History WesternAnimation / HotWheelsBattleForce5

*** Furthermore, one episode involved putting a [[VideoGame/Halo3ODST familiar-looking explosive onto]] [[VideoGame/HaloReach a tower within a blue shield]] and then [[VideoGame/{{Halo3}} returning using a portal]].

%%* TitleDrop: "Hot wheels."

* {{Posthuman Nudism}}: Sentients don't wear any clothing, their bodies are made of a crystalline shell.

* MerchandiseDriven

* MirrorUniverse: See Psycho Rangers below.

* MultinationalTeam

* TitleDrop: "Hot wheels."

* [[Posthuman Nudism]]: Sentients don't wear any clothing, their bodies are made of a crystalline shell.

* Posthuman Nudism: Sentients don't wear any clothing, their bodies are made of a crystalline shell.

You get ''Hot Wheels Battle Force 5'', a MerchandiseDriven Canadian animated series that takes every {{Saturday Morning|Cartoon}} action cartoon [[{{Troperiffic}} trope in the book that the producers could track down]] and pumps it chock-full of that RuleOfCool-and-RuleOfFun-driven philosophy that Nerd Corps action cartoons practically run on.

!!''Hot Wheels Battle Force 5'' provides examples of:

The show debuted in August 2009 both on Creator/CartoonNetwork in the United States (as one of a multitude of Canadian cartoons prominent on the channel at the time, being Nerd Corps' third CN series and Nelvana's first one) and Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada, with the final episode airing on July 2011 and concluding the series at 2 seasons and 52 episodes. Episodes are available on [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiih4uqcEp-1_1z5uEJywp8OjLwNF56yQ Nelvana's Cartoon Power Up channel.]]

The show debuted in August 2009 on Creator/CartoonNetwork in the United States and Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada, with the final episode airing on July 2011 and concluding the series at 2 seasons and 52 episodes. Episodes are available on [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiih4uqcEp-1_1z5uEJywp8OjLwNF56yQ Nelvana's Cartoon Power Up channel.]]

To stop these two separate menaces from threatening Earth, Sage assembles five others to help Vert, these being off-road racer Agura Ibaden, Muay Thai martial artist Zoom Takazumi, minor British prince Stanford Rhodes, and engineer brothers Sherman and Spinner Cortez. Together, these six racers form Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 (five because they have five vehicles between them; Sherman and Spinner share one), driving through the various Battle Zones to compete with the Vandals and the Sark for Battle Keys and securing them so that the Earth will remain safe from these dangerous interdimensional foes.

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[[caption-width-right:232:Never mind that there are eight of them, Battle Force Five just sounds cooler. [[OneTwoThreeFourGo Or they're trying to appeal to a Japanese market.]]]]

You get ''Hot Wheels Battle Force 5'', a MerchandiseDriven Canadian animated series that takes every {{Saturday Morning|Cartoon}} action cartoon [[{{Troperiffic}} trope in the book that the producers could tack down]] and pumps it chock-full of that RuleOfCool-and-RuleOfFun-driven philosophy that Nerd Corps action cartoons practically run on.

Much like its predecessor, ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'', ''Battle Force 5'' follows Vert Wheeler (albeit a new version of the character), a vehicle enthusiast who gets caught in a mysterious electrical cyclone while out for a drive in the desert one day. The cyclone turns out to be a portal that whisks him away to a mysterious dimension called a Battle Zone, where he encounters a being named Sage, who helps him return to Earth. At Vert's garage, Sage reveals she is the last of a powerful race called the Sentients, who created the Battle Zones as a way to link the multiverse together. However, the Battle Zones are now threatened by two evil factions - a race of beast-men called the Vandals and the robotic Sark - both of whom seek to acquire Battle Keys that allow the user to use the Battle Zone they were found in to invade other dimensions. To stop these two separate menaces from threatening Earth, Sage assembles five others to help Vert, these being off-road racer Agura Ibaden, Muay Thai martial artist Zoom Takazumi, minor British prince Stanford Rhodes, and engineer brothers Sherman and Spinner Cortez. Together, these six racers form Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 (five because they have five vehicles between them; Sherman and Spinner share one), driving through the various Battle Zones to compete with the Vandals and the Sark for Battle Keys and securing them so that the Earth will remain safe from these dangerous interdimensional foes.

''Toys/HotWheels Battle Force 5'' is a Canadian animated series from Creator/NerdCorpsEntertainment (the makers of ''WesternAnimation/DragonBooster'', ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' and ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil'') and Creator/{{Nelvana}} that aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Teletoon}} from 2009 to 2011. It is MerchandiseDriven, much like the previous entries in the ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'' franchise, but this is the first one to be an all-out animated series. While the main character, Vert Wheeler, seems to be the same, no mention is made of the previous two works.

The series is notable for how {{Troperiffic}} it is; it seems like Nerd Corps hunted down every SaturdayMorningCartoon trope they could think of and are systematically worked their way down the list. In fact, this show has so many tropes, that we decided to provide a list of tropes in each episode [[Recap/HotWheelsBattleForce5 here.]]

Episodes are available on [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiih4uqcEp-1_1z5uEJywp8OjLwNF56yQ Nelvana's Cartoon Power Up channel.]]

''Toys/HotWheels Battle Force 5'' is an animated series from Creator/{{Nelvana}} (the world-renowned Canadian animation studio) and Creator/NerdCorpsEntertainment (the makers of ''WesternAnimation/DragonBooster'', ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' and ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil'') that aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Teletoon}} from 2009 to 2011. It is MerchandiseDriven, much like the previous entries in the ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'' franchise, but this is the first one to be an all-out animated series. While the main character, Vert Wheeler, seems to be the same, no mention is made of the previous two works.

* NotSoDifferent: Between Stanford and Tezz:

''Toys/HotWheels Battle Force 5'' is an animated series from Creator/{{Nelvana}} (the world-renowned Canadian animation studio) and Creator/NerdCorpsEntertainment (the makers of ''WesternAnimation/DragonBooster'', ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' and ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil'') that aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork from 2009 to 2011. It is MerchandiseDriven, much like the previous entries in the ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'' franchise, but this is the first one to be an all-out animated series. While the main character, Vert Wheeler, seems to be the same, no mention is made of the previous two works.

** However, the term "organic" probably refers to all organics in general, including Vandals.

''Toys/HotWheels Battle Force 5'' is an animated series from Creator/NerdCorpsEntertainment, the makers of ''WesternAnimation/DragonBooster'', ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' and ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil,'' that aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork from 2009 to 2011. It is MerchandiseDriven, much like the previous entries in the ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'' franchise, but this is the first one to be an all-out animated series. While the main character, Vert Wheeler, seems to be the same, no mention is made of the previous two works.

* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Played straight. When one of the six youth rather sensibly asks their holographic advisor why they alone were chosen to save the world, she replies that each one brings "something different" to the team. Which one brings ''driving experience'' to a battle for the fate of the world that involves high-speed racing is never said. Whether this is LampshadeHanging or BetterThanABareBulb is entirely in the eye of the viewer.
** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Agura did think she was being taken to an offroad race]]...
** Not to mention that each member was recruited because they were "the best of the best". They already know how to drive, but they each contributed a specialized role to the team. In fact, it was summarized pretty well when Vert reconsidered the need for a team in the first episode:

''Toys/HotWheels Battle Force 5'' is an animated series from Nerd Corps, the makers of ''WesternAnimation/DragonBooster'', ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' and ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil,'' that aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork from 2009 to 2011. It is MerchandiseDriven, much like the previous entries in the ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'' franchise, but this is the first one to be an all-out animated series. While the main character, Vert Wheeler, seems to be the same, no mention is made of the previous two works.

The series is notable for how {{Troperiffic}} it is; it seems like Nerd Corps hunted down every SaturdayMorningCartoon trope they could think of, and are systematically working their way down the list. In fact, this show has so many tropes, that we decided to provide a list of tropes in each episode [[Recap/HotWheelsBattleForce5 here.]]

''Hot Wheels Battle Force 5'' is an animated series from Nerd Corps, the makers of ''WesternAnimation/DragonBooster'', ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' and ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil,'' that aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork from 2009 to 2011. It is MerchandiseDriven, much like the previous entries in the ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'' franchise, but this is the first one to be an all-out animated series. While the main character, Vert Wheeler, seems to be the same, no mention is made of the previous two works.

''Hot Wheels Battle Force 5'' is an animated series from Nerd Corps, the makers of ''WesternAnimation/DragonBooster'', ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' and ''LeagueOfSuperEvil,'' that aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork from 2009 to 2011. It is MerchandiseDriven, much like the previous entries in the ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'' franchise, but this is the first one to be an all-out animated series. While the main character, Vert Wheeler, seems to be the same, no mention is made of the previous two works.

* {{Troperiffic}}: Given all the skewering they did of tropes in [[LeagueOfSuperEvil their last series]], Nerd Corps knows ''exactly'' how cliche they're being.

''Hot Wheels Battle Force 5'' is an animated series from Nerd Corps, the makers of ''DragonBooster'', ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' and ''LeagueOfSuperEvil,'' that aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork from 2009 to 2011. It is MerchandiseDriven, much like the previous entries in the ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'' franchise, but this is the first one to be an all-out animated series. While the main character, Vert Wheeler, seems to be the same, no mention is made of the previous two works.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: The battle zone in "Mag Wheels". Basically, [[XMeetsY Pinball meets Soccer]], with cars.

-->''"Speed, power, and attitude, dudes. Let's roll."''

* GenreSavvy: The reason why Kalus promoted Grimian to second-in-command was because a wise one once told him:
--> '''Kalus''': Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

* KeepingTheEnemyClose: [[GenreSavvy Kalus]] promoted [[TheStarscream Grimian]] to second-in-command because a wise one once advised him about this trope.

Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 is an animated series from Nerd Corps, the makers of ''DragonBooster'', ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' and ''LeagueOfSuperEvil,'' that aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork from 2009 to 2011. It is MerchandiseDriven, much like the previous entries in the ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'' franchise, but this is the first one to be an all-out animated series. While the main character, Vert Wheeler, seems to be the same, no mention is made of the previous two works.

* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Played straight. When one of the six youth rather sensibly asks their holographic ObiWan why they alone were chosen to save the world, she replies that each one brings "something different" to the team. Which one brings ''driving experience'' to a battle for the fate of the world that involves high-speed racing is never said. Whether this is LampshadeHanging or BetterThanABareBulb is entirely in the eye of the viewer.