History WesternAnimation / ShadowRaiders

* AbdicateTheThrone: King Cryos does this at one point after becoming worried that he is letting personal priorities interfere with his duty. [[spoiler: His successor later abdicates in favour of returning the throne to Cryos.]]

* ArtisticLicenseSpace: Moving a planet any distance from its sun would cause catastrophic climate and gravitational changes; moving too far away would reduce them to icy, barren husks. None of the planets seem worse for wear when [[spoiler: the planets flee the solar system,]] though. We do see some sort of atmosphere shield activate before the world engines engage, so there's probably that as a HandWave. There's also the fact that day and night is a byproduct of planetary rotation relative to the closest sun, but somehow even after fleeing the solar system the three planets still have perceivable night and days.

* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: In the final episode of the second season, [[spoiler: Jade passes the leadership trial and becomes the new monarch of Planet Rock.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Graveheart. Usually the compassionate and mild-mannered leader of the Alliance, but keep in mind that this is also the same man who [[spoiler: snapped like a twig and took out most of Fire's aerial fleet ''by himself'' after his brother was killed right in front of him.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The Prison Planet is used to teleport the Beast Planet and strand it in some far off section of the galaxy, Graveheart kills Blokk, and the planets are finally at peace. But the Beast itself is still active and is still preying upon other worlds. The last seconds of the final episode show the Beast preparing to devour Planet Reptizar....]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: Block, Lamprey, and Void, as well as the Beast Drones, are constructed entirely of "null matter." Now while the drones don't need air, Void, Blokk, and Lamprey do, as we see in Episode 10, "Against All Odds." [[spoiler: Where Zera and Pyrus stumble upon the beast drone base in Remorrah.]]

* BreatherEpisode: "Period of Adjustment". [[spoiler: The remaining planets are able to keep ahead of the Beast Planet due to the world engines so they are out of danger for the moment. The focus of the episode is on the Alliance's food shortage problem, and Femur's inept efforts to get himself back into the Alliance's good graces.]]

* CosmicHorrorStory: Take a look at the impending doom and monstrous PlanetEater, then try to dispute this. [[spoiler: The series was originally planned to end as a LovecraftLite story with the defeat of the Beast, but the series was, alas, [[CutShort cancelled]] on a [[LeftHanging cliffhanger]]... ]]

* DiscardAndDraw: On the scale of an army. [[spoiler: In Ragnarok part 2, Jade brings in the Battle Moons after Femur orders a full retreat of his fleet.]]

%%* EasilyForgiven: Femur, and depending on your viewpoint, [[spoiler: Jade and Tekla]].

* EvilChancellor: Subverted with the Vizier. Despite displaying outright contempt for the other members of the alliance, he admits that he does respect them. Played straight later on when [[spoiler: an evil duplicate of him turns up.]]

* FantasticRacism: All of the races hate all of the other races, mainly due to the history of mutual raiding. The people of Fire and Ice go so far as to (falsely) believe that physical contact between their species is fatal. This really causes trouble in the series, particularly when [[spoiler: the people of Fire lose their planet and must emigrate to the moons of Rock.]]

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** While the heroes destroy the Beast Drones by truckloads, the Beast itself [[spoiler: shrugs off all attempt to stop it, including ramming a planet into it, detonating a planet turned into a bomb inside it, and teleporting it to unknown parts of the universe. The last one only forces it to shift targets. For a while it was hiding inside of a star.]]
** By extension, Blokk is terrifying when it comes to close-quarter fighting. [[spoiler: Despite never needing to fight hand-to-hand before, due to his null-matter body, when he faced off against Mantle he absolutely floored the Rock King. Because the generals lack containment units, he also shrugs off all of the concussion blasts the Quarriors under Feldspar threw at him without breaking stride. He only dies after Graveheart slams the force field generator into his stomach, destabilizing the null-matter.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Beast. The very last shot of the series is the Beast eating another planet, unimpeded and unopposed. This is justified because The Beast is indestructible. Even worse in that the Beast Planet now has a grudge against the War Planets and will return to finish them off when able.]]
** [[spoiler: [[DoomedByCanon Averted, only because it ends on a cliffhanger]]. Princess Tekla has memories ripped from Lampray with how to effectively cripple and end the Beast's threat for good, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia she just can't recall them]].]]

* MauveShirt: Captain Feldspar, a Quarrior of Planet Rock, shows up numerous times throughout the series. [[spoiler: He survives all the way to the final episode of the second season, where he is killed by Blokk.]]

* MightyGlacier: The Beast Planet is this on a planetary scale. It has extremely powerful weaponry; its lack of speed is the only reason it hasn't been able to wipe out the protagonists, and is also the reason for its drone army. [[spoiler: If it weren't for the drones' acts of sabotage or luring the heroes into battle, the Beast would have no chance of ever catching up to the other worlds once they figured out how to use their world engines.]]
* MilitaryCoup: Femur comes perilously close to this after he [[spoiler: orders his fleet to flee the battle of Remora.]] Pelvis makes it clear that the military's patience with him is nearing its breaking point.

* PlanarShockwave: Shows up in "Embers of the Past". [[spoiler: When the fake Planet Fire's core of null matter is destroyed, it causes a huge shockwave that wipes out the Beast armada, but the heroes are able to get out of its path as they are further away.]]

* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: [[RammingAlwaysWorks Planet Fire]], [[SelfDestructMechanism Planet Jungle]], and the [[{{Teleportation}} Prison Planet]].]]

** [[spoiler: Due to being LeftHanging, the last episode of the series has Graveheart cheer over how the threat of the Beast Planet is forever gone and that the planets have finally united as a whole, seeing Peace as never before seen in their shared histories. It then immediately cuts to Planet Reptizar with the Beast Planet approaching it, with the subtitle "Planet Reptizar: On Doomsday".]]

** [[spoiler: A literal version happened with the Prison Planet, which had a Teleport Engine rather than a conventional one allowing it to beam across the universe at will. Sternum allowed it to teleport away just as the Beast Planet made contact, making sure that the Beast Planet will never find the cluster ever again.]]

** The show never clarified [[spoiler: what happened to the Battle Moons and, more importantly, the remains of Planet Fire civilization after the assault on the Beast Planet in Death of a King.]]

* '''Graveheart''' -- ''"[[WorkingClassHero I'm just a miner.]]"'' Not just a [[TheHero big hero]], but also TheHeart who keeps the warring temperaments of the Alliance to working together. Surprisingly humble, open, and level headed.
* '''Princess Tekla''' -- The [[TheSmartGuy brain]] of the group, she is sensitive and somewhat [[MyGreatestFailure haunted by the death of her planet]]. She is a [[ChromeChampion silver]] RobotGirl who is somewhat naive about [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter who to trust]], though she gets better about it.

* '''Jade''' -- TheLancer to Graveheart, she is a proud warrior to Graveheart's humble miner. Distrustful and somewhat disdainful of others, she considers her first loyalty to be to Lord Mantle, Rock's ruler, and not the Alliance as a whole.
* '''Prince Pyrus''' -- ''"[[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem I'm the Prince, I get to do what I want]]"'' HotBlooded child prince of Fire, he chafed under the role of leader but was often assertive and responsible. Despite his quote, he was not so much a brat as unchained by "tradition", especially when it was xenophobic. His [[PowerOfTrust trust]] in Femur was one of the things that helped the latter be somewhat less contemptible.

With the enemy there are only three characters, which are technically (if not actually) part of [[PlanetEater The Beast Planet]], a single organism.

* '''King Cryos''' -- TheStoic king of Ice, the personification of ReasonableAuthorityFigure. Also an incredibly OverprotectiveDad to Lady Zera.