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* BigBadEnsemble: Black Baron and The Colossus, Fourchesac, Baba Cara, Sharkbeard, and Skyronior are the show's main antagonists but are in opposition of each other. Dr. X is usually ObliviouslyEvil as well. Pretty much all of the antagonists darken the tone of the series whenever they show up to cause trouble, and all of them besides Dr. X (due to [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds causing trouble through incompetence]]) are played seriously.

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* BigBadEnsemble: Black Baron and The Colossus, Fourchesac, Baba Cara, Sharkbeard, Fourchesac, and Skyronior are the show's main antagonists but are in opposition of each other. Dr. X is usually ObliviouslyEvil as well. Pretty much all of the antagonists darken the tone of the series whenever they show up to cause trouble, and all of them besides Dr. X (due to [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds causing trouble through incompetence]]) are played seriously.
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* EnemyMine: It has happened very rarely, but the Super 4 have occasionally had to team up with one of the main antagonists as part of a scheme of some sort, or at least had to tolerate each other. The end result is usually that it [[GoneHorriblyWrong Goes Horribly Wrong]].
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* BigBadEnsemble: Black Baron and The Colossus, Fourchesac, Baba Cara, Sharkbeard, and Skyronior are the show's main antagonists but are in opposition of each other. Dr. X is usually ObliviouslyEvil as well.

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* BigBadEnsemble: Black Baron and The Colossus, Fourchesac, Baba Cara, Sharkbeard, and Skyronior are the show's main antagonists but are in opposition of each other. Dr. X is usually ObliviouslyEvil as well. Pretty much all of the antagonists darken the tone of the series whenever they show up to cause trouble, and all of them besides Dr. X (due to [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds causing trouble through incompetence]]) are played seriously.
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More anti-hero actually.


* BigBadEnsemble: Black Baron and The Colossus, Sir Gareth, Fourchesac, Baba Cara, Sharkbeard, and Skyronior are the show's main antagonists but are in opposition of each other. Dr. X is usually ObliviouslyEvil as well.

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* BigBadEnsemble: Black Baron and The Colossus, Sir Gareth, Fourchesac, Baba Cara, Sharkbeard, and Skyronior are the show's main antagonists but are in opposition of each other. Dr. X is usually ObliviouslyEvil as well.
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* BigBadEnsemble: Black Baron and The Colossues, Sir Gareth, Fourchesac, Baba Cara, Sharkbeard, and Skyronior are the show's main antagonists but are in opposition of each other. Dr. X is usually ObliviouslyEvil as well.

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* BigBadEnsemble: Black Baron and The Colossues, Colossus, Sir Gareth, Fourchesac, Baba Cara, Sharkbeard, and Skyronior are the show's main antagonists but are in opposition of each other. Dr. X is usually ObliviouslyEvil as well.
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* BigBadEnsemble: Black Baron and The Colossues, Sir Gareth, Fourchesac, Baba Cara, Sharkbeard, and Skyronior are the show's main antagonists but are in opposition of each other. Dr. X is usually ObliviouslyEvil as well.
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* TranslationTrainWreck: The show's second theme tune (with lyrics) is impossible to transcribe due to the female singer's lack of enunciation for certain lyrics, to the point that the subtitles for any broadcasting network gets confused as to what is being sung.

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* TranslationTrainWreck: The show's second theme tune (with lyrics) is impossible to transcribe due to the female singer's lack of enunciation for certain lyrics, to the point that the subtitles for any broadcasting network gets get confused as to what is being sung.

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* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: The show's second theme tune (with lyrics) is impossible to transcribe due to the female singer's lack of enunciation for certain lyrics, to the point that the subtitles for any broadcasting network gets confused as to what is being sung.


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* TranslationTrainWreck: The show's second theme tune (with lyrics) is impossible to transcribe due to the female singer's lack of enunciation for certain lyrics, to the point that the subtitles for any broadcasting network gets confused as to what is being sung.
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* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: The show's second theme tune (with lyrics) is impossible to transcribe due to the female singer's lack of enunciation for certain lyrics, to the point that the subtitles for any broadcasting network gets confused as to what is being sung.
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* CharacterFocus: The show is very focused on Ruby, as most of the episodes revolve around her or her reckless antics as a pirate.
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* FantasticRacism: A kid-friendly version. Due to each of the four worlds being in separate cultures, they're prone to making stereotypes about each other. This is invoked as part of the conflict in some episodes.
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* LogicBomb: Gene defeats one of Dr X's robots by asking it to compute 1 divided by 3. The robot answers "zero point three... three... three..." and remains stuck there. [[BrickJoke The end of the episode show it still repeating "three" over and over again]].
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* GratuitousEnglish: The title is ''Super Four'' even in the French version. Although the way it's pronounced, it sounds like [[PunnyName "Super Forts" (i.e. "Super Strong/Awesome")]][[note]]In fact, when Twinkle tries to form her own team among her fellow fairies, she calls themselves "Super Fortes" (super (female) strong) in the French dub[[/note]].

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* GratuitousEnglish: The title is ''Super Four'' even in the French version. Although the way it's pronounced, it sounds like [[PunnyName "Super Forts" (i.e. "Super Strong/Awesome")]][[note]]In Strong/Awesome")]]. In fact, when Twinkle tries to form her own team among her fellow fairies, she calls themselves "Super Fortes" (super (female) [female] strong) in the French dub[[/note]].dub.

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* GratuitousEnglish: The title is ''Super Four'' even in the French version. Although the way it's pronounced, it sounds like [[PunnyName "Super Forts" (i.e. "Super Strong/Awesome")]].

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* GratuitousEnglish: The title is ''Super Four'' even in the French version. Although the way it's pronounced, it sounds like [[PunnyName "Super Forts" (i.e. "Super Strong/Awesome")]].Strong/Awesome")]][[note]]In fact, when Twinkle tries to form her own team among her fellow fairies, she calls themselves "Super Fortes" (super (female) strong) in the French dub[[/note]].
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* MagicalIncantation: Fairies need to say some rhyming sentences to cast their spells, although sometimes just waving their wand works.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: The Sycronians built a machine that absorb the powers of denizens from the four realms and transfer them to one of them, who becomes better than all the heroes combined, easily besting Alex and Ruby at sword, locking Gene out of the computer system and absorbing Twinkle's spells. Thankfully for the heroes, he also absorbed their weaknesses.

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* AllYourPowersCombined: The Sycronians built a machine that absorb the powers of denizens from the four realms and transfer them to one of them, who becomes better than all the heroes combined, easily besting Alex and Ruby at sword, swordfighting, locking Gene out of the computer system and absorbing Twinkle's spells. Thankfully for the heroes, he also absorbed their weaknesses.



* BewitchedAmphibians

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* BewitchedAmphibiansBewitchedAmphibians:

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* AllYourPowersCombined: The Sycronians built a machine that absorb the powers of denizens from the four realms and transfer them to one of them, who becomes better than all the heroes combined, easily besting Alex and Ruby at sword, locking Gene out of the computer system and absorbing Twinkle's spells. Thankfully for the heroes, he also absorbed their weaknesses.



* EvilTwin: Thanks to Dr. X cloning machine, the four human heroes have evil clones, who are just as evil as they are heroic (and coloured as a negative version of the originals). They are also just as hostile toward each other as the heroes are friendly toward another, which severely reduces their efficiency.



* InsufferableGenius: Dr. X.

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* InsufferableGenius: Dr. X.X likes to boast about his superior intelligence. He takes it badly when anybody outsmarts him.



** King Kenric, the ruler of Kingsland.

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** King Kenric, the ruler of Kingsland.Kingsland, is almost always on the side of the heroes even when appearances are against them. It helps that their de facto leader is his son.



** Conversely, the Grand Fairy, who is the wisest and oldest fairy, is almost always on the heroes' side and occasionally comes to Twinkle's defence against the Queen.



* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ruby and Twinkle.

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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ruby (pirate girl with a G-rated potty mouth) and Twinkle.Twinkle (FriendToAllLivingThings NiceGirl).

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** Inverted by the Fairy Queen, who continues to hold a grudge against Twinkle, even after Twinkle turns the Queen back into a true self.

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** Inverted by the Fairy Queen, who continues to hold a grudge against Twinkle, even after Twinkle turns the Queen back into a true self. She's shown to be also a pretty terrible boss on the rare occasions when she is not a frog, such as for instance organising a contest to elect the best fairy, only to give the award to herself in the end because "she's the most beautiful".


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* SetSwordsToStun: Swords are only ever used to knock opponents down or disarm them.
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Per wick cleanup.


%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

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** The mere sight of Twinkle on the Enchanted Island is this for the Fairy Queen. Even after Twinkle turns her back to normal in one story. Yes, her grudge against Twinkle is that bad...

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** The mere sight of Twinkle on the Enchanted Island is this for the Fairy Queen. Even after Twinkle turns her back to normal in one story. Yes, her grudge against Twinkle is that bad...bad....



** Although Twinkle can't quite be called an IneptMage, when attempting any other kind of transformations, a mishap most commonly defaults to "turned into frog" (sometimes a giant one, though).

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** Although Twinkle can't quite be called an IneptMage, when attempting any other kind of transformations, a mishap most commonly defaults to "turned into frog" (sometimes frog". Sometimes it's a giant one, though).though.



* TransformingVehicle: The [[MeaningfulName Chameleon]] can change form to fit into whatever world they visit. It looks like a high-tech car in its origin city of Technopolis, but turns into a wooden ship around Gunpowder Island, a siege engine in the medieval Kingsland, and an ethereal floating ship on the the Enchanted Island.

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* TransformingVehicle: The [[MeaningfulName Chameleon]] ''[[MeaningfulName Chameleon]]'' can change form to fit into whatever world they visit. It looks like a high-tech car in its origin city of Technopolis, but turns into a wooden ship around Gunpowder Island, a siege engine in the medieval Kingsland, and an ethereal floating ship on the the Enchanted Island.



** The ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' in the "Origins" episode, while trying to attack the ''Chameleon'', gets quite the shock when Gene activates the defense system, highlighting its whole skeleton.



** The ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' in the "Origins" episode, while trying to attack the ''Chameleon'', gets quite the shock when Gene activates the defense system, highlighting its whole skeleton.

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Proper trope.


* CoolCar: The [[MeaningfulName Chameleon]], which can change form to fit into whatever world they visit.


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* TransformingVehicle: The [[MeaningfulName Chameleon]] can change form to fit into whatever world they visit. It looks like a high-tech car in its origin city of Technopolis, but turns into a wooden ship around Gunpowder Island, a siege engine in the medieval Kingsland, and an ethereal floating ship on the the Enchanted Island.
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* AllCGICartoon

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%% * AllCGICartoon



* TheFairFolk: The inhabitants of Enchanted Island.

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%% * TheFairFolk: The inhabitants of Enchanted Island.



* GiantMook: The Baron's Black Colossus.

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%% * GiantMook: The Baron's Black Colossus.



* HeroesPreferSwords: Alex and Ruby.

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%% * HeroesPreferSwords: Alex and Ruby.
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** Happens a fair bit to Fourchesac; first of all gaining RedEyes due to a LovePotion in "Song of the Stork", and then {{Shapeshifting}} into King Kenric (when Alex said "We may as well have two kings then").

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** Happens a fair bit to Fourchesac; first of all gaining RedEyes red eyes due to a LovePotion in "Song of the Stork", and then {{Shapeshifting}} into King Kenric (when Alex said "We may as well have two kings then").
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Deleted Five Man Band example - zero-context, poor indentation - part of cleanup effort


%%* FiveManBand:
%%** TheLeader: Alex
%%** TheLancer: Ruby
%%** TheSmartGuy: Gene
%%** TheChick: Twinkle
%%** TeamPet: Alien
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* InstrumentalThemeTune: The French version opted for an instrumental theme, while the distinctively unique version with lyrics airs worldwide.

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