Line #16 WesternAnimation/HeroesOfTheCity


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2	[[caption-width-right:474:"'Cause when things go so wrong, our heroes are strong!"]]
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4	''Heroes of the City'' is a Swedish animated children's cartoon produced by Your Family Entertainment and Ruta Ett DVD AB, which revolves around a duo of first responder vehicles named Fiona Fire Engine and Paulie Police Car, and their adventures in the city, helping those in emergencies.
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6	The show was originally released in 2012 in Sweden, and became a popular hit on the video streaming website Website/YouTube, with episodes garnering as much as millions of views. The show ended its original run in 2014, but eventually made its proper sendoff in ''Heroes of the City: The Movie'', which revolves around the old mayor of the city retiring which leads to Calamity Crow taking his place, erecting a series of nonsensical laws.
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8	!!It's troping time!:
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10	* AlliterativeName: Most of the character's names begin with the first letter of what kind of vehicle/machine they are, such as Paulie Police Car, Robbie Robot, Harry Hotrod, and Tilly Train among others.
11	* BornUnlucky: Poor, poor Calamity Crow.
12	* BuddyCopShow: A variant which involves a police car and fire truck duo.
13	* {{Catchphrase}}: "It's... ACTION TIME!", for whenever Alice informs Paulie and Fiona in an emergency.
14	* CleverCrows: Inverted; While Calamity Crow isn't "dumb" dumb, he constantly gets himself and most of the time, others into danger.
15	* EnlightenedSelfInterest: In "One Hundred Cats", after Fiona rescues her 99th cat from a tree, the mayor tells her that once she rescues her 100th cat, a party will be held on her behalf, along with a trophy. This leads to Fiona getting so worked up about the party and trophy to the point where she nearly rescues a cat over Hotdog Herbie, whose apartment is on fire.
16	* FourLeafClover: Calamity Crow bears one in "Luck Be a Crow", and when he starts to notice he's protected from bad luck, he ''deliberately puts himself into danger'' because he has his four-leaf clover.
17	* FunnyAnimal: Among the sentient vehicles, a race of anthropomorphic birds exist such as Calamity Crow, Hotdog Herbie, and [=MC=] Squawk.
18	* FurryConfusion: While sapient avians do exist in the show, non-sapient ducks, ''geese'', and '''crows''' exist in the show. Take into account that Calamity is a crow.
19	** It gets even weirder in an episode where Hotdog Herbie is seen ''chasing a flock of geese''.
20	* IdenticalTwinMistake: In "Walking the Prank", Harry Hotrod gets framed by the whole town for pranks he didn't commit, which were actually pulled by his cousin Wayne, who almost bears a striking resemblance to him.
21	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [=MC=] Squawk is a parody of Music/MCHammer.
22	* PaletteSwap: Any OneShotCharacter will simply be a recolor of a main character with an added or removed accessory:
23	** All of the background cars who serve little importance are simply recolors of Paulie Police Car and Harry Hotrod.
24	** Roberta Robot is a recolor of Robby Robot, only with hair and glasses.
25	** Larry Locomotive is a multicolored Tilly Train with a moustache and tophat.
26	* PlotAllergy: After Alice eats a "shushberry" cake in "Alice's Alarm", she quickly develops a reaction to the cake, which leads to Calamity Crow translating her muffled dialogue over to Paulie and Fiona, albeit very off.
27	* SentientVehicle: Every. Single. Vehicle (although other objects who aren't vehicles apply, such as a pair of fixed binoculars named Lookout Luke, and Alice Alarm, a loudspeaker).
28	* SteamNeverDies: Despite being set in a time with fully functional robots and computers, Tilly Train and Larry Locomotive are both steam trains.

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