History ComicBook / FutureQuest

*** In the prologue, the unnamed captain who will become Space Ghost is wearing a uniform identical to what Jan and Jace wore during the original series, and is given his signature powerbands by a general who looks identical to the person who gave Space Ghost his equipment in the 2005 comic-book miniseries.
*** Zin's spiderbots appear identical to the ones from the ''Jonny Quest'' episode "The Robot Spy". It turns out [[spoiler: he stole the design from Dr. Conroy. She's understandably annoyed.]]
*** The signature "BIRDMAN!" scream appears as onomatopoeia when he transforms.
*** The portal that Jonny and Hadji look through appears to use stock art from the original shows; one of the portals also show what looks like ''WesternAnimation/{{Shazzan}}''.

*** One of the possible origins posed for Omnikron proposes it was created in a lab and spread from a crashed starship; [[WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost Brak]] is seen EmergingFromTheShadows creating it in a beaker.

* RevisitingTheRoots: The Hanna-Barbera action hero lineup[[note]]discounting their 80s-90s entries, like ''WesternAnimation/GaltarAndTheGoldenLance'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'', ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'', and ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures''[[/note]] has spent many more years as [[WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast parodies]] [[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw of]] [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers themselves]] than they spent as actual action heroes. This comic is possibly the most notable return to the characters' original premises in over two decades.

* SharedUniverse: The action heroes all live in the same universe, but in different time periods, with Space Ghost, the Herculoids, and the Galaxy Trio hailing from the future, and the original Mightor living in the Stone Age.

** As a result of those parodies, some of the characters who really became weird in those shows are {{out of focus}} in ''Future Quest''. This is most notable with Falcon 7 from ''Birdman'' since his ''Harvey Birdman'' version, Phil Ken Sebben, became a cult classic character in his own right (mainly thanks to Creator/StephenColbert's portrayal). A lot of his role is instead transferred to new character Deva Sumadi [[spoiler:although we later find out that she's actually an old character--"Big D", the boss of The Impossibles. And at the ''very'' end, we learn that she's Falcon 7 as well, and that the mustached face we all know is a computer-generated cover for her.]].

* WeUsedToBeFriends: It turns out that Archimedes Zin was once a legitimate scientist on good terms with Benton Quest and [[WesternAnimation/FrankensteinJr Dr. Conroy,]] but did a FaceHeelTurn after falling in with [[WesternAnimation/Birdman1967 F.E.A.R.]] Dr. Conroy even refers to him as "Archie."

* LegacyCharacter: A young African American boy in the present day discovers Mightor's magic club and inherits his powers, becoming the new Mightor.
* LighterAndSofter: Space Ghost's new origin, while still rather dark and dramatic, is significantly lighter than his 2005 miniseries origin since which involved the death of his wife and unborn child spurring him on a quest for revenge.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: A ''Toxodon'', of all things, is one of the prehistoric animals that appears in Mightor's time.

A mysterious series of alien incursions is happening on Earth, and it's concerning [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest Dr. Benton Quest]], especially when this is getting the attention of his arch-nemesis Dr. Zin and the terrorist organization [[WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}} F.E.A.R.]] However, as Team Quest soon starts to realize, this may be bigger than initially thought, an adventure that's going to bring in a whole lot of heroes to contain them.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}}''

* WeUsedToBeFriends: It turns out that Archimedes Zin was once a legitimate scientist on good terms with Benton Quest and [[WesternAnimation/FrankensteinJr Dr. Conroy,]] but did a FaceHeelTurn after falling in with [[WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}} F.E.A.R.]] Dr. Conroy even refers to him as "Archie."

* CanonForeigner: WesternAnimation/TheImpossibles have a woman as the fourth member of their team, whereas the original cartoon just had an all-male PowerTrio.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Herculoids arrive just as Frankenstein Jr. begins to engage Omnikron, and Tara orders them to attack the former, believing it to be the threat. Frankenstein Jr. is heavily damaged, Johnny Hadji, Buzz and Jan are almost killed, and Omnikron escapes.

* GivenNameReveal: It turns out Dr. Zin's first name is Archimedes. Or "Archie," to people who knew him before his FaceHeelTurn, like Dr. Quest and Dr. Conroy.

* AdaptationalOriginChange: Frankenstein Jr. is no longer the sole creation of Buzz Conroy, but was mostly made by his mother, Dr. Linda Conroy, who initially oversaw his use of the robot to save people.

''Future Quest'' is an ongoing series published Creator/DCComics that involve the various action-based heroes created by Creator/HannaBarbera and is part of the ''ComicBook/HannaBarberaBeyond'' initiative.

* LighterAndSofter: Space Ghost's new origin, while still rather dark and dramatic, is still significantly lighter than his 2005 miniseries origin since it doesn't involve the death of his wife and unborn child.

* RevisitingTheRoots: The Hanna-Barbera action hero lineup[[note]]discounting their 80s-90s entries, like ''WesternAnimation/GaltarAndTheGoldenLance'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'', and ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'', and ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures''[[/note]] has spent many more years as [[WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast parodies]] [[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw of]] [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers themselves]] than they spent as actual action heroes. This comic is possibly the most notable return to the characters' original premises in over two decades.