History WesternAnimation / RescueHeroes

* HeroicDolphin: Nemo the dolphin is a friendly dolphin who contributes to rescue operations at sea.

* TheMovie: All in CG. Also to provide a very long commercial to promote their new toy.

* AlliterativeName: Billy Blazes, Wendy and Warren Waters, Gil Gripper, Jake Justice, Bill Barker, Bob Buoy, Captain Cuffs, Matt Medic, Pat Pending, Rip Rockefeller, Sam Sparks and Sergeant Siren.

* PunnyName: Ariel Flyer, Cliff Hanger, Jack Hammer, Rocky Canyon, Roger Houston, Aiden Assist, Al Pine, Hal E. Copter, Kenny Ride, Rock Miner, Sandy Beech, and Willy Stop. This even can apply to non-Rescue Heroes such as Avery Ator, Ariel's main rival in aviation, and the Starhawks Aerobatic Team leader, Major Fred Lee Skies.

* CoolPet: Not pets exactly but the Rescue Creatures are ''very'' cool.

* PunnyName: Ariel Flyer, Cliff Hanger, Jack Hammer, Rocky Canyon, Roger Houston, Aiden Assist, Al Pine, Hal E. Copter, Kenny Ride, Rock Miner, and Willy Stop. This even can apply to non-Rescue Heroes such as Avery Ator, Ariel's main rival in aviation, and the Starhawks Aerobatic Team leader, Major Fred Lee Skies.

* PunnyName: Ariel Flyer, Jack Hammer, Rocky Canyon, Roger Houston, Aiden Assist, Al Pine, Kenny Ride, Rock Miner, and Willy Stop. This even can apply to non-Rescue Heroes such as Avery Ator, Ariel's main rival in aviation, and the Starhawks Aerobatic Team leader, Major Fred Lee Skies.

* AlliterativeName: Billy Blazes, Wendy and Warren Waters, Gil Gripper, Jake Justice, Bill Barker, Bob Buoy, Matt Medic, Pat Pending, Rip Rockefeller, Sam Sparks and Sergeant Siren.

* PunnyName: Rocky Canyon, Ariel Flyer, Jack Hammer, and many more. This even can apply to non-Rescue Heroes such as Avery Ator, Ariel's main rival in aviation.

Oh, and like ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'', absolutely every recurring character has a [[MeaningfulName Meaningful,]] PunnyName, whether he/she is based on a toy or not.

Oh, and absolutely every recurring character has a [[MeaningfulName Meaningful,]] PunnyName, whether he/she is based on a toy or not.

The Rescue Heroes Global Response Team is a team of [[EmergencyServices emergency rescue specialists]] (firefighters, police, mountain climbers, divers, spelunkers, etc.) who are on call at a moment's notice to travel to the sight of major emergencies anywhere in the world and deal with them, usually employing a variety of [[MerchandiseDriven high-tech vehicles and equipment]]. All this is directed by astronaut Roger Houston, who watches over the world from a space station. Conceptually very similar to the classic series ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'', but set in the PresentDay. Contrast with ''Series/TomicaHeroRescueForce'' and ''Series/TomicaHeroRescueFire''.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: In "A Bridge Too Far", Rocky calls in Bob Buoy (normally an underwater rescue specialist) for a bridge rescue and puts Ariel on the ground instead of in her chopper, to his teammates' puzzlement. As it turns out, Rocky was several steps ahead of everyone: Ariel's Spanish skills make her more useful in communicating with the Spanish-speaking locals then in the air, and Bob ends up being vital in rescuing passengers who got trapped in a train car that falls from the bridge into the river (and two passengers who get swept away by said river.)
* {{Tomboy}}: Ariel is this thanks to her being an aviator.

* TenMinuteRetirement: In "When It Rains, It Pours", Ariel, after rescuing a hiker during a forest fire, accept a job to become a spokesperson for the National Safety Council in order to teach kids about safety. [[spoiler:After a while, she starts to miss being a Rescue Hero. Ultimately, she rejoins the team and decide to create a website to teach kids about safety.]] Out of all the other Rescue Heroes, Rocky was the one who was ''not'' happy about Ariel leaving.

* MerchandiseDriven: The series based on the toyline of the same name.

** 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 ''then'' proceeds to snowboard off the slope due to his own greed to finish his documentary...And ''then'' he 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.

* MerchandiseDriven

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: "Not On This Planet" suffers from this big time. The shuttle hits a debris field seconds after launch, when using its rocket boosters to avoid a large asteroid they end up sending it right to Earth, and seconds after that they somehow encounter a ''black hole'', which doesn't look remotely black, or even like a hole. A black hole that close to Earth would've obliterated our solar system long before they bumped into it, or would've had to be on the other side of the galaxy to escape detection until the last minute. [[spoiler:Turns out this is deliberate, as the whole scenario was an elaborate set up using holograms and other tricks to simulate a space disaster for the kids on the tour to overcome.]]

* AdultFear:
** All of the numerous ways kids are put at risk and/or injured. One particularly scary one involves three kids going off-trail on their bikes; one of them gets injured and snake bit and the only one who has any idea where they went is her little brother.
** "Lava Alarm" features a family with five kids who all go off for the day right before the local volcano erupts. The two oldest get stuck on the ocean in their raft, the twins get trapped in a pit that's rapidly dissolving and the youngest, Katie's presence is only mentioned to the Rescue Heroes when they think they've completed their mission.

* AllJustADream: Happens in “Quake Me When it’s Over” Wendy gets knocked out and dreams about being a firefighter during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

* NotSoDifferent: Rocky realizes this is true about him and the hot-dogging snowboarder the team is trying to rescue in "Peril on the Peaks"; their deviation from the plan puts them and others at risk. Rocky learns his lesson; the snowboarder not so much.

* ThemeTuneCameo:
** In all the episodes of Seasons 2-3, the theme tune usually plays when the group is gearing up for a rescue.
** Bizarrely, and perhaps in an unintentional example, the theme tune from the first season shows up at the beginning of "Going With the Wind" (which is a third season episode; the second and third seasons have a completely different title theme from the first).

''Rescue Heroes'' began as a toy series by Creator/FisherPrice. It was turned into a MerchandiseDriven children's show on Creator/{{Teletoon}} and Creator/{{CBS}}[[note]]Later Creator/KidsWB after getting UnCanceled[[/note]] that taught kids about safety and a couple of other issues starting back at 1999.

In 2019, a Flash-animated reboot series was released on the Fisher-Price [=YouTube=] channel, with an all-new toyline accompanying it.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: ''Not On This Planet'' suffers from this big time. The shuttle hits a debris field seconds after launch, when using its rocket boosters to avoid a large asteroid they end up sending it right to Earth, and seconds after that they somehow encounter a ''black hole'' (which doesn't look remotely black, or even like a hole). A black hole that close to Earth would've obliterated our solar system long before they bumped into it, or would've had to be on the other side of the galaxy to escape detection until the last minute. [[spoiler:Turns out this is deliberate, as the whole scenario was an elaborate set up using holograms and other tricks to simulate a space disaster for the kids on the tour to overcome.]]

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: ''Not On This Planet'' suffers from this big time. The shuttle hits a debris field seconds after launch, when using its rocket boosters to avoid a large asteroid they end up sending it right to Earth, and seconds after that they somehow encounter a ''black hole'' (which doesn't look remotely black, or even like a hole). A black hole that close to Earth would've obliterated our solar system long before they bumped into it, or would've had to be on the other side of the galaxy to escape detection until the last minute.

** Zigzagged in "Flashback to Danger" when Rocky almost quits the Rescue Heroes due to a mistake he makes during a rescue. Billy convinces Rocky to stay after telling him the story about the only other Rescue Heroes to quit. [[spoiler:Turns out that the Rescue Heroes who quit was Billy himself. He ultimately decided to stay with the team after watching an audition tape Rocky had sent in two years prior to events of the episode.]]

** "Arctic Spill" is loosely based on the ''Exxon Valdex'' oil spill.

** "High Anxiety", as mentioned elsewhere, [[UnfortunateImplications shares a number of similarities with 9/11.]]

** Averted. Rocky almost quits the Rescue Heroes in "Flashback to Danger" when he makes a mistake during a rescue. Billy convinces Rocky to stay after telling him the story about the only other Rescue Heroes to quit. [[spoiler: Turns out that the Rescue Heroes who quit was Billy himself. He ultimately decided to stay with the team after watching an audition tape Rocky had sent in two years prior to events of the episode.]]

** ''Arctic Spill'' is loosely based on the ''Exxon Valdex'' oil spill.
** The submarine portion of ''Trapped Beneath the Sea'' shares similarities with the sinking of the ''Kursk'' nuclear submarine.
** ''High Anxiety'', as mentioned elsewhere, [[UnfortunateImplications shares a number of similarities with 9/11.]]
** ''Mayhem in the Mist'' is based on the 1991 M4 motorway crash, where dense fog led to a 51-car pileup.
** As in ''Blackout'', commercial planes have been forced to land on roadways when they could not reach an airport. One such incident was Southern Airways Flight 242 in 1977, which tried to land on a highway in Georgia before crashing into a gas station.
** Though ''In the Driver's Seat'' shows it as fire for dramatic effect, gasoline entered the sewer line in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico in 1992, eventually leading to a series of explosions.
** ''Tunnel Vision'' is based on a number of tunnel fires, including the Channel Tunnel in 1996 and Mont Blanc in 1999.