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The four pilots consist of:

 

* Johnny Miller, codename Ace, the [[The Hero|protagonist]] and the [[Rookie Red Ranger]] pilot. Formerly a farm-boy from Oklahoma, Johnny is investigating the death / disappearance of his father (a former Metajets pilot). Less than subtly implied to have a crush on Maggie. {{spoiler|As of "Self-Destruct Part 2," he's now the team leader.}}

* Maggie Strong, codename Foxtrot, the daughter of Captain Strong and the [[The Smurfette Principle|only female]] [[Action Girl|Metajets pilot]]. She is level-headed and often the voice of reason amongst the team. Although she has a no-dating-teammates rule, it's subtly implied that she has a crush on Johnny.

* Zak Kim, codename Vector, the overlooked [[Ace Pilot]] and the youngest member of the Metajets team. A [[Gadgeteer Genius]], Zak loves music and video games and cannot fly without music.

 

The biggest threat to the Metajets pilots is the re-surging Black Cloud organization led by the evil [[Big Bad|General]] [[Meaningful Name|Raven]].

 

* [[After the End]]: Subtle but something is not right when during a quick pan on New York, it shows the city built stories above sea level, and the ocean is up to Lady Liberty's knees.

** In "Razor's Edge," it's revealed that most of the major cities have been flooded by rising sea levels due to global warming, which has made most of the world's population live in flying cities. The exception is London, which has massive walls to hold back the water instead.

** "The Fortress" has {{spoiler|Griffin Hawksmoore succeeding in tricking Metajets and Black Cloud into testing his fortress's security system, allowing him to develop an improved version for his new fortress. Why he did all this is still unknown.}}

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Captain Strong in "Lady in Red" is prepared in case this happens to Ace. {{spoiler|Ace's homing device can also wipe out remotely someone's memory of the last few months with a push of a button. Good thing Captain Strong never had to use it.}}

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: A lot of items and people in earlier episodes come back and play a part in later episodes.

* [[Conspicuous CGI]]: The Metajets themselves. Though not nearly as [[Special Effects Failure|glaring]] as other shows.

** Part of General Raven's motivation is getting revenge for being drummed out of the A.R.C. {{spoiler|and Metajets}} by Captain Strong 10 years ago. In "Boiling Point", he decides to mark the anniversary of his removal by {{spoiler|causing all of the volcanoes on Hawaii to simultaneously erupt, wiping out the whole island}}, just because there's an A.R.C. race happening there at the time.

** [[The Don|Carmone Fontaine]], the crime boss doing business with Black Cloud in "One of the Family." Angry over Johnny not throwing the race in favor of his son Doug, he {{spoiler|sics a [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|heavily armed automated airship]] on the stadium in order to kill Johnny's aunt}}. General Raven, of all people, calls him out on this, and {{spoiler|immediately cancels their alliance, because he refuses to work with anyone who'd waste such a powerful weapon on such a minor task}}.

* [[Double Agent]]: In "Attack of the Drones," {{spoiler|Razor is Black Cloud's London-based agent, but is actually leading the Anarchitechs and infiltrated Black Cloud to take control of a drone jet as part of their latest plan.}}

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Metajets and Black Cloud team up in "High Impact" to destroy three meteors that will wipe out the human race. {{spoiler|It turns out Black Cloud was responsible for bringing in the meteors as part of its plan to destroy a city of its choice.}}

** Again in "The Island of Dr. Nova" on a smaller scale: Ace and Crusher are forced to work together when they're stranded on the titular island, to take down the titular doctor.

** In "Lady in Red," Ace and {{spoiler|Viper}} team up to take on the Scarlet Circle before [[Status Quo Is God|returning to shooting at each other]].

** Again with "Eye of the Swarm". {{spoiler|Vector manages to wipe out the swarm of robotic locusts with a magnetic attack. Since [[It Only Works Once|the robots adapt to any attack that's been used on them before]], he had to take out ''all'' of them in one shot. And it seemed that he had. Until the final scene, when General Raven reveals that he kept a few in reserve.}}

* [[Energy Beings]]: The antagonist of "Under the Ice."

* [[Hard Light]]: In "The Phantom Fleet," {{spoiler|Shirobi's weapons technology can create anything from arm cannons to the titular planes. It even enables Shirobi and Ace to duke it out in [[Humongous Mecha|giant robots]].}}

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Carmone Fontaine}} in "Moving Target."

** Logan in "Antarctic Invasion" is 6teen's Nikki and [[Spider Riders|Corona]].

* [[Hidden Agenda Villain]]: {{spoiler|Griffin Hawksmoore could be one of these judging from his actions in "The Fortress" and "The Stunt-Hawks." In "The Fortress," he tricked Metajets and Black Cloud into testing his floating fortress's security system so his new fortress wouldn't have any security flaws. He also turned out to be the creator of the Stunt Hawks' jets in "The Stunt-Hawks."}}

* [[Lost Superweapon]]: In "The Pyramid Scheme," the {{spoiler|[[Weaponized Landmark|Great Pyramid of Giza]]}} is revealed to be a gigantic [[Wave Motion Gun]]. It was apparently meant to be a defense against alien invasion, or at least aerial attack.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Nova. {{spoiler|Revealed to have turned himself into a cyborg in "The Island of Dr. Nova."}}

* [[The Mole]]: Captain Strong believes that there's one on the World Council working for Black Cloud, {{spoiler|and "Sky Hard" proves him right. It turns out to be Councilor Roman.}} In "The Island of Dr. Nova," {{spoiler|Captain Curtis, although he gets caught at the end of the episode.}} {{spoiler|Viper}} infiltrates the Scarlet Circle in "Lady in Red" to capture the group's leader, the Red Baroness.

* [[Not My Driver]]: Black Cloud pulls this on Griffin Hawksmoore at the beginning of "The Fortress." {{spoiler|It turns out to have all been [[The Plan|planned]] on Hawksmoore's part, as it was actually an android double in the limo.}}

** In one episode Maggie dresses up in Burner's clothes (he and Ace having broken protocal to rescue his parents) and Capt Strong comes in on 'him' fixing his jet. She does a good job of just grunting and not actually trying to speak but she gives a thumbs up at one point. Aparently Capt. Strong didn't notice that his [[Token Black Teamate]] was now White.

** [[Visible Invisibility]] might explain the costumes, if the visor's are like tinted glass an you can't see in but everyone can see out then the only thing the [[Black Cloud]] (and Ace's mother) would have to go on is the shape of the pilot's mouth and voice, (and Ace did change his voice when talking to his mother)

* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: [[Dark Action Girl|Flygirl]], [[Jerk Jock|Crusher]] and [[Psycho for Hire|Viper]]. {{spoiler|They abandon Raven in "End Game, Part Two," and Crusher addresses Viper as "General Viper."}}

* [[Ship Tease]]: Johnny and Maggie. Just look at how either of them reacts when the other shows the slightest hint of possible interest in somebody else.

** Also, Maggie and Cane in the latter's two appearances.

** "The Phantom Fleet" reveals that Trey has a fear of ghosts.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Logan in "Antarctic Invasion."

 

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