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* {{Bowdlerise}}: The American channel of the webseries, due to still being in the era that used the word, modifies the Series 2 episodes to remove the usage of "damn", replacing it with various groans or cutting scenes that use it.
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* AmericanGothicCouple: The episode "Enigma and the Kabonita Robbery" features an ''American Gothic'' parody hanging up in the museum, which the villains use to peek through at the heroes. The farmer is now a shovel, his daughter is now a fern leaf, and there is an added pea pod dog in front of them.


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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: The robots that Doctor Volt invented are practically Kaboom-created [=SuperThings=] in themselves. Helix High, being one of the main characters of the ''Power Machines'' season, shows this the most. He's show receptive to eating cake in "A Very Villainous Present" (until he learns it's ''anchovy'' cake) and is able to smell bad odors in "Crazy Races".
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* GreasySpoon: The episode "The Great Spying Mission" introduces a retro-style diner in Kaboom City. The waitress is a bubble gum-chewing jukebox, and the special is fried eggs and fried chicken (which disgusts Kid Kazoom thanks to being recently attacked by the Bone Crunchers, a supervillain team that have their object time as those exact two objects).
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* CompanyCrossReferences: The episode "A Burger Blast" has a ''T-Racers'' episode playing at the beginning of the episode, a fellow toyline from Magicbox. The clip is very cut-apart, with only a small sliver visible, but enough that it's notable.


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* KingKongClimb: The episode "Glazer's Sweet Battle" sees a turned-giant Glazer angrily swiping at the heroes on their jets while having climbed to the top of a skyscraper.


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* SinisterSweetTooth: The dessert-based villainous Kazoom Kids have been shown specifically with a taste for the food that represents them. Badnilla's rivalry with Super Slice comes from the fact that people prefer delivered pizza over delivered ice cream, and Glazer is able to use sugar that he's eaten to power himself up stronger.


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* ThisBillboardNeedsSomeSalt: In the episode "Glazer's Sweet Battle", a sugar-crazed and gigantic Glazer, after emptying the entire contents of the bakery into his mouth, proceeds to eat the donut sign on the front of the store.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The webseries adapts the origins of some Kazoom Kids and their transformations different in the webseries than their original runs in the comic guides:
** Super Slice gains his abilities on his way to school in the comic, with the pizza slice that causes his transformation in a brown bag packed for breakfast for him. Neon Blast touches the bag that triggers the transformation here as well. In the episode "Neon Blast Creates The Kazoom Kids", this pizza slice is instead from a pizzeria that Super Slice had just exited, zapping the pizza slice directly.
** In the comic, Badnilla's transformation is seen, thanks to Neon Blast lobbing an energy-blasted ice cream cone at his head. In the episode "Neon Blast Creates The Kazoom Kids", Mad Cone, the villain that transformed from this ice cream cone, is already attempting to catch Neon Blast, meaning he was transformed before this.
** In the comic, Kickstar is blasted by the blue Kazoom energy while on the soccer field. In the episode "The New Kazoom Warriors!", he is instead waiting in line for the Kazoom exhibit at the museum.
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* LaboriousLaziness: The episode "Trasher Litters The City!" has Trasher, being told by Badnilla to clean his room to the point that "it's the cleanest place in Kaboom City", decide that flooding the city with his garbage slime would be a far easier thing to do, getting away with a loophole. Fred Fetid [[BreakingTheFourthWall points out to the audience]] that this is probably more effort than just cleaning his room.
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** The episode "Fixing the Planet!" has Glazer and Power Punch acting with the heroes, aghast at Gamerglitch's latest scheme. Thanks to recklessly causing the city to glitch out switched around the recycling bins, mixing up the trash. The two of them point out that they live on this planet too, so they should all be doing their part in keeping it clean.

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** The episode "Fixing the Planet!" has Glazer and Power Punch acting with the heroes, aghast at Gamerglitch's Gameglitch's latest scheme. Thanks to recklessly causing the city to glitch out switched around the recycling bins, mixing up the trash. The two of them point out that they live on this planet too, so they should all be doing their part in keeping it clean.
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* InconvenientSummons: Moonarchaos has the ability to teleport villains to his position when needed. The episode "The Rescue Force Against V-Rex!" features him pulling the villain Kazoom Kids into the fray while they were in the middle of doing other things: Cashillion in the middle of showering, Breakmania while playing a video game, and Funfire while reading a book.


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** In the episode "The Rescue Force Against V-Rex!", Cashillion is summoned in the middle of a battle while showering. He's still in full armor and uniform while do, minus his cape.


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* ShesAManInJapan: Mega K is made [[AmbiguousGender purposefully ambiguous]] in gender presentation throughout every version of the series, minus the Polish version. In that iteration, the character is made masculine, with a far deeper and unambiguous voice.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Clowny. Originally created simply for the webseries, he would end up a fan favorite and pushed into far more into the series. He would get far more episodes, become a major role in the German audio plays, get appearances in the educational books, and eventually be ported into the [[Toys/SuperThings toyline]] with a new color scheme.

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* LuredIntoATrap: "Enigma and the Powerband" focuses on Enigma creating a fake carnival for the villains to lure them into a trap, with the goal of capturing Mr. King. Throughout the episode, Professor K thinks it's a celebration thrown for him by Mr. King, as its his birthday that day. [[spoiler:The villains manage to be captured after some hasty changes of plans, but Mr. King is nowhere to be found: he was back at base angry that Professor K didn't show up to the party he had thrown for him.]]



** In the "News Zings Today" episode "Alarm! Poisoned Water!", a big deal in the news is made that Count Garlik went without a bathing suit while swimming in the water reservoir to tamper with the water supply. As seen in the news report, he has no cape and boots on him (along with ''holding'' the bathing suit that he refused to put on), but still wears his mask and gloves.

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** In the "News Zings Today" episode "Alarm! Poisoned Water!", a big deal in the news is made that Count Garlik went without a bathing suit while swimming in the water reservoir to tamper with the water supply. As seen in the news report, he has no cape and boots cape, boots, or cravat on him (along with ''holding'' the bathing suit that he refused to put on), but still wears his mask and gloves.

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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: The episode "V-Rex And H-Rex, Super Dinos In Action" introduces the two titular T-Rexes, one for the heroes and one for the villains. Despite being giant dinosaur steeds, they act more like puppies, licking their owners, playing fetch, and accepting treats.



* AllAnimalsAreDogs: The episode "V-Rex And H-Rex, Super Dinos In Action" introduces the two titular T-Rexes, one for the heroes and one for the villains. Despite being giant dinosaur steeds, they act more like puppies, licking their owners, playing fetch, and accepting treats.


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* AppleOfDiscord: The episode "Speed Patrol, Masters Of The Road" pits the normally cooperative Speed Patrol against each other in a race. Getting the question posed to them over who's the fastest, this ends up putting them in competition in a race, which could potentially shatter their friendship. To make matters worse, Kid Fury has joined the race as a bargaining chip, if he wins, the locked up villains have to be freed. [[spoiler:The members of the Speed Patrol eventually realize how ridiculous their feud is, and aim to win the race together, while making sure Kid Fury loses.]]


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* TheBigRace:
** The episode "The Great [=SuperFlyer=] Race" focuses on a race between the heroes and villains, using the new [=SuperFlyer=] jetpacks. Kid Fury crashes the race for his own enjoyment.
** The episode "Speed Patrol, Masters Of The Road" ends up pitting the members of the Speed Patrol, normally a cooperative team, against each other in a race to prove who's the fastest. Kid Fury once again crashes the race to add a higher stake to the race.


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* NonNudeBathing:
** Dogfurt still wears his gloves, boots, mask, and the pair of disguise glasses hiding his identity while he goes skinny dipping in the heroes' pool in "The Pool Party". He's still treated as being indecent by Action Bread.
** In the "News Zings Today" episode "Alarm! Poisoned Water!", a big deal in the news is made that Count Garlik went without a bathing suit while swimming in the water reservoir to tamper with the water supply. As seen in the news report, he has no cape and boots on him (along with ''holding'' the bathing suit that he refused to put on), but still wears his mask and gloves.
** In the "Black Ice Team" special episode, Kone San is seen showering before getting hit by one of the Black Ice Team's snowballs. He's still wearing his goggles and gloves during this scene.
** In the episode "The Spinners Competition", Punch King, as part of his Spinner training, has to stay on his Spinner throughout his daily tasks. This includes showering, which he wears his full uniform in.


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* VoiceChangeling: The episode "Enigma and the Power Band" introduces the titular invention. With the invention, Enigma can make his voice mimic Mr. King's, Professor K's, or Kid Kazooms. [[spoiler:He uses the function of the Mr. King voice to trip up Oculus Max and help expose his secrets to both the heroes and the villains.]]
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* AmbiguousGender: Mega K is purposefully not given specific gendered pronouns, leaving their gender up to interpretation for viewers. This was due to the creators wanting a female character, but the executives wanting a male one. Thus, they are made ambiguous, albeit with a higher-pitched voice. Poland is the only country to assign a gender, [[ShesAManInJapan which chooses male]], with the deepest voice.
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* WinYourFreedom: In "The Race Of The Century", Mr. King allows four captured heroes to participate in a car race against four of his minions, with the promise that if the heroes win they'll be freed. [[spoiler:The heroes do, in fact, win, but Mr. King reneges on his promise under the excuse that the heroes cheated (which they did ''technically'' do, although the villain racers cheated first and ''much'' more egregiously).]]
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* NotWorthKilling: Mr. King decides that Enigma getting away, when he was mere moments from death at the hands of his then-mentor Professor K., was nothing to worry about. Believing young Enigma to just be a "simple sidekick" that no one would listen to, he felt that his evil plans would go through without a hitch. Unfortunately for the villains, that "simple sidekick" would grow into the leader of the superheroes.
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* BattleOfTheStillFrames: The earlier seasons of ''Adventures'' tend to depict superbattles this way due to the extremely LimitedAnimation.
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* SixIsNine: The episode "Oculus Max's Tricks" features a part of the Cyberdome's map in Room 606 of the Grand Hotel of Kaboom City. [[spoiler:It turns out the room that Snitchcase and Locke Looker, along with secretly Oculus Max, have been ripping apart to find the piece, is Room ''909'', with a broken placard.]] Max is thoroughly embarrassed to learn this fact, as he was just praising how much of a genius he is.


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* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: The first design of Enigma, as seen in the "[=SuperZings=] Battles" series of shorts, is very different than his eventually solidified design. Instead of having a defined body and head, he is fully cylindrical. He also lacks a necktie, one of his trademark outfit accessories.
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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: The episode "V-Rex And H-Rex, Super Dinos In Action" introduces the two titular T-Rexes, one for the heroes and one for the villains. Despite being giant dinosaur steeds, they act more like puppies, licking their owners, playing fetch, and accepting treats.
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* FaceMonsterTurn: The titular machine in the episode "The Ultimate Machine" was created with the goal in mind of villainizing the entire city, turning heroes into villains to work on Mr. King's side. [[spoiler:The destruction of the machine before it was able to finish charging up energy instead creates Neon Blast.]]


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* WimpFight: Due to them both being scientists that focus on their smarts over their fighting skills, the climatic battle between Professor K. and Doctor Volt in the episode "The Ultimate Machine" quickly devolves into the two of them flailing their arms at each other in a futile attempt to slap the other.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Of the two Puzzle Brothers, Puzz Left, the villain of the two, has the best relationship with their parents, being in frequent contact with them. The episode "When The Pieces Fit Together" has him criticize Pierce Right, his heroic brother, over not calling them enough.

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* BeachEpisode: The episode "Beachy Crisis" focuses on a day at the beach ruined for the citizens thanks to Mr. King using the help of Wacky Dust to steal all the sand from the beach for his personal giant sandcastle lair.

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The episode "Beachy Crisis" focuses on a day at the beach ruined for the citizens thanks to Mr. King using the help of Wacky Dust to steal all the sand from the beach for his personal giant sandcastle lair.lair.
** The episode "Badnilla Freezes The City!" focuses on Badnilla freezing the town to ruin the beach day of the heroes.
** The episode "Fury Storm Stealing Summer" focuses on Fury Storm and the other villains hatching a plan to block out the sun during summer to ruin the heroes' time at the water park.
** The episode "Funfire Against The Water Park" focuses on Funfire attempting to boil the water of the water park due to his vendetta against it, with Watermax using his own water abilities to stop him.


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* BirthdayEpisode:
** The episode "Enigma And The Powerband" takes place on Professor K's birthday. Throughout the episode, he's convinced that the Villain Fair trap that Enigma created is a party in celebration for him, putting a wrench in Enigma's plans to capture the villains.
** The episode "Piñata Party" is on Smash Crash's birthday. Taking the celebration to the streets, he blocks the town with chaos, causing Starberry and Sugarfun to rap battle against him and Badnilla to get him to stop his party.
** The episode "Birthday Boy’s Birthday" focuses on Birthday Boy's birthday. With the streets blocked by Fryzer's attack, Birthday Boy needs to figure out a plan to pick up his birthday cake within the time frame.


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* BraveTheRidePlot: As part of the heroes vs. villains competition in "The Superpower Fair", a couple of the challenges are braving scary rides. The first case is Power Punch vs. Guitariffic on the "Elevator Kazoom" ride. Power Punch starts out confident while Guitariffic is terrified at first, but by the end of the rides their personalities about the ride have swapped. The second challenge instance is Burgerblast vs. Glazer on a looping roller coaster, with Glazer only able to brave the ride by cheating via sticking himself to his seat with his icing abilities.
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* DismantledMacGuffin: The "Secret Spies" series of the webseries features a map that leads to the Pow Alloy, one of the hardest elements in Kaboom City. The map is divided into six pieces, with the heroes and the villains each gaining half of the map, with each map piece giving a clue to the next one. [[spoiler:Putting together the map instead reveals that it's the location of the Cyberdome, Doctor Volt's laboratory. Using a clue to get the help of the heroic Spies, Doctor Volt made sure the heroes were the ones to find it.]]
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* SantaClaus: The Kaboom City variant of Santa Claus is [=SantaThing=] (previously [=SantaZing=] before the series name change). Like Enigma, his object representative is unknown (though some characters in the show have debated on if he's a hat [=SuperThing=] or a beard one). He follows the standard Santa Claus model in design, minus his hat also acting like a mask for the brim of it. Instead of reindeer, he flies a rocket-powered sled. He is willing to give the villains gifts, but far smaller gifts than the heroes.
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* HolidayEpisode: The series has a couple episodes themed around Carnival:
** The episode "Carnival In Kaboom City" has a group of villains taking advantage of the costumes the citizens are wearing to blend in and sneak trackers into the heroes' headquarters.
** The episode "Giant Balloons Carnival" features Toxfung infiltrating a parade with toxic spore-filled balloons, while Mushrulz strives to prove himself as a newer member of the heroes.
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* ShoutOut:
** The episode "Zombies Night" features advertisements for ''[[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} Ham-Ilton]]'', ''[[Theatre/{{Wicked}} Zingked]]'', and an unnamed parody of ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''.
** Kid Kazoom's comic book collection in the episode "Kid Kazoom's Training" includes ''[[ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon Lonchadelo Y Filetón]]'', ''[[ComicBook/SwampThing The Lake Zing]]'', and ''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Amazing Zing]]''.
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* MagicVersusScience: Enigma vs. Professor K. Once Professor K.'s young assistant, in the episode "When Enigma Discovered The Secret Of Professor K", Enigma managed to seriously tick off the professor for ''daring'' to compare the creation of [=SuperThings=] to magic, something he likes. While Professor K.'s hatred of magic would live on, Enigma would instead adapt, ''combining'' [[ScienceWizard his magic skills with science]].
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* CareerNotTaken: The episode “Basketball Match" reveals that Clowny, coach of the Hero Dunks basketball team, had grown up wanting to be a mime instead. Further context clues for him prove how much this path was the one he wanted to take: his casual wear is of mime clothing and makeup and, once he was ported to [[Toys/SuperThings the toyline]], his superhero ability gave him the [[YourMimeMakesItReal ability to make anything he wanted, albeit invisible]].
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* HorrifyingTheHorror: The episode "Halloween" has the sudden appearance of Grafon, [[MistakenForUndead at this point thought to be a ghost haunting his thought-to-be-abandoned mansion]], reacting to the villains using his mansion as their base of operations due to all the nose they're making. This sudden appearance terrifies them, including the plan's leader Pumpking, who has the ''ability'' of creating paralyzing fears.

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* HorrifyingTheHorror: The episode "Halloween" has the sudden appearance of Grafon, [[MistakenForUndead at this point thought to be a ghost haunting his thought-to-be-abandoned mansion]], reacting to the villains using his mansion as their base of operations due to all the nose noise they're making. This sudden appearance terrifies them, including the plan's leader Pumpking, who has the ''ability'' of creating paralyzing fears.
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* HorrifyingTheHorror: The episode "Halloween" has the sudden appearance of Grafon, [[MistakenForUndead at this point thought to be a ghost haunting his thought-to-be-abandoned mansion]], reacting to the villains using his mansion as their base of operations due to all the nose they're making. This sudden appearance terrifies them, including the plan's leader Pumpking, who has the ''ability'' of creating paralyzing fears.
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* PajamaCladHero: The episode "Halloween" shows why this can be a disadvantage. Candy Strike, having been accidentally kidnapped while asleep along with the town's Halloween candy, finds himself cornered against a group of villains in his pajamas, without his weapon and wholly unprepared to defend himself. If not for the sudden appearance of Grafon scaring the villains off, he would have been in big trouble.
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* DonutMessWithACop: In the case of a majority of the police force, the non-toy originating characters ''are'' donuts. [[CarnivoreConfusion This doesn't stop them from eating donuts either, though]].

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