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{{quote|''Just look at him: he's a knight with a jetpack! '''YOU CAN'T TOP THAT!!!'''''|'''[[The Happy Video Game Nerd]]'''}}
Zebulos, a [[Magical Land]] full of [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]] in the world of Elhorn, has a problem. Long ago, during the reign of El Zebulos, the first monarch, an invading power used a giant warship called the Pig Star to wreak havoc. They were defeated at great cost, and the dreaded Pig Star was [[Sealed Evil in
''Rocket Knight Adventures'' is a side-scrolling action platform game series by [[Konami]] with diverse and distinctive gameplay mechanics such as short-range jetting in eight directions (including ricocheting off walls and around corners), charged attacks, swordplay, the occasional bit of [[Shoot Em Ups|shmup-style]] sustained flight, and [[Humongous Mecha|much]] [[Fighting Game|much]] [[Minecart Madness|more]]. The original game, on the [[Sega Genesis|Sega Mega Drive/Genesis]], spawned two more games: ''Sparkster: [[Rocket Knight Adventures]] 2'', a sequel also on the Mega Drive, and ''Sparkster'', a game on the SNES which takes place in an alternate continuity. The series may owe its existence to the [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] series, which put [[Funny Animal]] mascots in vogue and likely influenced the series's art style.
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* [[Black Knight]]: Axel Gear is a marginal example.
* [[Call to Agriculture]]: Apparently what Sparkster was doing in those 15 years before the 2010 game. Even got himself a family.
* [[Chain
* [[Climax Boss]]: Axel Gear. Especially when you face him head-to-head with no mechs nor anything.
* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: In ''[[Sonic the Comic]]''. Its storyline was set after the games, after Sparkster has left Elhorn for a long time and then returned to find the Princess is brainwashed and the country occupied by new reptilian invaders. This adaptation had a few grimdark elements, one of the opening panels of the conquered nation being two former knights involved in a bloody street fight for a crowd.
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* [[Determinator]]: After Sparkster destroys most of its body, the final boss of the first game follows him off the exploding Pig Star and ''keeps fighting him as they re-enter Elhorn's atmosphere''.
* [[Diagonal Cut]]: The coup de grace is delivered to ''RKA 2's'' [[Big Bad]] in this manner.
* [[Difficulty
* [[The Dragon]]: Axel Gear, to whoever the current [[Big Bad]] is.
* [[Driven
* [[The Empire]]: The enemies in each game are part of one.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Sparkster and Axel Gear and the pigs vs. the wolves in ''Rocket Knight''.
* [[Eternal Engine]]: Due to the fondness of the series for ridiculously huge war vehicles and mechanical fortresses, a large proportion of its levels are some sort of variation on this.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Axel Gear, to Sparkster.
* [[Eye Beams]]: Used by some bosses.
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* [[Glacier Waif]]: Sparkster and Axle Gear.
* [[Good Colors, Evil Colors]]: Sparkster's armor is "good" blue, while Axel Gear's is "evil" purple (red in ''Rocket Knight''). Also, there's an awful lot of green on the baddies' uniforms and vehicles.
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: Most non-robotic [[Mooks]] are reduced to this when you "kill" them in RKA: Their armor falls off and reveals their underwear in a manner strongly reminiscent of ''[[Ghosts
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: ''RKA 2'' has seven golden swords the player can collect. [[Hundred-Percent Completion|Finding all of them]] unlocks Gold Sparkster and the [[Multiple Endings|complete ending]].
* [[Green Hill Zone]]: The first stage is a grassy plain with no environmental hazards.
* [[Hailfire Peaks]]: In a particularly impressive example, the second level in ''RKA 2'' manages to combine [[Shifting Sand Land]], [[Lethal Lava Land]], [[Temple of Doom]], and [[Eternal Engine]].
* [[Harder Than Hard]]: The Japanese and European versions of ''RKA'' and all versions of ''Sparkster'' contain difficulties called "Very Hard" and "Crazy Hard". As noted in [[Difficulty
* [[The Hero]]: Sparkster, of course.
* [[Heroic Mime]]: Played with in that ''no'' character has any lines. Characters may be shown apparently conversing, but we can only infer what they're talking about by what happens immediately afterward.
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* [[The Kingdom]]: Zebulos. Renamed to Zephyrus in ''Rocket Knight''.
* [[Large and In Charge]]: The emperor in the first game, {{spoiler|although this is actually subverted as he is nothing but a robot created by the Pig Star's computer which is the REAL enemy.}}
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: [[
* [[Magic Knight]]: Sparkster and Axle Gear to a certain degree.
* [[Mascot
* [[Mass Hypnosis]]: [[All There in the Manual]]; this is how the [[Big Bad]] gets his troops.
* [[Mecha
* [[Military Mashup Machine]]: All over the place, including such oddities as space submarines whose front portions can [[Transforming Mecha|turn into giant mechs]].
* [[Mini-Mecha]]: There are several varieties of enemies that pilot these.
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* [[The Napoleon]]: Captain Fleagle from the first game, who even dresses like the Trope Namer.
* [[Ominous Pipe Organ]]: Axel Gear is seen playing one at the end of the aforementioned [[Band Land]] {{spoiler|the sixth level of Sparkster for SNES}}.
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: Unlock the Crazy Hard of RKA 1 ([[Difficulty
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: [[All There in the Manual]]; Sherry and Cherry's mother died from unknown causes years before RKA. Sparkster meanwhile is a [[Conveniently an Orphan|war orphan]] who was raised by the Rocket Knight, Mifune Sanjulo... {{spoiler|until Mifune was murdered by Axel Gear ten years before the first game.}}
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Mifune Sanjulo, Sparkster and Axle Gear's former teacher {{spoiler|who was killed by Axle Gear before the first game began.}}
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* [[Space Does Not Work That Way]]: The series has been guilty of this from time to time.
** [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|Sparkster Can Breathe In Space]]: This is one of the biggest offenders considering how fast he travels in space.
* [[Spell My Name
** The name of the world the series takes place in is supposed to be named for the titular country in Samuel Butler's ''Erewhon'', but because of the way the Japanese version of this got initially rendered into English the name became "Elhorn". This appears to be treated with equal validity to "Erewhon" by fans and references, even today.
** In the Japanese version of the games, the kingdom Sparkster lives in is called "Zephyrus" but was mistranslated as "Zebulos" in the English version and remained unchanged for years. For the new Rocket Knight game, Konami has dropped "Zebulos" for the English version in favor of the original "Zephyrus".
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* [[Tennis Boss]]: The miniboss in the fourth level of the first game tosses explosives at you. You can't reach him with your normal attacks, so you have to hit the bombs back at him to damage him.
* [[Ten-Second Flashlight]]: Can get pretty irritating in levels with a lot of enemies or traps.
* [[The Cameo]]: Sparkster appeared as a cameo in several Konami games, such as ''[[Snatcher]]'', ''[[Contra]]'', ''[[
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: Happens very, very frequently, with [[Shoot Em Ups|Shoot Em Up]] and (rudimentary) [[Fighting Game]] segments breaking up the platforming.
* [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]: The last normal level of each game is on an enemy space station (slightly modified in ''RKA 2'', where it appears to be an [[Ominous Floating Castle]] in space), and the first game and the SNES game take this further by setting the final boss fight ''in re-entry'' and ''on a giant missile'', respectively. ''Rocket Knight'' has the final level in {{spoiler|a corrupted version of Zephyrus where the pigs have taken over and the general rules with a giant golden robot of himself. [[Oh Crap]].}}
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