History WesternAnimation / MartinMystery

** One of the most notable examples is the Mothman, who was a college student who ended up as the test subject of 'his own teachers illegal experiment to create a human moth hybrid.' Needless to say, the teachers were arrested once the truth is uncovered, and the Center took the student to restore him to his human form.

* MoralDissonance: In an episode, Diana reads Martin's private diary and discovers the negative things he thinks about her, Java and Billy. She reveals this to the latter two and they ''punish'' Martin by the end of the episode! As if reading someone's private diary justified it...

* InNameOnly: The Mothman episode. The whole series in general is loosely based on a series of Italian comic books.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Seen on the human form of a siren.

* {{Crossover}}: With ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', but only Martin and M.O.M appear--although Martin mentions Diana when he compared to Sam to her.

* ChristmasEpisode: Two of these, one featuring a wish-granting snow globe that created a pocket dimension containing a Christmas-themed village... whose inhabitants, including things like the trees, reindeer and snowmen, were actually monsters. The second features an evil elf who comes every 100 years giving out wishes that actually twist/reverses one's wish.

* ArtEvolution: More noticeable in some ways than in others. Most obvious with Martin, who in the first season has a model ''just'' different enough to be noticeable - squarer shoulders, more rectangular head, his hair is drawn a bit differently, and it all gives him the impression of being taller and more imposing than he ended up being. He also initially had a noticeable LanternJawOfJustice in some shots.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The protagonists have faced all sorts of giant monsters, either of supernatural or alien nature.

* BaldWomen: In the episode "The Lost Tribe," Diana loses all her hair after a hair dye job goes wrong and is mistaken by a group of underground creatures as their long lost queen. She stays bald for the entire episode (and gets a wig at the ''very'' end of the episode).

* EnthrallingSiren: An episode had the gang encounter a siren who attacks a nearby town out of anger after a relationship with a sailor turns sour. Unlike the myths, the siren could change between a beautiful lady and a bird monster at will.

* FighterMageThief: Martin is the Thief as despite not being that bright, he is rather clever and thinks on his feet by improvising while also being known as trickster. Diana is the Mage as she is academically smart and thinks more rationally but is often the most vulnerable. Java is the Fighter as he is a caveman with limited vocabulary and intelligence, but is physically strong and tough who usually does most of the trio's muscle work.

* {{Animesque}}

* BaldWomen: In the episode "The Lost Tribe," Diana loses all her hair after a hair dye job goes wrong and is mistaken by a group of underground creatures as their long lost queen. She stays bald for the entire episode (and gets a wig at the the ''very'' end of the episode).

* AliensAndMonsters: They generally make up most of the antagonists of the series, though quite a few non-hostile species work for and are affiliated with The Center.

''Martin Mystery'' (2003-2006) is a French/Canadian animated series based on the Italian comic book ''Martin Mystere'', animated by [[Creator/MarathonMedia the studio that brought you]] ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies''

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The episodes are all named in a style reminiscent of B-Movies or pulp magazines, with names like "It Came From Inside The Box" or "Return Of The Warlock."

* {{Keet}}: Martin.

** "Return Of The Beasts" . A mad paleontologist (yes, really) uses a huge geode to create dinosaurs and send them to rampage through the city for no apparent reason. At the end, Martin tricks one to melt the geode with its acid spit (really, dinosaurs do that), which causes every dinosaur to spontaneously melt into sludge. And is when you consider that the same paleontologist created ''Java'' through the same process, yet he remains intact and joins the gang permanently. (It's a flashback episode.)

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: A western-type dragon named Zook is faced early in the series, and a reanimated Chinese dragon is seen in the episode The Awakening.

* ScaryScarecrows: The aptly named Night of the Scarecrow features a cursed scarecrow hellbent on scaring the life out of all intruders from the land that once belonged to its owner.

* SiblingRivalry: Martin and Diana often spite each other and pick fights for little to no reason at all, though they usually know when to drop it and focus on the mission. Their fighting negatively effecting their work came up several times as a plot point, however.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Episode Attack of the Sandman showed that Java is afraid of cats, Martin fears being fired and Diana fears disorder and being late.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheThing1982'' and ''Franchise/EvilDead'', at least.

* YankTheDogsChain: Martin finds a girl who is pretty much a perfect match for him in the two-parter with the shadow people. [[DerailingLoveInterests She leaves him one episode later under pretty flimsy circumstances]].
** And again, when his longtime crush Jenni discovers his secret, falls for him when [[RescueRomance he rescues her from an evil spirit]] and agrees to be his girlfriend. After [[StatusQuoIsGod The Center erases her memory of the whole event, this naturally doesn't last.]]

* FighterMageThief: Martin is the thief as despite not being that bright, he is rather clever and thinks on his feet by improvising while enjoys pranking people. Diana is the mage as she is academically smart and thinks more rationally but is often the most vulnerable. Java is the fighter as he is a caveman with limited vocabulary and intelligence, but is physically strong and tough who usually does most of the trio's muscle work.

* TricksterArchetype: Martin as he just loves messing with people especially Diana.

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* FighterMageThief: Martin is the thief as despite not being that bright, he is rather clever and thinks on his feet by improvising while enjoying to prank people. Diana is the mage as she is academically smart and thinks more rationally but is often the most vulnerable. Java is the fighter as he is a caveman with limited vocabulary and intelligence, but is physically strong and tough who usually does most of the trio's muscle work.

* FantasyKitchenSink/ScienceFantasy: Not only does the show feature creatures and legends both original and obscure from every kind of sci-fi, fantasy or folklore story imaginable, but it also likes to fuse legends together to give them new spins--resulting in things like werewolves that transport victims to another dimension, ancient demons with arcane magic trapped inside cursed websites, or witches that spread like zombies.

* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Notably a killer teddy bear.

* ContemporaryCaveman: Java works as the janitor.

* ChristmasEpisode: Featuring a wish-granting snow globe that created a pocket dimension containing a Christmas-themed village... whose inhabitants, including things like the trees, reindeer and snowmen, were actually monsters.

* FantasyKitchenSink: Not only does the show feature creatures and legends both original and obscure from every kind of sci-fi, fantasy or folklore story imaginable, but it also likes to fuse legends together to give them new spins--resulting in things like werewolves that transport victims to another dimension, ancient demons with arcane magic trapped inside cursed websites, or witches that spread like zombies.
* FighterMageThief: Martin is the thief as despite not being that bright, he is rather clever and thinks on his feet by improvising and likes to prank people. Diana is the mage as she is academically smart and thinks more rationally but is the most vulnerable. Java is the fighter as he is a caveman with limited vocabulary and intelligence, but is physically strong and tough who usually does most of the trio's muscle work.

* IncestSubtext: Martin and Diana's moments of ShipTease, as they're stepsiblings. The fact that in the original comic they are lovers who eventually got married only increases this.

* KrakenAndLeviathan: An episode involved a treasure guarding Leviathan that somehow ''knew'' if a single coin was missing from its treasure.

%%* AllWebbedUp

%%* ContemporaryCaveman

%%* LittleGreenMen: Billy.

%%* TricksterArchetype: Martin
%%* {{Tsundere}}: Diana, oh so much.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: What happened to the freaking Gatekeeper!? In the Season 2 finale M.O.M. turns evil and hell is almost literally thrown upon Earth, as she teams up with the demonic Gatekeeper. After the Gatekeeper is assumingly destroyed and M.O.M. is back to normal, she decides to shut down The Center and go back to her old job. The episode ends on a cliffhanger with the Gatekeeper having survived and sneaking into the Center to cause whoknowswhat? The episode afterwards is back to Status Quo as if that never happened.
* WhatTheHellHero: Even if she wasn't called out on it (Martin was more upset about her snagging yet another monster from him), she was quite sadistic in detonating what looked like a nitro-glycerin explosive in a cave. Underwater. In catacombs. Which collapsed the catacombs right on top of Martin and Billy. Probably because they were underwater in the first place, they survived.

* YankTheDogsChain: Martin finds a girl who is pretty much a perfect match for him in the two-parter with the shadow people. She leaves him one episode later under pretty flimsy circumstances.