History WesternAnimation / Inhumanoids

* CardCarryingVillain: Blackthorne Shore. "I'm not sick, I'm evil!"

* IntercontinuityCrossover: With all those related cartoons in {{the eighties}}, like ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', with sharing Hector Ramirez.

* AntagonistTitle

* SharedUniverse: Hector Ramirez, an {{Expy}} of Geraldo Rivera, is the subtle link between this, ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Lasers are everywhere, even the police have them, too bad they don't do much except for the laser cannon on the Earth Corps vehicle.

''Inhumanoids'' was a 13-episode WesternAnimation show by Creator/SunbowEntertainment that aired in 1986. Like most 80's cartoons, it was based on [[MerchandiseDriven an accompanying toyline]], which was made by Creator/{{Hasbro}}.

* {{Animesque}}: Coincidentally, the animation style of ''Inhumanoids'' has much in common with 80's anime, compared to most other cartoons made in USA at the time, even Sunbow's other shows.

* CreepyGood: The Mutores, despite being the good guys, are definitely monstrous. The Redwoods, in particular, you would mistake for evil until they start talking. Looking at their hideous toy version, nobody would blame you for thinking they were bad guys too.

* InfiniteSupplies: Averted, early in Earth Corps has their funding yanked and are then privately bankrolled by Sandra Shore. In a later episode it then goes on to acknowledge the high mortality rate of their equipment (especially TV's with Auger around), when Liquidator asks him to take it easy as their bank account's getting low again.

* SleazyPolitician: Senator Masterson. Every other problem the heroes encounter stems back from him. In episode one he's cutting their funding because he's friends with Blackthorn Shore. By the end of the series, he's outright allied with the Inhumanoids themselves to get elected as President.
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Averted. Sandra Shore is grabbed by her brother's security goons and manages to fight them off even ''after'' one of them has made contact with her forearm.

* TooDumbToLive: Blackthorne, really; ''why'' would you free Tendril in the first place? To confirm that Metlar lives? Okay, but... just what in the world would you want to enslave him for in the first place? Just what is that supposed to do that will benefit you? Then you make -- and ''break'' -- an alliance with Nightcrawler & D'Compose, and then you run off and reawaken Sslither.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Severing Tendril's tentacles caused their pieces to grow into new Tendril creatures, yet what became of the umpteen Tendril-clones spawned in this manner was rarely addressed.
** Obviously they get re-absorbed by the main Tendril or they die off-screen like uprooted plants. In the Marvel Comics, Metlar tells Tendril that his clones will no longer be necessary, and then Tendril causes them to decay away.

** D'Compose himself falls into this as well; when he reanimate's Dr. Mangler's remains into the hideous Nightcrawler, he backs away in fear, muttering "What have I wrought?"

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The main story focuses on a group of scientists called the Earth Corps. An enormous monster, called D'Compose, is discovered encased in amber in the Big Sur. By taking him out, they don't realize that they have unleashed evil on their world. Following that, many more discoveries of grotesque monsters happen. Tendril and D'Compose are two of those {{eldritch abomination}}s. With the help of The Redwoods, they try to put down the monsters again.

* NeverSayDie: "If his friends release him, we're ended."

* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Especially [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath some of the deaths!]] It's shocking what the show managed to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar get past the radar.]]

* {{Kaiju}}: The Inhumanoids, despite being smaller than regular Kaiju, and being intelligent and able to talk.

* TerribleTrio: Lacking the numbers for a FiveBadBand, the Inhumanoids consist of three giant monsters. Gagoyle and Sslither are opposed to the Inhumanoid trio.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: Sabre Jet may be Ace of the [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero G.I. Joe Team]] in theory, but he he has a [[http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j140/Bluegrass2k/Sabrejet.jpg different appearance]] and voice (switching from Pat Fraley to Neil Ross) than [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/13/132855/2673023-arah_26_ace.jpg he did in the]] ''G.I. Joe'' cartoon.

They seem to be on their way to debuting in the ComicBook/HasbroComicUniverse, as hinted in issues and interviews with the creators of ''ComicBook/GIJoe2016''.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The Earth Force seems on the verge of a fistfight with each other at times.

The show in its day had a lot of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence and remains a great source of scares. More importantly, it was an unusual kids' show for its use of good subplots, strong pacing and suspense. Unfortunately, the toy line failed due to the major gimmick of their sheer size (almost as big as the kids in the ads!) making them too expensive for many parents to buy, and so the show had to go too.

* {{Animesque}}: Coincidentally, the animation style of ''Inhumanoids'' has much in common with 80's anime, compared to most other cartoons made in USA at the time.

-->''"The evil that lies within!"''

* HenpeckedHusband: ''Metlar'' becomes this after falling in love with and animating the UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty. It gets to the point where not only does she work him worse than his former slave-master Sslither did, he's happy to de-animate her and put her back on her pedestal off-screen because he's just that sick of her nagging.

The show in its day had a lot of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence and remains a great source of scares. More importantly, it was an unusual kids' show for its use of good subplots, strong pacing and suspense.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: Sabre Jet may be Ace of the [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero G.I. Joe Team in theory, but he he has a [[http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j140/Bluegrass2k/Sabrejet.jpg different appearance]] and voice (switching from Pat Fraley to Neil Ross) than [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/13/132855/2673023-arah_26_ace.jpg he did in the]] ''G.I. Joe'' cartoon.

* FivePartPilot: The first story arc works just fine as a self-contained story. In fact, how quickly the Inhumanoids escape again in the next episode to allow the plot to continue seems extremely abrupt.

* MissingStepsPlot: Blackthorne learned about the Inhumanoids and then decided to set them free so he could TakeOverTheWorld. But it seems to have somewhat escaped his thought process that beings powerful enough to terrorize humanity into submission would be correspondingly difficult to control. He rarely has much of a good reason why they should treat ''this'' "flesh slug" any differently than all the other ones they want to wipe out, and some of his later plots like freeing Gagoyle and Sslither are just so he can have someone to protect him from the various people he's pissed off through a string of unfortunate judgements.

* CreepyGood: The Mutores, despite being the good guys, are definitely monstrous. The Redwoods, in particular, you would mistake for evil until they start talking.

** Senator Masterson really isn't that much better.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Herc Armstrong
** TheLancer: Sandra Shore (Remarkably, since she is the only female member of the team, and the newest member, which might make one expect her to be TheChick)
** TheSmartGuy (TheSpock): Dr. Derek Bright
** TheBigGuy: Eddie "Auger" Auguter
** TheChick: Johnathan M. "Liquidator" Slattery (He is the emotional, instinctive one, who talks about the "vibes" he gets from certain places)
** SixthRanger: Tank (a renegade Soviet scientist who gets his tank rebuilt into armor) and Sabre Jet (a crashed jet pilot who gets cybernetic limbs built from his plane)

* IntercontinuityCrossover: With all those related cartoons in {{the eighties}}, like ''GIJoe'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', with sharing Hector Ramirez.

* BiggerBad: Sslither, a demonic snake-like Inhumanoid who used to rule Earth and who kept Metlar as a slave until he rebelled.

** TheChick: Johnathan M. "Liquidator" Slattery (He is the emotional, instictive one, who talks about the "vibes" he gets from certain places)

* PlayingWithFire: Sslither is capable of breathing both flames and [[PsychoElectro lightning]].

* WhenTreesAttack: The Redwoods are sentient trees that give assistance to the heroes every so often.
** Tendril, being a plant-based Inhumanoid, is a hostile version.