History WesternAnimation / JayceAndTheWheeledWarriors

-->-- '''Seanbaby''', ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-toys-from-80s-that-just-didnt-care_p2/ 10 Toys from the 80s That Just Didn't Care]]''

* Creator/JMichaelStraczynski: One of the writers for the TV show; also wrote TheMovie, as noted above.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Like in any story where the heroes are trying to find some elusive thing that would automatically defeat their enemies. In most episodes the Lightning League are a hair's breadth from catching up to Audric, but get distracted by Saw Boss's EvilPlan. They save the day but Audric has had to move on again, starting the chase all over.

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: The show would have been wrapped up in a televised movie that sadly never happened. The creator has indicated what would have happened in it as mentioned on Website/TheOtherWiki.

* GreenLanternRing: Jayce's Ring of Light, AKA The Ring Of Plot Resolution. However, he can't simply command it to OneHitKill Saw Boss and save everyone a lot of running around; it's implied the ring only works in situations where there's no other way out. In one episode ("Bloodstone") you can see a face in the ring's light, further implying the ring is alive and decides when its help is and isn't necessary. Although Jayce was too much of a righteous dude to ask for its help when he didn't absolutely need it anyway.

* SpacePirates: An [[AmazonBrigade all-female]] crew appear in one epsiode.

* FireForgedFriends: Herc with the rest of the Lightning League. Like [[Francise/StarWars Han Solo]] he starts out purely motivated by money and isn't completely sure he likes these people he's been hired to ferry around in his ship. Over the course of the series, many adventure and several life-threatening danges, he does come to care for them.

''Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors'' is a French/North American animated TV show which first aired on September 16, 1985. It was produced by Creator/DICEntertainment (originally distributed for syndication by SFM Entertainment), and animated by Japanese animation studios Creator/KKCAndDAsia, Creator/{{Sunrise}}, Creator/StudioShaft, Creator/StudioGiants, Creator/StudioLook and Swan Production. The show was a SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon, created to support Creator/{{Mattel}}'s toy line (which was called simply ''Wheeled Warriors'', and which had no particular story or characters of its own). The show features an ongoing plot; however, like many shows made at the time, it does not have a series finale, and thus the plot was left unresolved. Although a movie was intended to close out the plotlines, it never came to be. Creator/JMichaelStraczynski has claimed that his script for the film, completely written, remains with him.

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: The show would have been wrapped up in a televised movie that sadly never happened. The creator has indicated what would have happened in it as mentioned on Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

* NatureVersusTechnology: Again we have the conflict between technology and nature. This show managed to flip the script, however, with the heroes piloting powerful mechanical vehicles while the villains were a group of mutant plant creatures.

''Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors'' is a French/North American animated TV show which first aired on September 16, 1985. It was produced by Creator/DICEntertainment (originally distributed for syndication by SFM Entertainment), and animated by Japanese animation studios Creator/KKCAndDAsia, Creator/{{Sunrise}}, Creator/StudioShaft, Creator/StudioGiants, Studio Look and Swan Production. The show was a SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon, created to support Creator/{{Mattel}}'s toy line (which was called simply ''Wheeled Warriors'', and which had no particular story or characters of its own). The show features an ongoing plot; however, like many shows made at the time, it does not have a series finale, and thus the plot was left unresolved. Although a movie was intended to close out the plotlines, it never came to be. Creator/JMichaelStraczynski has claimed that his script for the film, completely written, remains with him.

* SkunkStripe: Jayce and Audric.

Before the start of the show, Audric, a galactically famous scientist, began a project to produce a miracle crop and end hunger. Unfortunately for him, a solar flare released radiation that mutated his plant (and several others around his lab) into evil sentient creatures called the Monster Minds. Audric created a magic root that could destroy the Monster Minds, but was forced to flee before he could join the two halves. He gave one to his servant, a living suit of armor named Oon, to give to his son, Jayce. Jayce and his friends form the Lightning League who travel the galaxy battling the Monster Minds and searching for Audric to unite the magic root and lead his Lightning League to victory over the changing form of Saw Boss.

* AlienKudzu: The Monster Mind's vines.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy[=/=]ArtisticLicenseBiology: The plants... grow vines... from planet... to planet... evidently the planets in that universe don't orbit anything or they'd get REALLY tangled up. And [[ConvenientlyClosePlanet the planets are all much closer]], too.

* BigBad: Saw Boss.

* CoolOldGuy: Gillian.
* DarkLord: Saw Boss.

* RobotBudd: Oon. He's not actually a robot, but an "Eternal Squire," essentially a magically-animated suit of armor.

* RobotBuddy[=/=]SmallAnnoyingCreature: Oon. He's not actually a robot, but an "Eternal Squire," essentially a magically-animated suit of armor.

* RunningGag: Herc's continuing frustration at actually getting paid for hauling Jayce all over the universe.

* LovableCoward: Oon.

* RobotBuddy[=/=]SmallAnnoyingCreature: Oon.

!!Tropes:

* CoolOldGuy: Gillian
* DarkLord: Saw Boss

* UnrealisticBlackHole: The heroes are able to ''create'' one in an episode to destroy a large colony of Master Mines, and it is suggested the place had "almost enough destiny" to collapse into one already.