History Film / Zenon

* BetaCouple: Judy and Commander Plank form one by the end of the first movie.

* BetaCouple: Judy and Commander Klane form one by the end of the first movie.

* GravitySucks: In the second movie, as soon as they run out of fuel, their shuttle starts falling towards the Moon.

* PluckyComicRelief: Nebula, Protozoa and the Microbes. The villains of the first and third movies aren't much better off, really.

!!This film provides examples of:
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The trilogy starts 50 years from its release date in 2049.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: The films are set 50 years after their release dates, starting with the first film (1999 to 2049).

* {{Zeerust}}: This movie is a late 90s vision of what people thought the future would look like.The outfits alone show how dated the whole thing looks, as does much of the tech used in the movie.

* BritishRockstar: Protozoa.

* CatchPhrase: Zenon herself has [[FutureSlang "Cetus Lupeedus!"]]
* ColonyDrop: A side-effect of the Wyndham's plan in the first film. When the Zequel starts, the Space Station has been shifted out of its orbit enough that that this is a very real possibility, and preventing it is the real reason the army is so aggressive about dismantling the station.

*** TheHero / TheLeader: Zenon Kar
*** TheLancer: Nebula Wade

*** TheHero / TheLeader: Zenon Kar
*** TheLancer: Margie Hammond

** In the third movie at Moonstock, we have,
*** TheHero / TheLeader: Zenon Kar
*** TheLancer: Margie Hammond
*** TheBigGuy: Bronley Hale
*** TheSmartGuy: Cassie Wade, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Nebula's cousin]]
*** TheHeart: Sage Borealis
*** SixthRanger / TagalongKid: Dasha Plank
* FutureMusic: The movie focused heavily on the music of a band called Microbe. This being a 1999 Creator/DisneyChannel movie, their biggest song sounds exactly like modern light tween pop, except with lyrics such as -- sing along, contemporaries, you know the words -- "ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM, make my heart go BOOM BOOM, would you be my [[SciFiNameBuzzwords Super Nova Girl]]?"

Although it never became a series as expected, it did spawn two Made-for-TV sequels. ''Zenon: the Zequel'' follows Zenon as she clashes with General Hammond and his military forces who are taking over operations of the station; to make matters worse, Hammond's daughter is Marge, Zenon's AlphaBitch enemy from the first film. ''Zenon:Z3'' focuses on Zenon as she enters the Galactic Teen Supreme contest, while Sage Borealis, a Moon preservation activist, and Selena, goddess of the moon, urge her to stop contest-holder Pat Numbar from colonizing and exploiting the moon.

** ''The Zequel'' plays with this in regards to General Hammond and Marge; Hammond is the main antagonist of the film, taking over the now-damaged station and planning to dismantle it, which would put everyone on the station out of a job, and is trying to capture Zenon. However, he is not doing it to be malicious, but to protect the people of Earth from a possible ColonyDrop, and to protect Zenon who is endangering herself trying to find an alternate solution, making him more of a HeroAntagonist. Meanwhile, his daughter Marge is a standard antagonist who is an AlphaBitch to Zenon, but [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn becomes nicer to Zenon]] halfway through and becomes an ally instead of an antagonist for the rest of the film]].

** No one believes Zenon detected alien signals in the second film at first. Maybe if the signal listening lab had some sort of data archive, that might convince people.

A Creator/DisneyChannel movie first aired in 1999, ''Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century'' is set in AD 2049, where Zenon Kar ([[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Kirsten]] [[Series/GeneralHospital Storms]]) is a 13-year-old who literally gets grounded as she is forced to leave her SpaceStation home and live on Earth. The first film concerns her trying to get along with the Earth kids while taking down a plot by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Parker]] [[BigBad Wyndham]] to destroy the space station.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The first movie takes place 50 years from its release date in 2049.

* AerithAndBob: Names like Mark, Leo, Greg, and Parker are lined up with Zenon, Astrid, Neb, and Lynx. A rare case like the TropeNamer where the female characters have irregular names and the male characters have normal ones.

*** TheBigGuy: Aquillat

* AesopAmnesia: Pat Numbar at the end of Zenon: Z3, who offers Zenon another chance at properly winning a contest by joining him in a new one on Mars along with her friends. Zenon's reply?:

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: In the sequel that introduces aliens, Zenon deduces that the aliens are good, with no irony, because their spaceship is too beautiful for them to be evil (one of the military soldiers described it as looking like a "flying rainbow"). She was right, of course.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: The films are set 50 years after their release dates, starting with the first film (1999 -> 2049).

** No one believes Zenon detected alien signals in the second film at first. Maybe if the signal listening lab had some sort of data archive, that would convince people.

* CatchPhrase: Zenon herself has [[FutureSlang "Ceetus Lupeedus!"]]

* CatchPhrase: Zenon herself has [[FutureSlang "Cetus Lapetus!"]]

** In the first film, Parker Wyndham is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive mogul]] who owns the space station, and sets out with his [[TheDragon assistant]] Lutz to implant a computer virus to destroy it and [[InsuranceFraud collect the insurance money]].
** Played with in ''the Zequel'' in regards to General Hammond and Marge; Hammond is the main antagonist of the film, taking over the now-damaged station and planning to dismantle it, which would put everyone on the station out of a job, and is trying to capture Zenon. However, he is not doing it to be malicious, but to protect the people of Earth from a possible ColonyDrop, and to protect Zenon who is endangering herself trying to find an alternate solution, making him more of a HeroAntagonist. Meanwhile, his daughter Marge is a standard antagonist who is an AlphaBitch to Zenon, but [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn becomes nicer to Zenon]] halfway through]].
** ''Z3'' has Pat Numbar, the host of the Galactic Teen Supreme contest who is using it as a front to colonize and exploit the moon for its resources, greatly angering the moon goddess Selene.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: In the sequel that introduces aliens, Zenon deduces that the aliens are good, with no irony, because their spaceship is too beautiful for them to be evil (one of the military soldiers described it as looking like a "flying rainbow"). She was right of course.
* BigBad: In the first film, Parker Wyndham is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive mogul]] who owns the space station, and sets out with his [[TheDragon assistant]] Lutz to implant a computer virus to destroy it and [[InsuranceFraud collect the insurance money]].

* TheBadGuyWins: Selena, the moon goddess of Greek mythology, pretty much manages to scare off everyone off the moon in the third movie because she wants to be left alone. It's just a little space dome and there was room for compromise, but nope, either it goes or she'll destroy Earth. She gets her way and the story presents this as a good thing. Yeah, no.

%%* {{Zeerust}}: Just look at the outfits.

** Played with in ''the Zequel'' in regards to General Hammond and Marge; Hammond is the main antagonist of the film, taking over the now-damaged station and planning to dismantle it, which would put everyone on the station out of a job. However, he is not doing it to be malicious, but to protect the people of Earth from a possible ColonyDrop, making him more of a HeroAntagonist. Meanwhile, his daughter Marge is a standard AlphaBitch to Zenon, but [[spoiler:does a HeelFaceTurn halfway through]].

A Creator/DisneyChannel movie first aired in 1999, ''Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century'' is set in AD 2049, where Zenon Kar ([[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Kirsten]] [[Series/GeneralHospital Storms]]) is a 13-year-old who literally gets grounded as she is forced to leave her SpaceStation home and live on Earth.

Although it never became a series as expected, it did spawn two Made-for-TV sequels.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: In the sequel that introduces aliens, Zenon deduces that the aliens are good, with no irony, because their spaceship is too beautiful for them to be evil (one of the mooks described it as looking like a "flying rainbow"). She was right of course.

* CatchPhrase: "Cetus Lapetus!"

* FiveManBand: In the first and third movies, Zenon has two of them for when she's down on Earth and back home on the Wyndcomm Space Station. On the space station, we have...

** In the third movie, we have,

* FutureSlang: A particularly memorable example. Cetus lapetus, guys! The movie is totally stellunarious!

* CatchPhrase: "Zetus Lupetis!"

* ColorfulSong: "Super Nova Girl", "The Galaxy is Ours".

* AdultsAreUseless: Zenon and her friends are the only ones who can save the Space Station from crashing. Only Zenon and her 13-year-old friend manage to piece together an anti-virus. Back at the space station, the adults, many of whom are scientists, are freaking out and have no idea how to fix the virus.

* AlmostKiss: Zenon and Greg are sitting side-by-side, facing the same direction, in awkward silence. Zenon tells Greg if he wants to kiss her he should get over it and just kiss her. After a pause, they both turn towards each other at the same time - and accidentally smash their faces into each other.

** Including names like "Zenon" and "Nebula", although both those naming conventions and much of the FutureSlang are more common on the space station than Earth; in the first movie, one of Zenon's Earth teachers accidentally calls her another noble gas; "Radon". When Zenon corrects her, Margie mocks the weirdness of Zenon's name, giving the viewers the first hint that only people on the space station have FutureSlang names. This is further enforced when we find out that other kids on Earth have names like Margie, Greg, and Andrew, and none of them use FutureSlang either.