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Ace Lightning

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Ace Lightning	comment	At first glance, Ace Lightning could be suspected of being pulled straight from the pages of a videogame-related Fan Fiction. What it actually is, however, is a 39-episode series that ran from 2002 to 2004 on Creator/{{CBBC} in the UK, CBC and BBC Kids in Canada, and on syndication in the US (first season only). It was created as a collaboration between Canadian and British entertainment industries. Many fans believe it was Screwed by the Network.Ace Lightning was one of the first weekly television shows to involve CGI animated effects as a substantial part of every episode, making the show both Western Animation and Live-Action TV. The series was filmed live-action with the video game characters Ace created in 3D digital and blue-screened afterward.The protagonist is 13-year-old Mark Hollander, who has just immigrated to North America from England. However getting to grips with life on the other side of the pond turns out to be the least of his problems, when, on the first night in their new home, the antenna of Mark's house is struck by lightning. As chance would have it, Mark was at that exact moment engaged in his favorite video game: Ace Lightning and the Carnival of Doom, and had discovered a level that wasn't supposed to exist. Turns out this isn't an ordinary copy of Ace Lightning. The next thing Mark knows the characters of his video game - good and bad alike - have come to life and are engaging in battle in his backyard. Mark is somewhat reluctantly elected as Ace Lightning's new sidekick and dragged into a quest to locate the seven shattered pieces of The Amulet of Zoar which will give its wielder power over the entire universe.The Big Bad of the series is Lord Fear, who has a grudge against Ace for accidentally crippling him and then imprisoning him in the game world. He along with his minions, Staff Head, Lady Illusion, Anvil, Pigface, and Dirty Rat, occupy the rundown Kent Bros. Carnival, renaming it the "Carnival of Doom" after their old stomping grounds.Ace and the villains are convinced that the real world is just another level from the game (albeit, from their perspective, a rather strange one), and treat it as such. Mark's new life just became a lot more complicated.While Mark is initially reluctant, and Ace is naive about the way things work in "Reality", the two of them develop an understanding which grows into friendship. As the show goes on more characters arrive, both good and evil, and eventually we have the arrival of the mysterious Master Programmer, and his avatar, the new head villain: Kilobyte, who makes Lord Fear look like a mewling bag of kittens.The series starts out as a jaunt into the world of One Boy and His Superhero and later develops into a mire of Good Versus Evil, the nature of emotions in Artificial Beings, complex social networking while saving the world in your spare time, the nature of what are truly 'real', and even vague suggestions of Necrophilia and Metaphysical Ethics for the more observant (or obsessive) members of the fandom.For most, however, it's just a show about a superhero completely out of his depth in the real world, and a boy trying not to let his newfound 'hero' status impact his social life. You know. The usual.Ace Lightning regularly attempts to mock the tropes associated with the Superhero genre and at no point tries to hide from the fact that it is, essentially, a superhero parody that occasionally plays things straight. Every CGI character in the show is a stereotype of more traditional heroes. You've got your spunky red-headed sidekick, your bewitching black widow, and your villain who just happens to look like a living skeleton. Ace is a typical superhero; super strong, super fast, able to shoot lightning energy from his hands, and surviving on electrical power sources. Ace Lightning shows the audience what really happens when you stick a person with those kinds of abilities into a world that wasn't built to accommodate them. The humans meanwhile, are normal (mostly) people living ordinary lives which contrast garishly with the superheroes. And while Ace is learning the finer points of humanity from Mark, Mark is learning that sometimes, a hero's gotta do what a hero's gotta do.Ace Lightning has a small but loyal fanbase which, oddly enough, seems to contain a great many teenage females as well as the show's original demographic of 10-to-14-year-old boys.
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Ace Lightning / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
Ace Lightning / int_116a941b	comment	Applied Phlebotinum: The Amulet of Zoar, which everyone is after. Also, Mark's Wrist Cannon, which he can apparently use despite not being a Lightning Knight and without it having any obvious external power supply. In fact, forget that, any weapon being utilized by the Lightning Knights is one of these.
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Ace Lightning / int_12628662	type	The Call Knows Where You Live
Ace Lightning / int_12628662	comment	The Call Knows Where You Live: Fortunately for Mark it's not a very competent call. It is, however, a highly persistent one.
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Ace Lightning / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Ace Lightning / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Ace has a literal Heroic BSOD when he contracts a virus during a data transfer, completely freezing him solid. It's a kiss from Lady Illusion which snaps him out of it.
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Ace Lightning / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
Ace Lightning / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: Ace, after a bite from Googler's puppets (yes, the puppets bite. They are freaky little dudes.)
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Ace Lightning / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Ace Lightning / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Intriguingly done with Random Virus and Ace, where Ace will regularly have to resort to defeating his friend in a fight in order to quell his evil side and bring back his calmer, kinder personality. Random usually reverts back to bad guy status by their next meeting, however. Random's evil side has some... odd ideas how good and evil work, defining 'evil' as bravery, strength, and power, while cowardice, goodness and virtue were equated with weakness. On one occasion Random was unable to attack Mark because although Mark was afraid, he refused to back down, therefore he was not a coward. Cue programming conflict.
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Ace Lightning / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Ace Lightning / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Or at least lose your girlfriends, because you keep running off and canceling dates and generally being really weird? And can't tell her that the reason for all this is NOT because you're a jerk or just plain dense, but because you're trying to save the world in your spare time. Mark loses no less than two girlfriends this way. Ace's reasoning is that if Mark tells anyone else, he's putting them in danger. Since the girls were often in danger anyway, their knowing about Ace might actually have given them a better chance of staying in one piece. Lady Illusion and Sparx just need to stop shooting at one another and talk for once.
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Ace Lightning / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Ace Lightning / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Random Virus.
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Ace Lightning / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
Ace Lightning / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: Lady Illusion is capable of morphing into other beings. And does so regularly.
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Ace Lightning / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Ace Lightning / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo:
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Ace Lightning / int_23b059ec	type	Bedsheet Ghost
Ace Lightning / int_23b059ec	comment	Bedsheet Ghost: Chuck terrifies the living daylights out of the bad guys when he gets caught in a sheet while they're raiding Mark's house.
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Ace Lightning / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ace Lightning / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: Ace and Mark's attempts to reform the Amulet of Zoar first, since it would be a pretty lame way to end the season if the heroes went into the final battle armed with an all-powerful artifact.
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Ace Lightning / int_26648fb1	type	Perverse Puppet
Ace Lightning / int_26648fb1	comment	Perverse Puppet: Googler's insane venom-spitting, tree-chomping, scary-joke-telling hand puppets Zip and Snip. Not only are they creepy, sentient things while attached to him, but they can detach themselves and seek out their prey. Hitting them is kind of like trying to swat flies.
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Ace Lightning / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Ace Lightning / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Mark nearly has to at the end of series one when, anticipating the game being lost and the world being doomed, he nearly deletes the file of the Ace Lightning videogame: which would destroy all the bad guys, but take all the good guys with them. Fortunately he has a last minute breakthrough. In later series Mark chooses to help Ace and the other Lightning Knights to do things the Hard Way without even considering deletion.
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Ace Lightning / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Ace Lightning / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Jessica, at the end of series one.
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Ace Lightning / int_2a07adf3	type	Use Their Own Weapon Against Them
Ace Lightning / int_2a07adf3	comment	Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: In "Unidentified Flying Hero", Sparx is disarmed of her sword in a fight with Googler. His puppets Zip and Zap use the sword to blast her back into the game.
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Ace Lightning / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Ace Lightning / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Mr Chesborough. Though really he's more bitter and cruel (and later crazy) than sadistic.
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Ace Lightning / int_2da1421	type	Booby Trap
Ace Lightning / int_2da1421	comment	Booby Trap: The villains plant these several times, and the heroes fall right into them.
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Ace Lightning / int_2f5790f5	type	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
Ace Lightning / int_2f5790f5	comment	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: The character of Pete, Mark's best friend before he moved to America, appeared regularly in the introductions of episodes speaking to Mark from England via a videophone. He appeared in person in one episode of the second series while visiting Mark in America (kind of subverted, in that Pete decides it would be better if he didn't meet Ace).
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Ace Lightning / int_323f135b	type	Sorting Algorithm of Evil
Ace Lightning / int_323f135b	comment	Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Mentioned sometimes in the first season, that the villains are gradually getting more powerful (somehow) to reflect how video games get more difficult the closer you get to the end. Done more blatantly with the introduction of Kilobyte, who by himself is an unfairly powerful new boss enemy, but can also power up the existing villains.
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Ace Lightning / int_37fcf16	type	Death Is Cheap
Ace Lightning / int_37fcf16	comment	Death Is Cheap: At least as long as it's a game character. And that doesn't mean it can't be a Tear Jerker anyway.
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Ace Lightning / int_38291355	type	Does Not Know His Own Strength
Ace Lightning / int_38291355	comment	Does Not Know His Own Strength: Former Trope Namer (Ace Lightning Syndrome).
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Ace Lightning / int_38d17b6c	type	Boss-Arena Idiocy
Ace Lightning / int_38d17b6c	comment	Boss-Arena Idiocy: Several in the PC game. Googler's immune to Ace's attacks, buuuuuut decides to fight him in a room full of huge barrels of TNT that are enough to hurt the crazed clown. Dirty Rat has a force field Ace can't get through, buuuuuut the giant stone cowboy running around the room can. Random Virus is shielded from Ace's attacks too, buuuuuut for some reason Ace's shots can hurt him if they bounce off something first, like the giant shields hanging all over the walls.
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Ace Lightning / int_38d3a0f7	type	Pac-Man Fever
Ace Lightning / int_38d3a0f7	comment	Pac Man Fever: Inevitable to some degree, being written by people who probably didn't play modern video games. Some aspects of the In-Universe game all the characters came from sound iffy to viewers who did (numbered levels were mostly an outdated concept by the time the show was made), and when people are shown "playing" the game it's usually thumping random keys and wiggling joysticks without any regard for what the screen's supposed to be showing.
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Ace Lightning / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Ace Lightning / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Mark, during the episode Search For Sparx when he and Ace have essentially been thrown to the wolves (or rather the giant killer bee), Ace has given up and won't even try to defend himself. Mark is having none of it, grabs the nearest heavy, blunt object, and tries to defend both of them, despite knowing he doesn't have a chance. The threat to him was the only thing which which gets Ace back on his feet.
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Ace Lightning / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Ace Lightning / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: The Master Programmer behind Kilobyte. Or Kilobyte behind the Master Programmer, depends which episode you're watching.
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Ace Lightning / int_3f92ad39	type	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
Ace Lightning / int_3f92ad39	comment	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Ace is mind-controlled during one episode, and Sparx (while being repeatedly attacked by him) tries desperately to remind him that "we're the good guys!" Also occurs between Ace and Random Virus. Rarely successfully.
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Ace Lightning / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Ace Lightning / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: "Only Human" is, as the name suggests, supposed to be about Ace learning that you don't need powers to be a hero, but the problem is he doesn't find a way to save the day in spite of his lack of powers or learn to rely on his powers less, or anything like that. Instead the act of appreciating Mark's bravery brings his powers back just in time for him to save Mark's life and fight off the villains by shooting a bunch of lightning bolts at the problems. On top of that, between seasons it'd apparently been decided Mark wasn't contributing enough just hanging around being a voice of reason for the video game heroes. Come second season, and out of nowhere Mark has a gauntlet that shoots lightning bolts, letting him participate in fights too. So yeah, powers are a really important thing to have.
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Ace Lightning / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Ace Lightning / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Heather really doesn't appreciate Mark's inability to pay attention to his girlfriends. There were some viewer complaints since she apparently went from Action Girl to petty bitch in the space of a season with no real explanation.
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Ace Lightning / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Ace Lightning / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The second season. The Big Bad and his minions have been defeated and returned to the game, but so has Lady Illusion just as she and Ace have confessed their love.
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Ace Lightning / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Ace Lightning / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: During the final boss fight, Mark realizes the Amulet is hidden in Lord Fear's pipe organ.
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Ace Lightning / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Ace Lightning / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Ace is possessed in one episode, Random Virus has this problem constantly.
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Ace Lightning / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Ace Lightning / int_42bc6d2b	comment	Hostage for MacGuffin: Usually Mark ends up being hostage for an Amulet piece. It's happened to Sparx at least once, too. And to Sam, who usually doesn't even know it's happening. Pete's kidnapping is played for laughs, Lord Fear subjecting him to his deliberately awful howling til Mark brings him the Amulet.
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Ace Lightning / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Ace Lightning / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Usually Mark, who, when he's not getting chewed on by Googler's puppets, dumped into bizarre life-or-death situations which noone else knows about, or would believe is real if they did, or going face to face with Lord Fear, then he's having his social life ruined in a variety of unusual manners (such as, for example, Lady Illusion morphing into him and taking his place at school, to his family and friends annoyance and confusion, being bullied by a nasty teacher or dealing with Lord Fear preventing him from getting to a date on time.
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Ace Lightning / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Ace Lightning / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Mark Hollander throughout most of the series.
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Ace Lightning / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Ace Lightning / int_4a852458	comment	Building on that, "Zoar" was also the name of the Sorceress' bird form. And she's the show's Big Good and keeper of ancient and awesome powers, like the Zoar from the Ace Lightning back story's supposed to be.
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Ace Lightning / int_4de061b6	type	Extra-ore-dinary
Ace Lightning / int_4de061b6	comment	Extra-ore-dinary: Random Virus's abilities include a partial-control over metal objects. Given that he lives in a junkyard, this comes in handy.
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Ace Lightning / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Ace Lightning / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Several episodes, including April Fools and Unidentified Flying Superhero. The series finale itself with how hard they were sequel baiting, which didn't work. Kilobyte's been sent into the game but it's heavily implied he'll find a way back sooner or later and he'll be mighty pissed when he does. Lady Illusion's trapped in the game just as she and Ace finally confirm their love, Lord Fear is still on the loose, and the Amulet of Zoar's been shattered and its whereabouts are unknown.
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Ace Lightning / int_4e3decd5	type	A Friend in Need
Ace Lightning / int_4e3decd5	comment	A Friend in Need: You can always count on Ace Lightning. Mark may also be annoyed at Ace almost constantly, but he just can't seem to stay out of the game, and usually shows up to help.
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Ace Lightning / int_4e85cf85	type	Hero for a Day
Ace Lightning / int_4e85cf85	comment	Hero for a Day: Chuck gets temporary superpowers in one episode.
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Ace Lightning / int_4fb23aa8	type	I Have This Friend
Ace Lightning / int_4fb23aa8	comment	I Have This Friend: This happens with Mark a few times (who uses it genuinely when he's trying to figure out ways to help Ace without giving away the fact that said friend is actually a superhero who emerged from his videogame.)
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Ace Lightning / int_51567188	type	Cast from Hit Points
Ace Lightning / int_51567188	comment	Cast from Hit Points: Lightning Knights flicker from overusing their powers the same way they do from taking too much damage. They also recover from both by absorbing electricity.
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Ace Lightning / int_533bc7ae	type	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
Ace Lightning / int_533bc7ae	comment	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: While it's never outright stated that Random Virus's transformation into a cyborg played a part in his good-evil complex, it's certainly implied that the accident that caused him to be rebuilt had something to do with it.
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Ace Lightning / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
Ace Lightning / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: Whereas Mark was initially confused and reluctant to play the Saving the World Game, videogame fanatic (and leader of the Ace Lightning Fan Club) Chuck Mugel jumped at it as soon as he realized what was going on.
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Ace Lightning / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Ace Lightning / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Oddly, The Dragon in question is Staffhead, a talking (cockney, for that matter), a winged frog sitting on the staff that Lord Fear always carries.
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Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Ace Lightning / int_53f5119f
Ace Lightning / int_545744ee	type	Plot Coupon That Does Something
Ace Lightning / int_545744ee	comment	Plot Coupon That Does Something: The pieces of the Amulet of Zoar do more than indicate how close to the end of the game everyone's getting. Whenever a new piece is found it allows its holder to join it with the one they already have and summon a new character to join their side.
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Ace Lightning / int_55ccbea5	type	Mystery Meat
Ace Lightning / int_55ccbea5	comment	Mystery Meat: Whatever Mrs Kutcher the Cafeteria Lady is serving this week (Chuck's her favorite for actually liking the goop she serves up in the first place, and gets special treatment.)
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Ace Lightning / int_55ccbea5	featureConfidence	1.0
Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Ace Lightning / int_55ccbea5
Ace Lightning / int_56264acd	type	The So-Called Coward
Ace Lightning / int_56264acd	comment	The So-Called Coward: Mark's Dad is shown up on a camping trip by another arrogant father who boasts about his toughness. When the villains attack Mark's Dad fights them and directs the teenager campers how to defend themselves. The other dad ran away.
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Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Ace Lightning / int_56264acd
Ace Lightning / int_5642c768	type	Horrible Camping Trip
Ace Lightning / int_5642c768	comment	Horrible Camping Trip: Episode 22 is this trope. Mark, Chuck, Brett and Simon go camping only to meet up with Wayne and his boastful dad, whilst the villains look for Mark to prevent Ace from giving him a newly found piece of the Amulet.
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Ace Lightning / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
Ace Lightning / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: Mark, towards the end of series one in the episode Nobody's Hero.
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Ace Lightning / int_566f1565	featureConfidence	1.0
Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Ace Lightning / int_566f1565
Ace Lightning / int_58019946	type	Anvil on Head
Ace Lightning / int_58019946	comment	Anvil on Head: Given that one of the villain's henchmen is a giant, mutant Rhino with an actual anvil for a hand, you can imagine this happens quite a lot.
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Ace Lightning / int_58019946	featureConfidence	1.0
Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Ace Lightning / int_58019946
Ace Lightning / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Ace Lightning / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Realizing he hates Kilobyte even more than Ace, Lord Fear teams up with Ace and Mark to retake the carnival in the last episode.
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Ace Lightning / int_5989e3b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Ace Lightning / int_5989e3b6
Ace Lightning / int_5a9f7f08	type	The Lifestream
Ace Lightning / int_5a9f7f08	comment	The Lifestream: Called The Datastream, this is the swirling purple/blue energy portal that brings the CGI characters to earth from within Mark's game. The portal can be opened by putting together pieces of the Amulet of Zoar.
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Ace Lightning / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Ace Lightning / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Random Virus and Ace are said to have been friends before the series began (that's assuming you believe it happened), but due to Random's dodgy programming, he now has a habit of turning evil at inopportune moments.
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Ace Lightning / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Ace Lightning / int_5c1d5030	comment	Grew Beyond Their Programming: To begin with, all of the game characters are driven by their programmed roles and personalities. Over time, most develop a greater awareness of themselves and the world around them, developing true emotions, consciousness, and relationships. Ace Lightning and Lady Illusion are particular examples. In early episodes, the characters display a sense of self-awareness to their origins, but lose it as they become more humans. Ace is the only character to discover the Tomato in the Mirror that he is from a game.
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Ace Lightning / int_5d310fb8	type	Sword Fight
Ace Lightning / int_5d310fb8	comment	Sword Fight: Only one character has a sword, but since it fires lightning, it makes for some pretty spectacular fight scenes anyway.
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Ace Lightning / int_5d414804	type	Just Friends
Ace Lightning / int_5d414804	comment	Just Friends: Mark and Sam, after series two (ironically this is the only time you see them kiss but then this is that kind of show.
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Ace Lightning / int_5e323fa8	type	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life
Ace Lightning / int_5e323fa8	comment	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: Mark has a tendency to lose girlfriends this way as he often ends up standing them up or leaving dates to go help Ace fix whatever is going wrong this week. One of them is okay now. The other is still rather bitter.
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Ace Lightning / int_5f7ff68e	type	Sword Sparks
Ace Lightning / int_5f7ff68e	comment	Sword Sparks: Sort of. Sparx's sword shoots pink electricity.
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Ace Lightning / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Ace Lightning / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Lord Fear? Felicity Fury? Anvil? Dirty Rat?
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Ace Lightning / int_61881f59	type	Demoted to Dragon
Ace Lightning / int_61881f59	comment	Demoted to Dragon: Season 1's Big Bad Lord Fear was usurped and made the underling of Kilobyte.
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Ace Lightning / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Ace Lightning / int_6293c185	comment	The series finale itself with how hard they were sequel baiting, which didn't work. Kilobyte's been sent into the game but it's heavily implied he'll find a way back sooner or later and he'll be mighty pissed when he does. Lady Illusion's trapped in the game just as she and Ace finally confirm their love, Lord Fear is still on the loose, and the Amulet of Zoar's been shattered and its whereabouts are unknown.
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Ace Lightning / int_629f74e6	type	Repulsive Ringmaster
Ace Lightning / int_629f74e6	comment	Repulsive Ringmaster: Big Bad Lord Fear is the leader of the Carnival of Doom.
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Ace Lightning / int_62cbb836	type	Mid-Season Upgrade
Ace Lightning / int_62cbb836	comment	Mid-Season Upgrade: Basically Sparx showing up to help fight in the first season. In the second, that coupled with upgrading the Lightning Knights new powers to fight the stronger new villain.
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Ace Lightning / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Ace Lightning / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Lady Illusion at the end of series three.
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Ace Lightning / int_65244998	type	Lightning Can Do Anything
Ace Lightning / int_65244998	comment	Lightning Can Do Anything: Including bring the characters of a videogame to life, apparently... A deflected bolt of lightning from Ace once gave Chuck Mugel super strength for an episode. Ace mentioned that it was a "good job that was a deflected shot or he'd have been toast."
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Ace Lightning / int_660d1f3e	type	Amusement Park of Doom
Ace Lightning / int_660d1f3e	comment	Amusement Park of Doom: In the video game, the Ace Lightning characters fought against Lord Fear and his maniacal minions in the creepy and deserted Carnival of Doom. When they arrive in the real world, they locate a useful equivalent hideout in the Kent Brother's Carnival.
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Ace Lightning / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Ace Lightning / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Kilobyte - Rick's Avatar It's also interesting to note that the Master Programmer Rick Hummel has the same first name as the producer Rick Siggelkow though this is likely a coincidence.
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Ace Lightning / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Ace Lightning / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: Ace loses his powers in one episode, and gets them back just in time to save Mark's hide. He also accesses him human emotions in another episode, and finds that things aren't quite as simple as they used to be.
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Ace Lightning / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Ace Lightning / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Lady Illusion brings Ace out of a Heroic BSoD by kissing him.
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Ace Lightning / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Ace Lightning / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Do not - repeat, not - get on Ace's bad side.
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Ace Lightning / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Ace Lightning / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Since most of the cast came out of a videogame, death isn't exactly permanent for them not that this makes Sparx's "death" in Unidentified Flying Superhero any less traumatic... Also happens to Chuck in the third season, when Ace shoots him by accident. There are a few moments of panic before they realize he's okay. This was so Ace could learn it doesn't work the same for people who don't come from a videogame.
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Ace Lightning / int_6f32887b	type	WelcomeToTheRealWorld
Ace Lightning / int_6f32887b	comment	Welcome to the Real World: Ace Lightning and a gang of villains appear in the real world. It takes them a while to get used to this.
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Ace Lightning / int_70c06a09	type	The Undead
Ace Lightning / int_70c06a09	comment	The Undead: The main villain of the first two series (and finally once again at the end in a rather awesome fashion), Lord Fear; walking skeleton and the resident Lich. Also Rotgut the zombie cowboy in the second season, who prefers the term "walking dead".
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Ace Lightning / int_774e3f89	type	Can't Stay Normal
Ace Lightning / int_774e3f89	comment	Can't Stay Normal: Ace becomes 'human' after losing his powers in one episode -and hates it. Mark is also regularly forced to confront the fact that he's a "hero" now, and heroes have responsibilities that outweigh going to a movie with your girlfriend.
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Ace Lightning / int_7758b2c5	type	Protectorate
Ace Lightning / int_7758b2c5	comment	Protectorate: Don't mess with Mark while Ace is around. Just... don't.
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Ace Lightning / int_77666408	type	Combat Tentacles
Ace Lightning / int_77666408	comment	Combat Tentacles: Very creepy combat tentacles. Mostly used for power drainage.
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Ace Lightning / int_79372d59	type	The Game Come to Life
Ace Lightning / int_79372d59	comment	The Game Come to Life: Of the video game variety and the whole basis for the show's plot. A well-aimed lightning bolt strikes Mark's satellite dish, surging through his computer and joystick, and bringing the game characters to life. It is later revealed that the Master Programmer created a program that could bring the characters to life for a whole new way for game interactivity.
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Ace Lightning / int_7a2ebcba	type	Frankenstein's Monster
Ace Lightning / int_7a2ebcba	comment	Frankenstein's Monster: Subverted to a degree. The original Frankenstein's monster was a misunderstood creature shunned by the world (as well as his creator). Ace Lightning's Frankenstein's Monster is Kilobyte, a powerful, tattooed villain with tentacles that he used to drain the energy of those he catches. He wasn't so much get shunned by his creator as rebelled against him having discovered his identity as a Videogame Character.
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Ace Lightning / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
Ace Lightning / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: Lord Fear, after the overshadowing arrival of Kilobyte
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Ace Lightning / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
Ace Lightning / int_7d163c9c	comment	Dating Catwoman: Ace Lightning and Lady Illusion, though she really does love him and ends up saving his life in the final episode.
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Ace Lightning / int_7db2e3e0	type	Invincibility Power-Up
Ace Lightning / int_7db2e3e0	comment	Invincibility Power-Up: The Flame Upgrade in the second season. Like most such items it only lasts for a little bit though.
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Ace Lightning / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Ace Lightning / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: The second series was baiting pretty heavily for continuation note Kilobyte's trapped in the game but vows to come back and get revenge, Lady Illusion's snatched away just as she and Ace officially declare their love, Lord Fear and Mr. Cheseborough are on the run , only to end up canceled.
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Ace Lightning / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
Ace Lightning / int_82d2715f	comment	Magitek: The characters claim that the Amulet of Zoar is magically fuelled, but since they're actually characters who came from inside a videogame.
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Ace Lightning / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Ace Lightning / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: Notable aversion despite being both an adaptation of superheroes and video games. Usually Lord Fear comes by himself along with just one minion like Anvil, Pigface or Googler to do the dirty work, but that seems to be because the back of an ice cream van isn't the most spacious. When multiple villains attack at the same time, it's always treated like a serious threat the heroes have little chance of withstanding.
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Ace Lightning / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
Ace Lightning / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: Occurs all the damn time from the first episode: the CGI characters were initially brought to life by a bolt of lightning striking the aerial of the protagonist's house while he was playing their video game. Amongst other things. It also occurs at an inopportune moment later in the series ?when the main character happens to be in urgent need of a power up.
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Ace Lightning / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
Ace Lightning / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Mark, initially. Sort of for Random Virus, though it depends what mood he's in.
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Ace Lightning / int_8acbc572	type	Fire and Brimstone Hell
Ace Lightning / int_8acbc572	comment	Fire and Brimstone Hell: A level known as White Hot Oblivion in the Ace Videogame, in which Googler was imprisoned by Ace (he's notably annoyed by this). The audience never sees it.
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Ace Lightning / int_8b49514e	type	Magical Computer
Ace Lightning / int_8b49514e	comment	Magical Computer: Tonnes of them, mostly courtesy of Chuck.
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Ace Lightning / int_8ba5e417	type	Refugee from TV Land
Ace Lightning / int_8ba5e417	comment	Refugee from TV Land: The entire premise of the show.
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Ace Lightning / int_8c16c5d	type	Powers That Be
Ace Lightning / int_8c16c5d	comment	Powers That Be: The Master Programmer Rick Hummel had been watching Mark and his friends actions since the beginning, waiting for Lord Fear to take over so he can command them and rule the world, though he was only introduced in the third season. (He hadn't been doing a very good job until he created Kilobyte because the good guys kept winning).
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Ace Lightning / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Ace Lightning / int_8db4988a	comment	Unusual User Interface: Characters access the Sixth Dimension (the videogame world Ace hails from) by putting together pieces of the Amulet of Zoar.
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Ace Lightning / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Ace Lightning / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "Unidentified Flying Superhero": Sparx's death scene was so utterly unexpected and brutal in the middle of an otherwise lighthearted episode, (not to mention surprisingly handled) that nobody really cared that she would probably be back within a few episodes.
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Ace Lightning / int_8e47b1f5	type	Kissing Discretion Shot
Ace Lightning / int_8e47b1f5	comment	Kissing Discretion Shot: With the humans, (Mark and Kat kiss in silhouette in the final scene of the series) the CGI characters are less disguised about it.
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Ace Lightning / int_90769dd0	type	Evil Genius
Ace Lightning / int_90769dd0	comment	Evil Genius: Rick Hummel the Master Programmer. Albeit he calls his office his Fortress of Solitude.
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Ace Lightning / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Ace Lightning / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Sam returns for one episode in the final series. Ironically, the only time we ever see an undisguised on screen kiss between those two characters. It's that kinda show.
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Ace Lightning / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
Ace Lightning / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: Lord Fear's beef with Ace Lightning appears to stem from the fact that Ace crippled him in battle a long time ago. Word of God says there may have been more to it than that.
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Ace Lightning / int_932da128	type	Monster Clown
Ace Lightning / int_932da128	comment	Monster Clown: Jesters count, right? 'Cause then Googler qualifies.
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Ace Lightning / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Ace Lightning / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Sam and Heather have a mild version of this going throughout series one (afterwards, Samantha is Put on a Bus, Heather doesn't try to renew the relationship, and Kat becomes the Third-Option Love Interest).
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Ace Lightning / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Ace Lightning / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Mark, in the final episode of the second series, when he's left to choose between letting the world be taken over by computer game villains or deleting his new friends from existence, does this instead.
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Ace Lightning / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Ace Lightning / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Lord Fear during the final episode of the series (it's rather creepy).
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Ace Lightning / int_95a4c6df	type	Wild Card
Ace Lightning / int_95a4c6df	comment	Wild Card: Random Virus, a powerful cyborg with a damaged program that causes him to switch between good and evil at Random (pun totally intended) intervals.
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Ace Lightning / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Ace Lightning / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Early on, Lord Fear. Then Kilobyte, the incredibly overpowered villain of the third season, created by the Master Programmer in order to defeat Ace Lightning, only to Have Kilobyte turn on him and decide to banish all humans to the videogame.
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Ace Lightning / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Ace Lightning / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: Mark says this to Ace word for word in one episode. Ace just looks at him funny. Later on Ace becomes aware of the fact that he is just a game character and is understandably upset.
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Ace Lightning / int_9d72d632	type	Fanfic
Ace Lightning / int_9d72d632	comment	Fanfic: A surprisingly full section of fanfiction can be located here.
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Ace Lightning / int_9f5e99a7	type	DistressedDamsel
Ace Lightning / int_9f5e99a7	comment	Distressed Damsel: Samantha, in at least four episodes. Not that she was aware of it at the time.
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Ace Lightning / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Ace Lightning / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Chuck is Mark's Secret Keeper in the third season, as is Ashley Hollander throughout most of the series.
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Ace Lightning / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Ace Lightning / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Amulet of Zoar, which is scattered in pieces throughout the carnival and must be completely reassembled in order to win the "game".
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Ace Lightning / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
Ace Lightning / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: How to tell when Random Virus is in bad guy mode. Although the simple fact that he's left the junkyard is usually an indication of that too...
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Ace Lightning / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Ace Lightning / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: While they're not really "useless" per se, they know nothing about the part-time superhero thing but they're pretty genial and understanding about the social side of things. One really can't blame them for not suspecting their son is saving the world with a fictional character. Other adults include a mean-spirited teacher driven half-barmy by the CGI Villains, a carnival owner whose home gets taken over, and a driving instructor who is terrified by Mark's performance (he didn't realize that the car was being chased by Lord Fear on a killer motorcycle at the time.)
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Ace Lightning / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Ace Lightning / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: Mark regularly exchanges video communications with Pete: communications which usually took a turn for the serious whenever a series was nearing its end and we were due a showdown.
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Ace Lightning / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Ace Lightning / int_af696bef	comment	Mark is something of a Fish out of Water, being a British Immigrant new to American Culture. Most people pass off his odd behavior as a result of this, and not the fact that he's hiding a living computer character from the world.
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Ace Lightning / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
Ace Lightning / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: In episode twelve, Nobody's Hero, Mark dreams in exacting detail exactly what is going to happen to him by the end of the episode. This trick occurred only once, but it got a few fans talking, nonetheless... and you won't believe the theories it resulted in... Though actually, you probably would.
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Ace Lightning / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Ace Lightning / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: The Lightning Knights' Motto: 'Do Right and Fear Not'.
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Ace Lightning / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Ace Lightning / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Mark nearly sets himself up for one of these at the end of the first series when faced with the option of either losing the game and allowing Lord Fear to take over the world, or deleting the videogame from his hard drive, which would delete Ace and all the other CGIs along with it. Fortunately he has a Last Minute realization and is spared from making the choice.
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Ace Lightning / int_b58642b1	type	Trapped in Another World
Ace Lightning / int_b58642b1	comment	Trapped in Another World: The video game characters are stuck in the real world. A few human characters also get trapped in the videogame over the course of the series. Its Kilobyte's ultimate goal to send the entire human population of the world to live inside the game. He clearly hasn't entirely thought this through.
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Ace Lightning / int_b5c70c26	type	Tin Man
Ace Lightning / int_b5c70c26	comment	Tin Man: Ace Lightning. He gradually comes to understand his newfound feelings. It isn't that Ace didn't have emotions to begin with so much as that he didn't have access to human ones. His emotions were being kept in check and moderated by his programming. With that program destroyed, his newly uninhibited emotions got the better of him and he became a bit of a bastard for a while. He hates it at first, but grows to accept them and when Lady Illusion dies for him, he realizes he couldn't let go of loving her, no matter how painful it was. It's regularly suggested that Ace's emotions have always had a direct effect on his powers even before this. Seeing Mark in danger allowed him to recover them in one episode, and he reacted with incredible enthusiasm (and an insane power burst) aimed directly at Googler after he wiped out Sparx.
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Ace Lightning / int_b6c0ef1f	type	What Have I Become?
Ace Lightning / int_b6c0ef1f	comment	What Have I Become?: Ace realizes how dangerous and uncontrollable he has become now that he has human emotions - specifically when he nearly kills Chuck.
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Ace Lightning / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
Ace Lightning / int_b8dde2	comment	Evil Overlord: Lord Fear in the first two seasons, Kilobyte in the third, though Lord Fear gained a few competence points after he was ousted.
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Ace Lightning / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Ace Lightning / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Mark, at the end of the series, has the dilemma of choosing whether to allow Lord Fear to take over the world, or deleting the videogame (including Ace, Sparx and Random) from his hard drive, and therefore removing the heroes from existence. (The fact that he even considered it then, and never even thought of it towards the end of the last series, says a lot for his character development.)note Also, Kilobyte's a character who didn't actually come from his game. If he deleted the game, it might take the other characters away but it would leave Kilobyte still around and with nobody powerful enough to stop him.
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Ace Lightning / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
Ace Lightning / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: It's quite literally a last dance for Lady Illusion and Ace Lightning during the finale of the first series, when they quietly and calmly finish the dance that they began several episodes earlier, before she vanishes back into the game.
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Ace Lightning / int_c209fc7	type	Chaste Hero
Ace Lightning / int_c209fc7	comment	Chaste Hero: Ace doesn't even know how to flirt. It's ultimately a reason he's glad to have been given human emotions, though: he can break out of this and learn how to love.
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Ace Lightning / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Ace Lightning / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The game all the heroes and villains come from. A real-life Ace Lightning game came out between the two series meant to be the one in the show itself. There are a couple things in the show it actually provides context for, like Ace having an unreasoning hatred of garden gnomes (One level is full of killer garden gnomes as enemies). However there are things that don't gel with the game's portrayal in the show (An especially big one is Sparx doesn't appear in the game at all. She's mentioned in the introduction and waves goodbye to the player with Ace and Random under the end credits, but that's it).
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Ace Lightning / int_c2c30ef6	type	Angst
Ace Lightning / int_c2c30ef6	comment	Angst: From most of the cast, though it's mainly either typical, teenage angst, understandable concern about discovering you're really a videogame character and your whole world is just a fiction cooked up for schoolkids, or the kind of angst generated when your Split Personality can't decide whether to help people or to kill them. It's also not too heavy given the show's nature as a comedy first.
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Ace Lightning / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Ace Lightning / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": In the finale. Interestingly, it's Mark, when he thinks Ace has been shot turns out it was Lady Illusion in morph.
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Ace Lightning / int_c32201f6	type	Good Colors, Evil Colors
Ace Lightning / int_c32201f6	comment	Good Colors, Evil Colors: When Random Virus' cyborg eye is green it's reasonably safe to approach him. When it turns red, however, you'd better run for the hills. The good characters also tend to shoot color-coded attacks which are either blue or pink. The bad guys are usually sharp green.
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Ace Lightning / int_c3cc5fa0	type	Mad Scientist Laboratory
Ace Lightning / int_c3cc5fa0	comment	Mad Scientist Laboratory: Well, angry scientist's computer lab, really.
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Ace Lightning / int_c3d60914	type	Continuing is Painful
Ace Lightning / int_c3d60914	comment	Continuing is Painful: The Lightning Knights noticeably have it a lot harder when it comes to being defeated than the villains, who will just step out of their Respawn Point after enough time passes for their health to regenerate. If a Lightning Knight's defeated, they're sent back into the world of the game, and their allies still on this side have to find two of the Plot Coupons and combine them to summon anyone back. Come second series even that doesn't seem to be an option anymore, since they never try to use the pieces of the amulet Mark still has to bring Sparx back like they had before.
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Ace Lightning / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Ace Lightning / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: One or two of them. Including a minor one in the final episode, damn it.
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Ace Lightning / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Ace Lightning / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Possibly to Masters of the Universe, since Ace Lightning revolves around the Amulet of Zoar, a mystical item that can give multiversal powers to the user, and is sought after by a skeletal lich who hates the muscular, blonde protagonist... Building on that, "Zoar" was also the name of the Sorceress' bird form. And she's the show's Big Good and keeper of ancient and awesome powers, like the Zoar from the Ace Lightning back story's supposed to be. Ace accidentally names Mark as Mario.
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Ace Lightning / int_c7ce2860	type	Personal Gain Hurts
Ace Lightning / int_c7ce2860	comment	Personal Gain Hurts: Creating Kilobyte just to get revenge on the people who laughed at your genius was a really, really bad move, Master Programmer.
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Ace Lightning / int_c960826	type	Supporting Protagonist
Ace Lightning / int_c960826	comment	Supporting Protagonist: Mark is the protagonist of the series while Ace Lightning is the hero.
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Ace Lightning / int_ca4569bd	type	"Test Your Strength" Game
Ace Lightning / int_ca4569bd	comment	"Test Your Strength" Game: The Carnival of Doom has a "Test Your Strength" game which Anvil hides in.
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Ace Lightning / int_ca85e684	type	Power Trio
Ace Lightning / int_ca85e684	comment	Power Trio: Ace, Random Virus (when he's in the right mood) and Sparx for the Lightning Knights. Mark, Chuck and Sam (later Kat) for the humans respectively.
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Ace Lightning / int_cb643ebb	type	Everything's Deader with Zombies
Ace Lightning / int_cb643ebb	comment	Everything's Deader with Zombies: Rotgut in Season 2.
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Ace Lightning / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
Ace Lightning / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: Lord Fear invades Mark's school during a school play (a somewhat uncreative remake of The Phantom of the Opera). Of course, the audience thinks he's just a very convincing actor. Lord Fear relishes the attention, and Mark is the only one who freaks out because he's the only one who knows what's going on.
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Ace Lightning / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Ace Lightning / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: After the part of his program controlling his emotions is screwed with, Ace finds it... a little difficult to keep control. Manifestations of "what the hell, hero?" include explosive anger at Fear, an outright outburst at a very confused Mark, and his accidentally shooting Chuck.
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Ace Lightning / int_d44ea142	type	You Are Not Alone
Ace Lightning / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: Mark to Ace at the end of series two, and a couple of times throughout the rest of the series. The general theme seems to be when the chips are down, help out your friends.
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Ace Lightning / int_d581ba71	type	Comes Great Responsibility
Ace Lightning / int_d581ba71	comment	Comes Great Responsibility: Mark always eventually comes around to the importance of helping Ace save the world, regardless of how many relationships it screws up or how often he nearly gets killed.
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Ace Lightning / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Ace Lightning / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: The Master Programmer probably thinks it's him, but really, it's Kilobyte, who knows more about the game than anyone realizes and is pulling countless strings to make things go his way.
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Ace Lightning / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
Ace Lightning / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: When Random isn't trying to kill him, he and Ace have a few of these.
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Ace Lightning / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
Ace Lightning / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: What will happen if the bad guys obtain all the pieces of the Amulet of Zoar (little thought is given as to how a bunch of computer game characters can really pose a threat to national security, but hey, they can exist and apparently go some damage, so... Mark figures he'd better play it safe. Then Kilobyte shows up, and the characters know that they really HAVE to take it seriously.
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Ace Lightning / int_d7ecbd57	type	You're Insane!
Ace Lightning / int_d7ecbd57	comment	You're Insane!: Mark, to Rick Hummel, the Master Programmer. Because he is.
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Ace Lightning / int_d86fcde6	type	Kick the Morality Pet
Ace Lightning / int_d86fcde6	comment	Kick the Morality Pet: Ace accidentally shoots Chuck after Lady Illusion messes with his program giving him access to human emotions.
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Ace Lightning / int_da2b1604	type	Foe-Tossing Charge
Ace Lightning / int_da2b1604	comment	Foe-Tossing Charge: Anvil does this to the good guys regularly throughout the series (and he's a giant mutant humanoid rhino with a literal anvil in place of one hand, just so you know. Ouch).
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Ace Lightning / int_e2415f	type	The Cape
Ace Lightning / int_e2415f	comment	The Cape: Ace (like most of the archetype roles in this series, this is somewhat subverted in that he really doesn't fit in the real world).
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Ace Lightning / int_e50818aa	type	Normally, I Would Be Dead Now
Ace Lightning / int_e50818aa	comment	Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: Chuck gets hit by Ace's lightning bolts twice. The first time gave him superpowers, the second time merely knocks him unconscious for about sixty seconds - not the usual reaction to electrical trauma. Mark is surprised by his continued survival on a regular basis. No wonder, really.
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Ace Lightning / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Ace Lightning / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Mark is based on Peter Parker, at least in terms of his struggles to maintain a normal life. Ace Lightning is a mix of Superman, The Mighty Thor, and Spider-Man (humour-wise). Lady Illusion is a combination of Mystique and Catwoman.
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Ace Lightning / int_e542b169	type	Geek
Ace Lightning / int_e542b169	comment	Geek: Chuck Mugel: a geek of the computer-related variety.
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Ace Lightning / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Ace Lightning / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial:
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Ace Lightning / int_e8749dab	type	Teach Him Anger
Ace Lightning / int_e8749dab	comment	Teach Him Anger: Technically, though, Ace already had emotions they were just being moderated and controlled by his program. When Lady Illusion, with a new upgrade from Kilobyte, messes with that program, Ace learns what it's like to have your emotions in control of you, rather than the other way around.
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Ace Lightning / int_e899b102	type	Sidekick
Ace Lightning / int_e899b102	comment	Sidekick: Sparx and Mark, both to Ace. (Later on Chuck, too.)
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Ace Lightning / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Ace Lightning / int_eae41a	comment	Which is even bigger blindness if you actually play the game, where the cutscenes show Lady Illusion practically throwing herself at Ace, turning her into The Vamp.
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Ace Lightning / int_ed72657e	type	Rhino Rampage
Ace Lightning / int_ed72657e	comment	Rhino Rampage: Anvil, the rhinoceros-headed Dumb Muscle of the villains.
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Ace Lightning / int_eed6d1c3	type	The Glasses Gotta Go
Ace Lightning / int_eed6d1c3	comment	The Glasses Gotta Go: When Jessica removes her glasses for the first time at the end of the series dance, she seems instantly more attractive.
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Ace Lightning / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Ace Lightning / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Ace constantly breaking things in Mark's household, which his parents discover, sooner or later, and blame on "shoddy American construction". (He gets better by the end of the series, though.) Also Sparx going off somewhere after she's been told not to (and usually getting in trouble in the process). Chuck throwing up.
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Ace Lightning / int_faece9aa	type	The Power of Friendship
Ace Lightning / int_faece9aa	comment	The Power of Friendship: Seeing Mark in danger and finally coming to understand what a friend is gives Ace the ability to recover his powers after having lost them. Occasionally, reminding him of their past helps Ace snap Random Virus out of his evil mode without having to resort to violence. More often, however, giving him a good whack is the only way to fix him.
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Ace Lightning / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Ace Lightning / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Subverted, Ace thinks that this is what Mark does on a regular basis by putting his homework and girlfriend duties ahead of saving the world. Mark however, is really more in tune with reality than Ace is. Of course, Ace does have a point. CGI characters or not, the threat the evils pose to the world is very, very real, and as soon as Mark works that out, he stops making so many excuses.
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Ace Lightning / int_ffa0483f	type	Cut Short
Ace Lightning / int_ffa0483f	comment	Cut Short: The second season was angling pretty hard for a sequel despite being only half as long as the first. It didn't work, so we got No Ending.
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Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Amusement Park of Doom / int_fa84fc2e
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Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Bad Humor Truck / int_fa84fc2e
Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Bedsheet Ghost / int_fa84fc2e
Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Blue Is Heroic / int_fa84fc2e
Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Bouncing Battler / int_fa84fc2e
CBBC	seeAlso	Ace Lightning
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Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Circus of Fear / int_fa84fc2e
Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Close-Range Combatant / int_fa84fc2e
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Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Crappy Carnival / int_fa84fc2e
Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Creator's Oddball / int_fa84fc2e
Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Domestic Abuse / int_fa84fc2e
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Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Lightning Can Do Anything / int_fa84fc2e
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Ace Lightning	hasFeature	This Is Reality / int_fa84fc2e
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Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World / int_fa84fc2e
Ace Lightning	hasFeature	We Will Meet Again / int_fa84fc2e
Ace Lightning	hasFeature	Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning / int_fa84fc2e

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