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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: This is quite possibly the only children's show to have featured mind-altering drugs and cannibalism in the same episode. The series also contains child labour, implied sexual slavery (with slavers refusing to sell a baby to the BigBad to be killed because she'd fetch a higher price as wife material), repeated attempts at infanticide, and BodyHorror.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: This is quite possibly the only children's show to have featured mind-altering drugs and cannibalism in the same episode. The series also contains child labour, implied sexual slavery (with slavers refusing to sell a baby preadolescent girl to the BigBad to be killed because she'd fetch a higher price as wife material), repeated attempts at infanticide, BodyHorror, and BodyHorror.an ethical debate on whether or not [[MercyKill mercy-killing a corrupted hero]] (who is quite literally begging for death) is the correct decision. This show manages to make its sister show ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''--a series whose central conceit was based upon the genocide of almost all humanity--look tame by comparison.
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** "Off the Map": UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} is a scummy pirate captain who makes his living by kidnapping batches of women and girls. Blackbeard then [[HumanTraffickers sells them off]] to Manland, an island biologically incapable of giving birth to females, so that the women can be forcibly married off and [[SexSlave used to repopulate the islan]]d. Capturing the Fantasia troupe, Blackbeard plans to sell the men to the Nennog for a terrible fate, while he intends to hand the women over to Manland as his latest "delivery", gleefully informing them of their coming fate as married slaves.

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** "Off the Map": UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} is a scummy pirate captain who makes his living by kidnapping batches of women and girls. Blackbeard then [[HumanTraffickers sells them off]] to Manland, an island biologically incapable of giving birth to females, so that the women can be forcibly married off and [[SexSlave used to repopulate the islan]]d.island]]. Capturing the Fantasia troupe, Blackbeard plans to sell the men to the Nennog for a terrible fate, while he intends to hand the women over to Manland as his latest "delivery", gleefully informing them of their coming fate as married slaves.

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** "Gramth": [[MayorPain The Mayor of Gramth]] holds a totalitarian dictatorship over the city, wallowing in wealth and power while his constituents suffer in squalor. In order to buff out his mining operations, the Mayor regularly has [[WouldHurtAChild children]] snatched off the street and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil forced into hard labor]] in the mines. The children are worked to exhaustion and [[ElectricTorture shocked with electricity]] to keep them in line, and any child found wandering the streets without proper identification are immediately grabbed for enslavement.


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** "Off the Map": UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} is a scummy pirate captain who makes his living by kidnapping batches of women and girls. Blackbeard then [[HumanTraffickers sells them off]] to Manland, an island biologically incapable of giving birth to females, so that the women can be forcibly married off and [[SexSlave used to repopulate the islan]]d. Capturing the Fantasia troupe, Blackbeard plans to sell the men to the Nennog for a terrible fate, while he intends to hand the women over to Manland as his latest "delivery", gleefully informing them of their coming fate as married slaves.

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* {{Squick}}: In the episode Greentown, a heavily drugged Ozul protests blearily that 'that's very exotic, master, but I must warn you- I'm ticklish!' [[BioAugmentation Given]] [[EvilMakesYouUgly the master]] [[{{Mutants}} in question]]...

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In the episode Greentown, a heavily drugged Ozul protests blearily that 'that's very exotic, master, but I must warn you- I'm ticklish!' [[BioAugmentation Given]] [[EvilMakesYouUgly the master]] [[{{Mutants}} in question]]...

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* AngstWhatAngst: After ''Hillfolk'', Timon and Eden barely mention their parents' deaths.

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After ''Hillfolk'', Timon and Eden barely mention their parents' deaths.

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* CompleteMonster:
** [[FromNobodyToNightmare The Nennog]] is the evil, gene-splicing BigBad of the series and the ruler of the insidious BadFuture. Once a mere [[WasOnceAMan human duke]] who took advantage of a crippling winter to convince the city of Solis to place him in power, the Nennog transforms Solis into a radioactive hellhole answerable only to himself, where citizens die merely for speaking up against him. In the present day, the Nennog possesses an innocent woman to blow up the solar converter that threatens his rule, careless this would take out anyone in the area for miles. The Nennog is also the EvilUncle to the time-sliding children Timon, Eden and Jewel; having already killed their parents, the Nennog takes a special interest in corrupting Timon to become its would-be heir, mutating him in a process as agonizing mentally as it is physically. In its lowest moment, the Nennog almost convinces a half-mutated Timon to strangle his baby sister to death.
** "Greentown": [[ImAHumanitarian Missy and Brewer]], seemingly the cook and butler, respectively, for the strange community of Greentown, actually run the entire place behind-the-scenes. The two lure in innocents from near and far with the prospect of incredible feasts. The "feasts" are actually worms and dirt; Missy and Brewer are secretly cannibalistic {{serial killer}}s who enchant their victims with [[FantasticDrug fantastic drugs]], then kill them to eat them and leave nothing to waste. Even denying payment over food (since "you can't eat money") the two have murdered dozens, with a room full of the belongings of their previous victims [[WouldHurtAChild shown to include dolls and stuffed animals]].
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** Also in ''Solis'', when [[spoiler:a fully-transformed Timon catches a passing bug with his tongue.]]

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** Also in ''Solis'', when [[spoiler:a fully-transformed Timon catches a passing bug with his tongue.]]]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: This is quite possibly the only children's show to have featured mind-altering drugs and cannibalism in the same episode. The series also contains child labour, implied sexual slavery (with slavers refusing to sell a baby to the BigBad to be killed because she'd fetch a higher price as wife material), repeated attempts at infanticide, and BodyHorror.
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* EarWorm: Lilith's "Hoochie Coochie" song. In universe, though, not so much.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Boomer. Oh so much.

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* EarWorm: Lilith's "Hoochie Coochie" song. In universe, though, not so much.
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* TheScrappy: Lilith.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Victoria Kelly's lush [[http://web.mac.com/pookina1/Maddigans_Quest/Maddigans_Quest_Podcasts/Maddigans_Quest_Podcasts.html score]] for the series, especially the opening and closing themes, captured the spirit of the Fantasia's journey.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Victoria Kelly's lush [[http://web.mac.com/pookina1/Maddigans_Quest/Maddigans_Quest_Podcasts/Maddigans_Quest_Podcasts.html score]] for the series, especially the opening and closing themes, captured the spirit of the Fantasia's journey.
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* IAmNotShazam: The girl protagonist isn't Maddigan; she's Garland Maddigan. The circus is called Maddigan's Fantasia and the show itself is called Maddigan's Quest in reference to the quest that the entire circus takes. (In fact, Maddigan's Fantasia is the title of [[MargaretMahy Margaret Mahy's]] original book, which was changed when the producers got leery about using the word "Fantasia" and risking copyright problems with the Disney film).

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* IAmNotShazam: The girl protagonist isn't Maddigan; she's Garland Maddigan. The circus is called Maddigan's Fantasia and the show itself is called Maddigan's Quest in reference to the quest that the entire circus takes. (In fact, Maddigan's Fantasia is the title of [[MargaretMahy [[Creator/MargaretMahy Margaret Mahy's]] original book, which was changed when the producers got leery about using the word "Fantasia" and risking copyright problems with the Disney film).
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* IAmNotShazam: The girl protagonist isn't Maddigan; she's Garland Maddigan. The circus is called Maddigan's Fantasia and the show itself is called Maddigan's Quest in reference to the quest that the entire circus takes. (In fact, Maddigan's Fantasia is the title of [[MargaretMahy Margaret Mahy's]] original book, which was changed when the producers got leery about using the word "Fantasia" and risking copyright problems with the Disney film).
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* HilariousInHindsight: Fans of ''PowerRangersRPM'' may notice some amusing parallels and reminders of the season, as follows:

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* HilariousInHindsight: Fans of ''PowerRangersRPM'' ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' may notice some amusing parallels and reminders of the season, as follows:
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* BetterThanItSounds: 'Two boys and a baby run away and join a circus to defeat a cockroach who doesn't exist yet' really doesn't do it justice.

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* TheScrappy / TheLoad: Lilith.
** More specifically, Lilith ends up being the DamselScrappy as she had to be rescued multiple times by other members of the Fantasia. She can be ''extremely'' annoying, especially when she sings, and remains essentially static as the character gets little development as the series goes on. She overreacts to having a tomato thrown at her head, and at one point her showing off nearly gets Eden killed. Funnily enough, he seems to like her, in spite of her bratty behavior-one of the show's creators has suggested there's even a romantic element to it. The only other ones who seem to appreciate her, um, talent, are the Tunnelers.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: The CGI doesn't quite measure up to the production standards of, say, Weta Digital . . . to say the least.

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* TheScrappy / TheLoad: Lilith.
** More specifically, Lilith ends up being the DamselScrappy as she had to be rescued multiple times by other members of the Fantasia. She can be ''extremely'' annoying, especially when she sings, and remains essentially static as the character gets little development as the series goes on. She overreacts to having a tomato thrown at her head, and at one point her showing off nearly gets Eden killed. Funnily enough, he seems to like her, in spite of her bratty behavior-one of the show's creators has suggested there's even a romantic element to it. The only other ones who seem to appreciate her, um, talent, are the Tunnelers.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: The CGI doesn't quite measure up to the production standards of, say, Weta Digital . . . to say the least.
TheScrappy: Lilith.
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* AngstWhatAngst: After ''Hillfolk'', Timon and Eden barely mention their parents' deaths.
** Maddie also falls for Yves surprisingly fast, considering her husband died at the start of the series.
* BetterThanItSounds: 'Two boys and a baby run away and join a circus to defeat a cockroach who doesn't exist yet' really doesn't do it justice.


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* HilariousInHindsight: Fans of ''PowerRangersRPM'' may notice some amusing parallels and reminders of the season, as follows:
** The tunnels in the episode "Greentown" are the exact same ones used for Alphabet Soup, a secret government organization dedicated to raising child prodigies like Olivia Tennet's character Dr. K, who [[spoiler:[[NiceJobBreakingItHero causes the near destruction of Earth when she releases a computer supervirus named Venjix]] because [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds she "just wanted to go outside"]]]] after finding out that she and her friends were not allergic to sunlight--the pretense under which they have been kept hidden from the world by their handlers.
** In the episode "Newton", Garland has to bail out Lilith and Milo Cawthorne's one-shot character Bolek from an underground toxic waste dump. Fast forward to ''RPM'' a few years later, and Rose's character Summer ends up rescuing Olivia's and Milo's characters (Dr. K and Ziggy Grover) from a cave in the episode "If Venjix Won".
*** Earlier in that episode, Bolek throws a tomato at Lilith. On ''RPM'', Milo's character Ziggy ends up being the ButtMonkey to Olivia's Dr. K, the series' LittleMissSnarker mentor figure. It appears that the pair have experience giving each others' characters a difficult time.
** In the episode "Off The Map", Garland agrees to marry the son of the pirate Sultan to keep the solar converter from the wrong hands. In one episode of ''RPM'', Rose's character Summer agrees to go through with her ArrangedMarriage to keep the MacGuffin away from the season's BigBad Venjix. In both cases, it's thankfully subverted.


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** Also in ''Solis'', when [[spoiler:a fully-transformed Timon catches a passing bug with his tongue.]]
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The CGI doesn't quite measure up to the production standards of, say, Weta Digital . . . to say the least.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Boomer. Oh so much.
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* TheScrappy: Lilith.

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