Lab Rats Fanfiction Marcus Alive Again

Narrator: The world's first bionic superhumans. They're stronger and so us. Faster. Smarter. The adjacent generation of the homo race is...
Leo: ...Living in my basement?! ^note ...Living on a bionic isle! (in season four)

Lab Rats is a Science Fiction Kid Com that arrogance on Disney XD.

When 14-yr-old Leo (Tyrel Jackson Williams) moves in with his new stepdad, Donald Davenport (Hal Sparks), he snoops effectually Donald'due south mansion and discovers Adam (Spencer Boldman), Bree (Kelli Berglund), and Chase (Billy Unger) — three bionic siblings (each equipped with hi-tech apps) living in a lab beneath the house. An unlikely friendship develops as he sneaks them out to school for their first gustatory modality of freedom while they assistance him to become the almost popular kid in schoolhouse. But when their bionic glitches become off, things get chaotic very quickly!

Ever since Lab Rats premiered, it has been Disney XD's top-rated live-action series. For its fourth season, the series underwent a Retool with the principal cast now mentoring other bionic teens at Davenport Bionic University, an artificial island (too earning it the new subtitle Bionic Island).

The series ran for four seasons from 2012 to 2016 with its concluding episode, the two-parter The Vanishing, having aired on February 3, 2016. In addition to several Red Skies Crossover and Cross Through links with other Disney XD series, it was appear in September 2015 that both Lab Rats and Mighty Med would be replaced by a permanent crossover series chosen Lab Rats: Elite Force.

Unrelated to the BBC sitcom of the same name.

All spoilers are unmarked. Whatsoever spoilers relating to the spin-off will exist spoiler tagged if necessary.

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Lab Rats exhibits these tropes:

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Perry towards Douglas.
  • "Robot Fight Guild" has Caitlin be this towards Adam, so Chase.
• Absentee Actor: While Leo and the titular trio have had perfect omnipresence and then far, Donald is absent from many episodes, such as Death Spiral Smackdown, Air Leo and Spike'south Got Talent. Even so, he is sometimes mentioned in these episodes considering of his inventions.
• Abusive Parent: Donald was this (unintentionally) to Adam, Bree and Chase before Leo met them. He only kept them isolated considering he was agape (with good reason) they wouldn't be able to control their powers without proper training. Every bit he puts information technology, he was so busy preparation their superhuman side that he forgot most their man side. The existent winner is his blood brother. Douglas attempted to plow his biological kids into weapons and didn't seem at all sad when he revealed that Marcus' life expectancy (as an android) is sixteen. On the other hand, he wanted to hold family game nights with the kids, to at least evidence he'due south not a full monster.
• An Aesop: Bob Zombie gives an important lesson on how one shouldn't alter people just to make them better, just rather, it's better to accept them, because they are special in their own way.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Surprisingly averted. Boil is a pain in the butt but for the most office glitch-free (or is he, really?), while the AI in Donald'south car in Speed Trapped only went awry because of Marcus.
  • Played directly with Robo Perry in "Perry 2.0" when in her default mode, which is search and destroy.
• Alliterative Name: Donald and Douglas Davenport. Also, the loftier school mascot, Dewey Dingo.
• Alphabetical Theme Naming: Adam, Bree, Chase, Donald and Eddie.
  • Turns out this was invoked by Douglas for all his kids— Adam, Bree, Chase, and Daniel. This was actually because their original names were subject A, subject area B, subject C, and subject D.
• All Your Base Are Vest to Usa: Toyed with in the webisode serial Who Is Marcus?
• All Your Powers Combined: Marcus has all the Lab Rats' abilities and more.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parent: Tasha plays this in "Trucked Out". Fifty-fifty Donald is not well-versed in teenage culture.
• Ambiguously Brown: Janelle.
• And the Gamble Continues: Later Giselle and Marcus are defeated, the Lab Rats' and Bionic Soldiers' fries are restored. However, with the soldiers now at practiced level, there is no need for the mentors anymore, causing Adam and Leo to stay at the academy and oversee the transition. Davenport creates a new team, which Chase and Bree join, leading them to their new adventure in Lab Rats: Elite Force.
• Angrish: Donald in the pilot, when he goes to call up the kids. "So - how was schoolhouse? Go far THE HELICOPTER!"
• Anguished Announcement of Honey: Adam has a platonic one toward Chase afterwards they think he died in Bionic Activity Hero.

  I never got to tell him that I loved him.

• Animal Eye Spy: Played with with the mechanical flies.
• Apocalyptic Log: Leo finds out that Donald has made one for the Rats that will activate in event of a real emergency.
• Applied Phlebotinum: Some of Donald'south inventions take explanations that involve something similar this, but throwing in scientific terms to make them sound plausible.
• A Pocket-sized Kidroduction: There is a flashback in the airplane pilot of a much younger Adam, Bree and Chase, all showcasing their powers.
• Archnemesis Dad: The Lab Rats' real father, Douglas. Not and so much after his Heel–Confront Plow.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In Avalanche, Hunt's line mocking Douglas.

  Chase: So, what'south on your agenda for the twenty-four hour period? Build some bombs, take over a tiny state, steal money from quondam ladies?

  • In Trucked Out:

  Leo: The only things that motivates [Principal Perry] are revenge, rage and kitty calendars.

• Bogus Human: Marcus is an android.
• Awesome, merely Impractical: In Which Male parent Knows Best? Hunt upgraded Donald'due south motorbike to reach 400 mph. Chase gave it a exam run, but it ran out of gas likewise quickly because it gets 12 inches to the gallon. Every bit information technology turns out, if you upgrade to increment a vehicle's top speed, its gas mileage will decrease.
• Badass Bookworm: Chase.
  • In Quarantined, Donald shows that he also has some serious fighting skills - which were actually foreshadowed in Bionic Birthday Neglect.
• Badass Family: The Lab Rats are bionic, simply Donald and his brother are experts at gainsay. The Perrys themselves also qualify.
• Bad "Bad Acting": Leo and Adam in "Leo's Jam", when enacting their plan to get Leo to impress Danielle.
• Bulwark Warrior: Hunt is capable of creating a shield to protect himself and others, and can extend it to encompass other objects.
• Beach Episode: Downplayed in Dude, Where'southward My Lab? Nearly of the episode takes place off the beach, and they all wear low-cal summer clothes.
• Berserk Push button: In Beat, Chop and Fire, the Lab Rats are visibly offended when Tasha asks if they're robots.
• Beware the Airheaded Ones: Douglas is one ill puppy.
• Large Bad: Principal Perry, sort of, every bit she is the most recurring antagonist.
  • Douglas Davenport has taken over this position as of Bionic Showdown, reducing Principal Perry to The Heavy.
  • Victor Krane usurps the position from Douglas in Season iii.
  • Sebastian, aka S-3 from Krane's bionic army, was the Arc Villain from the Flavour 3 finale until the Season iv premiere.
  • Victor Krane however has a stiff influence in Flavour four, but it seems Giselle has taken this part, and intends to bring back Marcus.
  • The Incapacitator in Lab Rats vs. Mighty Med.
  • Dr. Gao in Space Colony.
• Big Brother Instinct: Adam. It'south never explicitly stated, but when they are in danger Adam does endeavor to shield Bree or Chase. He also unlocks his hidden ability when Leo is in danger. Certain, he punches Hunt all the time, but he has his own manner of expressing information technology.
• Big Good: The President.
• Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game: Spoofed in "Pigsty In One". While Principal Perry'south golf course is an example of this, Chase uses his telekinesis to move the brawl to the hole.

• Bland-Proper noun Product: ePods and ePhones.
• Trunk Surf: In "Three Minus Bree", Leo invents a influenza-curing pill which Tasha uses for her common cold. When copying the schematics to get the diagnosis, Leo accidentally transfers Eddy'south data to the pill, resulting in Eddy taking over Tasha's body.
• Bookends: The series began and ended with a 2-part episode (the pilot "Crush, Chop, and Fire", and the finale "The Vanishing").
• Both Sides Take a Point: In "Three Minus Bree", Bree just wanted some freedom from her bionic life and felt Donald was taking likewise much away from her life. While she does take a legitimate argument about taking the lead on her own life, Donald is also correct in reminding her that she has responsibilities as a member of the team, even if it means forsaking other opportunities. By destroying her bit, Bree took her point too far, to the extent that it leaned towards selfishness.
  • On the flip side, Donald's refusal to hear her out or compromise in the slightest, especially when dealing with a teenager who has been forced into a high stress lifestyle against her will, ways that Bree destroying the fleck can be seen every bit the logical, albeit farthermost, resolution to the matter.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Douglas manages to install an app into Adam, Bree, and Chase that lets him do this to them in the Season iii premiere.
  • Chase and Bree become this again in "The Expletive of the Screaming Skull".
• Broken Masquerade: As of Season iii. Not only were the heroes on Youtube, but they are at present authorities-sanctioned. And Authorities Endemic.
  • Strangely enough, the crossover with Mighty Med reveals that superheroes have been unaware of the being of the Lab Rats, even though they've been all over the news like crazy. The simply ones who caught on to the Bionic Heroes were Kaz and Oliver, and they're normos amidst the superhero customs. To exist fair, due to the nature of bionic applied science copying superpowers, superheroes don't consider bionics to be annihilation special.
• Bumbling Dad: Donald. Douglas can fall under this too.
• Butt-Monkey: Hunt, and occasionally Leo. And just most any student around Master Perry. If Lindsay is present amongst the background extras during a Perry scene, it's a sure sign that she's nearly to be publicly humiliated.
• Cain and Abel: Douglas is the Cain and Donald is the Abel.
• Call-Dorsum: The exoskeleton from Exoskeleton Vs. Grandma, in Bionic Showdown.
• Candid Camera Prank: Donald's slide show showcasing his security cameras catching the kids misbehavior, in Drone Alone. Inverted when Boil refuses to reveal what Marcus did in Concert In A Can, and says nothing well-nigh his activities in Mission:Infinite, Who Is Marcus? and Speed Trapped.
  • Final one is arguably an disfavor since Donald had shut Eddie down for awhile due to him messing with Tasha on their anniversary.
• The Bandage Show Off:
  • Billy Unger often gets to bear witness off his martial arts skills.
  • Kelli Berglund gets to show some of her dance moves in "Leo'southward Jam". Tyrel Jackson Williams isn't a slouch in the trip the light fantastic department, either.
  • Even Hal Sparks is a martial creative person and a guitarist.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: Many in "Bionic Showdown", such as Adam speaking with "Jewish accent", and Bree's "YOLO", all while they were trapped in Douglas' house. Leo and Eddy count likewise, as they argue well-nigh things similar the red cart Leo is using when they set up off to rescue their family.
• Catchphrase:
  • Donald's "BOOM!" He fifty-fifty argues about it with Douglas.
  • Likewise, Adam'southward "Saved it!"
• Killed Off for Real:
  • Victor Krane gets shot into space during Space Colony.
  • Giselle gets killed in the series finale, past being sliced to several pieces by her own whip.
• Kid Soldiers: Douglas was the 1 responsible for giving bionics to the Lab Rats, for the purpose of training them every bit living weapons for sale to the highest bidder. Cue Donald taking the kids and putting them in hiding before the series.
• Christmas Episode: Twas the Mission Before Christmas and Merry Glitchmas.
• Cliffhanger: The Season 2 finale, "No Going Back", ends with the Lab Rats running away from habitation, Leo and Donald stuck in the lift, Donald without any money, and the lab completely destroyed]].
• Cloudcuckoolander: Adam. He keeps random strands of hair he uses to make faux mustaches in his locker.
• Comically Missing the Point: From Bionic Birthday Fail:

  Adam: Woohoo! Leo's having a surprise political party!
  Chase: Adam, if Leo was having a surprise party, don't you think we'd be invited?
  Adam: Yep, you lot're correct! Who is Tasha thinking she is not inviting u.s.a.?

  • From Leo vs. Evil, some time later on Tasha had been teleported.

  Chase: [seeing the teleported chair distorted past the render part] This is awful.
  Adam: I know. I beloved that chair, I did some of my best sitting in information technology.

• Cool and Unusual Punishment: what the Principal puts the siblings through in lodge to attempt to become out of detention early, in ''Missin' The Mission'.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: After Tasha has to jump through hoops trying to convince Rose that Adam, Bree, and Chase were the Davenport household's staff, Donald gives a sanitized version of the truth: they are his brother's kids that he adopted. Rose immediately lampshades this by asking, "Why didn't you lot but say then?!"
• Crazy Cat Lady: Principal Perry.
• Curse Cut Short: In the pilot episode.

  Donald: WHAT THE F— [Leo honks a horn as he drives into the living room]

• Custom Uniform: The bionic teens' mission suits each have different designs. Subsequently on, Leo's has a hood and a red right sleeve indicating where his bionic arm is.
• Cutaway Gag: A few ones:
  • In Commando App, showing the yesteryear'south Christmas party of the Lab Rats, when Spike appeared to retaliate after Adam tried using his new boxing gloves on him.
  • In Trucked Out, at that place is a scene with Adam later on he had an accident with his new bicycle.

    D-E

• Dance Political party Ending: "Leo's Jam", fittingly, ends with Leo and the bionic trio getting down on the dance floor.
• Darker and Edgier: From Season 2 onwards.
  • Due to the repeated number of Wham Episodes, this testify has go Darker and Edgier than most live activity Disney shows.
• A Twenty-four hour period in the Limelight: Leo, in Parallel Universe.

• Disney Decease:
  • Leo in Back From The Futurity.
  • Turns out Marcus is non technically dead, beingness an android and all, but his torso remains intact to the point Giselle can set up him and reactivate him.
  • Happens to Due south-1 in Rise of The Surreptitious Soldiers, where Leo fires her into the sky. Come up Season iv, turns out she survived.
• Disturbing Statistic: In the pilot, after Chase, Bree, and Adam cause chaos in the gym at Leo'due south school, Chase tries to defuse the ensuing panic by proverb that statistically speaking, at least 70% of them volition make it out live if they stay calm. Panic resumes presently afterward.
• The Ditz: Adam, merely non ALL the time.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Leo is offended when he is placed in the beginner level of students at the academy while Adam, Bree and Hunt are made mentors. He shortly acknowledges thst he has a lot to learn and quickly begins advancing through the ranks.
• Dumbass Has a Point: From Donald'southward point-of-view, Leo'southward suggestions that salve the day in Missin' The Mission.
  • Adam also saves Tasha's life in Leo Vs. Evil by having her catch a charabanc habitation, rather than take her go through the malfunctioning teleporter.
• Impaired Muscle: Adam.
• Dynamic Entry: Leo's arrival in Bionic Showdown, when he shows up in the combat exoskeleton that he wore in Exoskeleton Vs. Grandma.
• Easily Forgiven: The bionic soldiers, in one case freed from the Triton app, are not punished for their actions and are in fact taken to the Bionic Island to be trained to use their bionics more efficiently. Justified, because the Triton app wearing off as well gave them amnesia.
• Egg Sitting: The subplot of "Spy Fly", where Adam and Chase must take intendance of baby dolls, merely then try to destroy each other's.
• Embarrassing First Name/Embarrassing Eye Proper name: The (female) principal's name is Terry Crimson Perry.
  • Subverted when Douglas's middle name is revealed to be Orville. Leo tries to bust his chops nigh it, just since Douglas is in the middle of marrying Chief Perry, having his middle name revealed is hardly the near embarrassing affair to happen at that particular moment.
• Explosive Overclocking: in Bionic Showdown, Adam discovers the ability to blot energy from the surrounding surface area and supercharge his plasma grenades into a single blast that turns him into a walking Wave-Move Gun with no ill furnishings.
• Expy:
  • Donald has similarities to Tony Stark.
  • Billy Unger even cited this comparison to explain the series in more than one interview before the show was released.

• Emergency Trainee Battle Deployment: When the team discovers Krane has manufactured an army of bionic soldiers that is likewise many for even them to fight, they return to the Lab and report that it's fourth dimension for anybody to mobilize. Leo anticipates that he volition be slated for Mission Specialist Desk Duty, only to be stopped past Donald and told this time, he's going with the team.
• Empty Piles of Clothing: When Adam shrinks in "My Footling Brother", his clothes are left normal size in a heap.
• Ballsy Fail: Eddy equally a security arrangement. For example, he allowed Marcus to roam virtually within the Davenport home. Withal, him non immediately informing Donald about Marcus firing his eye lasers at Leo and threatening to expose them all is justified since he was likely even so shut down at the time.
• Evil Nephew: Kerry Perry, backside her aunt's dorsum. Sure, Principal Perry herself admits to being callous, but doesn't like to think her niece is similar her.
• Evolving Credits:
  • The clips in the theme song change with each season, forth with the end shot of Leo and the Davenports together.
  • The terminal flavour recieves a major update to the Opening Narration and Leo's quote post-obit such, to reverberate the Retool to Bionic Island.
• Eye Beams: Adam has rut vision every bit i of his bionic abilities. Marcus also shows that he has this power in Speed Trapped - and he has no problem using information technology on people.

    F

• Imitation Invitee Star: The most glaring example is Maile Flanagan, who by Season iii plays a comparable part to Hal Sparks; most fans agree she should have been added to the opening credits that season. Same with Jeremy Kent Jackson equally of Season 4. Angel Parker and Volition Forte are also this, to a bottom extent.
• Fascinating Eyebrow: Marcus does this a lot, particularly when he'due south thinking up a scheme. Leo nicknames him Captain Eyebrows.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: Acute viewers will detect that Leo is suddenly missing from the helicopter that rescues Adam, Bree, and Chase from the freighter. That clue keys in the audience that information technology is really Douglas in disguise.
  • Perry insists that the isle's weapon supply has been stolen despite it beingness right in front of them. Bree sarcastically quips that the weapons are dorsum through 'the miracle of cinema'. A few seconds after, information technology is revealed that the weapons were in fact stolen and anybody is looking at a hologram.
• Flanderization: In terms of annoyance with Adam and Bree. They (specially Adam) start picking on Hunt a lot more from afterward Season 2 on.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Coincidentally or not, Donald telling Rose that Adam, Bree and Chase are his brother'due south children that he adopted later on their father fell in a volcano to hide that they are his bionic project is almost completely true, as evidenced in "Bionic Showdown".
  • At 1 betoken in "Bionic Showdown", Adam briefly thinks Douglas has a dog because of his annotate that "simply 'cause a dog gets out of his muzzle doesn't hateful he's going for a walk", in response to Donald and the Lab Rats managing to escape his trap. Come Season 4, it turns out Douglas does have a dog later all.
  • Leo having bionic powers in "Parallel Universe", at present that he actually has bionics (admitting with very unlike abilities).
  • The ending of The Vanishing. Deplorable as it is to break the team upwardly, Davenport's tone indicates that it's out of extremely serious circumstances, and mentions a new team. We find out how serious the situation is in Lab Rats: Elite Force.

• Fun T-Shirt: Leo is e'er seen wearing these. Averted is season three, when Leo starts dressing more than to impress (the girls).
• Future Me Scares Me: Averted with Future!Leo and played with with Future!Donald (mostly because Futurity!Donald Actually permit himself become in the weight department after the Lab Rats died in his future).

    G-I

• Genki Girl: Bree, naturally.
• Good Counterpart: Principal Perry has one in a parallel universe.
• Gratuitous Spanish: In "Concert in a Can", as Donald mentions he is a multilingual millionaire, Marcus responds with "ooh, gracias", followed by a "de cipher" past Donald.

• Harmless Freezing: Davenport's freeze ray, accidentally used on Janelle and Tasha. Intentionally used on Douglas.
• Heel–Face Turn: Douglas in Flavor iii. Later, S-one in Flavor 4.
• Height Insult: Adam regularly jokes nigh Chase beingness small, calling him "microscopically small" i time.
• Subconscious Depths: While not possessing Obfuscating Stupidity past any means, Adam is occasionally far more clever than anyone gives him credit for.
• Hi, Mom!: Hilariously unusual instance in "Rats in the Train". Leo says this to the photographic camera... but it's his mother interviewing him.
• Hoist past His Own Petard: When Leo ends upwards in a gear up, information technology's usually by this method. Played horrifyingly straight in Speed Trapped, when Marcus tries to eliminate him because Leo takes his job every bit 'the enforcer' seriously.
• Hostage-Handler Huddle: There'south a special in which the bionic students plow on Donald Davenport and his family. The leader, Sebastian, tells the students that they must destroy Leo if they're truly committed to the rebellion. When they congregate to determine which method is all-time, Leo changes his vox and says "I say we sleep on it."
• Idiosyncratic Wipes: The show uses 4 of them:
  • The scene ends in a computer screen and switches to another 1.
  • The door with the iconic bionic emblem closes and opens showing another scene.
  • Bree runs through the screen leaving a trail of blue hexes that disappear correct after.
  • Hunt lands on the floor causing blue hexes to appear and disappear.

• I Just Want to Be Normal: Bree and Adam occasionally dip into this.
• I Simply Want to Be Special: Leo shows signs of being this. Hunt also dips into this, feeling he's not given plenty recognition.
• "I Know Y'all're in There Somewhere" Fight: Done to Chase by Leo in "Sink Or Swim, Function 2" when Douglas and Victor have taken control of Adam, Bree and Chase and made them run amok.
• I Never Said Information technology Was Poisonous substance: How Leo realizes Marcus hijacked the car in "Speed Trapped."

  Marcus: Leo, I am so happy y'all're domicile rubber! I can't believe y'all about ended upward at the bottom of the ocean!

  Leo: Wait... how did y'all know where the car was fix to go?
  Marcus: I... Didn't...?

• Incredible Shrinking Man: In "My Little Brother," Adam gets shrunk downwards to 6 inches.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: From "Smart and Smarter,"

  Leo: I'chiliad sorry. I just got a little carried away... with you carrying me away. (Trounce) Oh come up on, it's funny!

• Insistent Terminology: Referring to the Lab Rats as robots is e'er going to be corrected to bionic. Also a way to button their Berserk Push.
• Insufferable Genius: Hunt and Donald all the way.
• Insult Backfire: In response to Chase'due south Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking insult above.

  Chase: And so, what's on your agenda for the day? Build some bombs, take over a tiny country, steal coin from old ladies?

  Douglas: Well, not in that lodge.

• It Tickled Me: At the cease of "Parallel Universe":

  Bree: Oh, that cured my boredom.

• I Thought You Were Dead: Donald said this when he learns his brother, Douglas, is alive. Douglas said he fabricated Donald, the police, and their mother think he was expressionless.

    J-M

• Just Smile and Nod: In "Can I Borrow the Helicopter?", when Adam is talking nearly his horse, Donald tells Tasha he isn't getting information technology, merely he smiles and nods till it'due south over.
• Karma Houdine Warranty: In Scramble The Orbs, the school board has been observing Trent'south actions, and warn him not to abuse other students anymore since there's a huge difference between a student bullying another student and a faculty member harassing a student.
• Kent Brockman News: Tasha's job mostly consists of stories of babies that await like ex-presidents and stuff. The runaway train was her first real assignment according to her.
• Killer Robot: Marcus sics one on Leo when he discovers Marcus and Douglas evil lair, in Leo vs. Evil.
• Knight of Cerebus: Similar most Disney shows, the bulk of the villains are reasonably harmless and normally portrayed as calorie-free-hearted. Marcus on the other hand, once he drops his nice guy deed, is presented every bit a sociopathic bully that realistically tries to murder Leo.
  • Information technology gets worse when they introduce his creator, Douglas Davenport. Although still seemingly light hearted, he is a coldblooded Mad Scientist who'due south committed a listing of crimes over a mile long, including experimenting on Children, violating medical ethics, kidnapping, brainwashing and is also perfectly willing to commit outright murder when it suits him. When he appears the show takes a much darker tone.
    • Taken Upward to 11 when Douglas' distributor Krane (who has also been given bionics) shows upwards, and demonstrates that he has zero consideration for the well-being or lives of anyone who gets in the way of his plans.
• Leaning on the Quaternary Wall: When Bree and Adam make their own cheer routine in Air Leo, they explain the use of their abilities every bit "special furnishings".
• Limited Wardrobe: Not to the extremes as seen in cartoons, simply the characters are frequently seen wearing a signature wearable (Chase's plaid shirt, Bree'due south Dr. Martens boots, Donald's black jacket, etc.)
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Douglas does this to the Rats in Bionic Showdown. Defied when the Rats tell Donald that they see him equally their father, not Douglas.

• Mad Scientist: Donald is this by way of Dominion of Funny. The existent holder for this trope is Douglas.

• Manchild: Donald once more. The man's got a bedroom total of video games and activeness figures.
  • Up to Eleven in "Memory Wipe".
• Mauve Shirt: Out of all the Bionic Soldiers, Lexi'due south, Tank'due south, and Kate's characterizations are limited to the episodes they announced in. On the other manus, Spin, Bob and Sebastian accept had prominent recurring roles throughout.
• Mind-Control Optics: Whoever is affected by the Triton app will accept these.
• Mirror Universe: In the episode Parallel Universe. Things are very much opposite; to begin with, Leo in that world has the bionics of the Lab Rats along with abilities he'south never seen before, and Adam, Bree and Chase are neither bionic nor related to Donald, just besides Evil Counterparts in the sense that they are antagonistic to Leo after finding out he is bionic. Personality wise, Donald is an insecure inventor-in-grooming, his mom is a Jerkass tech mogul who abuses Donald, Adam, Bree and Hunt have opposite personalities (Adam is philosophical, Bree is an fifty-fifty bigger brat than her main counterpart, and Chase is a Jerk Jock instead of a snarky nerd). In addition, Principal Perry is good, kind and donating, even helping Leo escape the government agents and the Lab Rats' alternate counterparts.
• Mission Control: Leo'due south assigned position on the team equally of Missin' The Mission.

• Money Fetish: Hunt seems to take developed this in "Chore Wars".
• Mood Whiplash: Every time an episode ends in a dramatic bewilderment, followed by the upbeat credits music.
• Muggles: The entire population of Mission Creek besides the Davenports and Principal Perry, who used to be the near prominent example. More notable examples are Caitlin, Trent and Grandma Rose.
  • While Donald and Leo are normal humans, they take function on missions. Tasha just knows their secret, like Perry.
• Mundane Solution: In "Leo vs. Evil," Adam calls Tasha on her prison cell telephone and tells her to go habitation past public transport instead of waiting for the dangerous and unstable teleporter.

    N-O

• Naked People Are Funny: In "The Haunting of Mission Creek High", school slap-up Trent steals Leo'due south clothes and leaves him in nothing but a Modesty Towel. And then he eventually takes the towel, also (offscreen, of course). Instinctively everyone comes to come across poor naked Leo.
• Nested Story Reveal: "Chief from Another Planet", which at the end of the episode is revealed to be just a moving-picture show Leo made for a sci-fi motion-picture show festival.
• Never Say "Die": VERY much averted past Season 3 and 4.
• Never Wake Up a Sleepwalker: In Under Siege Douglas says that waking up Leo likewise suddenly could cause his already malfunctioning bionics to curt excursion.
• Non-Uniform Compatible: Each Lab Rat has a different mission suit blueprint. Donald also has one.
• Noodle Incident: Perry has dozens of these, which becomes a plot point in Fasten Fright.
• No One Could Survive That!: Both Victor Krane and S-1 were shot into the heaven when they were defeated, and were presumed deceased due to the hits they took. Withal, it later turns out S-ane survived—she woke up in a field and had been in hiding since the end of the battle, afterwards reuniting with her brothers and sisters and is no longer evil. As for Krane, he concluded up beingness severely injured, but the evil scientist Dr. Gao found him and gave him a mask to help him breathe. Krane ended upwardly returning in "Space Colony", but was finally killed during the space battle.
• Not Me This Fourth dimension: In Under Siege, everyone assumes Kerry, Perry's troublemaking niece who happened to be visiting the academy, was responsible for the suspicious events happening in the university. Certain, Kerry did cease upward stealing their belongings, but it turned out information technology wasn't her who was destroying the academy, it was a sleepwalking Leo.
• Non So Above It All:
  • In "The Haunting of Mission Creek High", when a ghost terrorizing the school is revealed to exist a prank played once a decade by Chief Perry, Ms Thistle (an absent minded onetime lady) uses one of Davenport's electromagnetic rifles to taser Principal Perry, leaving her paralyzed on the flooring and witting while she states "It wasn't that funny 20 years ago and it'southward not funny now."
  • When revealing himself on Davenportia, Krane stops posturing and takes a moment with the Lab Rats to enjoy watching Perry neglect and crash on a jetpack.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Despite his Cloudcuckoolander status (or, perhaps, because of information technology), Adam has started out Season Ii in this corner. He's a long way from Genius Bruiser status, simply he'south not about as firmly rooted in the Too Dumb to Alive department as Hunt and Bree's behavior towards him would seem.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Tasha'southward female parent, Rose, isn't very welcoming to not merely Donald, but anyone in his family. Fifty-fifty if she hadn't met him, it's pretty clear she wouldn't accept whatever liking for Douglas either.
• Ominous Bulletin from the Future: Futurity!Leo traveling back in time to warn the present Leo Adam, Bree and Chase are going to die during their next mission in "Dorsum From the Hereafter".
• Once a Flavour:
  • Fasten appears merely once per season.
  • Adam taking home an animal/living being that's randomly unattended; A horse in Flavor 1, a llama in Season 2, 30 bionic solders in Flavour iii, Otis (who happened to exist Douglas'southward dog) in Season 4.
• Once More, with Volume!: In "Bionic Showdown":

  Chase: Well, mayhap your orders aren't always right.
  Donald: Excuse me?
  Adam: He said maybe your orders aren't...
  Donald: I HEARD IT!!

• Just Sane Man: Tasha is shaping up to be this.

    P-R

• Personality Powers: The kids' powers come across like this.
  • Adam's strong, a fleck of a wiggle, just non also brilliant.
  • Bree is a highly unstable teenage girl with Super Speed, and for God'due south sake, let her watch her reality-TV programs. It'due south the merely affair that keeps her from unleashing all of that on her brothers!
  • Chase is not only smart, but a smarty-pants.
  • Fifty-fifty Leo gets in on this. In Parallel Universe, when he got powers. he was able to break things without meaning to, but too able to get out of trouble... mostly.
• Power Incontinence: Bionics were not meant for human being subjects, which is what causes the Rats' powers to occasionally glitch.
• Power Makes Your Voice Deep: Appears to be a side-effect of bionic powers in overdrive, as it happens when Chase becomes Fasten and when Adam discovers his subconscious bionic ability of a supercharged energy blast (in Bionic Showdown). After, when Bree loses her temper, her vocal manipulation volition kick in and brand her speak in a deep, aroused vocalisation.
  • When Marcus is being evil (and using his powers,) he tends to speak in a deeper voice than when he's pretending to exist a friend to the Lab Rats.
• Ability Trio
  • Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Bree, Chase and Adam.
  • Freudian Trio: Bree is The McCoy, Chase is The Spock, and Adam is The Kirk.
• Pronouncing My Name for Yous: Bree in "Parallel Universe":

  Bree: Information technology'due south pronounced "Br-AY"! Like "breath" without the "-thh"!

  • Two Guys and a Girl
• Reactive Continuous Scream: In "Crush, Chop and Burn", when the Lab Rats first meet Leo. First, they scream, and so Leo, and then them all together, and then Leo once more.
• Redshirt Ground forces: The Bionic Soldiers aren't equally constructive as they were in Rise of The Clandestine Soldiers. In Bionic Action Hero, they couldn't take out even ane Android. This is justified, as virtually of them are even so learning to use their bionics well in combat and are no longer operating under the coordination of the Triton app.
• Reminder Failure: Adam needs to remember one line for the school play. The line is, "Ma'am, you're standin' in it." He rehearses the line at least xxx-seven times. When the time comes for him to actually say the line, he can't remember it at all.
• Rhetorical Question Blunder: In "Three Minus Bree," afterwards Bree smashes her bit:

  Donald: What did you lot practice?!

  Adam: Well, she smashed the...

  Donald: I know what she did!! [to Bree] How could you do that?

  Adam: She picked the...

  Donald: I GOT IT!!

• Running Gag:
  • The tabular array at the dining room constantly being broken (but replaced for the next scene or episode) is sort of one. Leo even asks why they always purchase a drinking glass table.
  • Bionic people are commonly asked if they can fly.

    S

• Sadist Teacher: Primary Perry. She slowly moves out of this in Flavour 3.
• Sarcastic Clapping: Adam does this in "Chip Switch".
• Cloak-and-dagger-Keeper: Leo and Tasha. Chief Perry joins in flavour three. However, several of Donald'southward inventions aren't hole-and-corner.
• Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: When Adam shrinks, his clothes do not (forcing him to hide in his shoe to cover himself). Chase has to find him doll clothes to vesture.
• Shouldn't Nosotros Be in School Right Now?: Almost e'er averted. Many episodes also have Mission Creek High equally the main setting, mainly because of Master Perry.
  • Information technology's interesting to notice that in "Missin' the Mission" the Lab Rats get detention for missing school a lot because they are on missions.
  • Played straight in Face Off, where Leo spends the unabridged episode at home, which is odd, considering the Lab Rats were shown attending school during the day as scenes switch dorsum and along to them.
• Shout-Out:
  • When Perry's robotic indistinguishable is accidentally programmed to assail Mission Creek Loftier, Principal Perry tears the head off, holds information technology up and declares "There tin can be only 1".
  • In the series finale, Adam dancing to distract Giselle is the exact same trick Star-Lord used on Ronan the Accuser in Guardians of the Galaxy, and it worked.
  • As pointed out by this video one of the characters was seeing a Japanese exchange educatee named Yu.
• Sitcom Curvation-Nemesis: Trent and Principal Perry with Leo.
• Skyward Scream: Leo screaming "WHYYYY?!" learning that Janelle's mom is going to take her at his business firm but he will not be able to unfreeze her in time.
• Smart Brawl: Adam gets this sometimes. One example is when he decided to call Tasha to take a bus before the others could use the teleporter for a return trip (which would accept ended REALLY badly.)
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: First we have Primary Perry, a ruthless, tyrant principal who enjoys making students grovel at her feet. Later, at that place'south Marcus, an Ax-Crazy bionic android who has it out for Leo the near, and blackmails him into keeping repose near his true nature. And so, in that location'due south Douglas Davenport, Donald'due south evil brother who wanted to use his creations every bit Super Soldiers. Finally, there is Victor Krane, who is bionic and wants to use his powers to kill the main characters.
• Spandex, Latex, or Leather: The Rats and their new mission uniforms, as of Bionic Showdown.
• Speaks in Binary: Chase and Scott, for fun.
• Spiritual Successor: The cast makes information technology sound like this for Wizards of Waverly Place. Not merely practice they share the aforementioned director and some crew, merely both are nigh families with special abilities that need to keep a secret while attempting to alive normal lives and going on adventures. Technically speaking, they both also rely heavily on special effects as well as occasional fight scenes.
  • A trio of siblings who were created in a lab and accept to balance living normal lives with managing their superhuman powers and using them to fight evil. Sounds familiar?
    • Not just that, but both shows have their sibling trios discover that 1 of their enemies was responsible for their conception. In The Powerpuff Girls, Mojo Jojo was the one who acquired Professor Untonium to break the Chemical X container and spill it into his concoction, creating the Powerpuff Girls equally we know them; here, Donald's long-lost brother Douglas turns out to exist the Lab Rats' existent father, having created them to exist supersoldiers for the government.
• Status Quo Is God: Ordinarily, every bit much of the impairment caused by Donald'southward inventions or troubles the Rats and Leo get into are solved at the cease of their respective episodes. In addition, no affair how much the Lab Rats change their location, Perry volition always end up in their lives. However, there are many averting examples:
  • As of season ii "Trent Gets Schooled", Trent is the P.E. teacher in Mission Creek High.
  • As of season 2 finale "No Going Dorsum", Principal Perry knows about the secret of Lab Rats.
  • As of season 3 "Mission: Mission Creek Loftier", there is a new lab.
  • As of season three "Nothing It", Chase and Bree work at Tech Town.
  • In "Three Minus Bree" from season iii, Bree destroys her fleck so she is non bionic anymore. Only in the post-obit episode, "Which Male parent Knows Best", she gets a new chip.
  • Episodes after You lot Posted What?!? zigzag this. The world does know they're bionic, but nonetheless, things go along as they unremarkably practise.
  • Basically, every time something large happens, big changes will happen from that betoken onwards.
• Stock Scream: In Bionic Birthday Fail, Adam trows a ninja away, who shouts a Wilhelm Scream.
• Super Registration Act: The bionic army saved Leo's life, showing that without the Triton app, they were no longer a threat to the world. Notwithstanding, the President still gives the order to take them into custody since, benign or not, he can't have hundreds of teenagers with superpowers and no understanding of how the world works roaming free.

• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Due south-1 is basically this to Marcus.
• Swapped Roles: Frustrated and angry with Principal Perry's abuses of power, Bree insists she would make a better main. Perry accepts the challenge and lets her be the principal for one day, convinced she'll crash and burn down in less and so 2 hours. When Bree's leadership actually improves the schoolhouse, Perry retaliates by condign a educatee hooligan who turns the school upside downward just to demolition the contest. Bree has the last laugh all the same, as she brings in Perry'due south authoritian and very scary female parent to punish her for making trouble.

    T-V

• Tagline: "Every family has its glitches."
• The Bully: Trent. This is why Master Perry favors him over other students.
• The Team Wannabe: Leo.
• The Merely 1 Allowed to Defeat Y'all: Douglas isn't going to injure Leo, because he promised to let Marcus have that privilege.
• The Smurfette Principle: Bree is the only female featured in the opening credits, although Tasha and Principal Perry are also major characters.
• Championship Drop: In the first episode, Chase says "Nosotros're like human lab rats!" and so cut to Adam running on a giant hamster wheel.
• Took A Level In BadButt: In Parallel Universe, Leo showed some actual fighting skills against the MIBs that showed up to capture him - as well as being willing to fire on his attackers outset.
  • Leo's takedown of a berserk Boil in Dark of the Living Virus with a laser reflector. Note that he has no bionics and is a scrawny kid, against an A.I. that has helped to train the young bionic heroes.
• Trash the Set: At the end of Season two, Douglas blows upwardly the lab, leading Donald to build a new, futuristic ane that is featured in the next two seasons.
• Triple Nipple: Adam is this, every bit stated in "Concert in a Can".
• Troubled Fetal Position: Trent in "The Haunting of Mission Creek High", after he is "haunted" past Leo and the lab rats.
• Ii Lines, No Waiting: Many episodes use this format: the nigh common existence Adam/Bree/Chase and Leo/Donald; or alternatively a plot with Leo and i of the rats and the other plot featuring the other two rats. And then in Season 4, some other format is having all main characters for one plot, while the recurring characters get their ain.
• Unexpected Character: Trailers led fans to believe Dr. Gao is the main villain of Space Colony, but we detect out Krane is back and Dr. Gao is his partner.
• Versus Title: Parodied with "Exoskeleton vs. Grandma", and played directly with "Leo vs. Evil".

    W-Z

• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: During the destruction of his base, Douglas makes his escape.
• Vocal Evolution: Both Chase and Leo starting time with unusually high voices for teenage boys, and their voices slowly drop throughout the series.
• Volleying Insults: The Tag of "Commando App" and "Fasten's Got Talent" between Spike and Principal Perry.
• Nosotros Are equally Mayflies: Bionic abilities in androids leads to them burning out very chop-chop. According to Douglas, Marcus had very piddling time left.
• Went to the Nifty X in the Sky: In "Drone Alone":

  Donald: So, if you're watching this, I must accept gone to that big hard drive in the sky.

• What Happened to the Mouse?: Leo's comment nearly how Eddy failed as a security organization (he allowed Marcus to enter the lab, non to mention the spy camera that Eddy even so hasn't detected, or Marcus' activities in Who Is Marcus?) hasn't been addressed by Donald yet. This might be averted due to the reveal of who Marcus' dad is (after all, who better to know where security leaks and how to hibernate stuff better than Donald'south own brother). No excuse on the Who is Marcus? fiasco, though.
  • Nosotros haven't had any mention of Adam's plasma grenades or flame vision since "Air Leo", either, though the Plasma Grenade might be connected to Adam'southward new Kamehame Hadoken.
    • The flame vision may have merely been an early on version of his rut vision. Hunt even calls it as such.
  • Nor take nosotros seen Bree'due south ability to stick to the ceiling since "Mission Invisible."
• Wham Episode:
  • Mission Infinite: Marcus is indeed a trouble-maker and is spying on the Davenports forth with someone else.
  • Speed Trapped: Marcus is revealed to exist bionic. Leo finds this out just has to continue quiet lest Marcus assail his family unit and reveal their cloak-and-dagger.
  • Bionic Showdown: The appearance of Douglas Davenport, Donald'south brother who reveals he'south the real creator of Adam, Bree and Chase as well as Marcus. Subsequently a fight, Marcus is apparently crushed by debris simply Douglas manages to escape.
  • Avalanche: Douglas reappears over again and tries to sway Chase to his side. He fails and is frozen in an ice cake and promptly sent to jail.
  • Season two finale No Going Back: Perry finds out almost the kids beingness bionic and an FBI agent begins investigating their home. Adam, Bree and Hunt fear the government will take them away and run abroad from home to avert this. But it turns out the amanuensis was looking into a case for Donald, whose bank account was hacked and left him broke. Later Donald and Leo discover out that the bionic siblings are missing, they set out to find them. Just as they practise and so, Douglas reveals he was behind the hacking, having been broken costless from his ice prison past a mysterious bionic person. He then remotely blows up the lab, leaving Donald and Leo with no means to runway the trio.
  • Season 3 opening, Sink or Swim: Nosotros meet the masked man, Victor Krane, who is revealed to be Douglas's benefactor and an adult bionic human who's shown to exist fifty-fifty more dangerous threat than Douglas and Marcus have been.
  • Taken: Krane inevitably turns on Douglas and attempts to destroy Adam, Bree and Chase himself. Douglas ultimately has a alter of center and helps save them but has to become into hiding when Krane escapes.
  • Which Male parent Knows Best: Douglas helps restore Bree's bionic chip and Donald offers him a second hazard, allowing him to move in with the family.
  • You Posted What!?!: Adam, Bree and Chase are caught on camera using their bionics and exposed to the rest of the earth. Government agents shortly come to their house to take them away but they turn down. In the middle of this it'south revealed that Krane was responsible for outing them and even has a bionic child of his own named S-1 who filmed them. During an attack, Leo's right arm is crushed but Douglas saves it by making it bionic. After the grouping manage to defeat Krane and S-1, the siblings denote to the globe they're bionic superheroes. However, Krane shows that he has more than bionic soldiers lying in wait. A lot more than.
  • Rising of the Clandestine Soldiers and the following episodes afterward sets up the events of the Bionic Isle story arc.
  • Bionic Activeness Hero: Douglas's ex-girlfrend, Giselle, reveals she's trying to get into the bionic solider trade herself and attempts to steal the data from the bionic isle under the guise of wanting to make a movie. Her plans are thwarted and her android is destroyed. Only she manages to escape and heads to what's left of Douglas's old lair where she finds the remains of Marcus, intent on reviving him.
• Wham Line:
  • From "Bionic Showdown": "I'1000 your father."
  • From the terminate of "You Posted What!?!": "Rise, bionic soldiers! Rise!"
  • From the end of "Bionic Action Hero": "Hi, Marcus."
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Averted. The show has fabricated it very articulate on multiple occasions, that the mere fact that Adam, Bree and Chase were created in a lab doesn't make them any less valuable than normal humans. Likewise, all of them (including Krane's army) are presented every bit being very human in needs, wants and feelings. Throughout, the merely people who try and dehumanise them are always presented as unpleasant and narrow-minded at best, and outright psychotic at worst.
• White Mask of Doom: The "Masked Homo", later revealed to be Victor Krane, commencement actualization in "No Going Back".
• Why Don't You But Shoot Him?: Averted in the finale. The bionic teens are told their chips will be fried following a inaugural, but Giselle actually did so with a flash of low-cal while issuing the threat.
• World of Snark: Everyone on the show is a Deadpan Snarker, only when and how ofttimes they use their snark interchange.
• Women Are Wiser: Tasha may not be more intelligent, but she is more than down to world than her husband.
  • Averted, in that although Bree is occasionally the vox of reason, she is commonly portrayed every bit irresponsible and prone to overreacting to pocket-sized things. Withal, most of the bug in the series are caused by Adam and/or Leo. Then once more, she is still a teenager; a BIONIC teenager to be precise.
• X Chosen; They Want Their Y Back: a few times.
  • From "Commando App":

  Spike: (to Principal Perry) Hey, Ireland called, they want their leprechaun back!

  • From "Death Spiral Smackdown":

  Hunt: (to Bree) "Well, the Tin Human being called, he wants his neck back."

• You Didn't Inquire: In "Trounce, Chop and Burn down" part 2:

  Eddy: Oh, he [Leo] left. Something almost a recycling heart, neglectful parents, life and death, blah-blah-blah...

  Donald: Why don't you tell usa any of this?!

  Eddy: You lot didn't ask.

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