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Noirescent

Noirescent was a cult-classic American animated television show that ran from 1977 to 1984, created by animator Samuel Munroe.

This TV series provides examples of:

Ring Ring Crunch: Happened a lot during the first Tidus arc. Inspektor Krum was not pleased.

Egomaniac Hunter: Jacques is a perfect example of this. His friends are implied to be even worse.

Wham Episode: 'Fractures', the last episode of the second season certainly qualifies, utterly different from the normally lighthearted tone of the series. It got a Love It Or Hate It response from the fans, and marked the direction the series would be taking from there on.

Beard of Evil: As of the third season on, Lord Karloff's facial hair was a prime example of this.

Bald of Evil: See above

Live Action Adaption: It was notoriously...polarizing due to certain reasons.

Lawful Evil: Lord Karloff


Playful Hacker: Milo's pastime, before

Dark and Troubled past: Leonardo would never talk about it, and it was a running joke in till it was revealed in the end of the second season that:

Took a level in Badass: Leonardo after the second season.

• Also Inspektor Krum in season 4 after
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   Selina is killed

The Dragon: Lord Karloff has one in Terror Jack, who also has his own group of underlings, Karl and Fran.

• Dragon in Chief: He plays a much larger role in the later seasons, eventually
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  killing his former master.
• After the episode "Remembrance", Karl and Fran are also upgraded to a legitamate threat.

Berserk Button: Do NOT talk about Milo's size.

Badass Beard: Inspektor Krum

Inspector Lestrade: Inspektor Krum


Mood Swinger: Leonardo experinces these very offen due to his emotional trama from his dark past.

Disabled Means Helpless: Averted. Dispite the fact that Leonardo is metally and emotionally "unstable", he can still kick your ass with ease.

It Makes Sense In Context: The episode "Whore Mountain" from season 5. Quadruple amputee police officers riding in Humungous Mecha chasing Inspektor Krum and Leonardo through a maze of sawblades. And it only gets more abstract towards the end of the episode.

Dying Declaration of Love:
Broken Base: A fairly nasty one resulted from the events of Fractures. Appropriate, if you think about it.

Crazy Awesome Mr. Gilner, a character who only appeared in one filler episode in the first season who destroyed a tank using only a potato and some wire-cutters

Le Parkour: Leonardo knows this. And he uses it, a lot. Its almost like he has to use it for almost every action scene.

I Surrender Suckers: Terror Jack used this to avoid capture at the end of "Paranoia"

To Catch Heroes Hire Villains:
Clear my Name: The plot in a nutshell.

Really Seventeen Years Old: Leonardo is really 17 years old. Hes just constantly disguised as a 21 year old, so he can get by border controls, with Krum saying hes his Uncle.

Trickster Mentor: Krum to Leonardo. Krum is teaching him how stay hidden, and blend, because he, ironically, used to be criminal. He switched over the police side after he was set free.

City Noir: The setting for most of the series. That all changed during season 5.

Space Opera: The WTF-inducing second half of season 5.

What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs: The latter half of season 5 took an extremely odd turn when... uh... aliens got involved. It makes just as much sense in context. While the "alien arc" outraged fans and radically altered the tone of the series at the time, it had a surprisingly good influence on the series in the long run in the form of the light sci-fi elements that occasionally showed up in later seasons after the tone returned to normal.

Scotireland: In the 10th episode of season one (one of the few in which we see Inspektor Krum doing his job), Inspektor Krum and Leonardo take a trip to the northern half of the UK, and are bombarded by scentences like "Top o' the mornin' to ye!" and "Faith and begorrah!" from a troop of kilt-wearing, whisky-swilling redheads who claim to be Scottish.

New Powers As The Plot Demands: The fifth season gave Jack darkness-based powers, but they dissappeared after the season ended.

Fight Off The Kryptonite: Combined with Cross-Melting Aura when Jack blotted out a gigantic laser weapon.

The Lancer: Milo is a partial example.

Gasmask Mooks: Played straight with Terror Jack's bodyguards. Subverted with the Undercity Rescue Service, who Leonardo encounters in Season Four's 'Paranoia'.

No Holds Barred Beatdown: Jacques is stupid enough to try to take Karl's guns from him in Season Three's 'Flickering Candle'. You can't help but to feel a bit sorry for him. The scene foreshadows Karl's descent into full-on Complete Monster territory later on.

Large Ham: Lord Karloff's monologues usually fall to this category, especially in the early seasons.

A Day In The Limelight: A touching one for Milena in 'Smiley Faces', right
Spikes Of Villainy: During the much-hated Space Opera arc of season 5, Terror Jack's customary dress menaced with them.

Canon Discontinuity: A lot of Season 5, though the lighter scifi elements were kept in.

Guns Akimbo: Leonardo's weapon of choice is dual SMG's.

Final Battle:
Anyone can Die:
Uncanceled: A strange situation. When the show finished in 1984, it had gained such a high approval rating. So, in around 2010, the show was re-aired. It had some changes, but most of it was the same. It still had a high approval too.

Writer Revolt: Due to trouble being caused by a vocal minority of the fanbase. The writers apparently got sick of it and the show took a bizarre turn in the latter part of season 5, suddenly becoming a space opera. And then they dressed one of the main (male) villains in a dress. Yeah.

Vocal Minority There is a portion of the fanbase who complained everytime the show attempted to deviate away from the original genre and premise, and whenever it did something they considered too silly.
Welcome Titles: An unusually elaborate one. New viewers often comment on its similarity to another show's opening titles.

Cobweb Jungle: Many parts of Lord Karloff's dungeon, which seems to suggest that he never uses it. We later find out that he does use it, but he has a swarm of mutant spiders down there that quickly replace broken webs.

Cool Airship: Karloff's "Bloodprice" is what final season's plot revolves around (Appropriate name, knowing the final season). Its best discribed as a huge, bulky, air-born castle/Aircraft Carrier hybrid.  And the dark, depressing feeling coming from it does not help.

Time Master: Tidus, Lord of Rakat, posessed control of time, such that he could reset time to any point in the last 30 days, leaving those who experienced the reset with a vague sense of déjà vu, which accumulates as time is looped. This resulted in the first five episodes of season 6 having the same opening scene.

Inspector Javert: Detective Zoe, who pursues the heroes throughout the third and fourth seasons. Even a tank brigade can't stop her!

Sinister Surveillance: Lord Karloff is revealed to possess a city-wide surveillance network and thorough infiltration of the city administration early in Season 2. After a few episodes, though, it is promptly forgotten about.


Not So Harmless: While all the primary antagonists become more powerful as the series progresses, of exceptional note are Karl and Fran, who went from a pair of bumbling, ineffective henchmen to a scarily competant duo working directly under their boss Terror Jack
Minionshipping: Shades of this with Jack's underlings, Karl and Fran.

Elaborate Underground Base: Karloff has one of these underneath his castle.


Will They Or Won't They: Milena and Milo, at least until
Celibate Hero: Leonardo. Ever since he believes that he will only get anyone who becomes too close to him will have bad things happen to them. Also, most advances by other woman are faulted because he's trying to hide his kind of criminal status.
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Long Runner: For an animated series at least. It lasted 7 years, 10 seasons and 215 episodes.

ObliviousToLove: Maria is in deep deinal to love from, who else, our largely Celibate protaginist, Leonardo

Decapitation Presentation:
Driven to Madness: Leonardo is basically fighting to to prevent this from happing to him.
Executive Suite Fight: The fight against Governor Engin, a minor antagonist in Season 8, occurs in one of these.

Space Is Noisy: One of the many things Season 5 got wrong.

Aristocrats Are Evil: Played straight with Lord Karloff, who is hinted to be of noble blood. What we see of his relatives isn't exactly nice either. Subverted with Lord Hawke, who uses his authority to free our heroes from police custody at the end of Season 6's 'Boomtown'.

Hipster: Leonardo in early seasons. It seems hilariously dated now.

Stop Or I Will Shoot: Inspektor Krum's badge apparently gives him a license to kill indiscriminately.

Artistic License: The physics in this show act like an action movie video game.

Rage Quit: A threat sometimes made by the Vocal Minority in response to unwanted developments

Liar. You Lied. Things Did Happen. The WorldBalloon Popped.

"Dude, this helmet makes me wish i were Darth Vader."

Enter it, locking the door once we've gotten in.

But first, make sure we can enter it

Question: What does TBS stand for? (yes, that probably makes me look like a total newb. i know)

Uhhh... Literally? like - open the doors and let them out of their rooms?

Release the prisoners!

Hollister: Research recent advances in agricultural development (assuming any information has reached the ship while we were in cold-sleep). Then find someone to talk to other than this creepy program.