Line #4 WesternAnimation/VorTechUndercoverConversionSquad


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:A toy package showing the vehicles.]]
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4	''Vor-Tech: Undercover Conversion Squad'' was an animated television series produced by Creator/{{Universal}} Cartoon Studios which aired as part of Claster Television's syndicated ''Power Block'' in the 90s, along with ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', reruns of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'', and ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeExtreme''.
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6	It featured a group of secret agents led by Hudson Roarke. Their mission is to SaveTheWorld from Lord Matrix, Hudson’s older brother, infecting the world with a techno-infectious plague.
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8	Any similarities to the mid-80s toy line ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' are not coincidental; see RecycledPremise for more details.
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10	!!Tropes:
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12	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: One episode featured Bio-Mechs hijacking a [[BuffySpeak alternative energy centrifuge powerplant thing]] to steal its energy.
13	* ArmCannon: Having a {{BFG}}s seems to come standard with Bio-Mechs.
14	* AvengersAssemble: Several episodes feature a scene where Hudson Roarke calls the other Tech agents to deal with the episode's problem, followed by vignettes of them abruptly leaving their daytime job, in a fashion very similar to ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}''.
15	* AxCrazy: The Bio-Mech Hardfire defaults to violent solutions for any problems and is prone to giggling fits while fighting.
16	* CombatTentacles: The prominent yellow "fingers" on the Bio-Mech's gauntlets double as these.
17	* DefectorFromDecadence: TeamPet Caliban was a robotic Bio-Mech dog until he switched to the Techs and was reverted into an organic dog.
18	* ExpositoryThemeTune: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNXyNC9BhDE full opening]] (which was rarely shown due to commercial breaks and the lengthy Power Block promo at the end incentivizing stations to compress the intro) starts with a narration from Hudson Roarke explaining what the Bio-Mechs are and the Tech's mission to fight them.
19	* FlyingCar: Vor-Technology enabled vehicles often transformed in order to fly.
20	* GameFace: Bio-Mechs transform when things get serious.
21	* GoodIsNotSoft: In "The Hunger", Hudson Roarke makes the suprisingly ruthless order that, if they can't convince the de-empowered Frostbite to do a HeelFaceTurn, they can at least eliminate her while she is no longer a threat.
22	* HeroicBuild: Apart from Brad, all the male members of the team are muscular, Mac, Rick and Tate more so than Hudson.
23	* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: In "The Hunger", Frostbite absorbs a lethal amount of radiation while attempting to steal an experimental military device, and while [[PowerIncontinence randomly shifting between her Bio-Mech form and human identity]] decides to quit the Bio-Mechs. Rick Rhodes sees an opportunity to appeal to her better nature and tries to convince her to switch sides throughout the episode. While [[StatusQuoIsGod the attempts ultimately fail and Dana Harding reverts into being Frostbite]], the episode ends with Rick satisfied with the thought he possibly planted the seed for a HeelFaceTurn.
24	* InMediasRes: While "Initiation" focuses on the Vor-Tech team's recruitment of their new member, former [[TheDriver taxi driver]] Miranda, it's made clear early on that the fight between them and the Bio-Mechs have been happening for some time before the series starts.
25	* MerchandiseDriven: Just like the show that inspired it. In this case, the creators took an existing toy line and crafted a whole new story around it.
26	* NeverSayDie: Averted in "The Hunger" in that the death of Frostbite father's is discussed in definitive terms, but a line in the episode mangles a common idiom in this manner:
27	-->"''And like they say, the only good Bio-Mech is a long gone Bio-Mech."''
28	* NotBrainwashed: In "The Hunger", it's revealed Frostbite became a Bio-Mech not because she was taken over by TheCorruption but because she fell into a deep depression after the death of her father and desired power beyond human limit.
29	* RecycledPremise: The initial set of toys were recycled from Creator/{{Kenner}}'s ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' line. ([[WordOfGod According to one of the writers]], the brand was created by Kenner's owner Creator/{{Hasbro}} as a way to reuse the ''M.A.S.K.'' toy molds (as the [[Film/TheMask then-recent Jim Carrey movie]] apparently made using the ''M.A.S.K.'' name not viable; ironically, Kenner ''also'' created the tie-in toys for said film).[[invoked]]
30	* SentientVehicle: The Sonic Stinger gets a computer installed into it, giving it a personality and the ability to talk and move independently.
31	* SiblingRivalry: Hudson Roarke and Lord Matrix.
32	* SlaveMooks: The Bio-Mechs.
33	* TransformationTrinket: Much like ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'', the {{Transforming\|Mecha}} vehicles need masks to work.
34	* TranshumanTreachery: The Techno-infectious plague inches its way to TheCorruption this way.
35	* TruceZone: Hudson meets with his brother at a neutral location at times.
36	* UnwillingRoboticisation: Via a ViralTransformation to Bio-Mech.
37	* VoiceChangeling: In addition to being able to imitate someone's appearance, the Bio-Mechs can perfectly imitate the target individual's voice.

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