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8	''The Prince of Atlantis'' was a [[BritishBrevity short-lived]] Creator/{{BBC}} cartoon that [[MediumBlending mixed CGI and traditional animation]]. It told the story of an Atlantean prince named Akata who, along with his friends of both the sea creature and human variety, defended the oceans and his Atlantean secrets from the evil B.I.G. corporation.
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10	It ran in 1997 and these days it's almost impossible to find anything about it online, bar a few limited episode guides and a stub article on Website/TheOtherWiki.
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14	!!Provides examples of the following tropes:
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16	* {{Acrofatic}}: Uncle Momo was pretty heavy-set but could move as well as any of the other characters.
17	* ActionGirl: Dorothy regularly charges into dangerous situations and has taken down plenty of baddies despite being a normal human.
18	* AerithAndBob: Dorothy, Eva, Orkov and Momo.
19	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Akata and the other Atlanteans come in all colours and are patterned like tropical fish.
20	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Dorothy had a darker skintone than the other members of the Platon crew.
21	* AppliedPhlebotinum: Oracalc was used for power sources and bombs and the pure energy of it was the power behind Akata's blue ray.
22	%%* ArtificialLimbs: Luke Bazooka is a cyborg with robotic arms.
23	%%* {{Atlantis}}: Obviously. This one being of the sunken variety.
24	%%* BadAssNormal: Dorothy. See ActionGirl.
25	* BadBoss: Eva Medal to Alfred and Luke and the B.I.G. executives to all their employees. They'll leave their staff to go down with their subs more often than not if they screw up.
26	* BarbieDollAnatomy: All the Atlanteans have this since they don't wear clothes. Which raises some, ahem, interesting questions about how they continue their species...
27	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Akata saves Jaurice's life which lead to him doing a HeelFaceTurn and siding with him against B.I.G and, later on, Jaurice saves Alfred after he's caught by Dagon, which ends with Alfred saving Jaurice and Jim when Eva tries to blast their submarine.
28	%%* TheBermudaTriangle: The series took place there.
29	* BigBad: Eva Medal, the CorruptCorporateExecutive/evil military leader of B.I.G.
30	* TheBigGuy: Jaurice is by far the strongest member of Team Akata.
31	* BloodlessCarnage: Most of the time. Subverted once when the B.I.G board members feed their sharks a very bloody dead fish.
32	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Happened to Akata after Eva caught him in one of her traps and took control of his mind with one of B.I.G's gadgets.
33	%%* BritishBrevity: The show only lasted one season.
34	%%* TheBrute: Luke Bazooka thanks to his cyborg enhancements.
35	* BullyingADragon: B.I.G try to attack Dagon and destroy him after he gets too close to their mining operation. Dagon is a gigantic, underwater {{Kaiju}}. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
36	%%* BumblingSidekick: Luke to Alfred and Eva.
37	* TheBusCameBack: Captain Baha first appears in "The Leviathan" and was taken into space at the end of the episode. He returned later on he returned in, appropriately enough, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Return of Captain Baha".]]
38	* ButNowIMustGo: The final episode ends with Agata's parents coming to pick him up and bring him to the Atlanteans new home planet, which of course means he has to say goodbye to his friends on Earth.
39	* ButtMonkey: Luke, thanks mostly to being a BumblingSidekick and the dumber one of the Bazooka brothers. If something's going to go wrong for their team, odds are it will happen to him.
40	* {{CGI}}: Half of the show was done like this and the rest was traditionally animated.
41	%%* ClingyJealousGirl: Oya to Akata when Dorothy's around.
42	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After screwing up royally, Luke is demoted to...a hamburger cook. Something he finds beyond humiliating.
43	%%* CoolBigSis: Dorothy tends to be this for Akata and Jim.
44	* CoolOldGuy: Jim's Uncle Momo and Shum, Akata's holographic mentor. Momo was a total badass that could drive a jeep like an F1 race car and almost singlehandedly saved his island home from a murderous billionaire corporation that wanted to destroy it with a bomb test.
45	* CoolShip: There was the Poseidon, Akata's futuristic Atlantean sub, the Platon, a gigantic ocean liner-cum-state of the art laboratory and the Requiem, another futuristic sub belonging to B.I.G. this time, that took on an EldritchAbomination and actually held its own for a while.
46	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The B.I.G board members cared about money and nothing else. In one episode they tried to sell a FantasticNuke to terrorists, in another they tried to use an inhabited island to test said nukes.
47	%%* CreepyMonotone: When Akata is brainwashed and controlled by Eva he talks like this.
48	* CruellaToAnimals: From B.I.G. and a few other one shot villains. If there was money to be made under the sea, don't expect them to give two hoots about the sea life surrounding it.
49	%%* CuteButCacophonic: Oya had an extremely high-pitched voice that could get difficult to listen to after awhile.
50	* DamselInDistress: Oya. She got captured and held for ransom more than anyone over the course of the show.
51	%%* DarkActionGirl: Eva Medal was an evil badass, both physically and mentally.
52	* DisappearedDad: King Oceanis is gone before the series begins. We do see him in flashback, though.
53	* DistressedDude: Most of the males held the DistressBall at one point or another. Notable incidences were Akata being captured by B.I.G at least twice and Alfred Bazooka being caught by Dagon.
54	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Alfred and Luke are shown to care about each other. {{Subverted}} with Eve and her brother Matt, who loathe each other and want the other to get the axe from B.I.G.
55	%%* EvilLaugh: Eva had a classic, very creepy one.
56	* EvilRedhead: Eva, the BigBad military leader/CorruptCorporateExecutive had bright scarlet hair.
57	* EvilVersusEvil: "Ghost Ship" briefly had B.I.G take on Nathaniel the Cruel and his crew.
58	%%* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: It was a show about the prince of Atlantis.
59	* FantasticNuke: B.I.G want to dig up Oracalc to make incredibly destructive bombs.
60	* FindTheCure: The episode "A Friend's Life" was about Akata trying to get a sample of poison from a giant stingray so Dorothy could make a cure for its poison.
61	* FishPeople: The Atlanteans are all human/fish-hybrids that can swim as fast as fish, are patterned like them and could breath underwater but not above water.
62	* ForTheEvulz: Why does the sentry of the well want to trap Jaurice and Jim in the Mirror of Souls? Just because.
63	%%* FourFingeredHands: The Atlanteans have them.
64	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Oya SpeaksFluentAnimal and they were usually happy to follow her orders.
65	* {{Gonk}}: The member of the board of B.I.G we saw most often was an old, obese man with greyish toned skin who looked like his face was starting to melt.
66	* GreenAesop: Many of the episodes skewed towards one. A notable example was when Akata and co. had to deal with a ship full of toxic waste that had been dumped in the artic by its JerkAss captain.
67	%%* GreenEyedMonster: Oya towards Dorothy when she felt the latter was taking Akata's attention.
68	* HalfHumanHybrid: An interesting variation; Jaurice starts the show as fully human, but after he dies on the ocean floor and Agata brings him back to life, Agata also attempts to transforms Jaurice into an Atlantean so he can survive underwater. The end result is that Jaurice becomes a human-Atlantean hybrid that can tranform back and forth between a human form and an Atlantean form; above water he looks like his human self, but under water he becomes Atlantean. In the series finale, Agata does the same to Jim.
69	* HeelFaceTurn: Jaurice used to work for B.I.G but made the turn when Akata saved his life.
70	* HeroicBuild: Everyone was pretty ripped except Akata and Jim, which was justified since they were adolescents among a cast of adults.
71	* HiddenDepths: In one episode, Alfred Bazooka, who up until then hadn't seemed much deeper than a standard goon, stops [[UngratefulBastard Eva]] killing Jaurice and Jim because earlier they'd saved his life.
72	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Dr. Droog ended up blasted with his own life draining laser, then later on he was sucked into his own machine.
73	* HollywoodCyborg: Luke Bazooka. He was an ordinary man who had been upgraded to have metal limbs that contained all sorts of weapons and gadgets.
74	* HumansAreBastards: Pleasantly averted for a show with such a prominent GreenAesop. Yes, B.I.G was made up of humans, but most of the heroes were human too and any non-B.I.G people that showed up tended to vary rather than all being greedy and evil. It just seemed to come down to personality. Even some of the B.I.G members got PetTheDog moments sometimes.
75	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Jim really wanted to be an Atlantean. He gets his wish in the series finale.
76	* InformedAttribute: The rest of the cast keep commenting on how big and physically menacing Ogen is in his debut episode...except he looks no different from any of the other male characters since they lived in a world of HeroicBuild.
77	* InsultToRocks: In "Ghost Ship" Momo has this to say about first mate Ratface:
78	--> '''Momo:''' He was called "Ratface" but to say he looked like a rat is an insult to rats.
79	* IronicName: Dr. Droog, which is "friend" is Russian. He's anything but.
80	* {{Kaiju}}: Dagon, the EldritchAbomination that attacked B.I.G HQ in "Dagon's Anger".
81	* KarmaHoudini: Dr. Droog is never arrested and doesn't suffer any real punishment save for being [[HoistByHisOwnPetard sucked into the sea with his own giant vacuum.]]
82	* KickTheDog: In "Countdown to Doomsday" B.I.G stage a FantasticNuke test on an inhabited island. Why? Just because they can. No one even bothers to suggest trying to find an uninhabited island.
83	* LastOfHisKind: Played with; there are other Atlanteans, but they left the Earth long ago, leaving Agata as the last Atlantean on Earth.
84	%%* MadScientist: Dr. Droog from "The Fountain of Life" was one.
85	* MagicMirror: One of the LotusEaterMachine variety. Akata had to rescue his friends after they went through it and were trapped in its dreamworlds.
86	* MagicPants: Jaurice's clothes transform with him when he switches between his human and Atlantean forms.
87	* MeaningfulName:
88	** The B.I.G Corporation. It wasn't a very subtle show.
89	** Eva ''Medal'' could refer to her being part of the military or to her "meddling" in the lives of the heroes.
90	* MediumBlending: Half traditional animation, half {{CGI}}. Traditional for the characters, CG for the backgrounds and machines.
91	* {{Mooks}}: B.I.G. had plenty. Notably, Jaurice used to be one before his HeelFaceTurn.
92	* NamesToRunAwayFromVeryFast:
93	** Luke ''Bazooka''.
94	** Nathaniel the Cruel.
95	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The Blue Ray was this, so much. At least half the episodes involved Akata learning to use it in some new way which then proved essential to solving the problem of the day.
96	%%* OhCrap: Many times by many characters throughout the series.
97	%%* PetTheDog: Alfred Bazooka once. See HiddenDepths.
98	* RedEyesTakeWarning:
99	** Alfred Bazooka had red eyes. Though they were behind a mask, so maybe they weren't natural.
100	** Nathaniel the Cruel had glowing red eyes in his ghost form. He was even more murderous after he died, so this applied.
101	%%* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Oya's little pet fish was adorable.
102	* RoyalBrat: Akata in his worst moments could be pretty bratty. He usually got over it pretty quickly.
103	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Akata is very hands-on in the defense of his kingdom, frequently taking to the battlefield himself to confront whichever villains is threatening Atlantis.
104	* SaveTheVillain: Jaurice and Jim rescue Alfred after he's caught by Dagon. {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d by Jaurice:
105	--> '''Jaurice:''' I can't believe I'm rescuing this thug...
106	%%* SceneryPorn: Some of the oceanscapes are quite beautiful to look at.
107	* SealedEvilInACan: Ogen was sealed away in a statue by Agata's father after he tried to overthrow him. Agata ends up inadvertently freeing him.
108	* SiblingRivalry: Between Eva and her brother Matt. Apparently, since they were kids, all he ever wanted was what Eva had and he was never happy until he got it.
109	* TheSmartGuy: Dorothy was a brilliant scientist who saved the day with her smarts on a regular basis.
110	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Eva was the only regularly appearing female member of B.I.G. Her two sidekicks and the board of directors were all male.
111	* SunkenCity: The titular Atlantis. B.I.G is so huge it may count as well seeing as a lot of employees actually seem to live down there.
112	%%* SupernaturalGoldEyes: On Atlantean prince Akata.
113	* SwallowedWhole: Happens to Akata, Dorothy and Oya in "The Fountain of Life" when they are all sucked into a huge clam. {{Subverted\|Trope}} in that it was just a [[ItMakesSenseInContext giant vacuum built to look like a clam to harvest sea creatures and drain them of their life force]].
114	* TeamDad: Jaurice is definitely the dad figure in Akata's life, which is justified since his own is missing.
115	* TeamMom: Dorothy. Just the same as Jaurice, she fills in a parental role for Akata since his own mom is gone.
116	* TakenForGranite: Ogen was turned to stone for rebelling against his king.
117	* ThreateningShark: Generally subverted: Akata and Oya got along with the sharks around at Atlantis just like any other sea creature. The only exceptions tended to be when the sharks weren't real (like in "Mirror of Dreams") or being controlled ("Heavy Metal").
118	* TooDumbToLive: Almost happens literally when Luke gives Alfred 0.5g instead of 0.05g of a highly dangerous substance when they were trying to make a bomb. It almost blows them both to kingdom come.
119	* TwoGirlsToATeam: Dorothy and Oya for the heroes.
120	* UngratefulBastard: Eva Medal, several times. Most notably when Akata and co. save her and her team from Dagon and she immediately tries to blast them with her super sub.
121	--> '''Eva:''' Gratitude is a luxury of the weak, my friend.
122	* {{Unobtainium}}: Oracalc, a glowing, undersea crystal that can be used as an incredible source of power beyond anything on Earth. B.I.G spend most of their time trying to dig it up.
123	* VillainousValour: Eva was as nasty as they came but she was very brave and rarely backed down from a challenge unless it was completely hopeless.
124	* WaterTriggeredChange: In the first episode, after Jaurice dies in a submarine incident, Agata uses his magic to bring him back to life and in the process attempts to turn him into an Atlantean, like him. Instead, Jaurice becomes a hybrid who will transform into an Atlantean any time he comes in contact with water, but returns to fully human if he dries up, enabling him to live both on land and under water.
125	* WeaksauceWeakness: Akata can barely survive any time at all out of water.
126	** Given a perspective flip: because most of the series took place at the bottom of the sea, the ''humans'' tended to be the ones with the weakness. Damage their submarines or their diving suits and watch their SuperDrowningSkills.
127	* WouldHurtAChild: Eva and the rest of B.I.G. have no qualms going after Akata or Jim whenever they try to cross them.

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