History WesternAnimation / SymBionicTitan

** [[spoiler: Tashy 497's explosion leaves]] a beautiful new solar body; SceneryPorn.

** [[spoiler: Tashy 497's explosion leaves]] a beautiful new solar body; SceneryPorn that doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Heartwarming]]!

As of September 2014, Cartoon Network officially wrote off the show for tax purposes, and will no longer be able to air it online or on television in any form.

** Averted so far (probably due to their status as [[NotBloodSiblings "siblings"]]), but we do get occasional {{Ship Tease}}s and HeIsNotMyBoyfriend moments. Genndy has actually stated in [[http://www.awn.com/articles/article/genndy-tartakovsky-takes-giant-robots/page/1%2C1 an official interview]] that he intends to go for a non-romantic relationship with Lance and Ilana because he finds doing a friendship between male and female characters is more interesting and that having them fall in love would be too easy. As of "The Ballad of Scary Mary", alternate potential romantic interests have been introduced for Ilana and Lance. In said interview, Genndy stated that the relationship of Pazu and Sheeta of Hayao Miyazaki's ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'' served as inspiration for that of Lance and Ilana. To him this was a bond of mutual friendship with no romantic attractions involved.

** The H.M.E.R's first fight. Given the Tokusatsu influences, this isn't a suprise.
** [[spoiler:H.M.E.R, G3, and Lance and Ilana all three suffer this at the hands of the three newested monsters Modula sent. H.M.E.R gets torn to pieces as well. The situation is completely reversed when the Titan CameBackStrong, making it strong enough to completely dominate all three monsters with no effort. In fact, it would appear they were ''playing'' with the first one to test out their new powers.]]

** The monster of episode 17 also counts. Its fast as lightning but so fragile [[spoiler: the Titan doesn't even need a weapon to kill it, it just beats it to death once it finally catches it.]]

* HeroKiller: The Energy Cloud monster from episode 18. It's impervious to nearly everything they throw at it and is able to permently drain the energy out of electrical devices, meaning its dangerous to try and use their PoweredArmor or Octus against it for risk of losing them for good. [[spoiler:It becomes a ''literal'' HeroKiller by killing Octus at the end of the episode.]] It takes the G3's battleship firing everything its got at it and blowing up the space station it was in to kill the darn thing!

* MysteriousPast: Ilana apparently knows little to nothing about Lance's past, which Lance isn't fond of bringing up. Though at this point his past is substantially less mysterious to we, the viewers. Although in the pilot she explicitly says to him, "I know about you AND your past", what Ilana thinks she knows is pretty much what her father knows -- a rather incomplete and slanted version of Lance's growing up years.

* NeverSayDie: Strongly averted, at least most of the time; not only do characters mention death but the monsters create massive amounts of collateral damage and most likely causalities as well. Modula also has no problem offing mooks casually.

** There's also the story of Scary Mary in "The Ballad of Scary Mary."

** And who could forget Jason, who looks exactly like Hiccup from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' and Cody from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland.''

* GenreSavvy
** Lance is fully aware that if they attempt to fight the first creature that Modula sent to Earth, it would give away their position, causing him to send more creatures after the fact, and refuses to fight it. Ilana talks him and Octus into it later, however.
** Xeexi may count as well, being much more subtle and intelligent than most bad guys. Unfortunately for him, he did not kill Lance....

Not to be confused with that [[WesternAnimation/MegasXLR other Cartoon Network show with giant robots.]] [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Or the other one.]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Robotboy}} Or that other one.]] [[WesternAnimation/TitanMaximum Nor that similarly-named one on Adult Swim.]] [[Anime/TheBigO Or the other Adult Swim one.]] [[Anime/ZoidsChaoticCentury Let's not forget the Anime franchise about giant robots that are semi-sentient that was on Toonami.]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Or that one that inspired most of the ones above.]] [[OverlyLongGag And any others we've missed.]]

* CutShort: And how. Given all the storylines which went unresolved (including a handful which came up in the finale alone) the series pretty much has an open ending with no closure short of [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack a feature film being created several years after the series ended]]. Fortunately, the recently revived Toonami segment of Adult Swim has picked the episodes back up, and a petition with a ''lot'' of supporters to begin making new episodes.

** When in his mech suit in the first episode, Lance takes a direct hit from a rocket launcher without being affected in the slightest.

* {{Badass}}
** Ilana, Lance, and Octus all take this trope to great heights. Especially Lance.
** Modula, too. Solomon as of Episode 11 as well.

** It apparently runs in the family. During "Escape from Galaluna", her father, ''the king'' picks up a {{BFG}} and fights on the front lines with regular soldiers. It's implied he's an even bigger {{Badass}} than Lance. When Lance defeats the fake king in Ilana's nightmare, he convinces Ilana it's a fake by saying there's no way he could have defeated him so easily in real life.

* UnstoppableRage: Lance after [[spoiler: Octus' death]]. To explain: [[spoiler:He took over G3's ship and let loose everything in it had into the monster and the space station, vaporizing it completely. Even Solomon, who is just as BadAss as Lance is, knew it was a good idea to stay out of his way despite the fact his ship had just been hijacked.]]

* CastOfSnowflakes

* AmbiguouslyGay: Josh, a member of the student council who only appeared in "Under The Three Moons" shows a lot of these mannerisms. He wears a pink polo shirt with a light blue sweater draped over his shoulders and tight pants and he appears to be wearing earrings. He is also flamboyant, speaks with a lisp, and skips when excited. He even loves to decorate things and he approved of Ilana's idea to make the homecoming theme Galalunian because a lot of their culture fitted in with his campy interests.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Josh, a member of the student council who only appeared I. "Under The Three Moons" shows a lot of these mannerisms. He wears a pink polo shirt and tight pants and he appears to be wearing earrings. He is also flamboyant, speaks with a lisp, and skips when excited. He even loves to decorate things and he approved of Ilana's idea to make the homecoming theme Galalunian because a lot of their culture fitted in with his campy interests.

* CutShort: And how. Given all the storylines which went unresolved (including a handful which came up in the finale alone) the series pretty much has an open ending with no closure short of [[SamuraiJack a feature film being created several years after the series ended]]. Fortunately, the recently revived Toonami segment of Adult Swim has picked the episodes back up, and a petition with a ''lot'' of supporters to begin making new episodes.

'''''Sym-Bionic Titan''''' was an animated series created by Creator/GenndyTartakovsky, Paul Rudish and Bryan Andrews for Creator/CartoonNetwork.

* BerserkButton: Don't try to hurt Lance or Ilana in front of Octus. In the episode "The Fortress of Deception", he reaches downright {{Terminator}} levels of single-mindedness when Lance and Ilana are kidnapped. Also, don't imply that he is JustAMachine.

The show can currently be watched on [[http://video.adultswim.com/sym-bionic-titan Adult Swim's website]] although they rotate the episodes around. However, as of September 2014, Cartoon Network officially wrote off the show for tax purposes, and will no longer be able to air it online or on television in any form.

* DarkerAndEdgier: This is one of several new Creator/CartoonNetwork shows that has no problem using the word "death". It's also this as a whole compared to Genndy Tartokovsky's previous works (except maybe ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', but those were MechaMooks). The fact that it airs in PrimeTime means that they can probably get away with a lot more since Cartoon Network is paying more attention to their PeripheryDemographic these days.

* DeadlyPrank: In "The Ballad of Scary Mary", Mary is never seen again after a group of classmates lure her into the woods to tar and feather her. [[spoiler:The trope is subverted at the end of the episode, when it's revealed that Mary wasn't killed, but instead hit it off with a cute biker boy she met in the woods and ran off with him.]]

* MightyGlacier: Manus, Lance's mech.
* MindRape: Xeexi and The Shaman specialize in this.
* MiniMecha: Lance's mech.

** Of the HumongousMecha genre after ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''GundamWing'' deconstructed it.