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3	The young hero WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest returns in TheEighties for this second series (or season, if you are so inclined). In differentiating the two this is often called ''The New Adventures of Jonny Quest''.
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5	This second ''Jonny Quest'' series was syndicated in 1986-87 as part of the second season of ''The Funtastic World of Creator/HannaBarbera'', with two new characters: Jessie Bradshaw, whose father was a colleague of Dr. Quest, and Hard Rock, a man made of living stone.
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7	This incarnation was noted for being more of the time and being a bit more [[LighterAndSofter kid friendly]] than the previous incarnation. This isn't to say it doesn't contain plenty of adventure too, just in a different tone.
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11	!!The New Tropes of Jonny Quest:
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13	* ActionGirl: While we only see a little of her and a little of it, Jessie Bradshaw.
14	* AdventureSeries: This trope clearly didn't change.
15	* AirborneAircraftCarrier: Dragna's airship, the ''Dreadnought''. His {{Mooks}} deploy from it encapsulated in electrically-charged glowing spheres.
16	* AmbiguouslyHuman: Maximilian Dragna in "Warlord of the Sky." He has a very grotesque, almost reptilian appearance, with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily, sagging face folds, no visible nose, solid green eyes with large lashes and a full head and [[BeardOfEvil beard]] of snow white hair. Dr. Quest recognizes him, though, so he is a known figure. Possibly he ''is'' human but merely deformed or mutated in some way.
17	* AnimalAssassin: Maybe not all the way in the assassin part, but the Reptilian is set out on missions like this.
18	* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Vikong being frozen alive certainly counts.
19	* AsideGlance: Multiple episodes, usually by Bandit.
20	* TheAtoner: Trudge, for having helped the plant monster, however unwillingly. He helps the Quests kill the thing.
21	* BadassFamily: Dr. Quest and son, and let's not forget Hadji. Do bodyguard Race and his daughter count as family?
22	* BeingWatched: Dr. Zin is still a master of this trope.
23	%%* BigBad: Dr. Zin still.
24	* BodyHorror: Mr. Trudge in "Creeping Unknown", who has leafy, branchlike hands as a result of the evil plant monster's experiments on him. The scene where he takes his ConspicuousGloves off to reveal them is one of the show's (sadly few) very effective creep-out moments.
25	* BroadStrokes: Once again like in an episode of the original series a red-head girl arrives with an interest in Jonny. This time it's Jessie Bradshaw who is introduced. Here she is much more ActionGirl than the previous Denise Lor was as the DamselInDistress.
26	%%* CaptainEthnic: Hadji, again still.
27	* ChasedByAngryNatives: Still happens with a pygmy tribe in "Forty Fathoms Into Yesterday".
28	* ConspicuousGloves: Mr. Trudge, the botanist the Quests befriend in the Louisiana bayou, wears black leather gloves despite the climate (when the animators bother to color them in, anyway). It's eventually revealed that an evil plant monster has been using him as its human minion and test subject, and he has creepy plant person hands.
29	* DeadpanSnarker: Race and Hadji.
30	* DefeatMeansFriendship:
31	** Skyborg. He renounces his criminal ways and turns himself in to the authorities, and even takes his old name back.
32	** Technically Jessie Bradsaw in a minor example.
33	* DiabolicalMastermind: Dr. Zin. Along with other smaller examples.
34	* DisappearedDad: It is Dr Zin kidnapping Jessie's father that gets her involved with the quests.
35	* DramaticChaseOpening: It is still a Jonny Quest Show.
36	* EatTheCamera: First act of "The Monolith Man."
37	* EpisodeTitleCard: And this time, there's a copyright reference and writer credit. (The episodes from the original series that got this particular card had neither.)
38	* FishPerson: The Reptilian. Despite supposedly being part dinosaur, he resembles a moray eel more than anything. In fact, he could pass as an {{Expy}} of the monster that featured in the 60's series episode "The Sea Haunt".
39	* ForTheEvulz: Seems to be the ''raison d'etre'' for some of the villains.
40	* ForScience: A more benign example would be Dr. Quest himself, who always puts himself and his family in danger to investigate the strange, the odd, and the incredible.
41	* GoneHorriblyWrong: The titular creature in "Creeping Unknown".
42	* HesAFriend: How the Quests sometimes have to introduce Hard Rock.
43	* HeelFaceTurn: Mr. Trudge in "Creeping Unknown". He was really GoodAllAlong and just being ''forced'' to help the plant creature.
44	* TheIgor: Dr. Phorbus' assistant Simon in "Peril of the Reptilian." He's a creepy GigglingVillain and his default stance is standing slightly bent over, grinning evilly while [[FingerTenting steepling his fingers]].
45	* ItCanThink: The plant monster in "Creeping Unknown." Initially it seems as if it's just a mindless walking mass of living squicky plant matter... but then it's revealed it has genius-level intellect, making it one of the Quests' most dangerous enemies in any incarnation of the show. Or at least it would be if it didn't have such a WeaksauceWeakness.
46	* KarmaHoudini: While Deprave's plot to trigger a war to wipe out two countries was thwarted, she and her crony Moog (Who survived his fall from a flight of stairs) escape before they can get any repercussions.
47	* LegoGenetics: "Peril of the Reptilian" uses this trope to explain how its hybrid creatures are made.
48	* LightningGun: In addition to being able to electrocute people by touching them, Dragna's henchmen in "Warlord of the Sky" are also armed with modified rifles that fire electrical bolts.
49	* MadScientist: Once again we've got plenty.
50	* MissingMom: Jonny's and Hadji's moms don't appear.
51	* MixAndMatchCritter: The dinosaurs in "Peril of the Reptilian," most memorably the Tyrannosaurus with Pteranodon wings. The Reptilian himself is said to be part human, part dinosaur, but he isn't as blatant as Phorbus' other creations, looking like your standard anthropomorphic lizard man.
52	* MysticalIndia: Hadji could perform snake charming with his flute, had the fakir style powers of self-levitation and hypnosis.
53	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot:
54	** Zartan's henchman Scorpio in "The Monolith Man". He's an overweight guy with a bandaged, mummy-like face and a mechanical arm that shoots lasers.
55	** The hang-glinding evil pygmies in "Forty Fathoms Into Yesterday".
56	* NonHumanSidekick: Bandit is the Quests' TeamPet dog. He gets Jonny into trouble as often as he gets him out of trouble. Later Hard Rock joins too.
57	%%* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Dr. Benton Quest.
58	* PrehensileTail: The Reptilian in "Peril of the Reptilian" has a ''really'' big, powerful tail which he can use to smash things or grab people.
59	* ProtagonistTitle: The show is named for one of the main characters, Jonny Quest and these are his New Adventures.
60	* ShockAndAwe: Dragna's {{Mooks}} in "Warlord of the Sky." They are infused with static electricity allowing them to electrocute opponents by touch.
61	* SiliconBasedLife: Not quite. Hard Rock, the man of living stone, was an ancient human whose body had been changed by radiation into solid ''carbon.''
62	* SissyVillain: Zartan, insofar as he is extremely vain, overly concerned about his physical appearance, and dresses very flamboyantly.
63	* SkyPirate: Maximilian Dragna in "Warlord of the Sky." He's basically an {{Expy}} of Creator/JulesVerne's Robur, specifically the more explicitly villainous version of him in ''Literature/MasterOfTheWorld''.
64	* StableTimeLoop: The Quest team accidentally takes part in one in "Forty Fathoms Into Yesterday". They end up being a cause for the sinking of the submarine they originally started out to investigate.
65	* TailSlap: Done several times by the Reptilian in "Peril of the Reptilian," most hilariously to a desk lamp.
66	* TeamPet: Bandit regularly provides comic relief, as well as getting the team into trouble (and out again) and going for help.
67	* ThatManIsDead: Race Bannon's old friend test pilot Jud Harmon in "Scourge of Skyborg" was nearly killed in an accident he blames Race for. "Certain foreign powers" rebuild him into an evil cyborg. He renounces his original human name of Harmon and takes the name Skyborg.
68	* TrapDoor: Used by Dr. Zin against his erstwhile ally, the "foreign" (i.e. Soviet) general, in "Deadly Junket."
69	* TwoFaced: Two examples:
70	** Zartan in "The Monolith Man." The right side of his face has been turned to stone due to his experiments with crystals giving off an unknown form of radiation. It's symbolic of how deep down he is cold and hard as stone, a vain man who cares only for himself as he drives his mining crews to dig for more and more of the crystals so he can study them in an effort to undo the damage to his face, despite the danger the unstable crystals pose.
71	** Jud Harmon in "The Scourge of Skyborg." When he's rebuilt into the villain Skyborg, almost the entire left half of his body is robotic, including most of his face, possibly symbolic of how there's still some of Harmon left under all that inhuman metal -- even though he insists ThatManIsDead.
72	* UnderwearOfPower: The Reptilian wears nothing but a pair of black briefs. May double as WalkingSwimsuitScene (certainly a WalkingShirtlessScene).
73	* WeakenedByTheLight: The plant monster in "Creeping Unknown." It's killed using Jonny's [[ChekhovsGun tanning lamp]], which causes it to shrivel up and melt. Simple [[WeaksauceWeakness exposure to ordinary sunshine causes the thing]] to start shriveling up, meaning it can only go out at night or during overcast days.
74	* WinYourFreedom: The pygmy tribe in "Forty Fathoms Into Yesterday" invoke this to have Hadji fight their champion. Hadji wins but the whole thing turns out to have been a distraction to keep the Quest crew in one place for the main villain to capture them.
75	%%* WildWilderness: Any episode from old to new has this trope to a T.
76	%%* YellowPeril: Dr. Zin, as always.

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