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[[File:DVD-cover_1722.jpg|frame|The [[Badass Family|Quest team]] is back! Yep, even [[Team Pet|Bandit]].]]
[[Continuity Reboot]] of the wildly popular [[The Sixties|1960s]] [[Hanna-Barbera]] animated show ''[[Jonny Quest]]''. Covering the same basic idea, that of a teenage boy named Jonny Quest, who travels the world with his family, investigating mysterious phenomena they encounter along the way (sometimes said phenomena [[Coincidence Magnet|come find them at home]], of course). [[Adventure Series|Adventure plots ensue]].
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'''Please note''' that all trope examples listed in this page should apply specifically to the 1990s series. Tropes that apply to the general premise of Jonny Quest better fit in the article for [[Jonny Quest|the original series]].
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* [[Everything Is Online|Absolutely Positively Every Single Aspect Of Existence Is Online]]: There is literally nothing Quest World VR technology can't access. Even the afterlife.▼
* [[Action Girl]]: Jessie Bannon. [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]] on season two, though.
{{quote|'''Jonny:''' Gotta hand it to her, Hadj: She's pretty cool.}}
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{{quote|'''Hadji:''' Get back! It's against my religion to be eaten by reptiles!}}
* [[Age Without Youth]]: One episode featured a man who was cursed with eternal life without eternal youth. {{spoiler|And he still looks better than his former friend whose [[Deal with the Devil]] turned him into a soulless squid monster. Incidentally, it was his "friend" who cursed him in the first place.}}
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Race Bannon had a somewhat darker complexion in the first season, bordering on [[Race Lift]] ([[
* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: The Moai.▼
* [[Animal Wrongs Group]]: Every now and again, the enemies have eco-friendly agendas, but rarely fit the trope. The weirdest being a submarine crew that uses a fake giant squid arm to sink whaling ships.
** They come through when Surd happens to enslave whales with the use of Quest World and a sonar.
▲* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: The Moai.
* [[Another Dimension]]: Complete with inhabitants that want to take over ''our'' dimension, in "Other Space."
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: All the time. Dr. Quest and Hadji, especially, are fond of this trope.▼
* [[Art Shift]]: The [[Cyberspace|quest world]] segments used [[Medium Blending]] during the first season. For the second, the was replaced with a simple art shift on a few occasions.
** Referenced in-show at one point. When Jonny and Dr. Quest [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|log on to the afterlife]], they find that while they're wearing the black jumpsuits Quest World normally gives them, they still look the same as they do offline, rather than their usual 3-D models. When Jonny wonders why they're not in the form of their online avatars, Dr. Quest explains that they are using Quest World to exist as minds or souls and are therefore "real", not inside the context of a computer program. Likewise, later on in the episode, Jonny cannot access his regular online weaponry because, where Quest World is sending them, it doesn't exist.
** Noticeably between the first and second seasons in the non-CG animation, bordering on [[Off-Model]] for Race and Dr. Quest.
▲* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: All the time. Dr. Quest and Hadji, especially, are fond of this trope.
* [[Badass]]: Race Bannon is the ''definition'' of this trope.
** [[Badass in Distress]]: ...However, he does wind up captured or otherwise in trouble quite a few times. This is because the creative team meant to empower the kids a bit more [[Tagalong Kid|than they were]] in classic JQ.
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** [[Badass Grandpa]]: "Amok" gives us [[Historical Domain Character]] Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate. "What is this, geriatric aikido?" Hellz yeah, it is. And it is ''awesome''.
* [[BFS]]: "Expedition to Khumbu" both subverts and lampshades this trope. While playing a game in Questworld, Jonny gets attacked by a scorpion-type monster. He immediately asks I.R.I.S. to equip him with a [[Gatling Good|Gatling gun]]; the computer, however, gives him a shield and a fairly small sword instead, explaining that it's the only type of weapon permitted in that level. Jonny, of course, tells her she'd "better make it a BIG sword!" So I.R.I.S. makes it grow until it's longer than he is tall. Given that this is a computer game, you'd think they'd play the trope straight, but as Questworld was designed to be realistic, the sword is too heavy for him. As he stumbles with it, he goes "give me a break, I.R.I.S.!" and then he falls. The sword breaks in two, Jonny complains, and the computer quips [[Literal Genie|"you requested a break."]] He still uses the broken sword to fight the scorpion monster, though.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: At the end of "Ndovu's Last Journey," they successfully keep the poachers away in order for Ndovu to reach the elephant graveyard... so he can die.▼
* [[Big Bad]]/[[Big Bad Ensemble]]: Mostly evenly shared by Dr. Zin, Jeremiah Surd and Ezekiel Rage. It's interesting to note that Dr. Zin was the [[Big Bad]] in [[Jonny Quest|classic JQ]], while Surd and Rage were created for the re-imagining.
* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: The series had had Yeti who turned out to be Neanderthals in a Monastery (a knowing throwback to [[Jonny Quest|the original]]). It also featured Bigfoot which were revealed to be aliens in disguise (they couldn't survive in Earth's polluted atmosphere otherwise).▼
* [[Big No]]: About a hair's breadth away from being overused. Usually immediately following the [[Say My Name]] examples.
▲* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: The series had had Yeti who turned out to be Neanderthals in a Monastery (a knowing throwback to [[Jonny Quest|the original]]). It also featured Bigfoot which were revealed to be aliens in disguise (they couldn't survive in Earth's polluted atmosphere otherwise).
▲* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: At the end of "Ndovu's Last Journey," they successfully keep the poachers away in order for Ndovu to reach the elephant graveyard... so he can die.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: One episode had Race breaking into a building using a Nisa (Visa) credit card.
* [[Blank Book]]
* [[Blob Monster]]: "DNA Doomsday" featured a shapeshifting blob-like bio computer who was given a test mission to launch a group of Nuclear Missiles, and failed to realize it was a simulation. For added [[Nightmare Fuel]], it could change parts of its body into people it had come into contact with.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Jessie in "Thoughtscape." She almost destroyed half the Quest Compound!
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Race's old mentor (and boss) is revealed to have been working for [[Big Bad|Dr. Zin]].
* [[Burn the Witch]]: In "Ice Will Burn," the people from the underground caverns threaten to throw Jessie and Katrina to the smoldering lava as [[Human Sacrifice|Human Sacrifices]], thinking they are witches.
* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: Lance Falk, one of the second season writers, has argued fervently against the canonicity of the 1980s series and movies.
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Race's "Fur on a catfish!", Jonny's "Slammin'!"
* [[The Cavalry]]: In "Trouble on the Colorado".
{{quote|'''Julia:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Let me guess:]] [[Invoked Trope|the cavalry to the rescue?]]
'''Native American man:''' [[Subverted Trope|No.]] [[Parodied Trope|Indians.]] }}
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: In "The Darkest Fathoms", Jonny is seen to be practicing how to escape from being tied up. Later in the episode, he's captured by pirates and uses this skill to get free (and save Jessie and his dad while he's at it).
** In "Ezekiel Rage" Hadji is shown teaching Jonny breathing techniques. Later these help him survive when he's exposed to nerve gas.
** In "General Winter", at the beginning of the episode, Hadji is seen reading a book on battle strategy and trying to lecture Jonny on the importance of it. Later on, this saves them after they escape from [[Glorious Mother Russia|Vostok]] and Hadji frees his other prisoners who end up saving the rest of the team.
* [[Claustrophobia]]: Jessie.▼
* [[Climbing the Cliffs of Insanity]]: ''So'' overused.
* [[Conspicuous CGI]]: The backgrounds of some of their outdoor adventures (especially cloudy skies or northern lights) tended to stand out from the regular 2D animation, mostly in season 1.
* [[Cool Shades]]: One of the villains was a government agent who always wore sunglasses. Lampshaded by Race when he said that he "was one of them, until the shades became a part of the uniform".
▲* [[Claustrophobia]]: Jessie.
▲* [[Cool Shades]]: One of the villains was a government agent who always wore sunglasses. Lampshaded by Race when he said that he "was one of them, until the shades became a part of the uniform".
* [[Cyberspace]]: Quest World.
* [[Descending Ceiling]]: Played deadly straight with a pair of scientists [[Nightmare Fuel|off-screen]]. Also, Dr. Quest manages to escape from one in "The Robot Spies."
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The Secret of the Moai. Aliens arrive in the last moment, destroy all the evidence the quest team uncovered, erase everyone's memories, undo all damage and teleport Surd and his mooks into Peru. [[Flat What|What]].
* [[Digitized Hacker]]: Jeremiah Surd, of course.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Played straight a few times, though that doesn't make the deaths any less cringe-worthy.
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* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: The first season introduced several recurring villains. The second season crew, as part of their return to [[Running the Asylum|Classic JQ's themes and tropes]], decreed that, just as in the original series, There Shall Be No Recurring Villains Besides Dr. Zin; all others must meet their [[Karmic Death]] by the end of the episode. As a result, season two dispatched the season one [[Rogues Gallery]], one by one.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: A villainous example: Lorenzo is fairly competent and unflinchingly loyal, his only flaw is being [[Book Dumb]]. The [[Big Bad]], Jeremiah Surd, and the [[Dark Action Girl]], Julia, never give him the time of day. In one episode, after he saves Surd from cardiac arrest, Julia goes, "Jeremiah! Thank the stars that you're alive!" Lorenzo retorts, "The stars had nothing to do with it", but they ignore him.
* [[Eat Me]]: In "DNA Doomsday", Jonny lets the Monster of the Week absorb him while he's in Quest World in order to short-circuit it.
* [[Eenie Meenie Miny Moai]]: "The Secret of the Moai", of course.
▲* [[Everything Is Online|Absolutely Positively Every Single Aspect Of Existence Is Online]]: There is literally nothing Quest World VR technology can't access. Even the afterlife.
* [[Environment Specific Action Figure]]: The figure line for ''The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest'' didn't even ''have'' "regular" versions of the characters. You could get Race as a skydiver, Johnny as an astronaut or Jessie as a [[Badass Cape|cape-wearing]], [[Spy Catsuit|catsuit-sporting]] [[Ninja]], but good luck finding them in anything they actually ''wore on the show''. The closest to being [[Show Accuracy, Toy Accuracy|vaguely accurate]] were the [[Cyberspace|Quest World]] figures, but these featured [[Rainbow Pimp Gear|candy-colored paint jobs]] that were in stark contrast with the dark-colored suits on the show, and featured a toy of the motorcycle from one sequence with ''giant yellow training wheels''.
* [[Evil Cripple]]: Jeremiah Surd is a quadraplegic super-hacker and [[Mad Scientist]].
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** It helped that the real Dr. Quest showed up and punched out the illusionary one.
* [[Frank Welker]]: Jeremiah Surd, Bandit, and other additional voices.
* [[
** One of the producers even described Jonny as "a young Captain Kirk" in a DVD extra feature. He does seem to embody [[The Kirk]] some of the time, although he's not as pragmatic and perhaps a little bit more emotion-driven than expected-- that's more of a [[The McCoy]] trait. In reality him, Jessie and Hadji shift between [[The Kirk]], [[The Spock]] and [[The McCoy]] depending on the story. Hadji fits [[The Spock]] in that he is from a different culture and the thinker of the group, although he's certainly not emotionless. Jessie tends to be more emotional than Hadji, but she doesn't react as impulsively as Jonny and has shown that she ''can'' be cold and logical like [[The Spock]].▼
** Another way of seeing them is the Freudian way:▼
*** Hadji as a rare, not exactly unemotional Super-Ego.▼
*** Jonny as the impulsive, emotion-driven Id.▼
*** Jessie as the Ego, who has a lot of the emotions of the Id, balanced with much of the rationality of the Super-Ego.▼
* [[The Full Name Adventures]]
* [[Ghost Pirate]]: "The Darkest Fathoms"
* [[Glorious Mother Russia]]: Vostok in general, and also his cronies in "General Winter."
* [[Golem]]: Introduced, and manipulated by a villain into a weapon utterly impervious to normal human weapons in "Rock of Rages." The episode's writer, Lance Falk, later explained in [
{{quote|'''Lance Falk:''' Actually, "Rock of Rages" with the [[Golem]], was an attempt to sort of tweak the nose of Hard Rock. I wanted to show how downright frightening a 7-foot-tall rock creature is. A terrifying supernatural force, not a puppy dog.}}▼
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Surprisingly plentiful, but most prominent in "Ndovu's Last Journey." There is a fight in an elephant graveyard. A villain falls and we see (from '''his point of view''', no less) him fall towards the business end of an elephant skeleton tusk. The view cuts away before impact, but we do hear a rather nasty sound effect and see other characters flinch.
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: In "Cyberswitch," Jeremiah Surd, ''[[The Lawnmower Man]]''--strength power in cyberspace and mostly immobile in the real world, switches bodies with Race. The switch is quickly discovered and reversed.
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* [[Great White Hunter]]: The Main Villain of "N'Dovu's Last Journey".
** There was another one in "Manhattan Maneater".
▲* [[Golem]]: Introduced, and manipulated by a villain into a weapon utterly impervious to normal human weapons in "Rock of Rages." The episode's writer, Lance Falk, later explained in [http://www.kishikat.com/zone/lanceint.html an interview] that the episode was, at least in part, a dig at the 1980s attempt at the series and its addition of a living statue called Hard Rock to the main cast.
▲{{quote|'''Lance Falk:''' Actually, "Rock of Rages" with the [[Golem]], was an attempt to sort of tweak the nose of Hard Rock. I wanted to show how downright frightening a 7-foot-tall rock creature is. A terrifying supernatural force, not a puppy dog.}}
* [[Hanna-Barbera]]
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Jessie Bannon.
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* [[Hot Amazon]]: Jesse's [[Hair Flip]] during the beginning credits (seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_uYJySWlco here at 0:40] )
* [[Hot Mom]]: Estella Velasquez. Well, it's no ''wonder'' she landed Race Bannon: she's hot ''and'' knows how to handle a gun.
** Also, Jezebel Jade, as she points out to Jessie in a [[What Could Have Been]] argument, that she was very close to being her stepmom.
* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: In the episode ''Nemesis'', Jonny and Hadji lose their jeep and acquire a tank. Hadji asks Jonny if he knows how to operate one, and Jonny replies "''Tank Leader 2''. Highest score ever recorded.".
* [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me]]: A rather odd example, from ''Lorenzo'' of all people, in "Without a Trace." Surd and his minions have hijacked Air Force One and they plan to kill everybody in it with a deadly nerve gas. Jonny, Jessie and Hadji get themselves captured while trying to rescue the President. Bandit is also there. When Lorenzo points Bandit's presence out to Surd, the boss tells him to "throw him in, too." And Lorenzo goes: "But he's so cute! Can I keep him?" Surd, predictably, says no.
* [[Implacable Man]]: Ezekiel Rage, an [[The End of the World as We Know It|apocalyptic]] [[Sinister Minister|preacher]] who's supposedly been killed after each of his attempts to end humanity, only to return good as new. It took ''sending him back to prehistoric times with a nuke'' before he was finally considered dead.
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'''Hadji:''' To be completely honest, I'm not entirely certain. [[Lampshade Hanging|But you must admit it does sound profound!]] }}
* [[Living Shadow]]: The [[Monster of the Week]] in "Diamonds and Jade".
* [[Lost Colony]]: An interesting variation appears in "Ice Will Burn". The episode deals with a people descended from 17th/18th century Siberian Russians, whose ancestors had to fled their town and got trapped by accident in an unescapable deep gorge/icy cavern. They managed to survive and thrive thanks to the heat produced by a small local volcano ([[Truth in Television]] if it's supposed to be set somewhere in the Kamchatka peninsula).
* [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]: Or daughter'''s''' in the case of Dr. Zin, although only Anaya actually fits the "falls in love with a hero" part of the trope.
* [[Magic Skirt]]: Jeremiah Surd's female [[The Dragon|Dragon]] Julia regularly wore an extremely short skirt, and fought with a high-kicking kung-fu style. There was never an upskirt shot, ever.▼
* [[Magical Native American]]: The Anasazi, although they're more like ''Alien'' Native Americans. The trope is hilariously subverted in "Trouble on the Colorado," though: Jonny and co. meet one old man who turns out to be completely ordinary person, who only knows Jonny's name because it's written on the dog's collar, and he only guessed that the enemy has a helicopter because he saw one recently, as opposed identifying the trail a helicopter would leave behind after taking off.
** Of course that didn't stop him (nor his wife) from occasionally talking like stereotypical Indians in western movies, just for the kicks.
▲* [[Magic Skirt]]: Jeremiah Surd's female [[The Dragon|Dragon]] Julia regularly wore an extremely short skirt, and fought with a high-kicking kung-fu style. There was never an upskirt shot, ever.
* [[The Maze]]: In "Heroes," going with the Greek theme.
* [[The Meddling Kids Are Useless]]: Averted, notably unlike TOS.
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** The exact details of what happened to Jonny's mom were supposed to be in the third season. [[What Could Have Been|Alas...]]
* [[Missing Trailer Scene]]: The teasers for "To Bardo and Back" featured Jonny and Jessie fighting some kind of mechanized bull creature. Nothing remotely like this appears in the episode.
* [[The Missus and the Ex]]: Race's ex-wife Estella, and his ex-girlfriend Jade, both make an appearance in "The Robot Spies." Save for a few tense moments, it's not as bad as one would expect.▼
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Surprisingly averted for a 90's kid's show. Quite a number of people (though rarely major characters and never anyone on the main team) end up getting pretty blatantly killed off.▼
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Hadji's "latent" telekinetic abilities.
▲* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Surprisingly averted for a 90's kid's show. Quite a number of people (though rarely major characters and never anyone on the main team) end up getting pretty blatantly killed off.
* [[No Eye in Magic]]: Subverted in "Heroes." Jonny didn't use the Virtual File Finder disk to look at Medusa!Surd via reflection, he made Medusa!Surd see his own reflection in it so he would petrify himself.
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Usually given to the [[Villain of the Week]] in some variation. However, with Ezekiel Rage, one of his recurring tropes was his subverting it.
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* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: Jessie has a pink shirt, and when the team gets [[Stylish Protection Gear|swim gear or parkas]] that are identical save for their colors, Jessie gets the pink ones.
* [[A Pirate 400 Years Too Late]]: The fake ghost pirates in "The Darkest Fathoms".
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Jonny, Jessie and Hadji, although which ''kind'' of power trio they are is hard to pinpoint.
▲** One of the producers even described Jonny as "a young Captain Kirk" in a DVD extra feature. He does seem to embody [[The Kirk]] some of the time, although he's not as pragmatic and perhaps a little bit more emotion-driven than expected-- that's more of a [[The McCoy]] trait. In reality him, Jessie and Hadji shift between [[The Kirk]], [[The Spock]] and [[The McCoy]] depending on the story. Hadji fits [[The Spock]] in that he is from a different culture and the thinker of the group, although he's certainly not emotionless. Jessie tends to be more emotional than Hadji, but she doesn't react as impulsively as Jonny and has shown that she ''can'' be cold and logical like [[The Spock]].
▲** Another way of seeing them is the Freudian way:
▲*** Hadji as a rare, not exactly unemotional Super-Ego.
▲*** Jonny as the impulsive, emotion-driven Id.
▲*** Jessie as the Ego, who has a lot of the emotions of the Id, balanced with much of the rationality of the Super-Ego.
* [[Public Domain Artifact]]: The Philosopher's Stone in "The Alchemist."
* [[Quinton Flynn]]: Season two Jonny.
* [[Race Against the Clock]]: In "Escape to Questworld," the kids have to get Surd to deactivate the release of his nerve gas, because their parents' protective suits will lose their effectiveness in exactly 22 hours.
* [[Real After All]]: In "Amok", the main characters ecounter a group of natives living in hiding, who protect something (this troper don't remember what was that exactly) by sending guy a dressed as legendary local monster Amok (looking like hybrid of gorilla, baboon and sloth) to scare the curious. Later everybody got caught by a bunch of terrorists (or something like that). Jonny escapes and, together with Amok-guy, manages to free everybody, but the villains' leader runs away. When Jonny thanks the guy in the Amok costume for help, he responds that he was with everybody else the whole time. And then we hear the leader's screams and a monstrous roar coming from the jungle. The same type of ending occurs in "The Spectre of the Pine Barrens."▼
** They were protecting their hidden society and scaring off a group of drug dealers (the terrorists), if this troper recalls.▼
* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Jessie.
* [[Reflective Eyes]]: Ndovu's.
* [[Religion of Evil]]: "So it is written... '''[[Punctuated!
** [[Prophecy Twist]]: The book from which he keeps quoting? {{spoiler|No scripture, just a photo album of his dead wife and daughter.}}
*** {{spoiler|With only one photo. In the middle of the book.}}
▲* [[Real After All]]: In "Amok", the main characters ecounter a group of natives living in hiding, who protect something (this troper don't remember what was that exactly) by sending guy a dressed as legendary local monster Amok (looking like hybrid of gorilla, baboon and sloth) to scare the curious. Later everybody got caught by a bunch of terrorists (or something like that). Jonny escapes and, together with Amok-guy, manages to free everybody, but the villains' leader runs away. When Jonny thanks the guy in the Amok costume for help, he responds that he was with everybody else the whole time. And then we hear the leader's screams and a monstrous roar coming from the jungle. The same type of ending occurs in "The Spectre of the Pine Barrens."
▲** They were protecting their hidden society and scaring off a group of drug dealers (the terrorists), if this troper recalls.
* [[Rightful King Returns|Rightful Sultan Returns]]: Hadji, of course. Specifically in "Bloodlines."▼
* [[Reverse the Polarity]]: Hadji does it to destroy the DNA blob monster in "DNA Doomsday."
▲* [[Rightful King Returns|Rightful Sultan Returns]]: Hadji, of course. Specifically in "Bloodlines."
* [[Rogues Gallery]]: Zin, Surd, Rage...
* [[Roswell That Ends Well]]: The Roswell UFO crash appears in the prologue of one episode taking place in the Anasazi region of the U.S. Southwest.
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* [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]]: Played (painfully) straight in "The Darkest Fathoms", featuring a pirate's "ghost" rampaging in the Bermuda area. Subverted in "East of Zanzibar" in the classic form of "monster destroys the fake monster" and again in "AMOK", "The Spectre of the Pine Barrens" and others.
* [[Shangri La]]: Or rather ''Shamballa'', in "The Bangalore Falcon."
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Neela, Hadji's mother, ships her own son with Jessie; or so her comments in "The Bangalore Falcon" seem to imply.▼
* [[Ship Tease]]: According to the [http://questfan.com/Page/Writer%27s_Bible.html Writer's Bible] of ''The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest'', the writers wanted to [[Ship Tease]] Jonny/Jessie in the first season. When a new head writer took over in season 2, [[Ship Tease]] was also planned for Hadji/Jessie while continuing the Jonny/Jessie teasing from the previous season, hinting at at possible [[Two Guys and a Girl]] [[Love Triangle]]. The Jonny/Jessie teasing culminated in the second season episode "Ghost Quest" where Jonny and Jessie [[Kissing Under the Influence|kiss while possesed by the ghosts of two former lovers]].
▲* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Neela, Hadji's mother, ships her own son with Jessie; or so her comments in "The Bangalore Falcon" seem to imply.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Surd in his introduction episode, "Escape to Questworld":
{{quote|'''Surd:''' Do you know how many times they've interrupted ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]''? And it wasn't even one I'd seen yet. I'm still very upset.}}
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* [[Skull for a Head]]: Ezekiel Rage usually gets the "Phantom of the Opera" motif, what with his face badly burned and him having to wear a white mask. His Questworld avatar, though (which we see in "The Edge of Yesterday"), actually has a skull for a head.
* [[Spider Tank]]: Doctor Zin shows up, so of course his spidery robots do too.
* [[Spot the Imposter]]: In "Digital Doublecross," while trapped in Quest World by Surd, Jesse has two Jonnies at gunpoint. One starts reeling off the details of their last race in Quest World, at which point the other counters that of course the impostor would know that, it's in the computer's memory banks; then brings up their real-life race immediately thereafter, at which point the double attacks him and gets zapped in about half a second.
* [[Super Speed]]: In "Night of the Zinja." While in Japan, Jonny wears an experimental device on his ankle that grants him super speed. At his fastest, he's able to chase down a jet airplane as it's taking off. The downside is that it hyperaccelerates his metabolism; any scene in which Jonny is not running, he's [[Big Eater|eating a sizable amount of ramen]].
* [[Switched At Birth]]: Jonny and Jessie weren't, but the creative team behind the series intentionally characterized Jessie as a science-oriented person, much like Dr. Quest, while many of Jonny's characteristics, instincts and reactions are similar to Race's. Race even jokes about this trope in "Future Rage" after Jessie accurately describes the cause of the Northern Lights.
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{{quote|'''Hadji:''' Actually, sir, I charmed him [the tiger] with my ''flute'', just like I do with snakes.}}
* [[Taken for Granite]]: Race and Jessie in "Heroes." Also Jonny's right index finger, then his right fist and left foot. Fortunately it was only their ''virtual'' selves that got petrified, so there were no lasting effects once they were out of Questworld.
▲* [[The Missus and the Ex]]: Race's ex-wife Estella, and his ex-girlfriend Jade, both make an appearance in "The Robot Spies." Save for a few tense moments, it's not as bad as one would expect.
* [[Thoroughly Mistaken Identity]]: Ezekiel Rage sees Jessie as his daughter, Carla.
* [[Throw a Barrel At It]]: In one episode, Race distracts a rampaging bull at a rodeo by throwing a barrel. He even says, [[Shout-Out|"Just let me throw a barrel at it,"]] while he does it!
* [[Time Bomb]]: Used several times, notably in "Escape to Questworld," and "Future Rage," in both of which cases Dr. Quest manages to stop the countdown with one second left.
* [[Time Travel]]: In "The Edge of Yesterday." Going with [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] variant, Dr. Quest created a time machine program in Questworld after his wife died, which would allow him to travel back in time and see his wife again. When he finished it, he realized he wouldn't only be able to ''see'' his wife, he could also change the past to prevent her from dying. His ethics would not let him alter history for personal gain, so he sealed the program so it couldn't be used. Later on, Jonny and Jessie use the program to go back in time and prevent Ezekiel Rage from planting a bomb that could cause the tectonic plates to split, destroying the Earth.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Total Eclipse of the Plot]]: In the aptly-titled episode "Eclipse."
* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: {{spoiler|Ezekiel Rage's}} family photo.
* [[Translation Convention]]: Used often. In "The Mummies of Malenque," for example, the bad guys talk to each other in English despite the fact that they're Colombian and there are no English-speakers around to hear them (that they know of). Well, they [[Gratuitous Spanish|interject a few words in Spanish here and there to make it seem "realistic,"]] but the trope stands. Heck, even the Malenque ''mummies'' speak in English when they're revived...
▲* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Jonny himself was more of [[The Load]] in [[Jonny Quest|the original series]], causing more problems than he actually solved, to the point that it was parodied in ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''. In the reboot, he matured into a competent hero on his own right, more worthy of being the title character than he ever was in the original series.
* [[Translator Microbes]]: Dr. Quest's "Language Translator" device, which Jessie uses in "Ice Will Burn."
* [[Trash Landing]]: In "Nemesis."
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* [[Visual Pun]]: In one of the Quest World shorts, Johnny runs an untested program, expecting a few bugs. Cut to the visual representation of the program, literally being pulled apart by CGI bugs.
* [[We Will Meet Again]]: One of Zin's twin daughters says this to Hadji in pretty much every episode they're in.
* [[Wire Dilemma]]: In "Escape to Questworld," the kids get Surd to tell them which wire to cut in order to deactivate the release of his nerve gas. He tells them it's the orange wire, and Jonny relies this information to his father. Right before he's about to snip the wire, Race interrupts, telling him to cut the blue wire instead. Benton does, and the day is saved. It's the one time Jonny's glad his father didn't listen to him.▼
* [[Wild Wilderness]]: Many episodes feature remote areas (not counting the VR world) where the wilderness is full of adventure yet...no one else notices but the main characters.
▲* [[Wire Dilemma]]: In "Escape to Questworld," the kids get Surd to tell them which wire to cut in order to deactivate the release of his nerve gas. He tells them it's the orange wire, and Jonny relies this information to his father. Right before he's about to snip the wire, Race interrupts, telling him to cut the blue wire instead. Benton does, and the day is saved. It's the one time Jonny's glad his father didn't listen to him.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Race has no qualms about knocking Julia out.
{{quote|'''Race:''' Pop always said it's not nice to hit a lady. But then again, Miss Julia, you're no lady.}}
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: The Puppet Master to his brother in "Shadows and Jade."
* [[You Never Asked]]: I.R.I.S., being a [[Literal Genie|computer program]]. The phrase is used verbatim in "Expedition to Khumbu":
{{quote|'''Jonny:''' Whoa! Iris, you never said anything about these things ''duplicating''!
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