Taking place in Kaboom City, the city of the SuperThings, the Kazoom from Professor K.'s lab has been stolen. With the blame squarely placed on Enigma, a shady top hat-wearing character, villains soon start to encroach the city. Once Kid Shine, the newest superhero to be created, is brought into hidden secrets, people thought to be heroes reveal themselves as villains, a so-called villain reveals himself as the biggest hero out there, and the true power of the Kazoom reveals itself.
Later gimmicks of the toyline would supplement themselves into the series, such as introducing a third faction of characters: Super Spies, who hide their true allegiances through shades. However, the biggest gimmick change would come through Series 8, with the Kazoom Kids.
Once ordinary children, the freshly created Neon Blast, an aftermath of Professor K.'s latest failed experiment, decides that he doesn't want to be a hero or a villain. Rather, he wants to have some fun, which equals turning random kids into object-themed heroes and villains, along with Kaboom City's newest forces.
A second Animated Adaptation, this time a CGI TV show, is set to release in late 2024, with two seasons and a movie planned.
The SuperThings webseries contains examples of:
- 6 Is 9: The episode "Oculus Max's Tricks" features a part of the Cyberdome's map in Room 606 of the Grand Hotel of Kaboom City. It turns out the room that Snitchcase and Locke Looker, along with secretly Oculus Max, have been ripping apart to find the piece, is Room 909, with a broken placard. Max is thoroughly embarrassed to learn this fact, as he was just praising how much of a genius he is.
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Enigma uses Kaboom City’s capacious, surprisingly-walkable sewer system as a way to sneak around in “Ron-Ron’s Food”.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: The webseries adapts the origins of some Kazoom Kids and their transformations different in the webseries than their original runs in the comic guides:
- Super Slice gains his abilities on his way to school in the comic, with the pizza slice that causes his transformation in a brown bag packed for breakfast for him. Neon Blast touches the bag that triggers the transformation here as well. In the episode "Neon Blast Creates The Kazoom Kids", this pizza slice is instead from a pizzeria that Super Slice had just exited, zapping the pizza slice directly.
- In the comic, Badnilla's transformation is seen, thanks to Neon Blast lobbing an energy-blasted ice cream cone at his head. In the episode "Neon Blast Creates The Kazoom Kids", Mad Cone, the villain that transformed from this ice cream cone, is already attempting to catch Neon Blast, meaning he was transformed before this.
- In the comic, Kickstar is blasted by the blue Kazoom energy while on the soccer field. In the episode "The New Kazoom Warriors!", he is instead waiting in line for the Kazoom exhibit at the museum.
- Air-Vent Passageway: When infiltrating the Clank Corp building, Enigma hides in an air duct after stealing some plans from Mr. King’s desk.
- All Animals Are Dogs: The episode "V-Rex And H-Rex, Super Dinos In Action" introduces the two titular T-Rexes, one for the heroes and one for the villains. Despite being giant dinosaur steeds, they act more like puppies, licking their owners, playing fetch, and accepting treats.
- American Gothic Couple: The episode "Enigma and the Kabonita Robbery" features an American Gothic parody hanging up in the museum, which the villains use to peek through at the heroes. The farmer is now a shovel, his daughter is now a fern leaf, and there is an added pea pod dog in front of them.
- Ambiguous Gender: Mega K is purposefully not given specific gendered pronouns, leaving their gender up to interpretation for viewers. This was due to the creators wanting a female character, but the executives wanting a male one. Thus, they are made ambiguous, albeit with a higher-pitched voice. Poland is the only country to assign a gender, which chooses male, with the deepest voice.
- Anchovies Are Abhorrent: Mushrulz is disgusted by Captain Salty's preference for anchovies. He reacts negatively when Captain Salty says he prefers anchovies to sweet buns in "A Huge Mess" and is disgusted by his "anchovy cake" creation in "A Very Villainous Present", to the point of praising the emergency alarm.
- Animated Adaptation: The first of two for the brand. Starting as motion comics, it would eventually change into full animation.
- Antagonist Title: A few episodes are named after villains, including “Danger Gang: Demolition Team”, “Kid Fury’s Mission”, and “Oculus Max’s Tricks”.
- Apple of Discord: The episode "Speed Patrol, Masters Of The Road" pits the normally cooperative Speed Patrol against each other in a race. Getting the question posed to them over who's the fastest, this ends up putting them in competition in a race, which could potentially shatter their friendship. To make matters worse, Kid Fury has joined the race as a bargaining chip, if he wins, the locked up villains have to be freed. The members of the Speed Patrol eventually realize how ridiculous their feud is, and aim to win the race together, while making sure Kid Fury loses.
- Applied Phlebotinum: Kazoom, blue glowy lightning-energy stuff used to create the SuperThings. There’s also Krystalline, a variant that creates shiny, crystal-like, (supposedly) more powerful SuperThings.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In “Kazoom Mine”, when the Cyber Squad is Hollywood Hacking the villains’ titular operation, they deactivate the defense cannons, cut their communications… and power off the microwave in the break room.
- Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: In “Danger Gang: Demolition Team”, Steely Clack, upon being informed that a horde of villains is approaching and that he should flee, says that a good Super Hero always stands their ground even if they’re outnumbered, and charges out to fight the villains. Then he sees just how badly they’re outnumbered, and turns around and starts running the other way.
- Battle of the Still Frames: The earlier seasons of Adventures tend to depict superbattles this way due to the extremely Limited Animation.
- Beach Episode:
- The episode "Beachy Crisis" focuses on a day at the beach ruined for the citizens thanks to Mr. King using the help of Wacky Dust to steal all the sand from the beach for his personal giant sandcastle lair.
- The episode "Badnilla Freezes The City!" focuses on Badnilla freezing the town to ruin the beach day of the heroes.
- The episode "Fury Storm Stealing Summer" focuses on Fury Storm and the other villains hatching a plan to block out the sun during summer to ruin the heroes' time at the water park.
- The episode "Funfire Against The Water Park" focuses on Funfire attempting to boil the water of the water park due to his vendetta against it, with Watermax using his own water abilities to stop him.
- Behind a Stick: In “Kid Kazoom’s Training”, Kid Kazoom is shown not paying attention to a tutorial video where Enigma explains how to do this.Enigma: How to hide behind a very thin tree? It’s not an easy task because the tree blah blah blah blah…
- Beta Test Baddie: Kid Fury has it drilled into him that he's better and stronger than Kid Kazoom. He believes people only like Kid Kazoom because he's strong, and doesn't get why they still like him when he's overpowered.
- The Big Race:
- The episode "The Great SuperFlyer Race" focuses on a race between the heroes and villains, using the new SuperFlyer jetpacks. Kid Fury crashes the race for his own enjoyment.
- The episode "Speed Patrol, Masters Of The Road" ends up pitting the members of the Speed Patrol, normally a cooperative team, against each other in a race to prove who's the fastest. Kid Fury once again crashes the race to add a higher stake to the race.
- Birthday Episode:
- The episode "Enigma And The Powerband" takes place on Professor K's birthday. Throughout the episode, he's convinced that the Villain Fair trap that Enigma created is a party in celebration for him, putting a wrench in Enigma's plans to capture the villains.
- The episode "Piñata Party" is on Smash Crash's birthday. Taking the celebration to the streets, he blocks the town with chaos, causing Starberry and Sugarfun to rap battle against him and Badnilla to get him to stop his party.
- The episode "Birthday Boy’s Birthday" focuses on Birthday Boy's birthday. With the streets blocked by Fryzer's attack, Birthday Boy needs to figure out a plan to pick up his birthday cake within the time frame.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Captain Salty, being a living salt shaker, prefers his food salty over sweet. This wouldn't be such an issue if he wasn't sharing such delicacies as anchovy cake.
- Bowdlerise: The American channel of the webseries, due to still being in the era that used the word, modifies the Series 2 episodes to remove the usage of "damn", replacing it with various groans or cutting scenes that use it.
- Breakout Character: Clowny. Originally created simply for the webseries, he would end up a fan favorite and pushed into far more into the series. He would get far more episodes, become a major role in the German audio plays, get appearances in the educational books, and eventually be ported into the toyline with a new color scheme.
- "Brave the Ride" Plot: As part of the heroes vs. villains competition in "The Superpower Fair", a couple of the challenges are braving scary rides. The first case is Power Punch vs. Guitariffic on the "Elevator Kazoom" ride. Power Punch starts out confident while Guitariffic is terrified at first, but by the end of the rides their personalities about the ride have swapped. The second challenge instance is Burgerblast vs. Glazer on a looping roller coaster, with Glazer only able to brave the ride by cheating via sticking himself to his seat with his icing abilities.
- Broken Pedestal: The superhero Grafon to Mr. King. As a child, Mr. King idolized Grafon, the original superhero of Kaboom Town. However, overhearing Grafon blithely allowing Mikron to have his way with the oil wells, as the new Kazoom energy was found, thus leaving oil obsolete, thus breaking Mr. King's trust in superheroes. Getting caught in the resulting explosion from the battle and injuring himself to the point of needing an artificial arm completely severs his trust in superheroes, starting him on his quest to create supervillains and rule the city.
- Butt-Monkey: Professor K is a mild version- his life doesn’t suck per se, but man does he suffer more Amusing Injuries than you’d think a piece of fragile glassware would be able to take.
- Camera Abuse: One of the Battles shorts ends with Pow Power slamming headfirst into the camera, cracking it.
- Camera Spoofing: In “The Great Escape”, Chuck Chain performs the photograph version… with a drawing. And not even a particularly good one. Somehow, it works.
- Career-Ending Injury: Grafon, Kaboom’s first superhero, is forced to hang up his cape after an explosion leaves him (nearly) deafened.
- Career Not Taken: The episode “Basketball Match" reveals that Clowny, coach of the Hero Dunks basketball team, had grown up wanting to be a mime instead. Further context clues for him prove how much this path was the one he wanted to take: his casual wear is of mime clothing and makeup and, once he was ported to the toyline, his superhero ability gave him the ability to make anything he wanted, albeit invisible.
- Catch and Return: In “TV-Tron Vs. Zapper”, Zapper is able to do this to Tv-Tron’s ball lightning attack by first freezing it in place with his “Pause” button.
- Childhood Friends:
- Mr. King and Professor K. have been friends since school days, as revealed in a flashback episode. Professor K. was also the one to give Ron Ron to Mr. King as a get well soon gift.
- Clowny and Enigma. The two of them were best friends in their childhood, often playing basketball together. They would somewhat grow apart when they grew up, but reconnected later in life for the creation of Kid Kazoom.
- Chainsaw Good: Metal Lord, the leader of the Danger Gang, is a living chainsaw with a large amount of destructive potential. However, since this is a kids’ show, his attacks never manage to connect.
- Chameleon Camouflage: Tag Black is able to blend into walls, apparently by covering himself in paint as an application of his Art Attacker powers.
- Childish Older Sibling: Moonarchaos is a screechy voiced chaos-loving villain, willing to turn the town upside down for his own fun. This is in contrast to his younger brother Emperorder, who is far more mature, represents order, and is on the side of the heroes.
- Christmas Episode: A few Christmas-themed episodes have popped up for the series, all featuring appearances from SantaThing. Surprisingly, most of these episodes end up as surprisingly important in the long run.
- The episode "SantaZing Arrives" features the villains kidnapping SantaThing and his sled in a misguided attempt to cheer up Sponge Rock.
- The episode "Villain Christmas" features the leaderless villains attempting to do enough good to receive at least something for Christmas. It also turns out that Professor K.'s thought to be destroyed invention lived on, giving the first reveal of Kid Fury.
- The episode "Bath Force Saves Christmas" features SantaThing recruiting Bath Force to use his water abilities to help unmask the Super Spies and figure out which ones are heroes and which ones are villains, thus closing out that plot point right for the end of the season.
- Company Cross References: The episode "A Burger Blast" has a T-Racers episode playing at the beginning of the episode, a fellow toyline from Magicbox. The clip is very cut-apart, with only a small sliver visible, but enough that it's notable.
- Create Your Own Villain: Grafon, the original superhero, is technically responsible for Mr. King's rise in power. By not taking Mikron's threat of destroying the oil wells seriously, due to the new founding of Kazoom energy, he severs Mr. King's trust in his idol. Getting the child caught in the ensuing explosion and causing him to lose his arm drives him to become a villain and take over the city.
- Creepy High-Pitched Voice:
- One of Professor K.'s recurring traits is his very squeaky voice, giving him a contrast between Mr. King's deep and serious voice. He appears to be a bit-self conscious about people calling his voice squeaky, lashing out in anger.
- Moonarchaos has a shrill high-pitched voice, in contrast to his younger brother, the deeper-voiced heroic Emperorder.
- Cucumber Facial: In “The Great Spying Mission”, Professor K. interrupts Mr. King getting one with news of his latest plan.
- Cyclops: Mikron has one Black Eye Of Evil in the middle of his forehead.
- Dismantled MacGuffin: The "Secret Spies" series of the webseries features a map that leads to the Pow Alloy, one of the hardest elements in Kaboom City. The map is divided into six pieces, with the heroes and the villains each gaining half of the map, with each map piece giving a clue to the next one. Putting together the map instead reveals that it's the location of the Cyberdome, Doctor Volt's laboratory. Using a clue to get the help of the heroic Spies, Doctor Volt made sure the heroes were the ones to find it.
- Disney Death: Enigma appears to be vaporized by Mr. King's Kazoom Cannon in "The Final Battle". He would disappear for a while from the series, thought dead by both the heroes and villains, but would return in "Kid Kazoom vs. Kid Fury", a whole season later, having spent the time slowly recovering.
- Donut Mess with a Cop: In the case of a majority of the police force, the non-toy originating characters are donuts. This doesn't stop them from eating donuts either, though.
- Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: Oculus Max. He's a villain that has an alternate form that makes him look like a hero. As such, he has duped the heroes into thinking he's with them, while he's actually on the villains' side...and even that isn't solid. He has plans of double-crossing the villains as well for his own motives.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: The first design of Enigma, as seen in the "SuperZings Battles" series of shorts, is very different than his eventually solidified design. Instead of having a defined body and head, he is fully cylindrical. He also lacks a necktie, one of his trademark outfit accessories.
- Ear Trumpet: Grafon, having gone deaf from his final battle, along with being a living phonograph, currently uses his phonograph horn as an ear horn.
- Emergency Transformation: One of the reasons Kid Shine was chosen to become Kid Kazoom was because he was in a life-threatening accident in the episode "The Kazoom Mine". While investigating villains taking control of the mines, he ends up falling down the entirety of the mineshaft, causing him to seriously injure himself and lose his superpowers. With the help of Enigma and the stolen Kazoom, he's instead reborn as Kid Kazoom, gaining new superpowers and becoming the biggest hero to the city.
- Empty Swimming Pool Dive:
- In “Pool Party”, Supersketch is subjected to one courtesy of Sponge Rock absorbing all the water in the pool.
- In "Funfire Against the Water Park", Fireout ends up jumping into an emptied swimming pool thanks to Funfire evaporating the water.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas:
- Oculus Max has a picture of a younger him with his mom hung up in his office, one of the few positive traits he shows.
- Of the two Puzzle Brothers, Puzz Left, the villain of the two, has the best relationship with their parents, being in frequent contact with them. The episode "When The Pieces Fit Together" has him criticize Pierce Right, his heroic brother, over not calling them enough.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- The episode "Assault at Kaboom City Bank" has Gold Hands, recurring bank robber, still respecting the rules of the zebra crossing, something that Agent Silverstar praises him for.
- The episode "Fixing the Planet!" has Glazer and Power Punch acting with the heroes, aghast at Gameglitch's latest scheme. Thanks to recklessly causing the city to glitch out switched around the recycling bins, mixing up the trash. The two of them point out that they live on this planet too, so they should all be doing their part in keeping it clean.
- The episode "The Rescue Force against V-Rex!" has Moonarchaos, embodiment of villainous chaos, wholly weirded out and stunned into confusion by Professor K.'s reasoning for destroying the bakery: just wanting the cake they quit selling. The confusion takes the wind out of him, causing him to teleport the villains away from the action.
- Eye Colour Change:
- Professor K.'s eyes change from white to yellow after consuming the new villainous yellow essence.
- Mr. King's eyes from white to red in his childhood after the incident that changes his life for the worse.
- Eye-Obscuring Hat: Enigma as a child, instead of his top hat, wore a hoodie that covered his eyes. When he brings it back in his adulthood for a disguise, he adds eyeholes to it.
- Face–Monster Turn: The titular machine in the episode "The Ultimate Machine" was created with the goal in mind of villainizing the entire city, turning heroes into villains to work on Mr. King's side. The destruction of the machine before it was able to finish charging up energy instead creates Neon Blast.
- Fast as Lightning: Ace’s Super-Speed is represented by him being surrounded with electricity effects.
- Fictional Video Game: In “Kid Kazoom’s Training”, he’s shown playing “Monster Attack”. From what the audience gets to see of it, it seems to be a medieval-themed Fighting Game where the player can choose between a sword, axe, or shield hero to fight various foes (the only one of which seen is a Chest Monster).
- Flaming Hair:
- Flamespark is a lighter whose flames act as hair, at least when he’s not literally blowing his top. Somehow, in “The Race Of The Century”, his flames can even remain lit in the rain.
- Wildfyre is a living torch, so his face is on fire. Despite this, he calls it his "hair", and doesn't appreciate it being put out.
- Funfire, being a Kazoom Kid merged with a birthday candle, constantly has his hair on fire. Many times in the show, it gets put out in some form, revealing his wick on top of his head.
- Flying Broomstick: Parodied. Walpurgis is a witch on the side of the villains and is the broomstick in her case.
- Food Interrogation: Tomaterror quickly loses all sense of secrecy in "Halloween Under the Terror of Zombies" and spills the villains' plans as soon as X-Paghetti offers him a slice of Halloween cake.
- Forgot I Couldn't Swim: At the end of “The Great Escape”, Chuck Chain tries to swim to freedom, remembering too late that he’s too heavy to float. Fortunately, Captain Justice shows up to rescue (and recapture) him.
- For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: In the episode "Basketball Match", the disguise that Enigma wears to go to the basketball game is a modified version of his outfit he used to wear as a kid, only with added eyeholes. This means he's still wearing his trademark colors and question marks on his person. This also lets Clowny realize who he is during the game.
- Freudian Excuse: Mr. King was once an optimistic child that was hoping to become a superhero like his idols. However, when he learned that his family’s energy source, being living oil drums, was set to become obsolete, he lost faith in heroics. Getting injured in the process of learning this fact does little to help him, giving him his mechanical arm, red eyes, and plans to wipe out the superheroes.
- Funetik Aksent: Professor K. as a child pronounced his S's as Z's, as seen in the comic text. His accent would become more naturalized when he grew older, dropping this trait.
- Go-Karting with Bowser: The Kazoom Kids, along with their respective SuperThing partners, are far more casual with their nemeses, good or evil. This equals the kids spending time at the fair together, performing concerts together, and even going to the heroes' base to watch movies. The heroes will still try and stop the villains during their serious threats to the city, but they're easily able to find common ground. As an addition, once a Kazoom Kid has their series pass, their SuperThing partners are more likely to be treated as random background citizens over threats to the city.
- Good Prosthetic, Evil Prosthetic: Mr. King’s robotic arm, which is bulky, visibly unnatural, and was acquired in his Start of Darkness, is definitely an evil prosthetic.
- Grandma's Recipe: The cake that Captain Salty makes in "A Very Villainous Present" is a recipe from his grandmother. Unfortunately, to the disgust of the others, it's a recipe for an anchovy cake.
- Greasy Spoon: The episode "The Great Spying Mission" introduces a retro-style diner in Kaboom City. The waitress is a bubble gum-chewing jukebox, and the special is fried eggs and fried chicken (which disgusts Kid Kazoom thanks to being recently attacked by the Bone Crunchers, a supervillain team that have their object time as those exact two objects).
- Halloween Episode: A few episodes are specifically Halloween-themed for their plots:
- The episode simply titled "Halloween" features Pumpking gathering a team of villains to steal all the candy the night before Halloween, accidentally putting his rival Candy Strike into the fray.
- The episode "Zombies Night" features Kid Kazoom against a zombified horde of citizens, while also focusing on his growing anxiety over his lack of control over his new powers.
- The episode "Halloween Under the Terror of Zombies" features a variety of villains terrorizing the city under the scheme of zombies attacking.
- The episode "Trick or Treat Battle!" pits Sugarfun and Smash Crash and their respective teams against each other in an attempt to collect the most candy.
- Hard Light: Kid Kazoom, being made of pure blue Kazoom energy, is able to manipulate the power of Kazoom into various shapes, including a cage to trap enemies in.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Enigma, originally. Being privy to the true nature of Clank Corp. due to originally being Professor K.'s assistant, he had to be sneaky to make his plan work out, which lead to him looking like the villain in the eyes of Kaboom City, thanks to stealing the creation chamber for the good of the city. He would eventually be hailed a true hero, which sticks for the remainder of the series. Even his best friend and former roommate, Clowny, wasn't even privy to his secret heroics at first.
- Holiday Episode: The series has a couple episodes themed around Carnival:
- The episode "Carnival In Kaboom City" has a group of villains taking advantage of the costumes the citizens are wearing to blend in and sneak trackers into the heroes' headquarters.
- The episode "Giant Balloons Carnival" features Toxfung infiltrating a parade with toxic spore-filled balloons, while Mushrulz strives to prove himself as a newer member of the heroes.
- Horrifying the Horror: The episode "Halloween" has the sudden appearance of Grafon, at this point thought to be a ghost haunting his thought-to-be-abandoned mansion, reacting to the villains using his mansion as their base of operations due to all the noise they're making. This sudden appearance terrifies them, including the plan's leader Pumpking, who has the ability of creating paralyzing fears.
- How Do I Shot Web?: Kid Kazoom, due to being gifted with a new body and some of the strongest abilities of all the SuperThings, takes a long while to adapt to his powers and master them. This would prove the same for Kazoom Power, his Kazoom Kid double.
- Inconvenient Summons: Moonarchaos has the ability to teleport villains to his position when needed. The episode "The Rescue Force Against V-Rex!" features him pulling the villain Kazoom Kids into the fray while they were in the middle of doing other things: Cashillion in the middle of showering, Breakmania while playing a video game, and Funfire while reading a book.
- Institutional Apparel: Villains locked up on Prison Island often end up with yellow-and-black striped shirts put on them for their apparel. Ron Ron, due to being a dog, ends up with just a pillbox hat in the colors instead. Chuck Chain, being a regular prisoner, wears the pillbox hat and his prison number as his regular apparel.
- "King Kong" Climb: The episode "Glazer's Sweet Battle" sees a turned-giant Glazer angrily swiping at the heroes on their jets while having climbed to the top of a skyscraper.
- Laborious Laziness: The episode "Trasher Litters The City!" has Trasher, being told by Badnilla to clean his room to the point that "it's the cleanest place in Kaboom City", decide that flooding the city with his garbage slime would be a far easier thing to do, getting away with a loophole. Fred Fetid points out to the audience that this is probably more effort than just cleaning his room.
- Living Crashpad: Professor K ends up serving as this to Nailord after Pincy Clack’s attempt to pull the latter out of the ground sends him flying. Fortunately for the Prof, Nailord doesn’t land point-down.
- Lured into a Trap: "Enigma and the Powerband" focuses on Enigma creating a fake carnival for the villains to lure them into a trap, with the goal of capturing Mr. King. Throughout the episode, Professor K thinks it's a celebration thrown for him by Mr. King, as its his birthday that day. The villains manage to be captured after some hasty changes of plans, but Mr. King is nowhere to be found: he was back at base angry that Professor K didn't show up to the party he had thrown for him.
- Mad Libs Catch Phrase: Mega K's catchphrase entails them adding "Mega-" to the front of a different word depending on the situation.
- Magical Security Camera: In “Secret Machine”, the villains end up ripping a security camera off the wall and taking it with them for… complicated reasons. The camera can somehow still transmit its feed to the heroes’ HQ because it’s funny.Ironhead: Those…! They’ve stolen our security camera!
- Magic Versus Science: Enigma vs. Professor K. Once Professor K.'s young assistant, in the episode "When Enigma Discovered The Secret Of Professor K", Enigma managed to seriously tick off the professor for daring to compare the creation of SuperThings to magic, something he likes. While Professor K.'s hatred of magic would live on, Enigma would instead adapt, combining his magic skills with science.
- Me's a Crowd: In “The Picnic”, Dr. Chomper figures out how to make ordinary flowers grow into duplicates of himself. Splatterman defeats them fairly easily by tricking them into fighting each other over which duplicate is in charge.
- Merchandising the Monster: In the Kazoom Kid era of the franchise, various SuperThings have been turned into purchasable plush to be won as carnival prizes. This includes the villains, all the way up to Professor K. and Mr. King.
- Mistaken for Undead: Grafon, due to the circumstances of his disappearance, is thought to be dead, with his ghost haunting his mansion. In reality, he survived the attack, something that the villains don't realize as they use his mansion as the base for their Halloween thievery plans. Only a mistakenly kidnapped Candy Strike stays long enough to learn the truth.
- Mister Muffykins: Ron Ron. He's Mr. King's tiny pet bone dog, and one of the few things he actively cares for in life. He's spoiled rotten, to the point that some tasks Mr. King would give superheroes back when they thought he was good was taking care of Ron Ron. He even was given his own birthday party.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: The animals of Kaboom City are also mixed with inanimate objects. Dogs come in a large variety of objects, though Ron Ron, mixed with a bone, is the most recurring one. This concept would later move onto the toyline.
- MockGuffin: The machine whose plans the villains stole in “The Secret Machine” turns out to be a high-tech pizza maker.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Professor K. had an opportunity to kill off Enigma when he was a child for learning the truth about Clank Corp. and the villains. When Enigma escaped, instead of going after him, Mr. King instead dismissed the situation, believing no one would believe "a simple sidekick". Turns out, that "simple sidekick" would become one of Kaboom City's biggest heroes, also becoming the key to the creation of the villains' defeat.
- Non-Nude Bathing:
- Dogfurt still wears his gloves, boots, mask, and the pair of disguise glasses hiding his identity while he goes skinny dipping in the heroes' pool in "The Pool Party". He's still treated as being indecent by Action Bread.
- In the "News Zings Today" episode "Alarm! Poisoned Water!", a big deal in the news is made that Count Garlik went without a bathing suit while swimming in the water reservoir to tamper with the water supply. As seen in the news report, he has no cape, boots, or cravat on him (along with holding the bathing suit that he refused to put on), but still wears his mask and gloves.
- In the "Black Ice Team" special episode, Kone San is seen showering before getting hit by one of the Black Ice Team's snowballs. He's still wearing his goggles and gloves during this scene.
- In the episode "The Spinners Competition", Punch King, as part of his Spinner training, has to stay on his Spinner throughout his daily tasks. This includes showering, which he wears his full uniform in.
- In the episode "The Rescue Force Against V-Rex!", Cashillion is summoned in the middle of a battle while showering. He's still in full armor and uniform while do, minus his cape.
- Not Worth Killing: Mr. King decides that Enigma getting away, when he was mere moments from death at the hands of his then-mentor Professor K., was nothing to worry about. Believing young Enigma to just be a "simple sidekick" that no one would listen to, he felt that his evil plans would go through without a hitch. Unfortunately for the villains, that "simple sidekick" would grow into the leader of the superheroes.
- Old Superhero: Grafon was Kaboom’s first superhero (when he was in his prime, Kaboom City was just Kaboom Town), and is now long-retired.
- Pajama-Clad Hero: The episode "Halloween" shows why this can be a disadvantage. Candy Strike, having been accidentally kidnapped while asleep along with the town's Halloween candy, finds himself cornered against a group of villains in his pajamas, without his weapon and wholly unprepared to defend himself. If not for the sudden appearance of Grafon scaring the villains off, he would have been in big trouble.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Villains disguising themselves will always go the "sunglasses and fake beard route" of disguise. The sunglasses at least hide their yellow eyes, but the beards are a touch more obvious, due to the lack of hair most citizens have.
- Peace & Love Incorporated: Clank Corp. To the public, they're the company that makes superheroes. However, behind closed doors, they're run by Mr. King, who has the goal of conquering Kaboom City for his own wants, along with introducing supervillains into the city.
- Professor Guinea Pig: Professor K has the tendency to drink his own chemical creations, powering himself up. He has drank Krystalline, yellow villain essence, and a separate potion that causes him to turn into a giant version of himself.
- Prone to Tears: Once he ends up in the true action of the fight, Kid Kazoom finds himself crying more and more often. This is a combination of low self esteem, brand new powers, and the fear he has over the fact that everyone is depending on him.
- A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Inverted. Enigma was original Professor K.'s young assistant. Once he learned the truth of Clank Corp.'s motives, he quickly abandoned the cause. He eventually would fall into the stead of Colorflash, honing his magic skills further.
- Rambling Old Man Monologue: At the end of “Halloween”, Grafon subjects Candy Strike to one, which is apparently so boring that the latter starts crying out for someone to save him from it.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: The robots that Doctor Volt invented are practically Kaboom-created SuperThings in themselves. Helix High, being one of the main characters of the Power Machines season, shows this the most. He's show receptive to eating cake in "A Very Villainous Present" (until he learns it's anchovy cake) and is able to smell bad odors in "Crazy Races".
- Right-Hand Cat: Or dog, rather. Ron Ron is constantly curled up with Mr. King, acting as his companion through his villainous schemes. It's to the point that Mr. King considers Ron Ron the second-best villain of Clank Corp., much to the chagrin of Professor K. and Oculus Max.
- Rocket Jump: Kid Kazoom can propel himself into the air by aiming one of his energy blasts at the ground.
- Santa Claus: The Kaboom City variant of Santa Claus is SantaThing (previously SantaZing before the series name change). Like Enigma, his object representative is unknown (though some characters in the show have debated on if he's a hat SuperThing or a beard one). He follows the standard Santa Claus model in design, minus his hat also acting like a mask for the brim of it. Instead of reindeer, he flies a rocket-powered sled. He is willing to give the villains gifts, but far smaller gifts than the heroes.
- "The Scream" Parody: The episode "The Power of Colorflash" has Pop painted into a parody of The Scream painting after being splattered with Freestyle's new Neon Blast abilities. Pop takes the place of the screaming person, with a silhouetted version of Enigma's Kazoom Kid form taking the place of the background characters.
- Sherlock Can Read: In "A Huge Mess", Doctor Volt sends out an alert to the heroes that Power Gopher has grown giant and is stealing from all the sweet shops in the town. When asked on how he knows this, Doctor Volt tries to spin a tale that they have a high-tech tracking device throughout the city, though Mech Fixer demands he tells the truth: they just saw it out the window.
- She's a Man in Japan: Mega K is made purposefully ambiguous in gender presentation throughout every version of the series, minus the Polish version. In that iteration, the character is made masculine, with a far deeper and unambiguous voice.
- Shout-Out:
- The episode "Zombies Night" features advertisements for Ham-Ilton, Zingked, and an unnamed parody of Tangled.
- Kid Kazoom's comic book collection in the episode "Kid Kazoom's Training" includes Lonchadelo Y Filetón, The Lake Zing, and The Amazing Zing.
- Sinister Sweet Tooth: The dessert-based villainous Kazoom Kids have been shown specifically with a taste for the food that represents them. Badnilla's rivalry with Super Slice comes from the fact that people prefer delivered pizza over delivered ice cream, and Glazer is able to use sugar that he's eaten to power himself up stronger.
- Skinny Dipping:
- A disguised Dogfurt rips off his bun to go swimming in the episode "The Pool Party", much to Action Bread's shock and disgust.
- The way the Double Acids contaminate the water source of Kaboom City in the "New Zings Today" episode "Alarm! Poisoned Water!" is by having Count Garlik swim in the water plant's source water...without his swim trunks on. He actually brought his swim trunks to the occasion, but didn't bother to wear them. Luckily for the city, this was the source water for Prison Island, not the main city.
- Smell Phone: In "Crazy Races", Mushrulz gets hit by one of Toxfung's spore attacks, leaving him stinking. Thanks to Mech Fixer setting up the control panel to alert Doctor Volt on everything going on, he can smell it through the screen.
- Southern-Fried Genius: While he lacks the accent, Old Joe otherwise fits this archetype quite well- he lives in the countryside far from Kaboom City, looks like a generic aging farmer… oh yeah, and he’s one of the best inventors in the world.
- Spin Attack: Lord Twister, a screw, can do one. For some reason, he calls it his:Lord Twister: Atomic Turn!
- Stealth Hi/Bye: One of Enigma's specialties is the ability to suddenly disappear from a conversation without the other party realizing. Clowny has grown used to him doing it, to the level of mild annoyance.
- Stolen Credit Backfire: In "The Powerbots Battle", Mech Fixer brings up that Skrewikz was constantly taking his credit on construction and repairs to suck up to Doctor Volt, to make him seem like the better assistant. During the Powerbots battle, this ends up sealing Skrewikz's defeat, since Mech Fixer is the better inventor of the two, and Skrewikz's mech has serious design flaws.
- Tally Marks on the Prison Wall: After the villains have been imprisoned at the end of “The Final Battle”, Professor K is shown scratching tally marks onto the wall of his cell.
- This Billboard Needs Some Salt: In the episode "Glazer's Sweet Battle", a sugar-crazed and gigantic Glazer, after emptying the entire contents of the bakery into his mouth, proceeds to eat the donut sign on the front of the store.
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: The episode "Bath Force Saves Christmas", has the titular hero as the only one that can help SantaThing save Christmas, due to his water abilities being the only thing that can negate the Spies' morality-hiding sunglasses, which have caused chaos for the Naughty and Nice lists.
- Trojan Horse:
- In “Ron-Ron’s Birthday”, the heroes’ Monster Roller is wrapped up and given as a present… with the heroes inside.
- In "A Very Villainous Present", the villains leave a giant metal horse out in the middle of the town, with preparations for the ones hiding inside to escape at night and villainize the town. Unfortunately for them, the plan fails due to one of the members being Dark Spicy, with another being Caulipower, who brings up how this plan doesn't require him to shower.
- Turned Against Their Masters: During the start of the "Power Machines" season, a few of Doctor Volt's robot creations have gone villainous, joining Mr. King's side in the chaos.
- Versus Title: Titles like these show up a few times in the series.
- All of the Super Zings Battles shorts are titled “[Hero] vs. [Their Rival Villain]”, with the exception of “The Mysterious Robbery Of The Kazoom”.
- The third season of Adventures has “Kid Kazoom vs. Kid Fury”.
- Rescue Force ends with “The Rescue Force Against V-Rex!”
- “Wild Eagle Vs. Wild Scorpion” in Mutant Battle.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Mr. King, Professor K., and the Clank Corp. company, were originally seen as shining beacons in society, because they were the company behind Kaboom City's superheroes. Of course, the public at the time didn't realize at the time they had plans to introduce supervillains to the city. They would eventually be unmasked as true villains and remain this way through the series.
- Voice Changeling: The episode "Enigma and the Power Band" introduces the titular invention. With the invention, Enigma can make his voice mimic Mr. King's, Professor K's, or Kid Kazooms. He uses the function of the Mr. King voice to trip up Oculus Max and help expose his secrets to both the heroes and the villains.
- Water Source Tampering: The first news blip of the "News Zings Today" episode "Alarm! Poisoned Water!" involves breaking news of a contamination attack of the water source of Kaboom City, courtesy of the Double Acids. Luckily for the city, and unluckily for the two of them and the villains, they contaminated the line that goes to Prison Island.
- Web First: Some of the motion comics would eventually be ported into the starter guides and magazines, becoming full comic strips instead.
- Wimp Fight: Due to them both being scientists that focus on their smarts over their fighting skills, the climatic battle between Professor K. and Doctor Volt in the episode "The Ultimate Machine" quickly devolves into the two of them flailing their arms at each other in a futile attempt to slap the other.
- Wingding Eyes: Mushrulz has a tendency to go literally starry-eyed over things that excite him. They match the stars on his boxing gloves.
- Win Your Freedom: In “The Race Of The Century”, Mr. King allows four captured heroes to participate in a car race against four of his minions, with the promise that if the heroes win they’ll be freed. The heroes do, in fact, win, but Mr. King reneges on his promise under the excuse that the heroes cheated (which they did technically do, although the villain racers cheated first and much more egregiously).
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Like the toyline it is based on, villains in the series have yellow sclera, thanks to being made with villainous yellow essence.
- You Owe Me: In the episode "Basketball Match", Enigma helps the Hero Dunks win the final match of the season to gain a favor from Clowny at a future time. Turns out, this favor is helping train the newly-formed Kid Kazoom.
