Line #73 WesternAnimation/RegalAcademy


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:(from left to right) [[TheBigGuy Travis]], [[TheSmartGuy Astoria]], [[GenkiGirl Rose]], [[TheDitz Joy]], and [[ChickMagnet Hawk]]]]
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4	''Regal Academy'' was created by Iginio Straffi and Joanne Lee for [[Creator/RainbowSrl Rainbow SpA]]. As Rainbow's first entirely 3D CGI television series, it had an [[TroubledProduction exceptionally long]] pre-production time, with about ten years passing between when pre-production materials were first spotted at MIPCOM and its broadcast debut on Rai [=YoYo=] on May 21, 2016. In the United States, it debuted on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} on August 13, 2016, and since then it has appeared on Nickelodeon in many international markets.
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6	The show follows Fairy Tale [[AscendedFanboy fangirl]] Rose, who falls into [[FairyTaleFreeForAll the Fairy Tale World]] just in time to be revealed as the long-lost granddaughter of Cinderella and enrolled in the titular school (which is really more of a [[WizardingSchool Wizarding School]] than a [[RoyalSchool Royal School]] despite the name) alongside team members Hawk [=SnowWhite=], Travis Beast, Astoria Rapunzel, and Joy [=LeFrog=]. In season two, their group gains a new member, Ling Ling [=IronFan=].
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8	Together, they challenge their fellow students in a variety of assignments - especially local mean girl Vicky Broomstick - unless a fairy tale villain shows up. The show also spends a lot of time on the relationships between the characters and their famous Grandparents, especially focusing on the generation gap between them. Both the villains and the relationships are mostly PlayedForLaughs. Until [[CerebusSyndrome they're not]].
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11	!!This series provides examples of:
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13	* ActionMom: [[spoiler:Clara]] seems to be one of these.
14	* AllCGICartoon: A rarity (at the time) for Rainbow S.p.A., considering most of their previous shows were hand-drawn or flash animated.
15	* AllMythsAreTrue: Baked into the premise of the series.
16	* AlphaBitch: Vicky is a particularly fun-to-watch example of this trope.
17	* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: The Bridge Troll plays this trope straight in Season 1. Justified in Season 2 with [[spoiler:Ruby capturing Hawk and trying to get him to marry her. Because family magic seems to literally be connected the family name, she will get access to the Snow White family magic. Although, those cursed wedding rings might be the real cause of the PowerParasite effect.]]
18	* ArtEvolution: Notably the animation in season 2 ditches the [[CelShading faux hand drawn effect]] from season 1 becoming more inline with traditional CG animation.
19	* AscendedFanboy:
20	** Rose was obsessed with fairy tales before she learned that she was one. The best part is that she never loses her fangirl nature, even after meeting hundreds of fairy tale heroes she's just as excited to meet the next one.
21	** Hawk to some extent when he becomes a student of his hero, Sir George. That [[BrokenPedestal goes bad]] real fast.
22	* {{Animesque}}: The animation is heavily based on anime, such as the use of large eyes, speed lines, and the fact characters’ mouthes tend to expand when shouting.
23	* BadassBookworm:
24	** Astoria is a top student, practically lives in the library, and can speed-read so fast she has to be careful not to destroy books by flipping the pages too fast. She's also easily the most combat-effective character in the beginning, and even by the end she's probably tied for first or second.
25	** Ling Ling also qualifies.
26	* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Vicky and her team play this up all the time. At one point they even have to find an evil farmer to get some seeds, because a good farmer wasn't their style.
27	* BalletEpisode: "Swan Dancing with the Stars" focuses on a ballet class assignment that threatens to go awry when Vicky gets Rothbart involved.
28	* BitchInSheepsClothing:
29	** Vicky acts like a normal student in the company of the staff, but it isn’t until they’re not around that her true colors appear.
30	** [[spoiler:Ruby the ditzy Hawk fangirl]] is actually a competent villain in league with [[spoiler:her aunt and grandmother, the Wicked Stepsisters]].
31	* BumblingDad: Rose's father, Dave, is a textbook example, complete with [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Amazingly Embarrassing moments]].
32	* ButtMonkey: Poor, poor, Ruby Stepsister. It gets to the point where she's [[spoiler:expelled from the school in the season 1 finale because Vicky lied about being brainwashed by her grandmothers.]]
33	* CardCarryingVillain: Vicky again!
34	* CelShading: The series is 3D animated with use of cel-shading.
35	* TheChewToy:
36	** Travis. Dragons and monsters can't help but pound him! [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] when Travis actually uses this special ability of his to distract a dragon. It even happily yells "I just can't help stomping Travis!" Also occasionally drifts into BornUnlucky territory.
37	* CookingDuel: The class assignments often take this form. Sometimes literally.
38	* CustomUniform: Aside from a striped necktie and either a purple blazer or vest, none of the students uniforms match.
39	* DamselInDistress: Both subverted and played straight with Astoria and Rose. Played straight with secondary characters on a pretty regular basis. Travis occasionally plays the damsel in distress to Ling Ling.
40	* DefrostingIceQueen: Both Travis and Rose have some luck defrosting Ling Ling.
41	* EvilPlan: Vicky’s lifelong goals, though they’re always thwarted by Rose and her gang, thus her goal is for Rose to be expelled.
42	* FairyTaleFreeForAll: The characters are the descendants of several fairy tale characters attending school.
43	* ForeignQueasine: Joy and her extended family - which seems to include people, frogs, people who can turn into frogs and possibly also frogs that can turn into people - seem to only eat bugs.
44	* GenreSavvy: Considering Rose's nature and the rest of the cast being self-aware of their status as fairy tales, a lot of this is thrown around.
45	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Played straight with Rose. Minor subversion with the Rapunzel family, who have pink hair.
46	* HandicappedBadass: Grandpa Beast may have a bad back, but he can still one-punch golems and shatter an army of magic flying hammers when he has to.
47	* InstantCostumeChange: The academy uniforms magically appear on the students when they enter the campus.
48	* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Vicky’s trio. Cyrus is lazy and naive, Vicky is mean and aggressive, and Ruby is BrilliantButLazy but is constantly being manipulated into helping Vicky.
49	* NeverMessWithGranny: Many of the grandparents live up to this trope. Granny [=SnowWhite=] shows off a level of magic head and shoulders above the main characters' when she takes out [[spoiler:Clara]], but she's got nothing on Granny Cinderella when someone has the bad idea to challenge Rose to a magic duel - and then cheat.
50	* OfficialCouple: As of the second season, [[spoiler:Ling Ling and Travis]].
51	* OrbitalShot: In "Song of the Sea Witch", Rose gets one just as she is about to sing her song for the school.
52	* NoodlePeople: It is a merchandise show, after all.
53	* PinkMeansFeminine: This show has an insanely girly color scheme, sometimes [[SubvertedTrope contrasting]] with its borderline slapstick physical humor and the [[BlackComedy dark comedy]] of characters like the Evil Queen.
54	* PowersInTheFirstEpisode: The first episode features Rose enrolling in Regal Academy, receiving her Pumpkin Magic powers, and learning she’s Cinderella’s granddaughter.
55	* PutOnABus: Ruby gets expelled from Regal Academy in the Season 1 finale and is replaced with new girl Kira by Season 2.
56	* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: Rose learns she’s the granddaughter of Cinderella in the first episode.
57	* SceneryPorn: Every EstablishingShot of Fairy Tale Land is exquisite, especially the castles.
58	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Travis the artist and Hawk the knight-in-training, respectively.
59	* SeriesGoal: For Vicky, to become the best villain and to get Rose expelled from Regal Academy so her plans don’t get thwarted.
60	* SpinOffspring: Focuses on the offspring of various fairytales; Rose in particular is the granddaughter of Cinderella.
61	* StatusQuoIsGod: Vicky’s evil plans are always thwarted, especially by Rose, even by accident.
62	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Travis' face right before he gets clobbered. Happens about once an episode. Sometimes [[BornUnlucky a lot more]].
63	* TokenEvilTeammate: Interestingly despite all of them being antagonists, Vicky is this for her team as she's the only one with actual malicious intent whereas Ruby only goes along with her plans because she thinks it help her get close to Hawk and Cyrus is too lazy to care much either way.
64	** Becomes averted after Ruby gets expelled in the Season 1 finale; she is replaced with new girl Kira, who is as stuck-up and evil as Vicky is, leaving Cyrus as the TokenGoodTeammate.
65	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Ling Ling can outfight all the boys and first appears in a school uniform complete with pants. On a mission to find her weakness, Rose discovers a fascination with girly ball gowns.
66	* ToylessToylineCharacter: The doll line was discontinued before Ling Ling, Travis, or Hawk could get figures.
67	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Hawk [=SnowWhite=] and... apples, obviously. To the point where he will dive across a room to catch one rather than let it fall on the floor. "Apple in danger!"
68	* UnknownRival: The staff are unaware of Vicky’s evil nature. The only ones who know are the students.
69	** Rose doesn’t know Vicky is out to get her expelled from the academy.
70	* VillainousCrush: Ruby for Hawk. Seems to be a simple background joke, until season two when Ruby gets an upgrade to [[spoiler:TheDragon]] her crush gets an associated upgrade to [[spoiler:AndNowYouMustMarryMe]].

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