife) from occasionally talking like stereotypical Indians in western movies, just for the kicks.

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Usually given to the VillainOfTheWeek in some variation. However, with Ezekiel Rage, one of his recurring tropes was his subverting it.

* NotDisabledInVR: They try to get [[Main/EvilCripple Jeremiah Surd]] to become a Main/BoxedCrook in exchange for access to [[Main/{{Cyberspace}} Quest World]]. This backfires, and trying to take it over because of this trope becomes his main motivation for antagonising them. [[spoiler: Eventually inverted when he's [[AndIMustScream trapped in Quest World in his crippled form]].]]

* OneSteveLimit: An exception with two Estellas: Estella Scheele, a one-off antagonist seen in "In the Realm of the Condor", and Estella Velasquez, Jessie's mother. And they're both redheads, too.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Race. In "Race Against Danger" he tells Jonny his real name, and Jonny's understandably flabbergasted. "''Roger?!''"

* PapaWolf: Race. You do '''not''' touch his "Ponchita". Or Jonny and Hadji either.

* RealAfterAll: In "AMOK", the main characters encounter a group of natives living in hiding, who protect their society by sending guy a dressed as legendary local monster Amok (looking like hybrid of gorilla, baboon, and sloth) to scare the curious. Later everybody got caught by a bunch of terrorists (or something like that). Jonny escapes and, together with Amok-guy, manages to free everybody, but the villains' leader runs away. When Jonny thanks the guy in the Amok costume for help, he responds that he was with everybody else the whole time. And then we hear the leader's screams and a monstrous roar coming from the jungle. The same type of ending occurs in "The Spectre of the Pine Barrens".

* FollowInMyFootsteps: Played with. Surd tries to trick Jonny using this argument in "Thoughtscape". He creates an illusion via Quest World where Dr. Quest tells Jonny how disappointed he is in him, and how Jessie is much more attuned to his own interests (namely science) than him. Jonny [[HeroicBSOD breaks down accordingly]]. Fortunately for everybody (except Surd), Dr. Quest really doesn't care what his son does so long as he's happy, and will always be proud of him, so the illusion is eventually broken. It helped that the real Dr. Quest showed up and punched out the illusionary one.

* TheRemnant: In one episode the heroes have to contend with a crazy group who somehow think ''UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution'' is still going on. This includes the group thinking Jonny and his friends are British spies and the group saying they are desperately trying to pass on top secret info to General UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In "The Manhattan Maneater", Jonny, Jessie, and Hadji are walking through Central Park when they're approached by a man in a trench coat. He opens it with a groan. Cut to commercial break, with it looking like the trio were accosted by a flasher. It turns out he was merely selling tiger merchandise, although his initial sales pitch makes him sound like a drug dealer.

* ReallyGetsAround: Race has a lot of ex-girlfriends ([[GettingCrapPastTheRadar and implied one-night stands]]) that he keeps running into, much to his daughter's chagrin. Hey, [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "(he) was only doing (his) job."]]

* ConspicuousCGI: The backgrounds of some of their outdoor adventures (especially cloudy skies or northern lights) tended to stand out from the regular 2D animation, mostly in season 1.

** Noticeably between the first and second seasons in the non-CG animation, bordering on OffModel for Race and Dr. Quest.

** The CGI sequences in season 2 went through this, switching between different companies (including Creator/BlurStudio and Creator/SonyPicturesImageworks).

* OffModel: The CGI suffered from this a lot during the show's run, which was not helped by two very important factors. The first being the show's initial CGI house, Buzz F/X (of ''Film/{{Screamers}}'') being on a massive time crunch and ultimately leaving the show during its first season. The other being that production would utilize multiple other studios in their stead, including Creator/BlurStudio and Creator/DreamQuestImages, to fill out the rest of the production to varying degrees of quality. "Edge of Yesterdy", whose CGI was handeled by Creator/SonyPicturesImageworks, is one of the particularly uglier looking episodes in the series.

* OFfModel: The CGI suffered from this a lot during the show's run, which was not helped by two very important factors. The first being the show's initial CGI house, Buzz F/X (of ''Film/{{Screamers}}'') being on a massive time crunch and ultimately leaving the show during its first season. The other being that production would utilize multiple other studios in their stead, including Creator/BlurStudio and Creator/DreamQuestImages, to fill out the rest of the production to varying degrees of quality. "Edge of Yesterdy", whose CGI was handeled by Creator/SonyPicturesImageworks, is one of the particularly uglier looking episodes in the series.

* TooDumbToLive: Dr. Duval in "Undersea Urgency." She insists on taking back one of the undersea amphibian monsters and studying it ForScience under the belief that one that had received an elecrical shock should be dead, despite the monsters providing incredibly tough, and ignoring everyone else when they say to leave it alone. The second she picks the seemlingly dead creature up, it turns out to have only been stunned and immediately wakes up, devouring her within seconds.

* TooDumbToLive: Dr. Duval in "Undersea Urgency." She insists on taking back one of the undersea amphibian monsters and studying it ForScience under the belief that one that had received an elecrical shock should be dead, despite the monsters providing incredibly tough, ignoring everyone else when they say to leave it alone. She second she picks it up, it turns out to have only been stunned and immediately wakes up, devouring her within seconds.