Line #12 Sandbox/Burrz


1	[[folder:Mind Your Own Beeswax]]
2	!!Mind Your Own Beeswax features examples of:
3	* ADayInTheLimelight: The episode "You'll Be the Death of Us" focuses on Master Fae as he follows Cassandra's tips because he is the only SDD (Super Defense Division) superhero unaffected by the outbreak and is fit for the job.
4	* AgonyOfTheFeet: This is a RunningGag. Marcus tends to drop his phone and occasional laboratory assets onto his feet. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in "You'll be the Death of Us" when Marcus shows Benjamin a video on his phone.
5	--> '''Marcus:''' Ben, are you paying attention?
6	--> '''Benjamin:''' Sorry, I was expecting you to drop your phone on your foot again.
7	** This is DoubleSubverted in "Stuff I Don't Do" when Marcus drops his phone after getting scared by Colonel Steven. Determined not to let this happen again, he tries to catch his phone with his free hand, but instead of grabbing it, grazes it with his fingertips, pushing it backwards and causing it to land on a balloon on the floor, bounce back and [[GroinAttack hit him in groin]].
8	* AnimalEspionage: Cassandra becomes a bumblebee when she sleeps. With nothing better to do, she spies on {{supervillain}}s and sends the SDD anonymous tips. Unlike normal espionage, Cassandra does this alone.
9	* AntiHero: Cassandra is somewhere between a NeutralGood and ChaoticNeutral, as she works alone, has a HairTriggerTemper and will resort to violence quite quickly, but she is still the hero at the end of the day.
10	* AstralProjection: Cassandra's superpower effectively works the same way as astral projection. The only difference is that she can wake up at any time and is a physical entity in the real world.
11	* BeeAfraid: Every villain eventually notices Cassandra spying on them and most react with fear. Odd-Ball being the exception.
12	* BirthdayEpisode: In "Stuff I Don't Do", it's Cassandra's grandson, Cassidy's, birthday and he wishes that Cassandra was there with him. {{Downplayed\|Trope}} in that it's the episode's B plot.
13	* CampGay: An unnamed man on the cargo ship in "Something In the Water" wears mascara and an open coat with cropped skinny jeans. He doesn't have any speaking roles and is kind of just... there.
14	* CassandraTruth: Possibly what inspired the character's name. Marcus is hesitant to believe Cassandra at first because [[MistakenForPrankCall her calls could just be pranks]], but when they come true, Marcus believes her and begins warning others, who laugh at him.
15	* ChildProdigy: {{Justified\|Trope}}; Benjamin Weber is an ArtificialHuman meant to represent peak human genetics. His brain is highly developed and he stays young for far longer than a normal human. He looks like a prepubescent child, but is actually 15.
16	* CodeName: Every superhero uses a codename despite none of them having secret identities, as the SDD provides them housing.
17	* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In "You'll Be the Death of Us", Marcus gets his phone confiscated by Colonel Steven during a meeting, stopping Cassandra from contacting him about Dr. Hazardous's plan. Eventually, Colonel Steven gets fed up with whoever is calling Marcus and answers, allowing everyone in the room to listen.
18	--> '''Cassandra:''' It's too late. Hazardous is going to launch his plague any second now. We could have avoided this if you answered sooner.
19	* CoveringUpYourGray: In "Secret Society" during the family argument, Marline accuses Cassandra of dying her hair, but Cassandra simply yells at her stating that the reason she has no gray hairs is because she doesn't let things worry her. [[DoubleSubvertedTrope However]], in season 2, Cassandra's hair starts to gray (possibly due to stress) and in "Fruit of My Labor" she dyes her hair ginger again.
20	* DyingToWakeUp: Cassandra and her family manually wake themselves up by stinging their own heads. Cassandra gets killed a lot when spying on people and has led a few villains to think there's a bee's nest somewhere in their lair.
21	* ExperiencedProtagonist: Cassandra is introduced having many different skills. However, her only knowledge of humans comes from social media browsing and watching press conferences.
22	* FamilyDisunion: Downplayed in that Cassandra's family is told by their counselor that Cassandra should try taking a vacation as it might help with her anger issues and help the family solve their own problems.
23	* FantasticDietRequirement: Made very clear; sprites derive all of their calories from the sugar in fruit and flower nectar. [[AbnormalAllergy Fat and starch seem to cause them intestinal distress]].
24	* FantasticVoyagePlot: The way Cassandra defeats Phobos, a robot designed for crime fighting, is by going inside her in bumblebee form and loosening all her screws. This then allows Cassandra to easily disassemble Phobos without much of a fight.
25	* FatherlyScientist: Marcus Weber is the one who created Benjamin and treats him like a son.
26	* FingerInTheMail: In "Love, Mock and Hate", Marcus opens a cardboard box addressed to Benjamin and finds Phobos' disassembled body inside. He doesn't know what it is and shows it to Benjamin, who, completely deadpan, simply comments "Oh dear...".
27	* FoundFootageFilms: A trope that's used very often in this show.
28	** In several scenes, Cassandra sits in front of her laptop at night watching press conferences.
29	** In "Unmasking You", Benjamin shows footage recorded by the bodycam of Phobos during a slideshow as the events of breaking into Cassandra's vacation home and [[NeverMessWithGranny getting disassembled by her]] plays out.
30	** 20% of the episode "Loathe Machine" is played from the perspective of the interviewers' cameras.
31	** The first 2 minutes of "Fruit of My Labor" features Cassidy recording a video intended for Cassandra. He walks around Apple Island and accidentally drops his camera onto the surface, which is revealed to have been being watched by Benjamin, making this actual in-universe found footage.
32	* HiddenElfVillage: The inhabitants of Apple Island, a FloatingContinent, are hidden by a cumulonimbus cloud and have a bustling community.
33	* HiddenVillain: Odd-Ball is the show's true antagonist. He kidnaps world leaders and other strong figures in order to steer the world into chaos, but usually gets driven away before he can do anything. He isn't physically shown on-screen until the final episode of season 1, "Busted". Prior to this, only his airship would be shown. [[spoiler:It turns out that he's a sprite just like Cassandra and seeks revenge on humans for kidnapping everyone on his home island.]]
34	* HumanDisguise: Cassandra is a sprite who uses illusion magic to disguise herself as a human and blend into human society.
35	* HumongousMecha: The city of Korbin (the city most of the show takes place in) is patrolled by a giant robot about half the size of a skyscraper. It exists to deter people from committing crimes and an alternative to police pursuit.
36	** Phobos and Deimos pilot {{mech}}s in order to fight {{Kaiju}} or villains who are also in mechs.
37	* IdealIllnessImmunity: Sprites are immune to human diseases. When Dr. Hazardous releases his engineered virus in "You'll Be the Death of Us", Cassandra and Master Fae, an SDD superhero who is also a sprite, are unaffected. This has subsequently led to Cassandra being harassed by the press wondering how she managed to stay healthy.
38	* InducedHypochondria: In "Hindsight! Look it up!", Cassandra tries to get Colonel Steven to think that he's hallucinating by speaking into his ear in bumblebee form. Her plan was to get Colonel Steven to take the day off, which ends up working.
39	* {{Kaiju}}: The villain "Strange Beast-Master" specializes in creating giant monsters capable of leveling cities.
40	* LittleOldLadyInvestigates: The entire barebones plot of this show, except Cassandra isn't ''that'' old.
41	* NeverMessWithGranny: Cassandra is shown to be very athletic for her age (given, she's only 56) and knows how to exploit {{pressure point}}s. She utilizes her [[AnimalisticAbilities insect reaction speed]] to achieve this.
42	* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Cassandra and everyone on Apple Island are called sprites, which are a type of fairy. They don't have wings and their height is half that of a human.
43	* PantsPositiveSafety: {{Parodied\|Trope}} in "Green and White". Colonel Steven is ordered by Odd-Ball to drop all of his weapons. He pulls the pistol from his holster, puts it on the ground and Odd-Ball thinks that's it, but then Colonel Steven reaches into his pants and pulls out another pistol, a rifle, and then a rocket launcher. Odd-Ball incredulously asks him how he keeps those in his pockets, to which Colonel Steven responds saying that ''he has no pockets''.
44	* PlagueEpisode: In "You'll Be the Death of Us", Dr. Hazardous unleashes an engineered virus upon the region Korbin is located in, infecting nearly everyone.
45	* RobotGirl: Phobos and Deimos are both this. They are twin androids that double as police officers and {{mech}} pilots. Their designs are modeled after motorcyclists.
46	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Benjamin talks like this around Colonel Steven because he and Marcus simply thought it would be funny, but now he's too deep in the act.
47	--> '''Colonel Steven:''' Dr. Benjamin Weber, your presence is requested in room 414.
48	--> '''Benjamin:''' Anticipate my advent in approximately 120 to 300 seconds.
49	* SiliconSnarker: In "It's Jammed, Jammed, Jammed", Benjamin programs an ArtificialIntelligence called [=CyberMind=] for sneaking into servers and posing as a person over text. However, Benjamin was too lazy to program [=CyberMind's=] personality with proper training, so just gave him unrestrained internet access with machine learning. This resulted in him becoming this.
50	* StrawLoser: Master Fae is this to an extent. On top of having NoSocialSkills, his superpowers are more inclined towards stealth, despite stealth missions being completely redundant when the SDD has both BrainsAndBrawn on the team. This makes him a below average {{Superhero}}, being able to defeat an armed civilian at most. However, in "You'll Be the Death of Us", [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman his powers finally become useful]] in infiltrating Dr. Hazardous's lab to find the cure for his bioweapon.
51	* SupermanSubstitute: General Sentinel is this. His superpowers are SuperStrength, {{Flight}} and EyeBeams.
52	* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Cassandra and her massive family all share the ability to become bumblebees at sleep. They typically use it to pollinate the year-round apple blossoms on their farm.
53	* SyntheticPlague: The supervillain Dr. Hazardous uses genetically modified viruses as his weapon of choice.
54	* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Mostly averted in that Cassandra is good at working her laptop, knows how to avoid being tracked, and knows how to disassemble a robot, but in "Super Defense", Cassandra sneaks into Marcus's bedroom while he's sleeping, struggles to operate his phone in bumblebee form and resorts to pulling Marcus's finger across the screen, but she has no idea how to find his phone number and goes back and forth for several minutes. She ''does'' eventually figure it out.
55	* UnusualEuphemism: Cassandra tends to replace mild swears with words like "quack" or "pollinate" [[note]]You can probably guess which word that replaces.[[/note]]
56	* UpliftedAnimal: [=AquaValor=] is this. He is a genetically altered and cybernetically enhanced great white shark. He is obedient and behaves like a noble samurai.
57	* WouldntHurtAChild: Cassandra takes her anger out on her own family, but refuses to do so near Cassidy, her elementary school aged grandson. This is why Cassidy is the only person who seems to care about Cassandra's well-being.

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