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The first season is now available on [[Creator/{{Amazon}} Amazon Video]] in the United States.
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* NobodyCanDie: International Rescue is faced with dangerous missions on a near-daily basis and each member has had many near-death situations (be it from [[spoiler:evading a space mine, radiation poisoning, being buried alive, running out of oxygen, being on a crashing plane, almost flying into the sun, etc.]]) but no one ever dies. At least, not yet.
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** During the episode "Skyhook", John withstands g-forces of ten and over (up to 25) for an estimated ten to fifteen seconds. That's a lot. Not only does he not pass out, he is able to get up immediately afterward without any apparent injuries.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Scott and Virgil Tracy are red and blue respectably. Especially in the episodes Crosscut and Recharge.
** In episodes such as Slingshot, older ActionGirl Kayo acts as the red oni to ChildProgidy Alan's Blue oni.
** In episodes such as Slingshot, older ActionGirl Kayo acts as the red oni to ChildProgidy Alan's Blue oni.
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YES! Season 3 confirmed!
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* RaisingWaterRaisingTension: In "Ring of Fire" Part 1", International Rescue have to save the crew of an underwater lab that has been damaged by an earthquake and is taking on water.
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* RisingWaterRisingTension: In "Ring of Fire" Part 1", International Rescue have to save the crew of an underwater lab that has been damaged by an earthquake and is taking on water.
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* RaisingWaterRaisingTension: In "Ring of Fire" Part 1", International Rescue have to save the crew of an underwater lab that has been damaged by an earthquake and is taking on water.
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* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The Hood pulls this off in the finale!
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* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The Hood pulls this off in the finale!Season 1 finale!
* ArrowCam: Done with grappling hooks in "Recharge" and "Touch and Go."
* ArrowCam: Done with grappling hooks in "Recharge" and "Touch and Go."
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Episode 26, all six get called to emergencies - then the Hood takes the island in their absence.
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** Likewise, Grandma Tracy's personality has undergone a full 180 degrees from a sweet little old granny (who coold cook just fine) to a [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior foul-tempered]] LethalChef BadassGrandma.
* AdaptationalWimp: Brains, and how. The original joined the brothers on missions every other week, the new one cam barely hold his lunch at Thunderbird 1's launch, and he goes downhill from there.
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** Likewise, Grandma Tracy's personality has undergone a full 180 degrees from a sweet little old granny (who coold could cook just fine) to a [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior foul-tempered]] LethalChef BadassGrandma.
* AdaptationalWimp:Brains, and how. The original joined the brothers on missions every other week, the new one cam barely hold Compare Brains' performance in "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS2E4LordParkersOliday Lord Parker's 'Oliday]]" to his lunch at Thunderbird 1's launch, and he goes downhill from there.fear-induced paralysis in "Runaway"...
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** In "Touch and Go," the fuel that the Hood steals has the same name as the highly combustible cargo of Ocean Pioneer and Ocean Pioneer II from the original series episode "Danger at Ocean Deep."
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** The repulsor in "Undercover" was stolen from "Houseman Industries," last seen building roads as "Gray and Houseman" in the original series episode "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E9EndOfTheRoad End of the Road]]."
** The repulsor in "Undercover" was stolen from "Houseman Industries," last seen building roads as "Gray and Houseman" in the original series episode "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E9EndOfTheRoad End of the Road]]."
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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In "Slingshot", International Rescue comes to the aid of an asteroid miner named Ned Tedford. Ned reappears in "Under Pressure", having got as far from space as possible by taking a new job on an undersea platform -- which promptly goes wrong, requiring International Rescue to come to his aid again. Ned reappears again in "Undercover" as a tea boy for the GDF. ''Even then'', things go wrong; during Parker's sting operation, he tries to deliver tea and cake to MissionControl at the ''least'' appropriate time, and accidentally gives a go signal putting the tea and cake down, blowing Parker's cover prematurely and setting the events of the episode in motion. [[ReassignedToAntarctica He's reassigned to the GDF Arctic outpost for his idiocy.]]
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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In "Slingshot", International Rescue comes to the aid of an asteroid miner named Ned Tedford. Ned reappears in "Under Pressure", having got as far from space as possible by taking a new job on an undersea platform -- which promptly goes wrong, requiring International Rescue to come to his aid again. Ned reappears again in "Undercover" as a tea boy "refreshment technician" (tea boy) for the GDF. ''Even then'', things go wrong; during Parker's sting operation, he tries to deliver tea and cake to MissionControl at the ''least'' appropriate time, and accidentally gives a go signal putting the tea and a cake down, down ''on a button'', blowing Parker's cover prematurely and setting the events of the episode in motion. [[ReassignedToAntarctica He's reassigned to the GDF Arctic outpost for his idiocy.]]
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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In "Slingshot", International Rescue comes to the aid of an asteroid miner named Ned Tedford. Ned reappears in "Under Pressure", having got as far from space as possible by taking a new job on an undersea platform -- which promptly goes wrong, requiring International Rescue to come to his aid again. Ned reappears again in "Undercover" as a tea boy for the GDF. ''Even then'', things go wrong; during Parker's sting operation, he tries to deliver tea and cake to MissionControl at the ''least'' appropriate time, and accidentally gives a go signal putting the tea and cake down, blowing Parker's cover prematurely and setting the events of the episode in motion. [[ReassignedToAntarctica He's reassigned to the GDF Arctic outpost for his idiocy.]]
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** The [[Main/FunWithAcronyms T.E.A.]] in "Designated Driver" is patterned after the radio teapot from the original series.
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* BluffTheImpostor: In "EOS", the fake John is tested with a leading remark about [[LethalChef Grandma Tracy's cookies]]. When he replies that they're one of the things he misses most while he's in orbit, everyone within earshot immediately knows he's an impostor. Later, Parker does this to a "Colonel Janus" who had grounded International Rescue (and would later [[MoralEventHorizon interrupt a rescue without taking it over]]) with wrong information about a former military division both he and Janus were in.
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* BluffTheImpostor: In "EOS", the fake John is tested with a leading remark about [[LethalChef Grandma Tracy's cookies]]. When he replies that they're one of the things he misses most while he's in orbit, everyone within earshot immediately knows he's an impostor. Later, in "Chain of Command", Parker does this to a "Colonel Janus" who had grounded International Rescue (and would later [[MoralEventHorizon interrupt a rescue without taking it over]]) with wrong information about a former military division both he and Janus were in.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: The Hood refuses to bail Imposter Janus out of prison for failing to procure Thunderbird 2, as it was due to his own incompetence (and [[MoralEventHorizon his actions]] convincing the Tracy brothers that [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight he wasn't an authority figure worth respecting]]) that he failed to carry out ''any'' of The Hood's orders.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: The Hood refuses to bail Imposter Janus out of prison for failing to procure Thunderbird 2, 2 and states that [[YouCanRunButYouCantHide there's nowhere he can hide]] (in what can't explicitly be but is quite clearly a death threat) should he be released, as it was due to his own incompetence (and [[MoralEventHorizon his actions]] convincing the Tracy brothers that [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight he wasn't an authority figure worth respecting]]) that he failed to carry out ''any'' of The Hood's orders.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: The Hood refuses to bail Imposter Janus out of prison for failing to procure Thunderbird 2, as it was due to his own incompetence (and [[MoralEventHorizon his actions]] convincing the Tracy brothers that [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight he wasn't an authority figure worth respecting]]) that he failed to carry out ''any'' of The Hood's orders.
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* BluffTheImpostor: In "EOS", the fake John is tested with a leading remark about [[LethalChef Grandma Tracy's cookies]]. When he replies that they're one of the things he misses most while he's in orbit, everyone within earshot immediately knows he's an impostor.
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** After her first appearance she gets becomes more a case of CreepyGood, making somewhat morbid comments about how a single malfunction could kill John at one point.
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** Ned in "Under Pressure" makes reference to Alan and the rescue in Slingshot
** after Eos's introduction episode, she appears again in "Skyhook" acting as John's support. Technically, she also had a hand in the Runaway train, forming a minor arc of sorts between the episodes.
** after Eos's introduction episode, she appears again in "Skyhook" acting as John's support. Technically, she also had a hand in the Runaway train, forming a minor arc of sorts between the episodes.
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* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Pretty much the entire episode "Slingshot", in which Thunderbird 3 goes to rescue a miner from an asteroid that's about to crash into the sun. Probably the biggest issue is the travel times, which show SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance -- for instance, it's stated that the trip back to Earth takes three hours, over a distance which takes ''months'' using the current best technology.
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** It is implied though that EOS evolved from an AI opponent game code.
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* WorldOfSnark: Basically, every other line in this series is snark. Everyone gets in on the action, even the resident A.I.
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** Likewise, Grandma Tracy's personality has undergone a full 180 degrees from a sweet little old granny (who coold cook just fine) to a [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior foul-tempered]] LethalChef BadassGrandma.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Kayo, who is the equivalent of the original series' Tintin. Whereas Tintin was a renowned NeutralFemale, Kayo is a full-blown ActionGirl.
* AdaptationalWimp: Brains, and how. The original joined the brothers on missions every other week, the new one cam barely hold his lunch at Thunderbird 1's launch, and he goes downhill from there.
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* PossessionImpliesMastery: Subverted in ''Relic'' when Scott confidently announces he'll drive a lunar rover before realising he has no idea what any of the controls do.
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* CyberCyclops: The A.I. in "EOS" is the variety where it controls a building and the building's cameras act as face stand-ins, with ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and obvious (and ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' a possible) influence.
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* EvilLuddite: A group shutdown Thunderbird 02 and the entire city of London in "Unplugged". Predictably, these were merely pawns for the Hood.
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''Thunderbirds Are Go'' is the remake of ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}''. It began on ITV and CITV on 4 April 2015. The original marionettes have been replaced with CGI, although many of the sets and environments, most notably Tracy Island, are models. The series is a UK-New Zealand co-production and features visual effects by [[Creator/{{WETA}} Weta Digital]], [[Creator/WangFilmProductions CGCG]] and Creator/MilkVFX, which look every bit as awesome as you'd expect. The series received a great deal of publicity in the British media, with all concerned insisting that they wanted the new series to remain true to the spirit of the old.
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!!Tropes:
* AccidentalHug: In "Heavy Metal", Brains and Moffie (who are sharing an awkward nerdy unspoken crush) ''nearly'' do the spontaneous-hug-in-a-moment-of-joy version, but break off at the last moment.
* ActionGirl: Penelope as in the original, but Kayo even more so.
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the original series, John was blond and Gordon was ginger. Here, it is reversed.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Eos. More petulant and childish than evil though.
* ArtificialGravity: Portrayed more realistically than in the original series. Thunderbird 5 has a rotating section which provides centrifugal gravity, but when he's in other parts of the station John is authentically weightless. Thunderbird 3 has no such section, and as a result everything in the cabin is weightless.
* AscendedExtra: In the '60s series, despite John Tracy essentially being part of the main cast, his appearances were so minor compared to the other brothers that he might as well have been an "extra" -- that is definitely ''not'' the case here, as he's filling Jeff and Scott's previous roles as MissionControl.
* BadassGrandma: Grandma Tracy, who is now a more active character than in the '60s series. She teams up with one of her grandsons in the episode "Unplugged" to stop the anti-technology terrorist group The Luddites. She also takes over MissionControl when EOS temporarily compromises ''Thunderbird 5''.
* BadassGrandpa: Parker, also known as "The Grey Ninja!"
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Gordon and Lady Penelope in "Tunnels of Time".
* BluffTheImpostor: In "EOS", the fake John is tested with a leading remark about [[LethalChef Grandma Tracy's cookies]]. When he replies that they're one of the things he misses most while he's in orbit, everyone within earshot immediately knows he's an impostor.
* BollywoodNerd: Brains, having been subjected to a RaceLift.
* BrokenAesop: The "don't be too over-reliant on technology" aesop of "Unplugged" is undermined by the fact that most of the Thunderbird's missions are ''only possible with their technology'' and the situation depriving them of the technology is due to active enemy attack instead of any inherent fault in the technology or arrogance on the part of the Thunderbirds. It's akin to chiding a pilot for being too reliant on his plane and not flying under his own power after it's been sabotaged. Though it could also be considered a Creator/MichaelCrichton-esque lesson -- "All tools can break. Make sure you can fix or replace them. Any system can fail. Make sure the first failure won't kill you."
* ChekhovsGag: Grandma Tracy's terrible cooking is a once-an-episode running gag to begin with, and then there's an episode where it's used to BluffTheImpostor. After that it's brought up less often.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Alan shows shades of this in the episode "EOS":
-->'''Alan:''' But John has eyes on pretty much everywhere! He could tell us if a cat was stuck up a tree in... Antarctica!\\
'''Brains:''' But there are no trees in Antarctica.\\
'''Alan:''' That's how they get ya!
* ColourCodedCharacters: The pilots wear coloured sashes -- which do not match the original show's colours (they instead match the colour of their crafts, except for John):
** Scott: Silver
** Virgil: Green
** Alan: Red
** Gordon: Yellow
** John: Orange
** Kayo: No sash, but has a black utility harness instead.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The vehicles:
** ''Thunderbird 1'': Silver and Blue
** ''Thunderbird 2'': Green
** ''Thunderbird 3'': Red
** ''Thunderbird 4'': Yellow
** ''Thunderbird 5'': Gold and silver
** ''Thunderbird S'': Black
** F.A.B. 1: pink
* CompanionCube: In "Slingshot", Ned the asteroid miner keeps up a running commentary to his potted geranium Gladys, and at one point announces her opinion on the current situation. During their second appearance in "Under Pressure", Gladys occasionally gets reaction shots in which the swaying of the flower looks like nodding or head-shaking in response to Ned's last remark.
* ContinuityNod:
** The solar collector subplot in "Ring of Fire" is lifted directly from the original ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' episode "Lord Parker's 'Oliday", but moves the location from the Mediterranean to [[UsefulNotes/{{Taiwan}} Taipei]].
** In "Fireflash", as Kayo brings the titular CoolPlane for a landing, the old [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyGk4JwQiFo "Fireflash Landing"]] score is utilized.
* CoolCar: Lady Penelope's Rolls-Royce FAB-1, no longer referred to as a Rolls-Royce and lacking the "Spirit of Ecstasy" hood ornament, but still retaining the traditional oversized chrome grille (now topped with a rocket hood ornament) and a silver hood resembling that on the modern Rolls-Royce Phantom. No weapons have been revealed yet, but it has been shown that the car possess flying and oil-slick capabilities.
* CoolPet: Lady P now has a dog named Sherbet.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Of a sort. "Unplugged" showed just how reliant International Rescue (and by extension the City of London) was on their technology. So much so that Virgil believes his presence is useless without it.
* CuteMachines: Brains now has a robot assistant named Max.
* CyberCyclops: The A.I. in "EOS" is the variety where it controls a building and the building's cameras act as face stand-ins, with ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and obvious (and ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' a possible) influence.
* DarkSecret: Kayo is The Hood's niece, though so far none of the Tracys are aware of this.
* DisappearedDad: Unlike in the original show, Jeff Tracy is nowhere to be seen. In "Ring of Fire", it is mentioned that he was in a crash, and that [[BigBad The Hood]] is to blame. But they NeverFoundTheBody.
* DurableDeathtrap: The tomb in "Tunnels of Time" is full of traps, including spears and deadly gas vents, that are still working after nearly a thousand years.
* EasterEgg:
** John likes watching ''[[Series/{{Stingray1964}} Stingray]]'' reruns, as indicated in the pilot, where he watches a snippet of the series' opening credits hologram-style in Thunderbird 5.
** One of the characters in the pilot is named Meddings, after Gerry Anderson's visual effects wizard Derek Meddings. (There was also a character called Meddings in the original version's pilot.)
** The doomed underwater research base in the pilot has a module resembling the nose of an Eagle transporter from ''[[Series/{{Space1999}} Space: 1999]]''.
** When FAB-1 sprouts wings and takes flight, it resembles Series/{{Supercar}}.
* TheExitIsThatWay: At the beginning of "Slingshot", Alan is woken by an emergency call and sleepily stumbles into his closet before finding the door of his bedroom.
* EvilDetectingDog: In "Under Pressure", Lady Penelope's usually-friendly lapdog reacts aggressively to a corporate executive who turns out to be the Hood in disguise.
* EvilGloating: The Hood has a bad case of this in "Unplugged", where he starts gloating to his pawns about how he's used them for his own purposes as soon as he's got his hands on the MacGuffin -- while they're all still standing in the vault where it was stored. Fair enough, he goes on to demonstrate that he's planned his exit, but wouldn't it have been a good idea anyway to leave the scene of the crime first?
* EvilLuddite: A group shutdown Thunderbird 02 and the entire city of London in "Unplugged". Predictably, these were merely pawns for the Hood.
* FacelessGoons: In "Under Pressure", the Hood has three mooks wearing motorcycle helmets with opaque faceplates.
* FailedASpotCheck: In "Crosscut", Scott investigates a room that's supposedly been abandoned for a decade and takes a worryingly long time to spot the clear trail of footprints running across the dusty floor.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The Hood in this version is a ''lot'' more sophisticated and calmer than the diabolical LargeHam we saw in the original series. He seems to bear more of a resemblance to Creator/BenKingsley's portrayal of the character from [[Film/{{Thunderbirds}} a certain live-action adaptation]].
* FighterLaunchingSequence: Faithfully reproduced from the original series.
* GravitySucks: In "Heavy Metal", scientists researching gravitons accidentally create a "gravity tornado" that sucks aircraft and satellites out of the sky, and generally behaves in ways that real gravity doesn't.
* GreatOffscreenWar: In "Space Race", there is a mention of a global conflict that spanned from 2040 to most 2043 and even in 2060, there are remnants of the war left such as space mines. (Which is itself a modern update of England's very real UXB [Unexploded German Bomb] problem, dating back from the last days of WW2, and still ongoing today.)
* HolographicDisguise: The Hood uses one in "Under Pressure".
* HotScientist: Professor Moffat in "Heavy Metal", in an {{Adorkable}} sort of way.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Just about every second line from Lady Penelope and Parker during the fight scene in "Under Pressure" is a pun.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: When Grandma Tracy says it's time for a family dinner, Virgil says he'll go to clean up and tells Gordon to meet him at the ship. Scott and Alan on the other hand ...
-->'''Scott:''' (''pretending to listen to a communicator'') What's that, John? A rescue? I'm on my way!\\
'''Alan:''' Uh, I think I left my thruster on!
* IfIDoNotReturn: In the episode "Runaway", Brains is dangling from a zipline from Thunderbird 1. When it appears he will slam into a mountain face, he screams "TELL MAX I LOVE HIM!!!"
* IgnoringBySinging: In "EOS", the rogue AI does this when John tries to persuade her that he means her no harm. She doesn't have hands to clap over her ears (or ears), but on the other hand, she can sing "la la la" ''really loud''.
* InMediasRes: When the show starts, they've already been doing rescues for a while. We join the action when The Hood reappears on the scene.
* InstantAIJustAddWater: EOS, the AI in "Runaway" and "EOS", spontaneously evolved from a non-sapient computer program when its creator wasn't looking.
* ItTastesLikeFeet: In "Runaway", John and Alan each independently remark that a cookie from Grandma's latest batch "tastes like a foot".
* LethalChef: Grandma's cooking is apparently so bad that everyone [[INeedToGoIronMyDog makes whatever excuses they can]] to avoid having to try it. Even Max the robot cooks better than she does.
-->'''Alan''': ''[gags]'' [[ItTastesLikeFeet Tastes like a foot]].
* LeParkour:
** Kayo, when infiltrating the Hood's Australian base.
** Parker retains some skills from his youth.
* LudicrousPrecision: In "EOS", the rogue AI announces that the odds against the Thunderbirds defeating it are 5617 to 1.
* MadeOfIron:
** Most apparent with Scott in "Crosscut", however this applies to all brothers to some extent.
** Sometimes covered by RuleOfFunny, such as when Brains is testing a walking-on-the-ceiling device in "EOS", and falls a significant distance without noticeable ill effect when the device breaks down.
* MadnessMantra: In "Runaway", a terrified Brains has been reduced to repeating a series of mathematics and electrical engineers lessons to himself (which is understandable since he was ''hanging for dear life from a long wire under a speeding Thunderbird 1!'') .
* MediumBlending: Miniatures with CG animation.
* MonumentalDamage: ''Thunderbird 2'' clips the top of Nelson's Column as Virgil brings it in for an emergency landing in London in "Unplugged".
* MuggedForDisguise: In "Unplugged", Lady Penelope and Parker mug two of the Luddites and take their face-concealing hoods.
* MythologyGag: Interestingly, Brains', ah, ah, SpeechImpediment from the original series is almost completely gone in this version. This could serve as a nod to Gerry Anderson's proposed ''Thunderbirds'' remake, ''T-Force'', in the 1980s, in which the stammer would have been gone entirely, rendering Brains to be actually quite an eloquent speaker (which he is here).
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In "Slingshot", International Rescue comes to the aid of an asteroid miner named Ned Tedford. Ned reappears in "Under Pressure", having got as far from space as possible by taking a new job on an undersea platform -- which promptly goes wrong, requiring International Rescue to come to his aid again.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In "Heavy Metal", one of the astronauts on the stricken Worldwide Space Station bears a clear resemblance to International Space Station astronaut (and Youtube celebrity) Chris Hadfield.
* NoOSHACompliance: CIRUS and presumably anything else created by Langstrom Fischler, [[TooDumbToLive a danger to himself and others]] who thinks it's a good idea to fill balloons with superheated hydrogen plasma for use as weather station flotation devices, finds redundancy pointless, and is too impatient to install other safety systems such as ''escape pods''. CIRUS even proved a hazard to the Thunderbirds -- the static electricity building up on the station because of the lack of static dampening plates shorts out ''Thunderbird 2'', forcing Gordon to abort his attempt to fix the aerofoils and take control of the stricken aircraft through the pod, and the superheated hydrogen plasma balloons cause it to reach altitudes that ''Thunderbird 1'''s engines aren't designed to handle.
* NoPaperFuture: It's all computer screens and holograms. Made explicit in "Unplugged", when the grey-haired Parker remarks that he hasn't seen anyone use paper since he was in school.
* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: "Crosscut" establishes that nuclear weapons and even nuclear power generation is a thing of the past, having been judged too dangerous in the wrong hands. (It's not said what replaced them.) When Scott hears that somebody has been surreptitiously buying uranium, he correctly concludes without any further evidence that it's the Hood, apparently because nobody else would do such a thing.
* OhCrap:
** Played for laughs. Appears to be the general reaction to Grandma Tracy's cooking.
** Played straight when Alan discovers a live nuclear-powered SAT-MINE in space.
* OnePasswordAttemptEver: The deactivation code for the automated weapon in "Space Race" is designed on this principle; if the first attempt to enter it is unsuccessful, the weapon will assume enemy action and destroy itself, the person entering the code, and anything else that happens to be within range.
* OopNorth: Ned the asteroid miner in "Slingshot" has the accent and no-nonsense attitude of a stereotypical northern miner.
* OutOfOrder: Thanks to being shown on ITV on a bank holiday weekend instead of the usual CITV morning timeslot, episode 13 ("Tunnels of Time") aired tenth.
* ParrotExpowhat: On arrival at the Quantum Research Centre in "Heavy Metal":
-->'''Brains:''' This is the epicentre of leading-edge research into spin-2 bosons.\\
'''Alan:''' Spin-who what-sons?
* PowerLossMakesYouStrong: Virgil goes through this plot in "Unplugged". The villain's scheme involves causing every electronic device in the area to malfunction, leaving Virgil to rise to the challenge of saving the day without the aid of any of the gadgets he usually uses.
* RaceLift: Brains is now a BollywoodNerd, and the Kyranos, including the Hood, flip races from Asian to British.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: In "EOS", the AI's camera-eyes have status lights that change color with the AI's mood; when she's feeling angry or hostile, they are of course red.
* TheRemake: The whole show is this, but especially episode 5, "Fireflash", which is a remake of the original pilot episode, [[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E1TrappedInTheSky "Trapped in the Sky"]].
* RunawayTrain: International Rescue have to stop a runaway experimental train in "Runaway".
* TheScream: At the beginning of "Under Pressure", the operator of the stricken undersea salvage platform panics and starts screaming. The camera pulls back all the way to orbit, with Thunderbird 5 drifting through the shot, and the scream is still audible. (In a DiegeticSwitch, it then turns out that the scream actually is audible inside Thunderbird 5, because John's picked up the platform's distress transmission.)
* ShaggySearchTechnique: Ably demonstrated by Parker while exploring the South American pyramid in "Tunnels of Time".
* ShipTease: For Gordon and Lady Penelope, especially in "Tunnels of Time".
* ShoutOut: During "EOS" John has to spacewalk to repair a busted AE-35 unit and is attacked by a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] which refuses to let him back in through the airlock. [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Sound familiar?]]
* SixthRanger: Kayo, who gets her own Thunderbird at the end of the "Ring of Fire" two-parter.
%%Remember, the first two episodes premiered as an omnibus, so it is episode 2 and not episode 1%%
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Pretty much the entire episode "Slingshot", in which Thunderbird 3 goes to rescue a miner from an asteroid that's about to crash into the sun. Probably the biggest issue is the travel times, which show SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance -- for instance, it's stated that the trip back to Earth takes three hours, over a distance which takes ''months'' using the current best technology.
* SpaceElevator: John is shown in several episodes using one to travel between Tracy Island and Thunderbird 5. A lot of technical limitations, such as requiring an anchor point on the planet's equator, appear to have been handwaved away.
* SpaceMadness: The asteroid miner in "Slingshot", after an unstated but lengthy solo stint on his asteroid, has a mild version involving emotional immaturity and an attachment to a CompanionCube potted geranium.
* SpikedWheels: The motorcycle mooks which the Hood sends against Lady Penelope in "Under Pressure" have these, though they don't achieve any noticeable damage to FAB-1.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Arguably, to ''WesternAnimation/GerryAndersonsNewCaptainScarlet''. Both are remakes of popular Anderson-led Supermarionation series from the '60s, and both have a very similar art style.
* SpoilerOpening: As in the original series, the opening titles of each episode include a montage of moments from the episode itself.
* StockFootage: As in the original series, there's a single "suiting up and launching" sequence for each Thunderbird, with variety created by varying which bits of it are shown from episode to episode.
* TemptingFate: At the beginning of "Under Pressure", the operator of an undersea salvage vessel remarks that the best part of his job is that there's no drama. The vessel immediately catches fire and breaks down.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The year is 2060, which is 45 years from now. In comparison, the original show from 1965 was set 100 years in the future in the year 2065, 5 years later from this show's setting.
* VariableTerminalVelocity: Averted. When saving a falling man in the opening of "Ring of Fire", Virgil doesn't even try to dive after him, and even Thunderbird 2 doesn't catch up just by falling -- instead he gets back in and uses the ship's rockets to dive faster.
* VastBureaucracy: In "Space Race", Lady Penelope and Parker need access to the kill code of a nuclear space mine that threatens to destroy Alan along with Thunderbird 3. A lady at the Consolidated File Archive informs them that the paperwork can only be accessed with an access retrieval form...and that even with the form, files can only be released to requestors on the first Thursday of every month.
* VerbalTic: Brains' stutter, while still present, is {{downplayed}} to the point where it's hardly noticable. It does, however, become noticeably stronger when he's under emotional stress in "Heavy Metal" (which actually has a "special thanks" credit at the end of the episode for speech impediment specialist Elaine Kelman).
* VomitDiscretionShot: In "Runaway", Brains is showing sitting behind Scott, visibly nervous about having to fly in Thunderbird 1. We soon see his eyes and cheeks bulge out, Brain leaning over (hidden by Scott's seat back) and all we hear is the sound of an airsickness bag rustling, and Brains groaning.
* {{Xenafication}}: Tin-tin has been [[AdaptationNameChange renamed]] Kayo to [[NamesTheSame distinguish her from]] the [[{{Franchise/Tintin}} Belgian boy detective]], and is now head of security with her own Thunderbird. Like Brains, she was also {{Race Lift}}ed.
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!!Tropes:
* AccidentalHug: In "Heavy Metal", Brains and Moffie (who are sharing an awkward nerdy unspoken crush) ''nearly'' do the spontaneous-hug-in-a-moment-of-joy version, but break off at the last moment.
* ActionGirl: Penelope as in the original, but Kayo even more so.
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the original series, John was blond and Gordon was ginger. Here, it is reversed.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Eos. More petulant and childish than evil though.
* ArtificialGravity: Portrayed more realistically than in the original series. Thunderbird 5 has a rotating section which provides centrifugal gravity, but when he's in other parts of the station John is authentically weightless. Thunderbird 3 has no such section, and as a result everything in the cabin is weightless.
* AscendedExtra: In the '60s series, despite John Tracy essentially being part of the main cast, his appearances were so minor compared to the other brothers that he might as well have been an "extra" -- that is definitely ''not'' the case here, as he's filling Jeff and Scott's previous roles as MissionControl.
* BadassGrandma: Grandma Tracy, who is now a more active character than in the '60s series. She teams up with one of her grandsons in the episode "Unplugged" to stop the anti-technology terrorist group The Luddites. She also takes over MissionControl when EOS temporarily compromises ''Thunderbird 5''.
* BadassGrandpa: Parker, also known as "The Grey Ninja!"
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Gordon and Lady Penelope in "Tunnels of Time".
* BluffTheImpostor: In "EOS", the fake John is tested with a leading remark about [[LethalChef Grandma Tracy's cookies]]. When he replies that they're one of the things he misses most while he's in orbit, everyone within earshot immediately knows he's an impostor.
* BollywoodNerd: Brains, having been subjected to a RaceLift.
* BrokenAesop: The "don't be too over-reliant on technology" aesop of "Unplugged" is undermined by the fact that most of the Thunderbird's missions are ''only possible with their technology'' and the situation depriving them of the technology is due to active enemy attack instead of any inherent fault in the technology or arrogance on the part of the Thunderbirds. It's akin to chiding a pilot for being too reliant on his plane and not flying under his own power after it's been sabotaged. Though it could also be considered a Creator/MichaelCrichton-esque lesson -- "All tools can break. Make sure you can fix or replace them. Any system can fail. Make sure the first failure won't kill you."
* ChekhovsGag: Grandma Tracy's terrible cooking is a once-an-episode running gag to begin with, and then there's an episode where it's used to BluffTheImpostor. After that it's brought up less often.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Alan shows shades of this in the episode "EOS":
-->'''Alan:''' But John has eyes on pretty much everywhere! He could tell us if a cat was stuck up a tree in... Antarctica!\\
'''Brains:''' But there are no trees in Antarctica.\\
'''Alan:''' That's how they get ya!
* ColourCodedCharacters: The pilots wear coloured sashes -- which do not match the original show's colours (they instead match the colour of their crafts, except for John):
** Scott: Silver
** Virgil: Green
** Alan: Red
** Gordon: Yellow
** John: Orange
** Kayo: No sash, but has a black utility harness instead.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The vehicles:
** ''Thunderbird 1'': Silver and Blue
** ''Thunderbird 2'': Green
** ''Thunderbird 3'': Red
** ''Thunderbird 4'': Yellow
** ''Thunderbird 5'': Gold and silver
** ''Thunderbird S'': Black
** F.A.B. 1: pink
* CompanionCube: In "Slingshot", Ned the asteroid miner keeps up a running commentary to his potted geranium Gladys, and at one point announces her opinion on the current situation. During their second appearance in "Under Pressure", Gladys occasionally gets reaction shots in which the swaying of the flower looks like nodding or head-shaking in response to Ned's last remark.
* ContinuityNod:
** The solar collector subplot in "Ring of Fire" is lifted directly from the original ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' episode "Lord Parker's 'Oliday", but moves the location from the Mediterranean to [[UsefulNotes/{{Taiwan}} Taipei]].
** In "Fireflash", as Kayo brings the titular CoolPlane for a landing, the old [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyGk4JwQiFo "Fireflash Landing"]] score is utilized.
* CoolCar: Lady Penelope's Rolls-Royce FAB-1, no longer referred to as a Rolls-Royce and lacking the "Spirit of Ecstasy" hood ornament, but still retaining the traditional oversized chrome grille (now topped with a rocket hood ornament) and a silver hood resembling that on the modern Rolls-Royce Phantom. No weapons have been revealed yet, but it has been shown that the car possess flying and oil-slick capabilities.
* CoolPet: Lady P now has a dog named Sherbet.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Of a sort. "Unplugged" showed just how reliant International Rescue (and by extension the City of London) was on their technology. So much so that Virgil believes his presence is useless without it.
* CuteMachines: Brains now has a robot assistant named Max.
* CyberCyclops: The A.I. in "EOS" is the variety where it controls a building and the building's cameras act as face stand-ins, with ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and obvious (and ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' a possible) influence.
* DarkSecret: Kayo is The Hood's niece, though so far none of the Tracys are aware of this.
* DisappearedDad: Unlike in the original show, Jeff Tracy is nowhere to be seen. In "Ring of Fire", it is mentioned that he was in a crash, and that [[BigBad The Hood]] is to blame. But they NeverFoundTheBody.
* DurableDeathtrap: The tomb in "Tunnels of Time" is full of traps, including spears and deadly gas vents, that are still working after nearly a thousand years.
* EasterEgg:
** John likes watching ''[[Series/{{Stingray1964}} Stingray]]'' reruns, as indicated in the pilot, where he watches a snippet of the series' opening credits hologram-style in Thunderbird 5.
** One of the characters in the pilot is named Meddings, after Gerry Anderson's visual effects wizard Derek Meddings. (There was also a character called Meddings in the original version's pilot.)
** The doomed underwater research base in the pilot has a module resembling the nose of an Eagle transporter from ''[[Series/{{Space1999}} Space: 1999]]''.
** When FAB-1 sprouts wings and takes flight, it resembles Series/{{Supercar}}.
* TheExitIsThatWay: At the beginning of "Slingshot", Alan is woken by an emergency call and sleepily stumbles into his closet before finding the door of his bedroom.
* EvilDetectingDog: In "Under Pressure", Lady Penelope's usually-friendly lapdog reacts aggressively to a corporate executive who turns out to be the Hood in disguise.
* EvilGloating: The Hood has a bad case of this in "Unplugged", where he starts gloating to his pawns about how he's used them for his own purposes as soon as he's got his hands on the MacGuffin -- while they're all still standing in the vault where it was stored. Fair enough, he goes on to demonstrate that he's planned his exit, but wouldn't it have been a good idea anyway to leave the scene of the crime first?
* EvilLuddite: A group shutdown Thunderbird 02 and the entire city of London in "Unplugged". Predictably, these were merely pawns for the Hood.
* FacelessGoons: In "Under Pressure", the Hood has three mooks wearing motorcycle helmets with opaque faceplates.
* FailedASpotCheck: In "Crosscut", Scott investigates a room that's supposedly been abandoned for a decade and takes a worryingly long time to spot the clear trail of footprints running across the dusty floor.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The Hood in this version is a ''lot'' more sophisticated and calmer than the diabolical LargeHam we saw in the original series. He seems to bear more of a resemblance to Creator/BenKingsley's portrayal of the character from [[Film/{{Thunderbirds}} a certain live-action adaptation]].
* FighterLaunchingSequence: Faithfully reproduced from the original series.
* GravitySucks: In "Heavy Metal", scientists researching gravitons accidentally create a "gravity tornado" that sucks aircraft and satellites out of the sky, and generally behaves in ways that real gravity doesn't.
* GreatOffscreenWar: In "Space Race", there is a mention of a global conflict that spanned from 2040 to most 2043 and even in 2060, there are remnants of the war left such as space mines. (Which is itself a modern update of England's very real UXB [Unexploded German Bomb] problem, dating back from the last days of WW2, and still ongoing today.)
* HolographicDisguise: The Hood uses one in "Under Pressure".
* HotScientist: Professor Moffat in "Heavy Metal", in an {{Adorkable}} sort of way.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Just about every second line from Lady Penelope and Parker during the fight scene in "Under Pressure" is a pun.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: When Grandma Tracy says it's time for a family dinner, Virgil says he'll go to clean up and tells Gordon to meet him at the ship. Scott and Alan on the other hand ...
-->'''Scott:''' (''pretending to listen to a communicator'') What's that, John? A rescue? I'm on my way!\\
'''Alan:''' Uh, I think I left my thruster on!
* IfIDoNotReturn: In the episode "Runaway", Brains is dangling from a zipline from Thunderbird 1. When it appears he will slam into a mountain face, he screams "TELL MAX I LOVE HIM!!!"
* IgnoringBySinging: In "EOS", the rogue AI does this when John tries to persuade her that he means her no harm. She doesn't have hands to clap over her ears (or ears), but on the other hand, she can sing "la la la" ''really loud''.
* InMediasRes: When the show starts, they've already been doing rescues for a while. We join the action when The Hood reappears on the scene.
* InstantAIJustAddWater: EOS, the AI in "Runaway" and "EOS", spontaneously evolved from a non-sapient computer program when its creator wasn't looking.
* ItTastesLikeFeet: In "Runaway", John and Alan each independently remark that a cookie from Grandma's latest batch "tastes like a foot".
* LethalChef: Grandma's cooking is apparently so bad that everyone [[INeedToGoIronMyDog makes whatever excuses they can]] to avoid having to try it. Even Max the robot cooks better than she does.
-->'''Alan''': ''[gags]'' [[ItTastesLikeFeet Tastes like a foot]].
* LeParkour:
** Kayo, when infiltrating the Hood's Australian base.
** Parker retains some skills from his youth.
* LudicrousPrecision: In "EOS", the rogue AI announces that the odds against the Thunderbirds defeating it are 5617 to 1.
* MadeOfIron:
** Most apparent with Scott in "Crosscut", however this applies to all brothers to some extent.
** Sometimes covered by RuleOfFunny, such as when Brains is testing a walking-on-the-ceiling device in "EOS", and falls a significant distance without noticeable ill effect when the device breaks down.
* MadnessMantra: In "Runaway", a terrified Brains has been reduced to repeating a series of mathematics and electrical engineers lessons to himself (which is understandable since he was ''hanging for dear life from a long wire under a speeding Thunderbird 1!'') .
* MediumBlending: Miniatures with CG animation.
* MonumentalDamage: ''Thunderbird 2'' clips the top of Nelson's Column as Virgil brings it in for an emergency landing in London in "Unplugged".
* MuggedForDisguise: In "Unplugged", Lady Penelope and Parker mug two of the Luddites and take their face-concealing hoods.
* MythologyGag: Interestingly, Brains', ah, ah, SpeechImpediment from the original series is almost completely gone in this version. This could serve as a nod to Gerry Anderson's proposed ''Thunderbirds'' remake, ''T-Force'', in the 1980s, in which the stammer would have been gone entirely, rendering Brains to be actually quite an eloquent speaker (which he is here).
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In "Slingshot", International Rescue comes to the aid of an asteroid miner named Ned Tedford. Ned reappears in "Under Pressure", having got as far from space as possible by taking a new job on an undersea platform -- which promptly goes wrong, requiring International Rescue to come to his aid again.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In "Heavy Metal", one of the astronauts on the stricken Worldwide Space Station bears a clear resemblance to International Space Station astronaut (and Youtube celebrity) Chris Hadfield.
* NoOSHACompliance: CIRUS and presumably anything else created by Langstrom Fischler, [[TooDumbToLive a danger to himself and others]] who thinks it's a good idea to fill balloons with superheated hydrogen plasma for use as weather station flotation devices, finds redundancy pointless, and is too impatient to install other safety systems such as ''escape pods''. CIRUS even proved a hazard to the Thunderbirds -- the static electricity building up on the station because of the lack of static dampening plates shorts out ''Thunderbird 2'', forcing Gordon to abort his attempt to fix the aerofoils and take control of the stricken aircraft through the pod, and the superheated hydrogen plasma balloons cause it to reach altitudes that ''Thunderbird 1'''s engines aren't designed to handle.
* NoPaperFuture: It's all computer screens and holograms. Made explicit in "Unplugged", when the grey-haired Parker remarks that he hasn't seen anyone use paper since he was in school.
* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: "Crosscut" establishes that nuclear weapons and even nuclear power generation is a thing of the past, having been judged too dangerous in the wrong hands. (It's not said what replaced them.) When Scott hears that somebody has been surreptitiously buying uranium, he correctly concludes without any further evidence that it's the Hood, apparently because nobody else would do such a thing.
* OhCrap:
** Played for laughs. Appears to be the general reaction to Grandma Tracy's cooking.
** Played straight when Alan discovers a live nuclear-powered SAT-MINE in space.
* OnePasswordAttemptEver: The deactivation code for the automated weapon in "Space Race" is designed on this principle; if the first attempt to enter it is unsuccessful, the weapon will assume enemy action and destroy itself, the person entering the code, and anything else that happens to be within range.
* OopNorth: Ned the asteroid miner in "Slingshot" has the accent and no-nonsense attitude of a stereotypical northern miner.
* OutOfOrder: Thanks to being shown on ITV on a bank holiday weekend instead of the usual CITV morning timeslot, episode 13 ("Tunnels of Time") aired tenth.
* ParrotExpowhat: On arrival at the Quantum Research Centre in "Heavy Metal":
-->'''Brains:''' This is the epicentre of leading-edge research into spin-2 bosons.\\
'''Alan:''' Spin-who what-sons?
* PowerLossMakesYouStrong: Virgil goes through this plot in "Unplugged". The villain's scheme involves causing every electronic device in the area to malfunction, leaving Virgil to rise to the challenge of saving the day without the aid of any of the gadgets he usually uses.
* RaceLift: Brains is now a BollywoodNerd, and the Kyranos, including the Hood, flip races from Asian to British.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: In "EOS", the AI's camera-eyes have status lights that change color with the AI's mood; when she's feeling angry or hostile, they are of course red.
* TheRemake: The whole show is this, but especially episode 5, "Fireflash", which is a remake of the original pilot episode, [[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E1TrappedInTheSky "Trapped in the Sky"]].
* RunawayTrain: International Rescue have to stop a runaway experimental train in "Runaway".
* TheScream: At the beginning of "Under Pressure", the operator of the stricken undersea salvage platform panics and starts screaming. The camera pulls back all the way to orbit, with Thunderbird 5 drifting through the shot, and the scream is still audible. (In a DiegeticSwitch, it then turns out that the scream actually is audible inside Thunderbird 5, because John's picked up the platform's distress transmission.)
* ShaggySearchTechnique: Ably demonstrated by Parker while exploring the South American pyramid in "Tunnels of Time".
* ShipTease: For Gordon and Lady Penelope, especially in "Tunnels of Time".
* ShoutOut: During "EOS" John has to spacewalk to repair a busted AE-35 unit and is attacked by a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] which refuses to let him back in through the airlock. [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Sound familiar?]]
* SixthRanger: Kayo, who gets her own Thunderbird at the end of the "Ring of Fire" two-parter.
%%Remember, the first two episodes premiered as an omnibus, so it is episode 2 and not episode 1%%
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Pretty much the entire episode "Slingshot", in which Thunderbird 3 goes to rescue a miner from an asteroid that's about to crash into the sun. Probably the biggest issue is the travel times, which show SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance -- for instance, it's stated that the trip back to Earth takes three hours, over a distance which takes ''months'' using the current best technology.
* SpaceElevator: John is shown in several episodes using one to travel between Tracy Island and Thunderbird 5. A lot of technical limitations, such as requiring an anchor point on the planet's equator, appear to have been handwaved away.
* SpaceMadness: The asteroid miner in "Slingshot", after an unstated but lengthy solo stint on his asteroid, has a mild version involving emotional immaturity and an attachment to a CompanionCube potted geranium.
* SpikedWheels: The motorcycle mooks which the Hood sends against Lady Penelope in "Under Pressure" have these, though they don't achieve any noticeable damage to FAB-1.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Arguably, to ''WesternAnimation/GerryAndersonsNewCaptainScarlet''. Both are remakes of popular Anderson-led Supermarionation series from the '60s, and both have a very similar art style.
* SpoilerOpening: As in the original series, the opening titles of each episode include a montage of moments from the episode itself.
* StockFootage: As in the original series, there's a single "suiting up and launching" sequence for each Thunderbird, with variety created by varying which bits of it are shown from episode to episode.
* TemptingFate: At the beginning of "Under Pressure", the operator of an undersea salvage vessel remarks that the best part of his job is that there's no drama. The vessel immediately catches fire and breaks down.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The year is 2060, which is 45 years from now. In comparison, the original show from 1965 was set 100 years in the future in the year 2065, 5 years later from this show's setting.
* VariableTerminalVelocity: Averted. When saving a falling man in the opening of "Ring of Fire", Virgil doesn't even try to dive after him, and even Thunderbird 2 doesn't catch up just by falling -- instead he gets back in and uses the ship's rockets to dive faster.
* VastBureaucracy: In "Space Race", Lady Penelope and Parker need access to the kill code of a nuclear space mine that threatens to destroy Alan along with Thunderbird 3. A lady at the Consolidated File Archive informs them that the paperwork can only be accessed with an access retrieval form...and that even with the form, files can only be released to requestors on the first Thursday of every month.
* VerbalTic: Brains' stutter, while still present, is {{downplayed}} to the point where it's hardly noticable. It does, however, become noticeably stronger when he's under emotional stress in "Heavy Metal" (which actually has a "special thanks" credit at the end of the episode for speech impediment specialist Elaine Kelman).
* VomitDiscretionShot: In "Runaway", Brains is showing sitting behind Scott, visibly nervous about having to fly in Thunderbird 1. We soon see his eyes and cheeks bulge out, Brain leaning over (hidden by Scott's seat back) and all we hear is the sound of an airsickness bag rustling, and Brains groaning.
* {{Xenafication}}: Tin-tin has been [[AdaptationNameChange renamed]] Kayo to [[NamesTheSame distinguish her from]] the [[{{Franchise/Tintin}} Belgian boy detective]], and is now head of security with her own Thunderbird. Like Brains, she was also {{Race Lift}}ed.
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