Bakugan: Difference between revisions

* [[Alien Invasion]]: After [[Big Bad|Naga]] was destroyed in the first season finale, the next two seasons had extradimmensional aliens as their main villains. Its presently unknown is Mag Mel is continuing this trend or not.

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Julie's ''entire family''.

* [[Art Evolution]]: ''Gundalian Invaders'' finally stopped with all the [[Off-Model]]-[[Buffy-Speak|ness]], but the [[Lip Lock]] is still heavily present.

* [[The Artifact]]: Julie in ''Gundalian Invaders''; her sole reason for existence is to remind the viewers that the original cast was more gender-balanced.

* [[Bad Future]]: {{spoiler|[[The Bad Guys Win|Coredegon and the evil Mechtogan win]], destroying Bakugan City and everyone in it, he then goes to New Vestroia and kills off all the Bakugan. Thankfully, the Brawlers [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] by going back in time to stop him in his tracks right as he's about to leave to do all this.}}

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Julie and Runo.

* [[The Baroness]]: Mylene, Kazarina

* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: the Neathians over the Gundalians

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Dan and Runo.

** Shadow and Mylene in ''New Vestroia''.

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: {{spoiler|After Alice discovers that she is really Masquerade, she initially stops brawling all together, but eventually is able to fight using Masquerade's abilities while remaining herself.}}

* [[Big Bad]]: Each season has a new [[Big Bad]]. Season 1 had Naga, season 2 was King Zenoheld, season 3 was Emperor Barodius, and season 4 has Mag Mel in the first half and Wiseman and Coredegon in the second{{spoiler|, although it turns out Mag Mel was Barodius and Wiseman was a disguise for Coredegon.}}

* [[Bifauxnen]]: Paige

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Akwimos's "Cool is the rule, dude!"

* [[Char Clone]] - Spectra Phantom wears mostly red (including a mask), is blonde, is The Rival, {{spoiler|and is actually named Keith Fermin, the older brother of Mira Fermin}}. Also, Masquerade doesn't have a thing for red nor does he {{spoiler|she}} have a younger sister, but he is mostly this trope.

* [[Combination Attack]]: Various special attacks can be used to boost the power level of your Bakugan if you're attacking with two Bakugan of elements next to each other on the elemental wheel...or across from each other on the wheel...or with the three that make up a triangle on that wheel. So there's a pretty good chance that any time two of the Brawlers are dueling together, they'll be able to use a combo attack.

** Hell, seeing as how regular (normally Aquos) Preyas can change his element at will and his evolution manifested in the form of a ''second'' Bakugan, Haos Preyas Angelo/Pyrus Preyas Diablo, Marucho is able to pull off the Aquos/Pyrus/Haos triangle attack all by himself--or would be, if any of the non-sentient Bakugan appeared at all during New Vestroia.

* [[Cultural Translation]]: ''Gundalian Invaders'' seems to have taken this literally, seeing as how Dan's new place of living, Bayview City, has American Football, Burger Joints, has people with english names like Jake, and he now lives fairly close to Julie, it can be assumed that he's moved to America.

* [[Cyborg]]: Helios gets cyberized willingly, as he has apparently attained maximum evolution and thus can't match Drago's insane power. He gets a new arm (that can [[Rocket Punch]], and once fired off it reveals a large [[Arm Cannon]]), a large [[Chest Blaster]] cannon, brand new wings with [[Shoulder Cannon]]s built into them, and the ability to regenerate any damage.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: {{spoiler|Season 2 of New Vestroia made battling more lethal.}}

** ''Gundalian Invaders'' involves an actual ''[[War Is Hell|war]]''. Permanent character death is a common sight.

* [[Gender Bender]]: {{spoiler|Masquerade is clearly a guy, especially with his deep voice, but when his mask is taken off, he becomes ''Alice.'' Comes with a [[Impossibly Cool Clothes|nifty]] clothes change too.}}

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Episode 17 - Preyas says the magic word close to 8 minutes in. ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO7lpMBl2fw For proof, go to 8:05 and play it from there.])

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: [[Tsundere|Runo]].

* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: Mag Mel's threat is so great that {{spoiler|the group has to resort to ''completely deleting Bakugan Interspace'' in an attempt to stop him. And it ''doesn't work!''}}

** {{spoiler|Volt and Lync too}}

** {{spoiler|Ren. Also, Nurzak and Mason. Lena, Jesse, and Zenet help out the Brawlers once their brainwashing wears off.}}

* [[Her Heart Will Go On]]: {{spoiler|Fabia's fiance was killed in action some time before meeting the Brawlers.}}

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Drago has to merge with the Perfect Core at the end of ''Battle Brawlers'', losing his physical form. He gets better at the start of ''New Vestroia'', though this naturally requires him to [[Restart At Level One]].

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Sid, ALL of the twelve orders but Nurzak}}

** To date, all of the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]]

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Typical dynamic: Dan is surprised by something [[Parrot Exposition|so he repeats what he just heard.]] [[Deadpan Snarker|Shun replies that that's exactly why whoever said that said so.]]

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Some of the villains use Haos-attributed Bakugan.

* [[Long-Distance Relationship]]: Julie and Billy.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Spectra is {{spoiler|Mira's older brother Keith.}}

** Alice, a Mad Scientist's Beautiful ''Granddaughter'', plays this straight. Well, sort of. Her grandfather, Michael, was taken over by negative energy after an accident with a dimensional transporter and became the evil Hal-G, and she tried to defend him, and was herself being used by him, first by being turned into Masquerade and then by being tricked into believing that Michael was [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight|in there somewhere]].

* [[Magical Girl]]: Elfin. while it wasn't so noticeable at first, when she evolved into Minx Elfin, she invokes this trope so much that she's practically become a [[Affectionate Parody|direct homage]] to Sailor Moon, complete with [[In the Name of the Moon]] style phrases. It's so blatantly obvious now that she even copied one of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'''s signature poses.

** Hydranoid evolves twice in the OG series, since he's the [[Evil Counterpart]] to Drago.

** Helios from ''New Vestroia'' gets a more mecha-like process of upgrade: he starts out completely organic, then gets a set of cybernetic wings and a camera-like left eye that contains the FARBAS nano-healing system. His second upgrade furthers the cyberization by getting a [[Chest Blaster]] cannon implanted, his left arm replaced with a [[Rocket Punch]] mecha-arm (which, when launched, reveals a large [[Arm Cannon]] stalk). His wings become far more massive and now contain a pair of [[Shoulder Cannon]]s as well as several smaller cannons that can [[Roboteching|robotech]]. The FARBAS system also gets a new cellular eye, and he also gets what appears to be a set of electrodes implanted into his mandibular joints (which cause most of his [[Fire-Breathing Weapon|fire breath]] attacks to get coated in an electric charge). ''Mechtanium Surge'' reveals that Helios ditched most of the cybernetics besides the [[Chest Blaster]] (which now has a small hatch covering it) and the [[Roboteching|homing laser]] attack. He also still has an improved FARBAS system, which implies that Spectra somehow was able to create a much less invasive process of cyberization.

* [[Mission Control]]: Joe.

* [[Capulet Counterpart|Montague Counterpart]]: Lync turns against the Vexos out of love for Alice.

* [[More Dakka]]: The entire premise of the Battle Gear is to load a Bakugan down with firepower. Sometimes, it involves [[Humongous Mecha|giant mechanical Bakugan]] that can [[Combining Mecha|combine]] into battle armor.

** Drago's constant use of Battle Gear himself, plus his unbelievably frequent evolution rate powers him up time and time again.

** Dragonoid Colossus had Battle Gear he could summon to use on his back like battleship guns. Axator even managed to link up to Drago. {{spoiler|If Colossus didn't get destroyed, we might have seen more of his Battle Gear used by Drago.}}

** {{spoiler|Possibly Professor Worton and Betradron.}}

* [[Reverse Mole]]: {{spoiler|Mira makes an apparent [[Face Heel Turn]]...and proceeds to completely sabotage the Vestals' plans.}}

* [[Say My Name]]: Joe when {{spoiler|Wavern is destroyed to release the Infinity Core within her.}}

** Dan to Drago in every. Single. Battle.

* [[Screens Are Cameras]]: When Dan and his friends video chat over the internet.

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: The season 4 [[Big Bad]], Mag Mel, is presently sealed away in another dimmension along with his Bakugan Razenoid. Reason for their imprisonment? '''Genocide.'''

* [[Serious Business]]: Justified, as Bakugan can do [[The Game Plays You|a lot of damage]].

* [[Sequel Hook]]: At the end of ''New Vestroia'', {{spoiler|The last thing Prof. Clay sees before the ship blows is footage of Bakugan at war with each other, setting the stage for}} ''{{spoiler|Gundalian Invaders}}''.