Krypto the Superdog (animation): Difference between revisions

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[[Krypto the Superdog]] received his own animated series in 2005 titled ''Krypto the Superdog''. In this series, Krypto was allowed by Superman to live with a suburban Metropolis boy and his family, and had adventures alongside other characters such as Ace the Bat-Hound ([[Batman]]'s dog) and Streaky the Supercat (in the comics, Supergirl's pet cat, but in this series, Streaky belongs to the girl next door to the family Krypto lives with).

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* [[Animal Talk]]

* [[Animated Series]]

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Stretch-O-Mutt changes genders twice in the show and both times he/she is very arrtactive to the people who see him/her. One time he changes into a rather sexy and curvy female bunny to distract a magical rabbit in order for Ace to get the rabbits wand. And the second time he disguises himself as a mermaid in order to get the rats away from blackbeak to save Streaky.

* [[Badass Normal]]: Ace the Bat-Hound.

* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Krypto and Streaky are turned into non-superpowered fish because of some red Kryptonite.

* [[Big Bad]]: Mechanikat

* [[Cameo]]: [[Lois Lane]].

* [[Canon Foreigner]]: Brainy Barker.

** Averted with Streaky.

** Also averted with Streaky's nephew and his Supercat Fan Club.

* [[Carnivore Confusion]]: Sharks are considered mean because they eat fish and cats are feared because they like to eat fish as well. Too bad [[You Fail Biology Forever|a dolphin]] is the first to react to Streaky being a cat because 1) dolphins aren't fish and 2) dolphins *also* eat fish. Not good when this show was also rated E/I, meaning it's supposed to be educational.

** Unless this dolphin is fish-friendly. Also, dolphins do accidentally get caught on fishnets.

* [[The Chew Toy]]: Streaky. Rather unfortunate since the show is filled with dogs. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in one episode.

'''Streaky''': But this could only happen to me. }}

* [[City of Adventure]]: Metropolis

* [[Exactly What I Aimed At]]: While battling a vulture in a museum, Krypto shoots at the vulture with his heat vision and seemingly misses, only to hit a sprinkler system that soaks the bird making it difficult to fly.

* [[Femme Fatale]]: Delilah

** [[The Hero]]: Tusky Husky

** [[The Lancer]]: Hot Dog

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In "Funny Business", Bud and Lou greet Ace the Bat-Hound (whom they believe to be incapacitated by their 'giggle bubbles') with "You're outta luck, Batty-boy".

* [[Heavy Voice]]: Mammoth Mutt has one whenever she inflates herself.

* [[Informed Judaism]]: Andrea and her parents

* [[Incredible Shrinking Man]]: The aliens from planet Teeniton do this to Kevin and Krypto. Krypto is understandably not threatened by the environment. Kevin... not so much.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Ace prefers to be called Batman's partner, not "pet".

* [[Ironic Echo]]: In "My Pet Boy"

* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Some kids who almost got Kevin hurt before Krypto saved him in "Krypto's Scrypto". And Bailey too.

* [[Knowledge Broker]]: Jimmy the Rat

'''Ace''': [[Sarcasm Mode|Nice Recovery. Very smooth.]] }}

* [[Musical Assassin]]: Streaky is such a [[Dreadful Musician]] that his singing can cause hull breaches on Mechanikat's ship. He later uses this ability to shut down an entire security system.

* [[Mythology Gag]]:

* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: "Oh, Flapnar!"

* [[Planimal]]: In one episode, Krypto and the Bathound face off against a half-dog/half-plant villain named Dogwood who tries to bring the trees to life so they can rebel against humanity.

* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Kevin and Krypto routinely stumble across technology that does things like ''stop time'' or ''reverse the aging process'' and never think that there might be a wider use for them.

* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Ignatius is Lex Luthor's iguana.

* [[Rogues Gallery]]: Mostly the animals associated with other DC characters' Rogues' Galleries, such as Catwoman's cat, the Joker's hyenas, the Penguin's birds, and Lex Luthor's iguana, though there are new ones as well.

* [[Robo Cam]]: Dogbot uses this to obtain a Target Lock on Kevin.

* [[Rubber Man]]: Stretcho

* [[Secret Keeper]]: Kevin Whitney, and later Andrea.

** Dog Star Patrol's [[The Jetsons|doorbell]]

** The news reporter in "Dem Bones" resembles the newscaster from ''A Pup Named [[Scooby Doo]]''.

* [[Snowlems]]: Iguanukkah

* [[The Stoic]]: Ace (by virtue of having a personality similar to Batman's).

* [[Stock Sound Effects]]: Viewers who have watched entirely too many cartoons will be able to recognize a lot of the sound effects in this show as coming from Hanna-Barbera's extensive sound library. Given that the cartoon seems to be evoking the look and feel of '60s Hanna-Barbera shows, this is probably deliberate.

* [[Viewers Are Goldfish]]: The theme song. "He's a Superdog, he's a superhero..."

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Stretcho the elastic dog.

* [[What Measure Is a Non Super]]: In "Bat-Hound Meets The Dog Stars," Ace meets the Dog Stars, but gets razzed by Bull Dog and the others when it's seen he has no obvious super powers. It's when Hot Dog vanishes that Ace gets to show his detective abilities, finding out he was kidnapped (by Snooky) and is able to locate where a power-drained Hot Dog is being held in time for Krypto to help in the rescue. Afterwards, Hot Dog vouches for Ace as well as the convinced Bull Dog, saying "'E's got powers of the mind, 'e 'as!"

 

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[[Category:Kids WB]]

[[Category:The Millennium Age of Animation]]

[[Category:Animal Title Index]]

[[Category:Western Animation]]