History WesternAnimation / ThunderbirdsAreGo

* ThrillerOnTheExpress: "Heist Society". On an underwater hyper loop train, Lady Penelope and Parker are escorting Professor Moffat to a rendezvouses with the Global Defence Force in Iceland in order to safely deliver a particle born from the Supreme Hadron Collider disaster - Centurium 21. However, the Hood is keen to get his hands on the particle and plots an elaborate robbery in order to steal it for himself. Thunderbirds 1, 2, and 4 are soon dispatched to not only rescue the trapped train and its passengers, but also attempt to foil the Hood's plan.

* MediumBlending: The characters, vehicles, and most of the explosions are CGI, while everything else (including ''all'' of Tracey ISland) is a physical model; occasionally, live pyrotechnics are used, mainly to blow up buildings.

* MediumBlending: Miniatures with CG animation.

* InkSuitActor: GadgeteerGenius Tycho Reeves from the episode Hyperspeed looks exactly like his voice actor, DavidTennant.

* ShaggySearchTechnique: Ably demonstrated by Parker while exploring the South American pyramid in "Tunnels of Time".

* StarfishAliens: In the series 2 episode Deep Search, Gordon and Alan Tracy travel to the moon of Europa to recsue a pair of astronaut vloggers who were trying to discover life there who got trapped in the underground oceans. After the Tracys rescue the duo, they encounter a large green bioluminescent creature akin to a featureless manta-ray. It's also a colonial lifeform, as it's revealed to made up of thousands of tiny organisms when scanned.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: At the end of ''Signals Part 1'', Havoc manages to steal Thunderbird 3. However, come ''Signals Part 2'', it turns out she did this out of impulsive opportunism without an actual plan to keep her acquisition, something the Hood calls her out on [[spoiler:since he made the same mistake with Zero-X]].

* 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. Tintin[=/=]Kayo's father Kyrano has also been AdaptedOut [[spoiler:making her relationship with the Hood even more of a tenuous stretch.]]

* 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.

** Then in the series 3 episode Life signs, Alan and Virgil travel to Mars to rescue Captain Lee Taylor and a scientist obsessed with finding life on Mars after the caverns they're in collapses around them. In the episode's epilogue, it's reveled that the probes the scientist sent into a crevasse have discovered an underground lake, in swimming in it are several tiny bioluminescent tadpole-like creatures that swim in shoals.

** Then in the series 3 episode Life signs, Alan and Virgil travel to Mars to rescue Captain Lee Taylor and scientist obsessed with finding life on Mars after the caverns they're in collapses around them. In the episode's epilogue, it's reveled that the probes the scientist sent into a crevasse have discovered an underground lake, in swimming in it are several tiny bioluminescent tadpole-like creatures that swim in shoals.

Not to be confused with the 1966 [[TheMovie film]] set in the milieu of the original series.

** The drones that {{Sucksessor more or less replace the Thunderbirds}} in the season 3 premier. When faced with a situation involving two groups of people in equal amounts of danger, the drones freeze up, unable to figure out who to rescue first. [[FromBadToWorse And then the Chaos Crew get their hands on the remote...]]

** A tiny but clever one, in "Designated Driver", we see Lady Penelope reaching down to press a hidden button while the burglars bicker amongst themselves. The camera shows a clearly human (not CGI) hand pressing the button. This is a tribute to the original "Thunderbirds" series which would use human hands in close ups when they would handle items.

* 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.

* HolyShitQuotient: A lot of what International Rescue does causes this, but the Episode "Deep Search" has to take the cake, the rescue taking place [[spoiler:10 miles under the ice of Europa. Yes, the moon of Jupiter named Europa. "Help is on the way," indeed]].

* [[IKEAWeaponry IKEA Vehicle]]: Instead of a large variety of auxiliary machines in the original series, Thunderbird 2's second pod contains an array of modular vehicle components, which can be assembled on-site into a variety of auxiliary machines. Examples include a four-rotor gyrocopter, a bulldozer, space modules, and the Mole digger.

* TalkingToHimself: The five Tracy brothers are voiced by three actors. David Menkin voicing Virgil and Gordon and Rasmus Hardiker voicing Scott and Alan.

* YouHaveFailedMe: The Hood refuses to bail Imposter Janus out of prison for failing to procure Thunderbird 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.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:In the season 2 finale, the Hood stuns the Mechanic (who just broke him out of jail) and leaves him behind in his crippled drilling machine, so the GDF will have to deal with him while the Hood makes his escape.]]

* WhamLine: Kayo gives a scathing one to the Hood in the season one finale
--> '''Kayo''': Your plan to blow up Tracy Island has one small problem, ''we're not on Tracy Island''. Welcome to Mateo Island. Right next door.

* AsteroidsMiner: In "Slingshot", a large solar flare causes a malfunction at a mining operation on an asteroid, sending it careening towards the sun and endangering its only crewman.

* 20MinutesintotheFuture: The series, like the original which was set in 2065 to 2067, is set in the 2060s, specifically 2060.