Line #10 WesternAnimation/RocketRobinHood


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2	60's Canadian cartoon series set in "the fantastic years to come," supposedly the year 3000, starring Rocket Robin Hood and his Merry Men, direct descendants of the English originals. Produced by Toronto-based Trillium Productions, the second and third seasons were done by Creator/RalphBakshi, and had a much different feel from the first. Though largely forgotten outside of Canada ([[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff and Mexico]]), the series has been a standby in children's programming blocks ever since its original release, due in part to Canadian content mandates.
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4	Many animation sequences from this show were re-used in episodes of [[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 the 1967 Spider-Man series]] and at least two episodes, "Dementia Five" and "From Menace to Menace" were recycled with Spider-Man replacing Robin.
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6	!!Tropes include:
7	* AlasPoorVillain: When the Sheriff was fired for blundering too many times, it is very difficult to feel anything but sadness for the Sheriff.
8	* BadBoss: Prince John, who insults the Sheriff, and the Sheriff himself. However, Prince John is arguably the worse of the two, since he actually orders the Sheriff's execution.
9	* BerserkButton:
10	** There are quite a few. For example, in one episode, whenever the Sheriff would claim that the disintegrator ray was "his", he would be corrected by the inventor. However, if he'd claim the disintegrator ray to be "ours", he would certainly not be corrected. Throughout the entire series, if one threatens one of Robin's men, or Robin himself, he'll soon wish he hadn't, as the loyalty between the Merry Men is strong. And, don't try to trick Eric Arthur, the leader of the Vikings, as he doesn't like it when people try to deceive him. The Sheriff of NOTT ''hates'' cowardice.
11	** Prince John apparently hates it when the Sheriff tries to side with the peasants, due to them starving. As a result, he immediately believes the Sheriff is committing Treason.
12	--->'''The Sheriff of NOTT''': Ahhhh, if they weren't so starved, Your Highness, then, perhaps-
13	--->'''Prince John''': That sounds suspiciously like '''Treason'''! Could it be that the ''Sheriff of NOTT'' is shirking his ''duties''? Perhaps some punishment will make him see the error of his ways, eh, Titanor?
14	--->'''Titanor''': (Holding the Sheriff, and threatening him with his Neuron Puppet Rod) '''You''' are already 3/4 of an '''idiot''', Sheriff! Shall we try for the other quarter, Prince John?
15	* BigEater: Friar Tuck. The interstitial in which he was featured has him rapidly eating from a large plate of food and throwing away each piece of food after taking one bite. Disrupting his chow is his BerserkButton (as two of the Sheriff's guards learned the painful way).
16	* TheBigGuy: Little John.
17	* ButThouMust: The Neuron Puppet Rod is a weapon used by Titanor to basically turn his victims into "puppets" who MUST obey the owner of the rod.
18	* DirtyCoward: The Sheriff of N.O.T.T. (National Outer-space Terrestrial Territories). Not so much Prince John.
19	---> Sheriff: "[[AnythingButThat Please, please, don't draw me of my wits!]] Or, I won't be able to tell you, the wonderful plan I have, which will destroy Rocket Robin Hood!"
20	* EatTheCamera: "The Manta Menace."
21	* EdibleBludgeon: The fight scenes often featured a hambone and a sack of flour.
22	* EverybodyLaughsEnding: With only a very few exceptions.
23	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Sheriff of N.O.T.T. generally isn't too fond of robbing peasants dry or humiliating more than nessesary to keep them in line. Unfortunately, he is working under Prince John, who did not have even that much of ethics.
24	---> Villager: "You must realize, if we pay, our families will ''starve''!"
25	---> Sheriff: "Well, maybe in that case, it would be all right for you to give a little less."
26	* FighterLaunchingSequence: In the opening sequence.
27	* HumiliationConga: As it was aimed at kids, you rarely see anyone actually getting killed, even the villains, who usually just end up getting defeated. Many of them ended up being subjected to the Humiliation Conga, but perhaps the most notable example of this was Dr. Medulla at the end of the "Living Planet" episode, in which after he is defeated, he is prevented from escaping, overpowered by Robin before he can retaliate, and tied to a pole to be pestered by a woodpecker pecking on his head while the hero and his allies look on laughing and making jokes at his expense.
28	* IdenticalGrandSon: The entire cast, as driven home in the episode where Robin and Little John go back in time eighteen hundred years to meet the real Myth/RobinHood.
29	* InsistentTerminology: Cog ''loves'' to correct the Sheriff if he slips up and claim that the disintegrator ray is "his", or that the Sheriff himself "did it" (destroying Rocket Robin Hood). Yet, he has no problem if the Sheriff says "we" or "our".
30	* LimitedAnimation
31	* {{Mooks}}: The Sheriff's guards, though they're more often hit with a CurbStompBattle than outright death.
32	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Planet Lucifer. It goes to show you how bad a reputation it has, in comparison to N.O.T.T. Dungeon.
33	---> Friar Tuck: "Stay in THIS miserable place, while that door is swinging freely on its hinges? NOT LIKELY! Where are you going?
34	---> Rocket Robin Hood: "To the Planet Lucifer."
35	---> Friar Tuck: "The Planet Lucifer! I’ll stay, and be glad of it!"
36	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In one episode, Prince John tries to exploit Friar Tuck's BigEater tendencies by offering him an endless banquet in exchange for revealing the location of the Merry Men's base of operation. Friar Tuck, disgusted at the offer, responds with "[[PutOffTheirFood I just lost my appetite]]."
37	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Sheriff has been on both sides of this trope. He once invoked this on his guards for failing to keep Robin and Little John in the vault. The time this trope was invoked onto the Sheriff was when Prince John decided to bring in a new Sheriff, while the old Sheriff was fired and scheduled to be executed.
38	-->'''The Sheriff of NOTT''': Imbeciles! Buffoons! Cowards! I'm ''surrounded'' by cowards! I ask you to guard two prisoners! Just - twoooo prisoners! I even put them 10 feet underground in a steel ''vault'' to make it easier for you! And what happens?
39	-->'''Prince John''': Fools! Dolts! How long did you think I would tolerate such stupidity? ''You call yourself a '''Sheriff'''?'' Why, a man with ''half a brain'' would have gotten rid of this Rocket Robin Hood nuisance ''eons'' ago! And, I brought such a man with me.
40	* PragmaticVillainy: Sheriff of N.O.T.T., surprisingly. Several times, he tried to point to Prince John, that peasants are driven to starvation by his taxes, and it would be more productive to lower taxes now, so they could become more prosperous and pay much more in the future. Unfortunately, Prince John is too paranoid to listen to him.
41	** He also raised reasonable doubt about having the bomb, capable of destroying most of Solar System, stored right in N.O.T.T. headquarters.
42	* RealityIsOutToLunch: "Dementia Five". Just Don't step on the rugs... seriously...
43	* RecycledInSpace: Rocket Robin hood is actually just Robin Hood, except they sometimes fly through space and stick words like "astro" in randomly.
44	* SoundInSpace
45	* TooDumbToLive: One episode had a feast where Friar Tuck was eating a meat pie, and Prince John offers Rocket a bowl of broth (While adding poison right in front of everyone, but no-one seems to notice) Robin declines the broth and hands it to Friar Tuck. Who immediately drains it and starts reacting to the poison.
46	--> Rocket: [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Oh no! What was in that meat pie!?]]
47	* UngratefulBastard: Prince John, after the missile doesn't destroy N.O.T.T. Castle.
48	---> '''Prince John''': "Send for the imbecile who invented that missile. Bring him to me at once! I'll teach him to sell me a DUD!"
49	* XanatosGambit: Sheriff of N.O.T.T. is surprizingly good in inventing the plans, that would put his rivals (or potential replacements) against Rocket Robin. If they suceed, it would be the Sheriff's plan that worked. If they fail, the Sheriff would got his rivals removed or humiliated.

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