History WesternAnimation / ThundarrTheBarbarian

* LostTechnology: Often sought after by wizards and those seeking to protect themselves from them alike.

''A strange new world rises from the old: a world of savagery, super science, and sorcery. But one man bursts his bonds to fight for justice! With his companions Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel, he pits his strength, his courage, and his fabulous Sunsword against the forces of evil.''\\

* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' threaten or harm Ariel. Thundarr takes it ''extremely'' poorly. He also doesn't hesitate to dive into battle when he sees humans in danger.

** Another example: the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves turned their victims into werewolves]] by holding their glowy claws kinda near the victim. "

* FakeWizardry: In the episode "Master of the Stolen Sunsword", Thundarr battles Yondo, a "wizard" whose powers turn out to all be fake and based on stage magic. Despite this, Yondo is a formidable opponent for Thundarr and company, giving them more trouble than many of the ''actual'' wizards they battled. He's one of the very few opponents who figures out Ariel needs her hands free to cast ''her'' spells.

* FakeWizardry: In the episode "Master of the Stolen Sunsword", Thundarr battles Yondo, a "wizard" whose powers turn out to all be fake and based on stage magic. Despite this, Yondo is a formidable opponent for Thundarr and company, giving them more trouble than many of the ''actual'' wizards they battled. He's one of the very few opponents who figures out Ariel ''needs her hands free'' to cast her spells.

* FakeWizardry: In the episode "Master of the Stolen Sunsword", Thundarr battles Yondo, a "wizard" whose powers turn out to all be fake and based on stage magic. Despite this, Yondo is a formidable opponent for Thundarr and company, giving them more trouble than many of the ''actual'' wizards they battled. He's one of the very few opponents who figures out Ariel ''needs her hands free'' to cast.

* LandInTheSaddle: OnceAnEpisode, minimum. In one early episode, Thundarr does it from the top floor of a ruined skyscraper, carrying Ariel, without injury (to himself ''or'' his horse, whose spine somehow withstood the weight of two adult humans falling several stories).
* LaserBlade: The Sun Sword. It's fiery and can cut through anything that isn't organic and alive. It's never stated if it's old tech, new tech developed from old, magic, or some combination.

* PropheciesRhymeAllTheTime: The episode "Prophecy of Peril" starts with the Crystal of Prophecy and Thundarr, Ariel, and Ookla's attempt to steal it. The Crystal held an unknown prophecy that told how to bring about the downfall of the evil wizard Vashtar. When the Crystal shatters, because Vashtar zaps it to try to destroy it and the prophecy, the freed spirit tells all present the prophecy of the three women who will bring down Vashtar, with pictures.

* ScavengerWorld: Many humans and other beings live in the ruins of ancient structures and even wear oddly well-preserved 20th Century clothes.

* RagnarokProofing: It's very doubtful that the working machinery and the wrecked cars that everybody tosses around like footballs would be anything but dust in the year 3994, unless the world-ending cataclysm had, as one of its side effects, the stoppage of rust formation.

* ObliviousToLove: Ariel is smitten with Thundarr and makes no secret of it, but he never seems to notice.

* PowerTrio: Ookla -- Id, Ariel -- Superego, Thundarr -- Leader. Also, Thundarr -- TheHero, Ookla -- TheBigGuy, Ariel -- TheChick (she's also something of a RebelliousPrincess, and a WhiteMagicianGirl).

* TakenForGranite: The ultimate fate of recurring villain Gemini.

* MixAndMatchCritters: The non-humanoid monsters are generally of this sort. The mutant rabbit was big, furry, with scaled ridges down its back and some sort of scaled attenae things.

%% * HalfHumanHybrid: Most of the enemies.

* MixAndMatchCritters: The non-humanoid monsters are generally of this sort. The Carocs were crocodile-human with a bit of the snake about them.

* MixAndMatchCritters: The non-humanoid monsters are generally of this sort.

* LoinCloth: Thundarr wears one.

* LaserBlade: The Sun Sword.

* KirbyDots: Since Jack Kirby did the storyboarding artwork.

* InsistentTerminology: Thundarr seems to reserve the use of the term "wizard" for the SorcerousOverlord[=s=] that oppress humankind. Ariel is ''not'' a "wizard", she is a "sorceress" (and don't call her a "witch" either).

* ColossusClimb: Thundarr often climbs giant monsters when he does this.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Ariel is always immaculately groomed and her outfit is in perfect condition. In fairness, she is a sorceress, so it's not entirely implausible that she can magically keep herself pristine at all times. In fact there's one episode where Ariel uses magic to whip up a new outfit for a guest-heroine.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The wizards.

* TrueBlueFemininity: Ariel.

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: As part of the show's lore. An apocalypse cause by a small planet/large moon swinging WAY too close to Earth and Luna cracked the latter and royally messed with the atmosphere and tectonics of the former.

* GratuitousPrincess: Ariel is a princess, but we never learn what kingdom she is a princess of. In fact, we never see ''any'' kind of nation-state in any of the episodes. In all of Thundarr, Ariel and Ookla's wanderings, they never encounter a society larger than a tribe or a village.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Most of the enemies.

* FakeWizardry: In the episode "Master of the Stolen Sunsword", Thundarr battles Yondo, a "wizard" whose powers turn out to all be fake and based on stage magic. Despite this, Yondo is a formidable opponent for Thundarr and company, giving them more trouble than many of the ''actual'' wizards they battled.

** More conventional laserlike EnergyWeapons tend to be standard issue for the various Wizards' monstrous mutant {{Mook}}s. They were geenrally "stunners" or stormtrooper markmanship was in full effect.