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''Silver Surfer'' was a shortlived AnimatedAdaptation based on the ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' comic book character that ran on Creator/FoxKids in the 1998-99 season.
Norrin Radd is a pacifistic man living on the progressive, harmonious planet Zenn-La, until the cosmic entity ComicBook/{{Galactus}} arrives. The Devourer of Worlds proceeds to consume the planet's energy, but Norrin Radd convinces him to serve as his {{Herald}} to find planets for him to feed on, thinking he can both save his home and other worlds by leading Galactus away from populated worlds. Galactus instead scrubs his memories and imbues him with a portion of the power cosmic, and the Silver Surfer is born. After encountering Earth and saving the planet from his own master, he starts to roam about the cosmos as he tries to find his way home to Zenn-La and his love Shalla-Bal.
The series was cancelled after only one season thanks to Marvel's bankruptcy, ending on a cliffhanger (a planned ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' cartoon was also a victim).
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!!This series provides examples of:
* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Many elements in the series, but ''especially'' Galactus, are clearly made using 3D computer animation.
* AdaptationalModesty: For her appearance Gamora is more covered up.
* AdaptationNameChange: The show changed Lady Death's name to Lady Chaos due to the NeverSayDie trope.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Rather than being a man from Earth who was killed and reanimated in a new body with superhuman abilities, Drax is an alien {{Cyborg}} who is stated to have an organic brain inside an android body.
* AdaptedOut:
** The Fantastic Four do not appear in this series. As a result, the three-part premiere episode "The Origin of the Silver Surfer", which was partly adapted from the Galactus Trilogy, instead has a pre-Nova Frankie Raye convince the Silver Surfer to rebel against Galactus' attempt to devour Earth.
** Starfox, Thanos' brother, does not appear. Instead, it is Mentor who is Thanos' brother.
** Comicbook/{{Th|eMightyThor}}or never appears, despite the presence of Beta Ray Bill. Bill's hammer and Asgardian garb are justified as being the product of the warrior dream he is experiencing.
* AntiEscapismAesop: In the episode "Inner Visions", there is Harmony, a planet of mostly ugly and poor creatures who live in a daydream fantasy created by a special machine that brainwashes everyone on the planet. This machine makes them think that they live perfect lives with no problems and everyone being beautiful. The episode ends with Silver Surfer turning off the machine and the creatures concluding that the right thing to do is to deal with the challenges of the real life.
* AntiVillain: Ego the Living Planet is the antagonist in "Return to Zenn-La" but more out of desperation. He relates how he's been the only one of his kind for countless years and regularly attacked by others. He wants the Silver Surfer as a protector and offers him a recreation of Zenn-La to make him happy. During the fight, the Surfer acknowledges how Ego is more misguided than outright evil; he even saves Ego's life, and they part on good terms.
* BigBad: Thanos provides the biggest threat in the series.
* BlobMonster: The two-part episode "Learning Curve" is all about this, featuring amorphous aliens called 'Virals' accidentally born from an unstable cure created by the Watchers. Anyone who entered the Universal Library with selfish intentions or attempted to use the information with such an attitude would eventually mutate as well, operating as a collective with the ability to 'control their evolution'. Only the Surfer himself was immune because his powers are derived from the power cosmic of his former master [[CosmicEntity Galactus]]. While he did become a blob before he changed back, he could not unify with the HiveMind.
* {{Brainwashed}}: Galactus wiped the Surfer's memory after turning Norrin Radd into his herald. The Surfer's first act was to offer Zenn-La, Norrin Radd's home planet, as Galactus's first meal. Only Galactus's [[IGaveMyWord earlier promise to Radd]] spared Zenn-La.
* BroughtDownToNormal: The Silver Surfer's death sentence in "Radical Justice" naturally hinges on this. The Wanderers have figured out how to disable his powers and revert him to Norrin Radd, with the intent to leave him on a chaotic planetoid and let one of the traps finish him off.
* {{Crossover}}: Crossed over with ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' during the block's "Head For The Hills" promos advertising the latter series.
* DidntSeeThatComing: The Wanderers in "Radical Justice" are surprised that the Silver Surfer would help them after they sentenced him to death.
* DownerEnding: Thanks to it being unexpectedly cancelled, the series ends with [[spoiler:the Silver Surfer apparently dead and the universe destroyed]].
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Goal: Find and return to Zenn-La. Would have been achieved in the first season finale if the producers hadn't decided to bank on a cliffhanger.
* FiveEpisodePilot: The series began with a three-part episode entitled "The Origin of the Silver Surfer".
* GeniusLoci: Ego the Living Planet as usual, is a sentient location.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: ComicBook/{{Galactus}}' eyes glow brightly. So does his mouth when it opens.
* GroundhogDayLoop: "The Forever War" has ComicBook/AdamWarlock as a supersoldier created to fight the Kree. Fearing his power, his creators trapped him in a Groundhog Day Loop time anomaly in space in which he fights the same battle over and over again the same way (his own memory getting reset each time). New objects can be drawn in so how he fights exactly the same way against a growing number of ships from different eras is a mystery. The Silver Surfer is not affected by the anomaly and manages to pull Warlock out. By the end Warlock not being able to cope with events that transpired in the real world, flies back in the anomaly and goes back to fighting obliviously in the loop, presumably forever.
* IGaveMyWord: In a particular bit of dramatic irony, Norrin Radd offers his own planet up to Galactus immediately after making a deal with him to become the Silver Surfer to save it and having his memory wiped. Galactus states that that particular planet is off-limits for him and the Surfer because he once made a deal with an honorable man.
* IOweYouMyLife: "Return to Zenn-La" is revealed to have been the work of Ego the Living Planet. After being saved from Thanos, he wanted to repay the Silver Surfer with his preferred paradise, albeit in exchange for a lifelong protector. The Surfer has no intention of staying in a hollow recreation of his home, but during their fight, Ego is gravely injured. The Surfer opts to save his life, and Ego lets him leave without a fight, adding he will have to sincerely repay him for saving his life.
* KangarooCourt: {{Averted|Trope}}. When the Surfer is captured by survivors of Galactus's victim planets in "Radical Justice", they make sure that he receives a good defense at his trial even though emotions run high, and his defender admits she'd rather be prosecuting him.
* KirbyDots: The animated series combined this with TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects.
* LargeHam: To be expected from Galactus, though [[EvilIsHammy Thanos]] puts him to shame.
* LeftHanging: The cartoon [[ShortRunners ended with thirteen episodes]], because [[AuthorExistenceFailure Marvel went bankrupt]]. Episode 13 featured Thanos ''destroying all of the cosmos''. The second season was meant to fix this.
* ManlyTears: Beta Ray Bill when, thanks to the Silver Surfer, he realizes that his people have stagnated by living in a dream world instead of achieving actual greatness.
-->'''Beta Ray Bill:''' There must be something good about us, something worth saving.
* MythologyGag:
** Some of the visions the heroes experience while approaching the library in "Learning Curve" contain obscure Marvel characters, such as Beast-Killer from Jack Kirby's ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' series.
** The dream opponents the Surfer and Beta Ray Bill face in Episode 7 are the Kronans from the ''Comicbook/{{Th|eMightyThor}}or'' comics.
** Episode 11 has mention of the "[[Creator/JackKirby Kirby Cluster]]."
* NeverSayDie: ComicBook/{{Thanos}} is the primary antagonist. In the comics, Thanos has a crush on (the embodiment of) Death, a plot which carries over into the show. Death, however, is called "Lady Chaos" because many considered it taboo to mention death in media aimed at children back then. This was especially true on Fox Kids, which was notorious at the time for its strict censorship of children's TV series.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Thanos kicks off the series by trying find a weakness in Galactus by entering the Silver Surfer's mind, and accidentally breaks the seal Galactus put on the Surfer's memories.
* OminousLatinChanting: The title theme music to the animated series had Latin-sounding singing interspersed at ominous points against the instrumental background.
* RecapEpisode: The short-lived cartoon spoiled its second episode by devoting a huge chunk of it to recapping the events of the first episode in clips.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Variant with Mentor, who is stated to be Thanos' ''brother'' rather than his father. This was apparently due to a typographical error that nobody caught until it was too late.
* TearsOfRemorse: From ''Thanos'', of all people - at the end of the second episode, he is clearly crying as he begs Lady Chaos to forgive him for failing her.
* TooGoodToBeTrue: How the Silver Surfer figures out he didn't return to Zenn-La in the penultimate episode. He's happy for a time, but he notices how everything is working out just too perfectly and how everyone is behaving in the idyllic way he remembered them. It's all the work of Ego, who learned about Zenn-La from the Surfer's memories the first time they encountered each other.
* VocalDissonance: Thanos has a very soft voice despite his massive size.
* WasOnceAMan: In "Learning Curve", the Surfer and a group of researches come across an enormous green blob monster on a universal library planet built by {{Precursors}}. It's actually the precursors (and the crew of a pirate ship) themselves after they devolved into this form and linked up with each other in a hive mind of knowledge.
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''Silver Surfer'' was a shortlived AnimatedAdaptation based on the ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' comic book character that ran on Creator/FoxKids in the 1998-99 season.
Norrin Radd is a pacifistic man living on the progressive, harmonious planet Zenn-La, until the cosmic entity ComicBook/{{Galactus}} arrives. The Devourer of Worlds proceeds to consume the planet's energy, but Norrin Radd convinces him to serve as his {{Herald}} to find planets for him to feed on, thinking he can both save his home and other worlds by leading Galactus away from populated worlds. Galactus instead scrubs his memories and imbues him with a portion of the power cosmic, and the Silver Surfer is born. After encountering Earth and saving the planet from his own master, he starts to roam about the cosmos as he tries to find his way home to Zenn-La and his love Shalla-Bal.
The series was cancelled after only one season thanks to Marvel's bankruptcy, ending on a cliffhanger (a planned ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' cartoon was also a victim).
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!!This series provides examples of:
* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Many elements in the series, but ''especially'' Galactus, are clearly made using 3D computer animation.
* AdaptationalModesty: For her appearance Gamora is more covered up.
* AdaptationNameChange: The show changed Lady Death's name to Lady Chaos due to the NeverSayDie trope.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Rather than being a man from Earth who was killed and reanimated in a new body with superhuman abilities, Drax is an alien {{Cyborg}} who is stated to have an organic brain inside an android body.
* AdaptedOut:
** The Fantastic Four do not appear in this series. As a result, the three-part premiere episode "The Origin of the Silver Surfer", which was partly adapted from the Galactus Trilogy, instead has a pre-Nova Frankie Raye convince the Silver Surfer to rebel against Galactus' attempt to devour Earth.
** Starfox, Thanos' brother, does not appear. Instead, it is Mentor who is Thanos' brother.
** Comicbook/{{Th|eMightyThor}}or never appears, despite the presence of Beta Ray Bill. Bill's hammer and Asgardian garb are justified as being the product of the warrior dream he is experiencing.
* AntiEscapismAesop: In the episode "Inner Visions", there is Harmony, a planet of mostly ugly and poor creatures who live in a daydream fantasy created by a special machine that brainwashes everyone on the planet. This machine makes them think that they live perfect lives with no problems and everyone being beautiful. The episode ends with Silver Surfer turning off the machine and the creatures concluding that the right thing to do is to deal with the challenges of the real life.
* AntiVillain: Ego the Living Planet is the antagonist in "Return to Zenn-La" but more out of desperation. He relates how he's been the only one of his kind for countless years and regularly attacked by others. He wants the Silver Surfer as a protector and offers him a recreation of Zenn-La to make him happy. During the fight, the Surfer acknowledges how Ego is more misguided than outright evil; he even saves Ego's life, and they part on good terms.
* BigBad: Thanos provides the biggest threat in the series.
* BlobMonster: The two-part episode "Learning Curve" is all about this, featuring amorphous aliens called 'Virals' accidentally born from an unstable cure created by the Watchers. Anyone who entered the Universal Library with selfish intentions or attempted to use the information with such an attitude would eventually mutate as well, operating as a collective with the ability to 'control their evolution'. Only the Surfer himself was immune because his powers are derived from the power cosmic of his former master [[CosmicEntity Galactus]]. While he did become a blob before he changed back, he could not unify with the HiveMind.
* {{Brainwashed}}: Galactus wiped the Surfer's memory after turning Norrin Radd into his herald. The Surfer's first act was to offer Zenn-La, Norrin Radd's home planet, as Galactus's first meal. Only Galactus's [[IGaveMyWord earlier promise to Radd]] spared Zenn-La.
* BroughtDownToNormal: The Silver Surfer's death sentence in "Radical Justice" naturally hinges on this. The Wanderers have figured out how to disable his powers and revert him to Norrin Radd, with the intent to leave him on a chaotic planetoid and let one of the traps finish him off.
* {{Crossover}}: Crossed over with ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' during the block's "Head For The Hills" promos advertising the latter series.
* DidntSeeThatComing: The Wanderers in "Radical Justice" are surprised that the Silver Surfer would help them after they sentenced him to death.
* DownerEnding: Thanks to it being unexpectedly cancelled, the series ends with [[spoiler:the Silver Surfer apparently dead and the universe destroyed]].
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Goal: Find and return to Zenn-La. Would have been achieved in the first season finale if the producers hadn't decided to bank on a cliffhanger.
* FiveEpisodePilot: The series began with a three-part episode entitled "The Origin of the Silver Surfer".
* GeniusLoci: Ego the Living Planet as usual, is a sentient location.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: ComicBook/{{Galactus}}' eyes glow brightly. So does his mouth when it opens.
* GroundhogDayLoop: "The Forever War" has ComicBook/AdamWarlock as a supersoldier created to fight the Kree. Fearing his power, his creators trapped him in a Groundhog Day Loop time anomaly in space in which he fights the same battle over and over again the same way (his own memory getting reset each time). New objects can be drawn in so how he fights exactly the same way against a growing number of ships from different eras is a mystery. The Silver Surfer is not affected by the anomaly and manages to pull Warlock out. By the end Warlock not being able to cope with events that transpired in the real world, flies back in the anomaly and goes back to fighting obliviously in the loop, presumably forever.
* IGaveMyWord: In a particular bit of dramatic irony, Norrin Radd offers his own planet up to Galactus immediately after making a deal with him to become the Silver Surfer to save it and having his memory wiped. Galactus states that that particular planet is off-limits for him and the Surfer because he once made a deal with an honorable man.
* IOweYouMyLife: "Return to Zenn-La" is revealed to have been the work of Ego the Living Planet. After being saved from Thanos, he wanted to repay the Silver Surfer with his preferred paradise, albeit in exchange for a lifelong protector. The Surfer has no intention of staying in a hollow recreation of his home, but during their fight, Ego is gravely injured. The Surfer opts to save his life, and Ego lets him leave without a fight, adding he will have to sincerely repay him for saving his life.
* KangarooCourt: {{Averted|Trope}}. When the Surfer is captured by survivors of Galactus's victim planets in "Radical Justice", they make sure that he receives a good defense at his trial even though emotions run high, and his defender admits she'd rather be prosecuting him.
* KirbyDots: The animated series combined this with TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects.
* LargeHam: To be expected from Galactus, though [[EvilIsHammy Thanos]] puts him to shame.
* LeftHanging: The cartoon [[ShortRunners ended with thirteen episodes]], because [[AuthorExistenceFailure Marvel went bankrupt]]. Episode 13 featured Thanos ''destroying all of the cosmos''. The second season was meant to fix this.
* ManlyTears: Beta Ray Bill when, thanks to the Silver Surfer, he realizes that his people have stagnated by living in a dream world instead of achieving actual greatness.
-->'''Beta Ray Bill:''' There must be something good about us, something worth saving.
* MythologyGag:
** Some of the visions the heroes experience while approaching the library in "Learning Curve" contain obscure Marvel characters, such as Beast-Killer from Jack Kirby's ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' series.
** The dream opponents the Surfer and Beta Ray Bill face in Episode 7 are the Kronans from the ''Comicbook/{{Th|eMightyThor}}or'' comics.
** Episode 11 has mention of the "[[Creator/JackKirby Kirby Cluster]]."
* NeverSayDie: ComicBook/{{Thanos}} is the primary antagonist. In the comics, Thanos has a crush on (the embodiment of) Death, a plot which carries over into the show. Death, however, is called "Lady Chaos" because many considered it taboo to mention death in media aimed at children back then. This was especially true on Fox Kids, which was notorious at the time for its strict censorship of children's TV series.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Thanos kicks off the series by trying find a weakness in Galactus by entering the Silver Surfer's mind, and accidentally breaks the seal Galactus put on the Surfer's memories.
* OminousLatinChanting: The title theme music to the animated series had Latin-sounding singing interspersed at ominous points against the instrumental background.
* RecapEpisode: The short-lived cartoon spoiled its second episode by devoting a huge chunk of it to recapping the events of the first episode in clips.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Variant with Mentor, who is stated to be Thanos' ''brother'' rather than his father. This was apparently due to a typographical error that nobody caught until it was too late.
* TearsOfRemorse: From ''Thanos'', of all people - at the end of the second episode, he is clearly crying as he begs Lady Chaos to forgive him for failing her.
* TooGoodToBeTrue: How the Silver Surfer figures out he didn't return to Zenn-La in the penultimate episode. He's happy for a time, but he notices how everything is working out just too perfectly and how everyone is behaving in the idyllic way he remembered them. It's all the work of Ego, who learned about Zenn-La from the Surfer's memories the first time they encountered each other.
* VocalDissonance: Thanos has a very soft voice despite his massive size.
* WasOnceAMan: In "Learning Curve", the Surfer and a group of researches come across an enormous green blob monster on a universal library planet built by {{Precursors}}. It's actually the precursors (and the crew of a pirate ship) themselves after they devolved into this form and linked up with each other in a hive mind of knowledge.
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''Silver Surfer'' was a shortlived AnimatedAdaptation based on the ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' comic book character that ran on Creator/FoxKids in the 1998-99 season.
Norrin Radd is a pacifistic man living on the progressive, harmonious planet Zenn-La, until the cosmic entity ComicBook/{{Galactus}} arrives. The Devourer of Worlds proceeds to consume the planet's energy, but Norrin Radd convinces him to serve as his {{Herald}} to find planets for him to feed on, thinking he can both save his home and other worlds by leading Galactus away from populated worlds. Galactus instead scrubs his memories and imbues him with a portion of the power cosmic, and the Silver Surfer is born. After encountering Earth and saving the planet from his own master, he starts to roam about the cosmos as he tries to find his way home to Zenn-La and his love Shalla-Bal.
The series was cancelled after only one season thanks to Marvel's bankruptcy, ending on a cliffhanger (a planned ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' cartoon was also a victim).
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!!This series provides examples of:
* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Many elements in the series, but ''especially'' Galactus, are clearly made using 3D computer animation.
* AdaptationalModesty: For her appearance Gamora is more covered up.
* AdaptationNameChange: The show changed Lady Death's name to Lady Chaos due to the NeverSayDie trope.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Rather than being a man from Earth who was killed and reanimated in a new body with superhuman abilities, Drax is an alien {{Cyborg}} who is stated to have an organic brain inside an android body.
* AdaptedOut:
** The Fantastic Four do not appear in this series. As a result, the three-part premiere episode "The Origin of the Silver Surfer", which was partly adapted from the Galactus Trilogy, instead has a pre-Nova Frankie Raye convince the Silver Surfer to rebel against Galactus' attempt to devour Earth.
** Starfox, Thanos' brother, does not appear. Instead, it is Mentor who is Thanos' brother.
** Comicbook/{{Th|eMightyThor}}or never appears, despite the presence of Beta Ray Bill. Bill's hammer and Asgardian garb are justified as being the product of the warrior dream he is experiencing.
* AntiEscapismAesop: In the episode "Inner Visions", there is Harmony, a planet of mostly ugly and poor creatures who live in a daydream fantasy created by a special machine that brainwashes everyone on the planet. This machine makes them think that they live perfect lives with no problems and everyone being beautiful. The episode ends with Silver Surfer turning off the machine and the creatures concluding that the right thing to do is to deal with the challenges of the real life.
* AntiVillain: Ego the Living Planet is the antagonist in "Return to Zenn-La" but more out of desperation. He relates how he's been the only one of his kind for countless years and regularly attacked by others. He wants the Silver Surfer as a protector and offers him a recreation of Zenn-La to make him happy. During the fight, the Surfer acknowledges how Ego is more misguided than outright evil; he even saves Ego's life, and they part on good terms.
* BigBad: Thanos provides the biggest threat in the series.
* BlobMonster: The two-part episode "Learning Curve" is all about this, featuring amorphous aliens called 'Virals' accidentally born from an unstable cure created by the Watchers. Anyone who entered the Universal Library with selfish intentions or attempted to use the information with such an attitude would eventually mutate as well, operating as a collective with the ability to 'control their evolution'. Only the Surfer himself was immune because his powers are derived from the power cosmic of his former master [[CosmicEntity Galactus]]. While he did become a blob before he changed back, he could not unify with the HiveMind.
* {{Brainwashed}}: Galactus wiped the Surfer's memory after turning Norrin Radd into his herald. The Surfer's first act was to offer Zenn-La, Norrin Radd's home planet, as Galactus's first meal. Only Galactus's [[IGaveMyWord earlier promise to Radd]] spared Zenn-La.
* BroughtDownToNormal: The Silver Surfer's death sentence in "Radical Justice" naturally hinges on this. The Wanderers have figured out how to disable his powers and revert him to Norrin Radd, with the intent to leave him on a chaotic planetoid and let one of the traps finish him off.
* {{Crossover}}: Crossed over with ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' during the block's "Head For The Hills" promos advertising the latter series.
* DidntSeeThatComing: The Wanderers in "Radical Justice" are surprised that the Silver Surfer would help them after they sentenced him to death.
* DownerEnding: Thanks to it being unexpectedly cancelled, the series ends with [[spoiler:the Silver Surfer apparently dead and the universe destroyed]].
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Goal: Find and return to Zenn-La. Would have been achieved in the first season finale if the producers hadn't decided to bank on a cliffhanger.
* FiveEpisodePilot: The series began with a three-part episode entitled "The Origin of the Silver Surfer".
* GeniusLoci: Ego the Living Planet as usual, is a sentient location.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: ComicBook/{{Galactus}}' eyes glow brightly. So does his mouth when it opens.
* GroundhogDayLoop: "The Forever War" has ComicBook/AdamWarlock as a supersoldier created to fight the Kree. Fearing his power, his creators trapped him in a Groundhog Day Loop time anomaly in space in which he fights the same battle over and over again the same way (his own memory getting reset each time). New objects can be drawn in so how he fights exactly the same way against a growing number of ships from different eras is a mystery. The Silver Surfer is not affected by the anomaly and manages to pull Warlock out. By the end Warlock not being able to cope with events that transpired in the real world, flies back in the anomaly and goes back to fighting obliviously in the loop, presumably forever.
* IGaveMyWord: In a particular bit of dramatic irony, Norrin Radd offers his own planet up to Galactus immediately after making a deal with him to become the Silver Surfer to save it and having his memory wiped. Galactus states that that particular planet is off-limits for him and the Surfer because he once made a deal with an honorable man.
* IOweYouMyLife: "Return to Zenn-La" is revealed to have been the work of Ego the Living Planet. After being saved from Thanos, he wanted to repay the Silver Surfer with his preferred paradise, albeit in exchange for a lifelong protector. The Surfer has no intention of staying in a hollow recreation of his home, but during their fight, Ego is gravely injured. The Surfer opts to save his life, and Ego lets him leave without a fight, adding he will have to sincerely repay him for saving his life.
* KangarooCourt: {{Averted|Trope}}. When the Surfer is captured by survivors of Galactus's victim planets in "Radical Justice", they make sure that he receives a good defense at his trial even though emotions run high, and his defender admits she'd rather be prosecuting him.
* KirbyDots: The animated series combined this with TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects.
* LargeHam: To be expected from Galactus, though [[EvilIsHammy Thanos]] puts him to shame.
* LeftHanging: The cartoon [[ShortRunners ended with thirteen episodes]], because [[AuthorExistenceFailure Marvel went bankrupt]]. Episode 13 featured Thanos ''destroying all of the cosmos''. The second season was meant to fix this.
* ManlyTears: Beta Ray Bill when, thanks to the Silver Surfer, he realizes that his people have stagnated by living in a dream world instead of achieving actual greatness.
-->'''Beta Ray Bill:''' There must be something good about us, something worth saving.
* MythologyGag:
** Some of the visions the heroes experience while approaching the library in "Learning Curve" contain obscure Marvel characters, such as Beast-Killer from Jack Kirby's ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' series.
** The dream opponents the Surfer and Beta Ray Bill face in Episode 7 are the Kronans from the ''Comicbook/{{Th|eMightyThor}}or'' comics.
** Episode 11 has mention of the "[[Creator/JackKirby Kirby Cluster]]."
* NeverSayDie: ComicBook/{{Thanos}} is the primary antagonist. In the comics, Thanos has a crush on (the embodiment of) Death, a plot which carries over into the show. Death, however, is called "Lady Chaos" because many considered it taboo to mention death in media aimed at children back then. This was especially true on Fox Kids, which was notorious at the time for its strict censorship of children's TV series.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Thanos kicks off the series by trying find a weakness in Galactus by entering the Silver Surfer's mind, and accidentally breaks the seal Galactus put on the Surfer's memories.
* OminousLatinChanting: The title theme music to the animated series had Latin-sounding singing interspersed at ominous points against the instrumental background.
* RecapEpisode: The short-lived cartoon spoiled its second episode by devoting a huge chunk of it to recapping the events of the first episode in clips.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Variant with Mentor, who is stated to be Thanos' ''brother'' rather than his father. This was apparently due to a typographical error that nobody caught until it was too late.
* TearsOfRemorse: From ''Thanos'', of all people - at the end of the second episode, he is clearly crying as he begs Lady Chaos to forgive him for failing her.
* TooGoodToBeTrue: How the Silver Surfer figures out he didn't return to Zenn-La in the penultimate episode. He's happy for a time, but he notices how everything is working out just too perfectly and how everyone is behaving in the idyllic way he remembered them. It's all the work of Ego, who learned about Zenn-La from the Surfer's memories the first time they encountered each other.
* VocalDissonance: Thanos has a very soft voice despite his massive size.
* WasOnceAMan: In "Learning Curve", the Surfer and a group of researches come across an enormous green blob monster on a universal library planet built by {{Precursors}}. It's actually the precursors (and the crew of a pirate ship) themselves after they devolved into this form and linked up with each other in a hive mind of knowledge.
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* BlobMonster: The two-part episode "Learning Curve" is all about this, featuring amorphous aliens called 'Virals' accidentally born from an unstable cure created by the Watchers. Anyone who entered the Universal Library with selfish intentions or attempted to use the information with such an attitude would eventually mutate as well, operating as a collective with the ability to 'control their evolution'. Only the Surfer himself was immune because his powers are derived from the power cosmic of his former master [[CosmicEntity Galactus]]. While he did become a blob before he changed back, he could not unify with the HiveMind.
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* IGaveMyWord: In a particular bit of dramatic irony, Norrin Radd offers his own planet up to Galactus immediately after making a deal with him to become the Silver Surfer to save it and having his memory wiped. Galactus states that the planet is not for beings such as him and the Surfer because he once made a deal with an honorable man.
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* IGaveMyWord: In a particular bit of dramatic irony, Norrin Radd offers his own planet up to Galactus immediately after making a deal with him to become the Silver Surfer to save it and having his memory wiped. Galactus states that the that particular planet is not off-limits for beings such as him and the Surfer because he once made a deal with an honorable man.
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* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: Many elements in the series, but ''especially'' Galactus, are clearly made using 3D computer animation.
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* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Many elements in the series, but ''especially'' Galactus, are clearly made using 3D computer animation.
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* KirbyDots: The animated series combined this with ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon.
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* KirbyDots: The animated series combined this with ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon.TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects.
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* AntiVillain: Ego the Living Planet is the antagonist in "Return to Zenn-La" but more out of desperation. He relates how he's been the only one of his kind for countless years and regularly attacked by others. He wants the Silver Surfer as a protector and offers him a recreation of Zenn-La to make him happy. During the fight, the Surfer acknowledges how Ego is more misguided than outright evil; he even saves Ego's life, and they part on good terms.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: The Silver Surfer's death sentence in "Radical Justice" naturally hinges on this. The Wanderers have figured out how to disable his powers and revert him to Norrin Radd, with the intent to leave him on a chaotic planetoid and let one of the traps finish him off.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: The Wanderers in "Radical Justice" are surprised that the Silver Surfer would help them after they sentenced him to death.
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* IOweYouMyLife: "Return to Zenn-La" is revealed to have been the work of Ego the Living Planet. After being saved from Thanos, he wanted to repay the Silver Surfer with his preferred paradise, albeit in exchange for a lifelong protector. The Surfer has no intention of staying in a hollow recreation of his home, but during their fight, Ego is gravely injured. The Surfer opts to save his life, and Ego lets him leave without a fight, adding he will have to sincerely repay him for saving his life.
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* ManlyTears: Beta Ray Bill when, thanks to the Silver Surfer, he realizes that his people have stagnated by living in a dream world instead of achieving actual greatness.
-->'''Beta Ray Bill:''' There must be something good about us, something worth saving.
-->'''Beta Ray Bill:''' There must be something good about us, something worth saving.
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* TooGoodToBeTrue: How the Silver Surfer figures out he didn't return to Zenn-La in the penultimate episode. He's happy for a time, but he notices how everything is working out just too perfectly and how everyone is behaving in the idyllic way he remembered them. It's all the work of Ego, who learned about Zenn-La from the Surfer's memories the first time they encountered each other.
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* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: Many elements in the series, but ''especially'' Galactus, are clearly made using 3D computer animation.
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* ConspicuousCG: Many elements in the series, but ''especially'' Galactus, are clearly made using 3D computer animation.
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* NeverSayDie: ComicBook/{{Thanos}} is the primary antagonist. In the comics, Thanos has a crush on (the embodiment of) Death, a plot which carries over into the show. Death, however, is called "Lady Chaos" because many considered it taboo to mention death in media aimed at children back then.
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* NeverSayDie: ComicBook/{{Thanos}} is the primary antagonist. In the comics, Thanos has a crush on (the embodiment of) Death, a plot which carries over into the show. Death, however, is called "Lady Chaos" because many considered it taboo to mention death in media aimed at children back then. This was especially true on Fox Kids, which was notorious at the time for its strict censorship of children's TV series.
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* {{Crossover}}: Crossed over with ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' during the block's "Head For The Hills" promos advertising the latter series.
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** The dream opponents the Surfer and Beta Ray Bill face in Episode 7 are the Kronans from the ''[[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' comics.
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** The dream opponents the Surfer and Beta Ray Bill face in Episode 7 are the Kronans from the ''[[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' ''Comicbook/{{Th|eMightyThor}}or'' comics.
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** [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]] never appears, despite the presence of Beta Ray Bill. Bill's hammer and Asgardian garb are justified as being the product of the warrior dream he is experiencing.
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** [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]] Comicbook/{{Th|eMightyThor}}or never appears, despite the presence of Beta Ray Bill. Bill's hammer and Asgardian garb are justified as being the product of the warrior dream he is experiencing.
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* ConspicuousCGI: Many elements in the series, but ''especially'' Galactus, are clearly made using 3D computer animation.
* DownerEnding: Thanks to it being unexpectedly cancelled, the series ends with [[spoiler:the Silver Surfer apparently dead and the universe destroyed.]]
* DownerEnding: Thanks to it being unexpectedly cancelled, the series ends with [[spoiler:the Silver Surfer apparently dead and the universe destroyed.]]
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* DownerEnding: Thanks to it being unexpectedly cancelled, the series ends with [[spoiler:the Silver Surfer apparently dead and the universedestroyed.]]destroyed]].
* DownerEnding: Thanks to it being unexpectedly cancelled, the series ends with [[spoiler:the Silver Surfer apparently dead and the universe
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* KangarooCourt: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. When the Surfer is captured by survivors of Galactus's victim planets in "Radical Justice", they make sure that he receives a good defense at his trial even though emotions run high, and his defender admits she'd rather be prosecuting him.
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* KangarooCourt: [[AvertedTrope Averted]].{{Averted|Trope}}. When the Surfer is captured by survivors of Galactus's victim planets in "Radical Justice", they make sure that he receives a good defense at his trial even though emotions run high, and his defender admits she'd rather be prosecuting him.
