Many animation sequences from this show were re-used in episodes of the 1967 Spider-Man series and at least two episodes, "Dementia Five" and "From Menace to Menace" were recycled with Spider-Man replacing Robin.
Tropes include:
- Alas, Poor Villain: When the Sheriff was fired for blundering too many times, it is very difficult to feel anything but sadness for the Sheriff.
- Bad Boss: 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.
- Berserk Button:
- 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.
- 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.The Sheriff of NOTT: Ahhhh, if they weren't so starved, Your Highness, then, perhaps-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?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?
- Big Eater: 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 Berserk Button (as two of the Sheriff's guards learned the painful way).
- The Big Guy: Little John.
- But Thou Must!: 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.
- Dirty Coward: The Sheriff of N.O.T.T. (National Outer-space Terrestrial Territories). Not so much Prince John.
- Sheriff: "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!"
- Eat the Camera: "The Manta Menace."
- Edible Bludgeon: The fight scenes often featured a hambone and a sack of flour.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: With only a very few exceptions.
- Even Evil Has Standards: 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.
- Villager: "You must realize, if we pay, our families will starve!"Sheriff: "Well, maybe in that case, it would be all right for you to give a little less."
- Fighter-Launching Sequence: In the opening sequence.
- Humiliation Conga: 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.
- Identical Grand Son: 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 Robin Hood.
- Insistent Terminology: 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".
- Limited Animation
- Mooks: The Sheriff's guards, though they're more often hit with a Curb-Stomp Battle than outright death.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Planet Lucifer. It goes to show you how bad a reputation it has, in comparison to N.O.T.T. Dungeon.
- Friar Tuck: "Stay in THIS miserable place, while that door is swinging freely on its hinges? NOT LIKELY! Where are you going?Rocket Robin Hood: "To the Planet Lucifer."Friar Tuck: "The Planet Lucifer! I’ll stay, and be glad of it!"
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In one episode, Prince John tries to exploit Friar Tuck's Big Eater 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 "I just lost my appetite."
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: 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.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?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.
- Pragmatic Villainy: 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.
- He also raised reasonable doubt about having the bomb, capable of destroying most of Solar System, stored right in N.O.T.T. headquarters.
- Reality Is Out to Lunch: "Dementia Five". Just Don't step on the rugs... seriously...
- Recycled In Space: Rocket Robin hood is actually just Robin Hood, except they sometimes fly through space and stick words like "astro" in randomly.
- Sound In Space
- Too Dumb to Live: 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.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Prince John, after the missile doesn't destroy N.O.T.T. Castle.
- 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!"
- Xanatos Gambit: 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.
