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''Toughest chick in the alien world!''
''Ain't got time for pink and lace!''
''This girl's built for outer space!"''
|[[Theme Tune]]}}
Season 3 (Subtitle Mission: Earth) mixes things up by having the Galactic Guardian headquarters relocated underneath Betty's hometown.
A sequel with the working title ''[[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|Atomic Betty Redux]]'' featuring a slightly older Betty is currently{{when}} in development.
The show has also reappeared on American airwaves on [[The Hub]] (formerly [[Discovery Kids]]) before it was taken off of air as of 2011.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: This was implied at toward Max Sr. toward Maximus and later on, Max Sr. Sr. toward both of them.
* [[Action Girl]]
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Max Sr. apparently hates being called "worthless" by his own father and would have nearly beaten up his younger self if Maximus didn't interfere.
** Also, when Maximus can't sleep due to too much noise, he goes on a destructive rampage.
* [[Between My Legs]]: Odd for a children's show, but this is how we're introduced to Pontifidora, along with the image page for the episode.
* [[Big Bad]]: Maximus IQ
* [[Big Eater]]: Sparky and his mom.
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* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Maximus.
** In "The Pre-Teen Queen of Outer Space" when the Drones need a new queen they intentionally seek out the most evil female in the universe.
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Played straight with Purrsy, Koreena, Maximus and his family, but the episode "Noah's Bark" shows that Maximus's race is not [[
* [[Christmas Episode]]: "The No-L 9" which doubles as a [[Musical Episode]].
** There's also the first season episodes "Jingle Brawls" and "Toy Historyia".
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* [[Costume Copycat]]: In "Cosmic Comicon" a bunch of people are dressed like Betty and there's a [[Running Gag]] where Sparky keeps mistaking them for her. He even mistakes a coat rack with a costume hanging on it for her.
** [[Up to Eleven]]: When Betty tries to talk to him, he asks her who she is.
* [[Cute Alien Girl]]: Betty, who claims however that she came from space.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: How mean Penelope and her friends are varies from episode to episode.
* [[Denser and Wackier]]: ''Mission Earth'' has a number of gags that are cartoonier than anything the previous seasons ever did.
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: This is mostly seen when Maximus is around either his father or grandfather, the latter which Max Sr. only helps his son due to his own father mocking them both.
* [[Eyedscreen]]: Common during action scenes.
* [[Fat and Skinny]]: Megan and Sarah respectively
* [[Fat Bastard|Fat Bastards]]: Max Sr., M'lord Orus, and Max Sr. Sr. (when he's elderly)
* [[Fat Cat]]: This is what Max Sr. is. Same to elderly Max Sr. Sr., though it could be due to himself being too old.
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** Parodied when DeGill is in the shower and they blur out his crotch.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Beatrixo and Auntie Matter's father was an alien. This also makes Betty's mom a quarter alien and Betty an eighth alien.
* [[Human Aliens]]: Betty, Beatrixo, Auntie Matter, Atomic Roger, Paloma, Juanita and Pandora.
* [[Halloween Episode]]: The episodes "When Worlds Collide", "The Ghost Ship of Aberdeffia", "Night of the Living Mummies", and "Trick or Creep".
* [[Hartman Hips]]: Betty's mom
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* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: Penelope in "Circus Sparkimus".
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Sparky's mother has a terrible habit of dating villains.
* [[
* [[Identical Grandson|Identical Granddaughter]]: In "Bold Age" when Penelope was aged up and her grandmother was aged down they each ended up looking like the other, except the aged down grandmother has thicker thighs than Penelope.
* [[Informed Ability]] / [[Informed Flaw]]: According to the episode "The Pre-Teen Queen of Outer Space" Penelope is the most evil female in the universe.
* [[In
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: A one-sided example in "Love Bites" when Betty's dad falls in love with Purrsy after getting bitten by an alien bug.
* [[I Was Quite
* [[I Will Wait for You]]: In "The No-L 9" we learn Beatrixo has been waiting 30 years for her husband Jimmy to return after he went missing in action.
* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Noah, at the end of "No Space Like Home"
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* [[Likable Villain]]: Incidentally, there are some villains that are portrayed as likable to the fans.
* [[Magic Skirt]]: Betty, in an episode where she swings by her knees on a trapeze.
* [[Magical Girl Warrior]]
* [[Masquerade]]
* [[Mooks]]: The Bloodmonks
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* [[Never Trust a Trailer|Never Trust a Title Card]]: The title card for "Trading Spaces" shows Penelope in a Galactic Guardian uniform. The episode has nothing to do with Penelope joining the Galactic Guadians.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: The voice of Betty's dad is based on [[Jimmy Stewart]].
* [[No Name Given]]: Betty and her family's last name is never mentioned. Even in a school assembly, the principal calls her just 'Betty'. The closest we get to learning her last name is when Sparky refers to Betty's mother as 'Mrs. B'
** Actually in a series of Atomic Betty [[All There in the Manual|books]], her last name was revealed to be Barret.
* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Noah. Starts to move away from this during season 3.
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* [[Petting Zoo People]]
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Betty's red clone.
* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]: The last episode of Season Three introduced the older Betty from the sequel.
* [[Positive Discrimination]]: Paloma
* [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy]]: Betty is voiced by a black woman and her black friend Regeena is voiced by a white woman.
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* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]
* [[Screens Are Cameras]]: The Comm Links work this way.
* [[Screwed by the Network]]: Started off on a primetime spot on CN. But was soon punted around the schedule before ending up on a early morning shift where barely anyone was awake to watch it.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Dylan and Chaz
* [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]]: In "The Way of the Wiener" the Betty Clones stay in her superpowered forms for unexplained reasons.
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{{quote|'''General Bee''':Is this a suitable world your highness.
*Shows Queen Penelobee a picture of Earth.*
'''Queen Penelobee''' [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet|No you fool none of these world are]]
[[Record Needle Scratch|WHIRRRP!!]]
'''Queen Penelobee'''' Wait that smell [[Beat|*beat*]] Honey!
'''General Bee''' [[Lampshade Hanging|But we're in deep space.]]
'''Queen Penelobee''' [[
* [[Split Personality]]: Minimus' head rotates to reflect his change in personality
* [[Stout Strength]]: Though briefly seen in "The Big Dig", Max Sr. proves to be a bit dangerous around Hopper the Chopper and his gang (before he's wedgied by Hopper).
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* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Noah
* [[Villain Song]]: "Virtuoso of Insanity"
* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]] "This Cat Is Coming After You" on the album, mainly for the Betty vocals dialogue
* [[The Voiceless]]: Penelope's Asian friend Sarah never talks.
** Or at least she use to in the first two seasons before Mission: Earth decided to make her mute.
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