History WesternAnimation / TadTheLostExplorer

* HeroesWantRedheads: When he first meets her, Tad immediately falls in love with Sara, although she doesn't reciprocate his feelings until the sequel.

* LongTitle: In-universe - Freddy owns a copy of the book ''101 Ways to Avoid Dying a Horrible, Miserable, Excruciating, Painful Death''. It proves itself quite useless when he accidentally activates a trap in the temple.

* BrokenPedestal: Tad was a big fan of Max Mordon's TV show, because he made archeology fun for him. However, Tad ends up detesting Max during the film's events when he finds out that Max is the head of [[BlackMarket a smuggling ring that stole archaeological finds to sell to highest bidder]].

* BrokenPedestal: Tad was a big fan of Max Mordon's TV show, because he made archeology fun for him. However, he ends up detesting Max during the film's events when he finds out that Max is the head of [[BlackMarket a smuggling ring that stole archaeological finds to sell to highest bidder]].

* BrokenPedestal: Tad was a big fan of Max Mordon's TV show, because he made archeology fun for him. However, he ends up detesting Max during the film's events when he finds out that Max was the head of [[BlackMarket a smuggling ring that stole archaeological finds to sell to highest bidder]].

* PollyWantsAMicrophone: A funny subversion. Belzoni, Sara's parrot, has human level intelligence, is able to play poker, do mimic and communicate with signs... but he's [[TheSpeechless mute]].

* PollyWantsAMicrophone: A funny subversion - Belzoni, the parrot, has human level intelligence, is able to play poker, do mimic and communicate with signs... but he's [[TheSpeechless mute]].

** In the original Spanish, the name of our protagonist is Tadeo [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Jones]]. His hat also resembles Indiana's and, according to Humbert, belonged to a famous archaeologist. In the Spanish dub, Humbert actually comments that the hat indeed belonged to Indiana, while the ''Indiana Jones'' franchise's characteristic theme sounds in the background.

* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Tad when he first meet Sara.

** In the original Spanish, the name of our protagonist is Tadeo [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Jones]]. His hat also resembles Indiana's and, according to Humbert, belonged to a famous archaeologist.

* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: The English title of ''Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas''.

A third film, at the time titled ''Tad the Lost Explorer: The Curse of the Mummy'' (original title ''Tadeo Jones 3: La maldición de la momia''[[note]]Tad Jones 3: The Curse of the Mummy[[/note]]) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTvG4RMGyH8 was announced]] to be released in the summer of 2022. It was ultimately released in 26 August 2022 as ''Tad the Lost Explorer and the Emerald Tablet'' (original title ''Tadeo Jones 3: La tabla esmeralda''[[note]]Tad Jones 3: The Emerald Tablet[[/note]]). When Tad destroys a sarcophagus, he accidentally lets out a curse that endangers the Mummy, alongside his and Sara's pets. He and Sara now have to go on another journey to find a way to break the curse, with Victoria Moon, Sara's university colleague, and Ramona, another mummy and a self-proclaimed pharaoh, joining them on the way.

* UnexplainedRecovery: In the third movie, Mummy is still with Tad even if the credits of the second showed him returning home.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Tad dreams of being one, but the movie actually does a good job of deconstructing this. There's nothing particularly glamorous about Professor Lavrof or Humbert, and both of them thoroughly disapprove of Max Mordon.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Tad's dog Jeff. He even swallows a small {{Tracking Device}} and sickly vomits it hours later. Funny thing is: the device was in the car, so the villains would have a much harder time tracking them when they escaped in the llamas [[NiceJobBreakingItHero if it wasn't for Jeff swallowing it]].

* {{Mummy}}: Guarding the temple. Interestingly, he turns out to be [[spoiler:a good guy]] and comes as a bit of an eccentric.

* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Tad when He first meet Sara.