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8''Skyland'' (full French title: ''Skyland, le nouveau monde'', i.e. ''Skyland, the new world'') is a Franco-Canadian CGI animated television series produced between Creator/NineStoryMediaGroup in Canada and Method Films in France. The series lasted from November, 2005 to April, 2007. A total of 26 episodes in two seasons. It aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada and Creator/{{Nicktoons}} Network in the US.
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10It is the 23rd century; [[ShatteredWorld the Earth has shattered]] into billions of pieces which orbit around a central core. In this new world named Skyland, an evolved form of humans has appeared: Seijins, who are able to absorb energy from sunlight and use it to fuel special abilities such as telekinesis, telepathy, mental control, astral projection, energy balls/blasts and little electricity rays.
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12The Skyland is ruled by the Sphere, an organisation which controls the fragmented world's water supplies and maintains its power thanks to Guardians, promising Seijin children who have been taken away from their families and given a special training. This dictatorship is fought by pirates.
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142451: After the capture of their mother by the Sphere, Mahad and Lena (a young Seijin still learning to control her powers) are rescued by a group of pirates. They join the pirate rebellion, determined to free their mother and help bring the Sphere down.
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16Don't confuse it for the unrelated ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' series of toys-to-life games, or the [[WesternAnimation/SkylandersAcademy animated Netflix series]] loosely based on those games.
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20%%* AbsentMindedProfessor: The Vector.
21* ActionGirl: Lena singlehandedly melts an iceberg bigger than the one that took out the titanic.
22* AfterTheEnd: The world is "shattered into billions of pieces" after all, even if the pieces are inhabitable. A case of ShatteredWorld.
23* AIIsACrapshoot: The Mogura is a SpiderTank that was created for a glacier-mining station. It was programmed to seek out and collect water. The human body is 70% water. [[GoneHorriblyRight Whoops!]]
24* AlmostKiss: Mahad and Dahlia in "Eye of the Storm", thinking that they were likely both going to die.
25%%* {{Animesque}}
26%%* BadassAdorable: Lena, Cheng some of the time.
27%%* BadassNormal: In the pilot, Mahad eliminates what appears to be at least twenty armed robots in one shot while running from energy blasts.%%"Normal" how?
28* BaldOfEvil:
29** Almost everyone on the Monolith does this, so it could just be a dresscode. Many of them have barcodes tatooed on their foreheads.
30** Diwan has a massive orange patch that could either be hair or a tattoo, so she's a maybe example.
31%%* BecauseDestinySaysSo: There is a frequently mentioned prophecy about a man and a woman who will reunify the earth. Nothing else is known about it.%%Not the trope -- is it accepted as unchangeable fact?
32%%* BigBad: Oslo.
33%%* BrotherSisterTeam: Mahad and Lena.
34* TheChosenOne: It's not clear who the chosen ones are, since A, there are two of them, and B, there are several possible combinations.
35%%* CelShading
36* CoolShip: The ''Hyperion''. It's stated to be a one of a kind prototype, and is treated as a symbol of hope.
37* CryingWolf: Deciding that Mahad needs a lesson in responsibility, Cortes leaves him in charge for the day, then fakes an attack by a fleet of Sphere ships. Unfortunately, this means Mahad refuses to believe him when a Sphere patroller really ''is'' on the way.
38* DarkActionGirl: Diwan is the female face of the Sphere most of the time.
39* DeusExMachina: Invoked multiple times, by destroying a massive fleet, melting an iceberg, saving the villain, and a number of other cases.
40* DisappearedDad: Marcus Farrell. Nobody has seen him in a long time. Even the resistance doesn't know what happened to him.
41* EvilTwin: Oslo is Darius's (though it would be more accurate to say that Darius is Oslo's good twin, considering that he appears only in one episode)
42* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: The unchanging premise of the show is that the kids are trying to get their mother out of prison. Thus they cannot actually succeed at this task until the end of the series.
43%%* FightingFromTheInside: Dahlia in "Manipulations".
44* TheFuture: The show is set some time in the 23rd century, though the novels are more spread out, some of which happen in the mid 21st century, and some of which happen between.
45* GiantSpider: The Mogura's body is about the size of a Volkswagon beetle, and it has 8 robotic legs.
46* HeroicWillpower: Dahlia in "Manipulations", to the point of violating the established rules about her powers not working without sunlight.
47* HighAltitudeBattle. A zigzaged approach, since most fights take place in the sky but altitude is hard to calculate when the planet itself is shattered.
48* IdiotHero: Mahad LeeroyJenkins in "Mogura". Lena insults a brigadeer in the pilot, causing the plot.
49%%* InASingleBound
50* JustInTime: "Eye of the Storm", "Manipulations". In Eye of the storm, they fly the Hyperion into a rapidly closing hole in some turbulent clouds around Paris.
51* LaResistance Oddly enough, they're called pirates, even by themselves. They're one of the few factions that fight against the sphere, and their population took a massive decline sometime before the series began.
52* MechaMooks: the brigadeers. There's not enough Saijins to keep the sphere operating, so they supplement with robots.
53* MissingMom: Mila. She was captured in the pilot, and the characters try to find her for the rest of the series.
54* OneWordTitle: ''Skyland''
55%%* PeoplePuppets: Dahlia in "Manipulations".
56%%* PirateGirl
57%%* {{Pirates}}
58%%* ThePowerOfLove: Lena and her mother in "The Great Wall", "Babylonia".
59%%* PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: Mahad's boomerang.
60%%* PsychicPowers
61* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Cortes.
62* {{Rotoscoping}}: This is how the facial animations were done.
63%%* SaveTheVillain: "Red Rock People", "Shadows of the Past", twice in "Kharzem Fortress: Part Two".
64%%* SavingTheOrphanage: "The Island of the Child King".
65* SceneryPorn: This is a really good-looking cartoon.
66%%* SerkisFolk
67* ShoutOut: The Mogura's name is a reference to a robot in the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' films.
68* SingleBiomePlanet: The Earth has become a sky planet consisting only of open air and floating chunks of rock, all in a temperate climate.
69%%* SkyPirate
70%%* WillTheyOrWontThey
71* WorldInTheSky: There is no solid ground anywhere. What holds the floating rocks up is never explained.
72%%* YoureNotMyFather: "Red Rock People".
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