History WesternAnimation / RescueHeroes

** The snowboarder in "Peril on the Peaks" deserves special mention. He refuses to dump any of his footage that he obtained while on the mountain, and contests Rocky's command to drop his backpack. This was after he already put two other people at risk due to his own ignorance while climbing the mountain earlier. After this gets both of them into an even worse spot, once they're finally rescued, the snowboarder proceeds to snowboard off the slope due to his own greed to finish his documentary. He then screams joyfully down it, which starts an avalanche that almost kills him ''again''. This is almost entirely intentional to teach AnAesop of why doing your own thing puts yourself and everyone else at risk instead of obeying the plan, but so much of it relies on him being nearly TooDumbToLive.

* AnAesop: Besides the [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle obvious safety tips]], most episodes have some kind of lesson about interpersonal relationships and teamwork.

** TheMovie is notably a lot darker than most episodes of the show. Most noteworthy is the fact that it deals with the idea of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, where a series of lightning storms have the potential to collide and lead to the Earth's destruction. Even if you gloss over that though, it also deals with Billy's potentially fatal poisoning and Rocky not only being grounded for his failures, but [[spoiler:[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone learning he's at fault for Billy's poisoning.]]]] While the show always dealt with deadly situations, it never did it on a level this up close prior.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Storm of the Century", Wendy mentions they're traveling to Billy's hometown, which Billy immediately snaps at her by saying "Wendy, we never let our emotions get in the way of our work!" Guess what happens later in the episode?

* GoodParents: Both the parents of the Rescue Heroes that we're shown and the Rescue Heroes who are shown to be parents themselves. We also see this in civilians such as the mother in "When It Rains, It Pours" who got trapped in her house, forced her kids to evacuate to the roof and immediately asks Jake if her kids are all right when he comes in to rescue her.

** Billy has one of these in "Storm of the Century"; while it's fairly downplayed compared to most other examples, it's probably the episode that contains the biggest screw-up of any hero. [[spoiler:First off, he abandons higher priority work to try taking after his father who is in a position that Billy knows good and well he won't be able to handle alone, and after Billy already snapped at Wendy earlier on for bringing this subject up. He also ends up taking the Hyper Jet, which has up to this point been established as a prime tool for the heroes that they couldn't get along very far without, and he uses it to help out a single person. As if that weren't enough, the wind storm ends up picking up enough that the ship's electrical system gets badly damaged, completely cutting him off from all radio communication and losing all signal, and in the process gets the both of them lost. Top this off with him trapped in the jet with only his father, already [[IAmNotMyFather upset enough at him for not taking the path he was expecting Billy to take]], and getting badly injured from the impact of the jet's landing, and you can just see the look of utter defeat and despair on his face. Fortunately, he gets better once him and his father are able to set aside their past tensions.]]

** Also occurs with Rocky in "Twister". In the cold opening, he is the most vocal about scolding a professor who puts his material possessions above his own safety, but is later shown to not be above doing a similar thing when he could potentially lose a car he holds sentimental value for due to it holding memories of his deceased father. Jake even calls him out with a MeaningfulEcho when he tells Rocky "you don't go back into a burning building" as Rocky himself said earlier on.

** Carter in "The Chilling Championship." Him and the rest of his basketball team are on a bus that is dangling off a bridge. They are told to stay put until the rescue team arrives, but Carter decides to try and back the bus up himself, thinking that it will make him a hero, but it just makes things worse. Then when the team is all out of the bus, Carter goes right back inside to grab the trophy just as the bus plunges into the river.

* TheMovie: All in CG. Also to provide a very long commercial to promote their new toy. It's also very much DarkerAndEdgier than even the "Global Response Team" episodes which were no stranger to being darker than the first season themselves.
* MultiPartEpisode: "Storm of the Century" is a two-part episode; since it was in the first season which entirely consisted of full thirty minute episodes, this means it's the only episode that totals to an hour. The Global Response Team era (the second and third seasons) used the TwoShorts format (two 15-minute episodes per half hour) and had some double-length episodes itself, such as "Heroes" and "Flashback to Danger".

* NoFlowInCGI: Wendy has long hair in the tv series, but wears it in a ponytail in the BigDamnMovie. Due to the movie being animated in low budget 3D animation, the technological limitations meant Wendy’s hair had to be shortened.

* PapaWolf: Mild case with Warren Waters who insists his daughter Wendy stay with him at the Space Station while she recovers from the injuries she suffered during a mountain rescue. Strong case with any father who has a child in danger or go missing during a disaster.

* NoAntagonist: As a general rule, there are no true villains on the show. The heroes combat accidents and natural disasters. While an accident may be someone's fault, it is none-the-less an ''accident'' and not due to anyone's deliberate malice. However, "A Whale of an Adventure" is a notable exception: there, the crisis is made much worse by illegal whalers who knowingly ignore a warning about a mined area of the sea, and deliberately jam signals to avoid detection.