Line #16 Animation/GGBond


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3	''GG Bond'' (猪猪侠 - Pinyin ''Zhuzhu Xia'') is a Chinese animated series that was created by Ben Gu and is produced by Creator/WinsingAnimation, originally being produced by [=BlueArc=] Animation for its earliest seasons. The series started with a short film, ''GG Bond: Havoc in the Palace'' (猪猪侠之大闹皇宫), that released at a festival in 2005 before being made into a full-time series in 2006. It's been regularly airing new episodes since, accumulating over 1,000 episodes and seven movies as of 2022.
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5	The series stars a young pig boy named GG Bond, a superhero who has a love of justice and food. He visits all sorts of locations and is placed into all sorts of situations that require his attention throughout each of the show's seasons, and works with a team of other pig people, consisting of gentle smart girl Phoebe, headstrong Super Q, resourceful genius Bobby, sleepy S-Daddy, and their leader, the often-confused inventor Dr. Mihoo.
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7	A number of episodes have been dubbed into English, and the series has been aired internationally. The series has an official Website/YouTube channel over [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZEAp9eums1QhETaNVp9wvg here]].
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10	!!''GG Bond'' contains the following tropes:
11	* AdorableEvilMinions: The one-eyed hand viruses serving the villain in ''Ultimate Battle'' don't look particularly harmful, and indeed, they actually help GG Bond and his crew by taking them through an elevator that's normally only for viruses.
12	* AlternateUniverse: It's explained in Season 16 that each season takes place in a different version of the ''GG Bond'' universe, hence why the characters' personalities tend to be somewhat inconsistent from one season to another.
13	* AnimalFacialHair: In later seasons, anthropomorphic pig Dr. Mihoo has a beard.
14	* AnimalSuperheroes: The main heroes are a group of anthropomorphic pigs.
15	* AnnualTitle: The second season, ''Martial Arts 2008'', is a bit of a variation in that the season actually premiered in 2007.
16	* BananaPeel: In Season 12 episode 5, GG Bond notices the city hasn't been cleaned and slips on a banana peel that's among the trash. He slides out of control, avoiding several obstacles in a row before flying over a city resident, slipping again on a watermelon slice, and then running into a traffic light.
17	* BraggingThemeTune: The theme tune focuses on praising GG Bond's heroism, describing how he's "so much more than your average pig".
18	* DontTryThisAtHome: An on-screen message reading something to this effect appears whenever the characters do something outside of their battle sequences that could be dangerous in real life, such as in Season 12 episode 5 when GG Bond traverses a busy street to save Zyra from being hit by a vehicle.
19	* DubNameChange: S-Daddy is known as Xiao Daidai, or "Little Dull", in the Chinese original.
20	* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: The pigs were pudgier and far less cutesy-looking in the earlier seasons.
21	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The earliest episodes of the series, specifically Seasons 1 and 2, had 20-minute-long episodes instead of the standard 14-minute episodes it would grow into.
22	* ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName: A large number of episode titles have two parts to them, the first part ending with an exclamation mark.
23	* FacelessEye: The virus tower in ''Ultimate Battle'' has a bunch of tentacle hands that attack GG Bond and his gang, all with large, single eyes.
24	* FairyTaleFreeForAll: The fairy world city has multiple fairy tale characters inhabiting it, such as Literature/SnowWhite, Literature/LittleRedRidingHood and TheBigBadWolf, and Literature/SleepingBeauty.
25	* GravityIsAHarshMistress: In a Season 5 episode, GG Bond emerges from a bathroom rocket flying through the air and doesn't notice for a few seconds that he's not standing on anything, only falling when he does realize he's in midair.
26	* HumanlikeHandAnatomy: The anthropomorphic pigs have [[FourFingeredHands four-]] or five-fingered hands (depending on the season) that look exactly like human hands.
27	* AnIcePerson: The ice deer transformation used by S-Daddy can use ice attacks and projectiles against its enemies.
28	* KidHero: GG Bond and his teammates (not including Dr. Mihoo) are all eight years old.
29	* LivingToys: Season 5 takes place in a world of life-sized building blocks that is inhabited by [[Franchise/{{LEGO}} minifigure]]-looking toy people.
30	* {{Medusa}}: She's seen in Season 8 episodes 25 and 26, with her [[TakenForGranite turning two of GG Bond's teammates to stone with her vision]] before facing GG Bond himself in the latter of the two episodes.
31	* TheMovie: The series has produced seven feature-length movies as of 2022. The specific movies' titles are, in order of the year they were first released, ''GG Bond: Hatching'' (2012), ''GG Bond and the Beanstalk'' (or simply ''GG Bond 2'') (2014), ''GG Bond: Ultimate Battle'' (2015), ''GG Bond: Guarding'' (2016), ''GG Bond: Lollipop in Fantasy'' (2019), ''GG Bond: Dinosaur Diary'' (2021), and ''GG Bond: Ocean Mission'' (2022).
32	* MushroomMan: In Season 13 episode 11, the gang discovers a mushroom they were grilling is sentient and spare it. The mushroom, Momo, turns out to be the [[LastOfHisKind only survivor]] of the mushroom people on Planet Dobudo, where the inhabitants [[SterilityPlague lost their ability to produce spores]]. In the episode following that one, the pigs fight against a giant mushroom monster with a FacelessEye and large mushroom hands.
33	* NewSeasonNewName: In the typical Chinese cartoon fashion, each season has a different subtitle appended to it. Just to name a few examples, Season 1 is called ''Magic Jurassic'', Season 2 is ''Martial Arts 2008'', and Season 3 is ''Adventure in the Future''.
34	* NotTheIntendedUse: In the first episode of Season 12, Phoebe helps GG Bond rescue a bag of stolen goods from a thief. They then discover that it's a bag of records stolen from a video store, and that the owner lets his dog play with the records like frisbees. GG Bond questions if that's the reason why he even collects records to begin with.
35	* NumberedSequels: The second movie is titled simply ''GG Bond 2''.
36	* PlayingTheHeartStrings: In ''Ultimate Battle'', a simple, saddening violin piece is heard playing when GG Bond cries over wanting to see his father again. A similar piece plays later when he looks over his memory album with Phoebe.
37	* ThePowerOfRock: In Season 12, Megaceros is seen playing a guitar that shoots projectiles to attack GG Bond.
38	* QuarterHourShort: The standard episode length is 12-15 minutes or somewhere thereabouts. Originally, in Seasons 1 and 2, episodes were 20 minutes long.
39	* Really700YearsOld: The Season 1 version of GG Bond gets sealed away in the Light of Hope, and 3,000 years pass by the time he's released, though he barely looks like he aged at all.
40	* RedIsHeroic: GG Bond's superhero outfit is red with yellow accents.
41	* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Season 9 features a chameleon man as one of its villains.
42	* RumpRoast: In the first episode of Season 12, Phoebe uses a fire attack on a wolf thief, causing his bottom to catch on fire. He promptly starts rolling on the ground to put out the flame.
43	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Phoebe is the only female of the main team.
44	* ThisIsASong: The full version of the English-dubbed theme song contains a short rap section that has the lyrics "''GG's always going strong/That's why he's got his own theme song''".
45	* ThreePointLanding: One of GG Bond's pieces of stock artwork depicts him in this pose.
46	* TitleThemeTune: ''Oh GG Bond, a hero for today! Oh GG Bond, he makes it all OK! Oh GG Bond, super in every way! Bigger than big, so much more than your average pig!''
47	* ToyTime: Season 5 takes place in a village built out of LEGO-like toy bricks, with minifigure people inhabiting it.
48	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: GG Bond absolutely loves lollipops.
49	* TransferredTransformation: Originally GG Bond had all the powers of transformation for himself, being able to transform into a tiger, a bear, a crane, an ape, and a deer. Eventually, all the transformations got transferred to GG Bond's fellow teammates, with GG Bond keeping only the tiger one.
50	* TransformationSequence: The characters tend to have extravagant transformation sequences whenever they morph into their stronger animalistic forms.
51	* TrashLanding: In a Season 5 episode, GG Bond falls from a rocket in the air and lands in a trash container.
52	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In Seasons 7-9, the pigs have the ability to shapeshift into stronger animalistic forms, with GG Bond initially having all the transformations before they're spread throughout the team. GG Bond transforms into a tiger, Phoebe transforms into a crane, Super Q transforms into a bear, S-Daddy transforms into a deer, and Bobby transforms into an ape.
53	* WouldRatherSuffer: In Season 12 episode 2, GG Bond demonstrates his singing skills, which turn out to be [[DreadfulMusician so awful]] that S-Daddy says that he would rather listen to cats screeching than hear GG Bond's singing.

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