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Thunderbirds	comment	Created by the preeminent British puppet-show producer Gerry Anderson and originally airing on ITV in 1965â€“66, Thunderbirds is the story of the Tracy family, a wealthy clan who embark on a unique philanthropic venture.In the year 2065, American billionaire ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy and his five sons (Scott, Virgil, Gordon, John and Alan) form "International Rescue", an organisation whose purpose should be self-explanatory. They use technology designed by their resident Techno Wizard, "Brains", which is far beyond anything possessed by any military or civilian agency on the planet, even given the show's far future setting of the late 21st century.Every week, some monstrous disaster would occur, and the boys (primarily Scott and Virgil) would pilot their awesome Thunderbird aerospace craft to the scene, moving at speeds that would make an aeronautical engineer drool. Scott would get there first, survey the situation, and call back to Virgil, who would then arrive at the scene with the right equipment loaded into the cavernous interior of Thunderbird 2's "pod". Amongst other things, a drilling vehicle (Mole) or an underwater rover (Thunderbird 4) could be loaded into 2. In fact, the other wiki has a list of the many bizarre vehicles deployed.There were five Thunderbirds, one for each brother: Thunderbird 1: Was the most used. Looks like a missile, moves like a jet fighter. Takes off from base vertically using rockets then switches to horizontal jet propulsion and lands horizontally. Usually used for recconaissance to travel to the disaster quickly and assess which of International Rescue's other resources is needed in that situation. Thunderbird 2: A ginormous plane that incorporates equipment pods into its fuselage. A selection of pods is available, each pre-loaded with specialist rescue equipment. The heavy lifter of the fleet (and the most frequently seen, turning up in all but one of the episodes and both movies). Thunderbird 3: An actual rocketship. Mostly used to get to Thunderbird 5, but also used on a number of space rescue missions. Thunderbird 4: A small submarine/underwater rover, usually carried by Thunderbird 2 in pod #4. Thunderbird 5: A Space Station, capable of receiving transmissions from all over the globe and automatically detecting and translating distress calls.Acting as an espionage back-up, to prevent any of IR's tech from being stolen and used for military or destructive purposes, was prim and proper spy Lady Penelope, and her rough-edged cockney Battle Butler Parker, in Penny's pink six-wheeled (and heavily-armed) Rolls-Royce limousine, FAB 1.The miniatures used were cutting edge for the time. The show was described as feature film quality, to the point where Lord Grade, the head of the commissioning company ITC Entertainment, upped it from a half hour to an hour long drama (necessitating additional scenes to be shot for the first few episodes).Oh, and all the characters were puppets. The show was filmed in Supermarionation, which was a process using souped-up marionettes with moving lips electronically synchronized with pre-recorded dialogue.This show is a classic in its native Britain, and around the world. The first season was such a success that it was decided to make a full-blown movie before production began on the second season; the result was Thunderbirds Are Go, wherein the Tracys must rescue an imperilled Mars rocket after a scrape with the local lifeforms. Expected to be a blockbuster of James Bond proportions, it performed poorly at the box office.An unsuccessful trip made by Lew Grade to try and sell the show to American networks ensured the second season would be the series' last; further, amid corporate fears that the bubble had burst, Gerry Anderson was instructed that said second season be cut back to just six episodes. United Artists, surprised at the failure of the first movie, subsequently commissioned another — Thunderbird 6, where designing a new Thunderbird vehicle is put on hold when a state-of-the-art luxury airship is in danger — and this also flopped. But by then Anderson was already at work on new Supermarionation projects with a new generation of puppets.Punk/new wave band The Rezillos released a song "Thunderbirds Are Go" in 1978, singing the praises of the series: "the TV show that's never been beat." 80s band Fuzzbox released a single called "International Rescue" as an affectionate tribute/parody of the series, which made it to number 11 in the UK charts. Also in regards to the show's presence on the music scene, Gerry Anderson co-directed the video for "Calling Elvis" by Dire Straits in 1991, where the band members appear as marionettes and footage from Thunderbirds is intercut with footage of a woman meandering around her house.In 1982, ITC took Scientific Rescue Team Techno Voyager (note: onscreen it is transliterated in Engrish as Techno Boyger, thus the vehichles retain the TB designation making the Thunderbirds connection slightly more obvious), a 24-episode anime on Fuji TV inspired by the series, and dubbed it as Thunderbirds 2086. This series is not considered part of the Thunderbirds canon by most fans, but interestingly was originally planned as such until a dropoff in popularity of the franchise in Japan led to difficulties in finding a sponsor. Nevertheless, it tanked and was canceled early in both Japan and the UK, though the US and Canada did get all 24 episodes in syndication.note Episodes 19-24 remained unbroadcast in Japan until 2008. A pre-Macross Artland worked on episode 10, which notably features a Misa Hayase prototype as a minor character.The early 90's saw a few attempts to revamp the show for a new American audience, the first being airings on Fox on Saturday mornings, with the episodes whittled down to fit in a half-hour time slot with rerecorded dialogue and some new music. After a fairly short run this version faded from view. Much stranger was the attempt that followed shortly afterward, known as Turbocharged Thunderbirds. Live action segments were added of the "Hack Masters", Trip and Roxette, operating out of "Hacker Command" (that is, Thunderbird 5 with the new name digitally superimposed on the side), where they coordinated the actions of the supermarionettes from the 60's footage. What's more, the forces of evil now reported to another new character, a giant spectral head named "The Atrocimator". Who was voiced by Tim Curry. This version also didn't last long, and when it's remembered at all, it's mostly for the bizarre idea behind it.2004 saw the release of a live-action version directed by Jonathan Frakes; unfortunately, Universal's Executive Meddling and being trapped in Development Hell since the 90s turned what could've been an awesome film into something most fans of the franchise would like to forget, and many, including Anderson himself, consider Trey Parker and Matt Stoneâ€˜s Affectionate Parody Team America: World Police, which was made using marionettes similar to the original series, to be the true Thunderbirds movie released that year.A revival, titled Thunderbirds Are Go, started on 4 April 2015 and concluded on February 22, 2020.There are also three audio episodes recorded by the original cast and released in the Sixties. In 2015 these were used as the basis for three new episodes filmed in Supermarionation style. And in 2021, Big Finish acquired the rights to the series and released three full-cast audio adaptations of John Theydon's tie-in novels.
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Thunderbirds / int_10129cf5	comment	Unraveled Entanglement: International Rescue erases a television videotape with a remote magnetic pulse device in order to protect their secrets. When the cameraman unloads the (now smoking) tape from the truck-mounted camera, the tape starts to unravel all over the announcer standing below.
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Thunderbirds / int_109f0d17	type	Piggy Bank
Thunderbirds / int_109f0d17	comment	Piggy Bank: At the end of "Vault of Death", Light-Fingered Fred easily breaks into the Bank of England vault, chuckling "they call this place burglar-proof? They'd do better to use my kids' piggy banks".
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Thunderbirds / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Thunderbirds / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Many of the cast's voices or appearances were cribbed off then-current celebrities.
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Thunderbirds / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Thunderbirds / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Every episode begins with a brief preview montage, essentially summarising the episode you are about to watch.
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Thunderbirds / int_15d60257	comment	Amphibious Automobile: FAB 1 has a hydrofoil that pops out of its undercarriage if Lady Penelope ever needs to make an impromptu trip over water. Inversely, Thunderbird 4 has hoverjets for making brief trips over land.
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Thunderbirds / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Thunderbirds / int_17ce80aa	comment	The Hood's real name is never revealed. Heck, even the name "The Hood" is never uttered on screen. The only name he is ever called by on screen is "Agent 7-9", and that in just a single episode.
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Thunderbirds / int_19e9b150	type	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage
Thunderbirds / int_19e9b150	comment	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Virgil plays the theme song on a piano at the end of the pilot episode.
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Thunderbirds / int_1ae52ae9	type	Exty Years from Publication
Thunderbirds / int_1ae52ae9	comment	Exty Years from Publication: The series was set in the 2060s, conveniently exactly one century after it was made (as is the case with almost all of Anderson's series). Confusingly, though, some episodes are dated in the 2020s.
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Thunderbirds / int_1bbb76bc	type	Abandoned Area
Thunderbirds / int_1bbb76bc	comment	Abandoned Area: A few show up over the series. They make for pretty believable rescue locations, after all.
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Thunderbirds / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
Thunderbirds / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6, neither of which were very successful.
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Thunderbirds / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Thunderbirds / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: International Rescue have no official authority; indeed, they strive for total independence and anonymity. In the first few episodes, they have to work hard to persuade the authorities to let them help and are only permitted because all other options have been exhausted. But once they have established a name for themselves by saving every life entrusted to them, they are generally granted total control of a danger zone the minute they arrive.
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Thunderbirds / int_1cfd58fc	type	Clown Car
Thunderbirds / int_1cfd58fc	comment	Clown Car: Thunderbird 2's pods can contain any number of heavy vehicles needed for the rescue. This is most apparent in Trapped In The Sky when just one elevator car, barely fitting out the door, looks like it fills the whole pod alone; over the course of the rescue, another three will come out to join it. Are those things inflatable?
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Thunderbirds / int_1e75509c	type	Adventure-Friendly World
Thunderbirds / int_1e75509c	comment	Adventure-Friendly World: Despite the tendency of large-scale science and technology projects in the Thunderbirds 'verse to catastrophically and explosively fail, nobody ever stops building the damn things.
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Thunderbirds / int_21f5491	type	Appease the Volcano God
Thunderbirds / int_21f5491	comment	Appease the Volcano God: In one of the more... peculiar comics, an African tribe tries to sacrifice Thunderbird 2 by rolling the gargantuan aircraft into an active volcano.
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Thunderbirds / int_226875bb	type	Caper Crew
Thunderbirds / int_226875bb	comment	Caper Crew: Despite being a heroic organisation, International Rescue occasionally finds itself needing to orchestrate a con-like mission to prevent the villains from starting a disaster (e.g. The Man From M.I.5, The Cham Cham). Under these conditions, the hierarchy goes thus: The Mastermind: Jeff, as leader of International Rescue, calls all the shots. The Partner in Crime: Lady Penelope takes the second-in-command role, being an expert in espionage. As such, she also acts as The Conman, The Roper, and just about any other front-line role needed. The Gadget Guy: Brains, naturally. The Safe Cracker: Parker, being an ex-burglar, fills this role. The Driver/The Muscle/The Fixer: The Tracy boys in their Thunderbirds machines.
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Thunderbirds / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Thunderbirds / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Is there a cool, unique vehicle in the first few minutes of the episode? Is everyone taking about what an amazing work of engineering it is? It's going wrong within a few minutes, and everyone is going to need rescuing from it. There's also a better than evens chance of it exploding spectacularly before the end.
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Thunderbirds / int_232aa245	type	Laser Cutter
Thunderbirds / int_232aa245	comment	Laser Cutter: Laser cutters are used in these episodes: "City of Fire", to cut through the steel fire doors to rescue the family trapped underneath a burning building. "Vault of Death": the lasers are not powerful enough to get through the very thick door of the Bank of England vault, in the very limited time. "Operation Crash Dive": Gordon uses a laser to cut the engines off the sunken Fireflash aircraft, to make it float to the surface. "Thirty Minutes after Noon": Lasers are used to rescue Southern from behind three steel doors. "Cry Wolf": The Hood uses one to burn through the door to the tracking laboratory.
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Thunderbirds / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Thunderbirds / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: This occurred with the audio dramas adapted into tv episodes as part of the Thunderbirds 1965 project.
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Thunderbirds / int_29aecb56	type	Parasol Parachute
Thunderbirds / int_29aecb56	comment	Parasol Parachute: In "The Cham-Cham", Parker climbs on the roof of a cable car careering down a wire at a high speed. Lady Penelope offers him her umbrella, to help him attach hooks to it lowered by Thunderbird 2. When Parker falls off the roof, he uses the umbrella as a parachute.
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Thunderbirds / int_2b812abd	type	Going for the Big Scoop
Thunderbirds / int_2b812abd	comment	Going for the Big Scoop: In Terror in New York City, TV journalist Ned Cook is determined to cover the event of the Empire State Building being moved. Even when the operation goes wrong and the ground starts cracking up under his feet, he stays where he is, until he falls through the ground, the Empire State Building falls on top of him, and he has to be rescued in a very difficult operation.
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Thunderbirds / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Thunderbirds / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Pretty much every vehicle in the series is a victim of this. See the individual episodes in the Recap section for specific examples.
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Thunderbirds / int_2d5b1c65	type	Expansion Pack Past
Thunderbirds / int_2d5b1c65	comment	Expansion Pack Past: Nearly all of the Tracy Brothers (who range in age from late to early 20's) had quite interesting careers before retiring from them to join IR full time. Scott served in the U.S. Air Force where he got decorated for bravery, John published four textbooks on astronomy and is known as the discoverer of the Tracy quasar system, Gordon used to be a Olympic champion at the butterfly stroke and served at the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (from Stingray), and Alan was a successful race-car driver. (His career was briefly revived in the episode "Move and You're Dead".) Jeff also counts; he was a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, astronaut for the Space Agency and one of the first men on the moon, and finally started his own company.
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Thunderbirds / int_2ea916dc	type	To the Batpole!
Thunderbirds / int_2ea916dc	comment	To the Batpole!: The famous "rotating furniture" that took the Tracys from the house to the hangars. In City of Fire, there is also a revolving desk in a control room, which does not appear to serve much purpose.
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Thunderbirds / int_2f3b0d6d	type	Big Storm Episode
Thunderbirds / int_2f3b0d6d	comment	Big Storm Episode: There are a few of these. The deadly nature of a storm makes it a natural location to find International Rescue saving people who are experiencing this trope.
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Thunderbirds / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Thunderbirds / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: The special effects crew were really, really good at explosions and flames, with the result that almost every episode had a spectacular explosion of some kind at some point. The intro ends with this.
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Thunderbirds / int_339b3062	type	Quintessential British Gentleman
Thunderbirds / int_339b3062	comment	Quintessential British Gentleman: Just about every male English character in the show is portrayed with an aristocratic, nasal, Received Pronunciation accent, and would never dream of raising their voice even in their current life-or-death situation. It's a bit of an Enforced Trope as the show was made in Britain, by British showmakers who would definitely know better, but was intended to be sold to American broadcasters for an audience who would be expecting this trope.
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Thunderbirds / int_33cadb12	type	Compilation Movie
Thunderbirds / int_33cadb12	comment	Compilation Movie: Three, all airing in 1981, under Anderson's Super Space Theater title. Countdown to Disaster, featuring the episodes "Terror in New York City" and "Atlantic Inferno". Thunderbirds in Outer Space, featuring the episodes "Sun Probe" and "Ricochet". Thunderbirds to the Rescue, featuring the episodes "Trapped in the Sky" and "Operation Crash-Dive".
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Thunderbirds / int_3537d6df	type	Alternate Techline
Thunderbirds / int_3537d6df	comment	Alternate Techline: The Thunderbirds universe continues the trend of technology from the 1960s, extrapolating it into the 21st century. As we get closer and closer to the 2060s, a lot of the tech looks increasingly out of place. All in-series passenger airliners are supersonic. After Concorde proved too expensive for the masses and so loud that it was banned from flying over several countries, the industry focused on size over speed, and now even that is being sacrificed for efficiency. Everything is nuclear powered. The prevailing mood now is that nuclear power is only really practical in large ships, submarines and power plants, and no one in their right mind would ever suggest a nuclear-powered plane today. Even the oven on Tracy Island is nuclear powered. While magnetic tape does still have its uses in the computing world, it has nowhere near the level of ubiquity it enjoys in Thunderbirds. Computers in general are shown to still be room-sized and built for one specific job, far from the miniaturised, versatile machines of today. Scott's mobile control, which he had to ask for help to unload from Thunderbird 1, could easily be replaced with a modern laptop or even tablet. It seems mobile phones never took off, with everyone instead making video calls from a dedicated phone booth. And no one today would bat an eyelid at someone talking to their smart watch.
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Thunderbirds / int_35fa1ba0	type	Drill Tank
Thunderbirds / int_35fa1ba0	comment	Drill Tank: The Mole, one of TB 2's pod vehicles, sets a gold standard for the type. It has rockets to push it into the ground, for fab's sake!
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Thunderbirds / int_392ecd12	type	Fake Aristocrat
Thunderbirds / int_392ecd12	comment	Fake Aristocrat: One episode has Parker pretend to be an English lord and get everyone in the hotel to play Bingo with him. This was part of a scheme where in the event a fire broke out (thanks to a dish falling off a building and lodging itself on a mountain in a position where it would project the sun's rays at the town where the hotel was) everyone would be awake to fight the fire.
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Thunderbirds / int_393ec3f9	type	Zeerust
Thunderbirds / int_393ec3f9	comment	Zeerust: Kind of inevitable, considering the show was made in the 1960's. The Thunderbirds themselves, particularly 1 and 2, were based on aircraft and prototypes that were state-of-the-art at the time; TB 1 on the MiG 19 and 21, along with a series of X-planes, and 2 on experimental lifting-body aircraft. All other kinds of high-tech machines have clicky panels, big shiny microphones and chrome-plated-chrome. And not to mention; reel-to-reel tapes, telegrams and manual typewriters are still fully in use in the the futuristic world of the Thunderbirds, while things like the internet, mobile phones, tablets, pocket calculators etc. are not present at all. The International Rescue crew do have watches with little full-colour screens, on which they can see each other; although they don't use them very often. It's also notable that panels of flashing lights (of which there are many) clearly use filament lamps: not an LED to be seen.
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Thunderbirds / int_3b0fd855	type	Obstructive Code of Conduct
Thunderbirds / int_3b0fd855	comment	Obstructive Code of Conduct: IR's policy of strict secrecy concerning their equipment when the Tracy family could possibly save thousands of lives, not mention make a spectacular profit, by licensing out the designs of their Thunderbird vehicles to the various nations and organisations wanting to augment their own emergency response forces. Presumably, this is to keep IR's equipment unique and the plot complication of keeping that secrecy. Although it's also stated that IR's technology could be used for destruction if it fell into the wrong hands. The 2004 movie also dropped thisnote Or rather, reduced it to a blink-and-you-miss-it reference during Thunderbird 1's launch sequence, where the computer mentions that the "Anti-detection shields" are active., presumably because nowadays, trying to keep their vehicles and tech under wraps would be far more difficult, what with how technology has advanced- you can't exactly just shoot someone's cameraphone or smartphone out of their hands (though an earlier unused script had cameras simply stop working when pointed at the Thunderbirds). On the other hand, the main plot is The Hood attempting to utilize the Thunderbird craft for his own evil ends, justifying the latter concern.
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Thunderbirds / int_3da6b7c8	comment	Comm Links: Each member of the Tracy Island crew has a wristwatch that doubles as a video phone, capable of transmitting to the other side of the planet, in a world where cellphone technology does not exist. In Lady Penelope's case, it's her makeup compact.
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Thunderbirds / int_3dbdb0d5	type	Rudely Hanging Up
Thunderbirds / int_3dbdb0d5	comment	Rudely Hanging Up: In "End of the Road", Eddie Houseman does this when his boss is pleading with him not to proceed with a reckless and highly dangerous job involving explosives. However, Eddie has to swallow his pride minutes later, as the explosion places him in an extremely perilous situation, from which he has to be rescued.
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Thunderbirds / int_3e34c4dc	type	Don't Ask, Just Run
Thunderbirds / int_3e34c4dc	comment	Don't Ask, Just Run: Played with in "The Uninvited". Scott walks note the puppets cannot run, only walk awkwardly out of a pyramid just as Virgil is coming in to land. Scott urgently tells him by radio to get away, because the pyramid might explode, but because Virgil is so relieved to hear from Scott after a long silence, he does not recognise the urgency.
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Thunderbirds / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Thunderbirds / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Everything is Made of Explodium, including vehicles.
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Thunderbirds / int_40217655	type	Faux Action Girl
Thunderbirds / int_40217655	comment	Faux Action Girl: Tin-Tin actually does have an IR uniform and occasionally joins the boys on a rescue mission... but stands as the person who ended up in need of rescue the most. Averting this trope is one of the few positive things fans can point to about the 2004 film.
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Thunderbirds / int_427ca0d0	type	Animal Theme Naming
Thunderbirds / int_427ca0d0	comment	Animal Theme Naming: International Rescue like to alternate between this and Exactly What It Says on the Tin. As a general rule, the machines we see in more than one episode get this treatment. Apart from the Thunderbirds themselves (not all of which can fly), there is also the Mole, their drilling machine, and Firefly, their firefighting bulldozer.
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Thunderbirds / int_42c8293a	type	Sibling Team
Thunderbirds / int_42c8293a	comment	Sibling Team: The five Tracy Brothers, with their father serving as the Team Dad.
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Thunderbirds / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Thunderbirds / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: By the pound. Only parts of the stock launch footage are usually used per episode in order to provide some variety to the launches. For the same reason, FX director Derek Meddings also insisted on shooting more angles than strictly necessary.
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Thunderbirds / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
Thunderbirds / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: This is how gunfights are usually ended in this series. It's an odd example: while the showrunners had no problem with the heroes shooting the villains to death in their vehicles, they would rarely let anyone take a bullet in face-to-face combat.
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Thunderbirds / int_4e3b5209	type	Beeping Computers
Thunderbirds / int_4e3b5209	comment	Beeping Computers: All part of the Zeerust. How else would you know they were doing anything while they grind through those instructions, line after painful line?
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Thunderbirds / int_4e690511	type	The Alleged Computer
Thunderbirds / int_4e690511	comment	The Alleged Computer: To the modern viewer, most computers in the series are built after the manner of this trope, complete with mechanical winding and grinding sounds as the computers take minutes to perform the most simple tasks. With all their vision of how technology would advance in the 100 years after the show was filmed, the production team seem to have assumed that computing technology was as good in the 60s as it would ever be.
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Thunderbirds / int_5057d559	type	Kid-Appeal Character
Thunderbirds / int_5057d559	comment	Kid-Appeal Character: Surprisingly averted with Alan most of the time, as he proves to be competent. However he does have the background of being a racecar driver. Every now and then when the plot demands it, he complains about something. Later franchise instalments played it irritatingly straight however.
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Thunderbirds / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
Thunderbirds / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Alan doesn't quite like it when Tin-Tin shows interest in another man. This is best seen in "End of the Road", when her old friend Eddy Houseman comes to visit her, and "Ricochet", when she turns out to be a great fan of Rick Oâ€™Shea. Ironically, in both episodes Alan ends up having to rescue the men he doesn't like.
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Thunderbirds / int_50f848cc	type	Technology Porn
Thunderbirds / int_50f848cc	comment	Technology Porn: All the time, but especially the launch sequences.
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Thunderbirds / int_51c7574c	type	Abandon Ship
Thunderbirds / int_51c7574c	comment	Abandon Ship: Used surprisingly rarely for a series that's all about rescuing people, who are often trapped inside the latest technological-wonder-gone-wrong. But then again, just getting the people out wouldn't allow the team to show off their awesome vehicle designed just for this exact type of emergency!
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Thunderbirds / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Thunderbirds / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Averted. One of Jeff Tracy's rules for International Rescue is that it focus on saving lives and dealing with emergencies, and not catch the criminals or terrorists that might cause them. Averted on a couple of occasions when IR helps law enforcement by preventing criminals from escaping. One episode also had the Hood attack Gordon in Thunderbird 4, only for Gordon to shoot back and destroy his submarine.
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Thunderbirds / int_5b83ab12	type	Exposition Diagram
Thunderbirds / int_5b83ab12	comment	Exposition Diagram: In the episode Terror in New York City, the plan to move the Empire State Building is explained by the characters watching the news on television, with diagrams showing exactly how this will be done.
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Thunderbirds / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Thunderbirds / int_5deb34da	comment	Virgil, Gordon, Alan and Parker take the roles of Ace Pilot / Submariner / Astronaut / Driver respectively.
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Thunderbirds / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Thunderbirds / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Lady Penelope is usually totally calm and collected, even in great adversity (with the exception of being caught in mud in The Impostors). In Brink of Disaster, when thieves have made off with Lady Penelope's jewel collection:
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Thunderbirds / int_61ce93fd	type	Big Disaster Plot
Thunderbirds / int_61ce93fd	comment	Big Disaster Plot: The majority of episodes revolve around International Rescue either responding to a disaster in progress, or preventing a disaster before it can begin.
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Thunderbirds / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Thunderbirds / int_62f9d08e	comment	The 2004 movie also dropped thisnote Or rather, reduced it to a blink-and-you-miss-it reference during Thunderbird 1's launch sequence, where the computer mentions that the "Anti-detection shields" are active., presumably because nowadays, trying to keep their vehicles and tech under wraps would be far more difficult, what with how technology has advanced- you can't exactly just shoot someone's cameraphone or smartphone out of their hands (though an earlier unused script had cameras simply stop working when pointed at the Thunderbirds). On the other hand, the main plot is The Hood attempting to utilize the Thunderbird craft for his own evil ends, justifying the latter concern.
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Thunderbirds / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Thunderbirds / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: While the first season got a US length 26 episodes, the second and final season whittled it down to just six, totalling it to 32 episodes. It did, however, spawn several movies, package films and revival episodes afterwards.
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Thunderbirds / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Thunderbirds / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The sons of Jeff Tracy are all named after famous astronauts of the 1960s, specifically, the Mercury Seven: Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom, John Glenn, Gordon Cooper, and Scott Carpenter.
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Thunderbirds / int_6d740dff	type	Enforced Trope
Thunderbirds / int_6d740dff	comment	It's a bit of an Enforced Trope as the show was made in Britain, by British showmakers who would definitely know better, but was intended to be sold to American broadcasters for an audience who would be expecting this trope.
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Thunderbirds / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Thunderbirds / int_6f059863	comment	Oddly Small Organization: Well, saving the world is a family business. However, it was established that International Rescue has agents all over the world, although we never get to see any of them aside from Lady Penelope and Parker, and the hillbilly agents from "The Imposters".
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Thunderbirds / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Thunderbirds / int_7040b6bc	comment	Understatement: Lady Penelope's response to anything from mild inconvenience to apocalyptic disaster is a disappointed, "Oh dear, how tiresome."
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Thunderbirds / int_705d9b89	type	Toyless Toyline Character
Thunderbirds / int_705d9b89	comment	Toyless Toyline Character: The show has had various toy lines released over the years, but good luck finding toy figures of Tin Tin, her father Kyrano, and grandma Tracy. As far as one can consider vehicles to be characters, various pod vehicles that appeared in only 1 episode never got a toy; only the more famous ones (the Mole, the Firefly, etc.) did. Downplayed with Thunderbird 5; there are some toys of this Thunderbird, but notably fewer than of any of the other thunderbird vehicles. Several lines of Thunderbird merchandising (like the 1992 toy series) completely omitted the space station, often in favor of Lady Penelope's FAB 1 car (most likely since Thunderbird 5 never participates in any action, limiting its play value).
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Thunderbirds / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
Thunderbirds / int_71105dfc	comment	Not just Lady Penelope, but Everybody Smokes - the boys were often seen smoking after a mission. In Vault of Death, even Lady Penelope's cook is smoking over the food.
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Thunderbirds / int_7230cfe	type	Shoe Phone
Thunderbirds / int_7230cfe	comment	Shoe Phone: Watch phones, powder compact phones and of course teapot phones.
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Thunderbirds / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Thunderbirds / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience:... or at least, to look stunning on your new colour TV. The flagship vehicles of International Rescue each have a bold, unique colour scheme: Thunderbird 1: silver and blue, symbolising its bleeding-edge speed technology and airborne nature. Thunderbird 2: green, symbolising the land-based machines it carries. Thunderbird 3: orange-red, mainly to stand out in both the blue sky and black space. Thunderbird 4: yellow, for high visibility in the murky depths (but then again, what other colour would a 1960s submarine be?). Thunderbird 5: gold and silver, because all the other colours were already taken. FAB 1: pink, because Lady Penelope is a girl.
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Thunderbirds / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Thunderbirds / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: In "Ricochet", we find out that even a pirate radio station can put a manned space station into orbit. This is apparently so common that nobody can keep track of the launches. This raises Fridge Logic as to how on Earth nobody has found Tracy Island yet, and possibly Fridge Horror if you consider the fact that if you have the resources and knowledge to put a satellite in orbit, it's not a lot harder to shoot one down.
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Thunderbirds / int_75b3422b	type	An Insert
Thunderbirds / int_75b3422b	comment	An Insert: Human hands pressing a button for a puppet character. The series also liked to use cutaways to get around the problem — you'd see, say, Parker holding a cigarette when Penelope would ask for a light, then cut to another shot, then to Penelope holding the lit cigarette. "Thirty Minutes After Noon" takes this a step further by having a human hand holding a pen in the foreground with a couple of puppets in Forced Perspective in the background. Not just Lady Penelope, but Everybody Smokes - the boys were often seen smoking after a mission. In Vault of Death, even Lady Penelope's cook is smoking over the food. Another notable insert is during "Vault of Death", involving a close-up of Lady Penelope's black-gloved hand clicking fingers to pass the time, and distracting Parker from his stethoscopic safe-cracking. According to some reports, the bomb in "Trapped in the Sky" was actually a can of shaving foam.
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Thunderbirds / int_79b5990c	type	Mr. Vice Guy
Thunderbirds / int_79b5990c	comment	Mr. Vice Guy: Parker would occasionally slip back into his old habit of stealing, like when Penelope caught him sneaking off to the casino with safe cracking equipment.
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Thunderbirds / int_7a6e47f6	type	Instant Emergency Response
Thunderbirds / int_7a6e47f6	comment	Instant Emergency Response: Surprisingly averted most of the time. The Thunderbirds are incredibly fast, but it still takes some time to get to the scene of emergencies, which of course makes their operations once there races against time with only minutes left. This is played with and lampshaded in "Vault of Death". A workaholic employee Lambert is accidentally locked inside the vault, with the air being pumped out, and Lambert is completely unaware. International Rescue are called out some ninety minutes previously, and set to work rescuing him; and minutes before the air runs out, Lambert himself discovers his plight, and tries to call International Rescue himself. Just then, Virgil and Alan explode their way into the vault, and introduce themselves.
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Thunderbirds / int_7b66bc3b	type	Big Anime Eyes
Thunderbirds / int_7b66bc3b	comment	Big Anime Eyes: Due to the limits of the Supermarionation technology at the time, the puppets had heads that were disproportionately large with exaggerated facial features, including this trope. This turned out to be a good thing: when they developed the ability to use realistically-proportioned puppets for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, they found that the smaller eyes were far less emotive, and went for a middle ground in Joe 90.
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Thunderbirds / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
Thunderbirds / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: A series of brand new adventures for International Rescue. While most instalments had the same sort of plots as were seen in the TV series, some were more... peculiar. Like the one where Thunderbird 3 crashed on an ocean-covered Venus and had to fight sea monsters. Or the one where Thunderbird 2 was stolen by an African tribe who tried to sacrifice it to a volcano god.
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Thunderbirds / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Thunderbirds / int_7c9dcc1	comment	Thunderbird 5: gold and silver, because all the other colours were already taken.
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Thunderbirds / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Thunderbirds / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The episode "Move - And You're Dead" begins with Alan and grandma stranded on a bridge with a bomb. While Thunderbirds 1 and 2 are on their way to save them, Alan recalls how they got into this situation in the first place (which takes up most of the episodes time). Justified because Jeff is asking him how he got there in full detail to keep him concentrating, so he doesn't fall unconscious from heat exhaustion and fall to his death, if not triggering the bomb's motion sensor.
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Thunderbirds / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Thunderbirds / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The Duchess of Royston is about as hammy as puppets get.
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Thunderbirds / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Thunderbirds / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: International Rescue.
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Thunderbirds / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
Thunderbirds / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: As a true "all ages" program, episode plots and characters were very well written, particularly after the episodes were lengthened to an hour.
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Thunderbirds / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Thunderbirds / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: The Hood has these. Among other things, he can telepatically hypnotize Kyrano, and instantly put people to sleep.
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Thunderbirds / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
Thunderbirds / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: Lady Penelope, even by puppet standards.
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Thunderbirds / int_89012c43	type	Excessive Steam Syndrome
Thunderbirds / int_89012c43	comment	Excessive Steam Syndrome: The creators made extensive use of steam, smoke, and zero-thrust rocket motors to depict take-offs and landings in miniature. Rockets in flight were filmed inverted, so the smoke would rise away from the rocket instead of climbing after it.
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Thunderbirds / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Thunderbirds / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Tends to happen to The Hood a lot.
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Thunderbirds / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Thunderbirds / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: FAB 1. A pink, six-wheeled, amphibious, weaponized Rolls-Royce complete with Battle Chauffeur and bulletproof bubble canopy.
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Thunderbirds / int_8fc39987	type	Techno Wizard
Thunderbirds / int_8fc39987	comment	Techno Wizard: Brains.
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Thunderbirds / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Thunderbirds / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: A lot of concepts were Ripped from the Headlines sixties tropes given a futuristic spin. For example, pirate radio ships being anchored outside national waters became pirate radio spaceships outside Earth orbit, and Concorde became Fireflash.
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Thunderbirds / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Thunderbirds / int_913dc5d2	comment	Women Drivers: Justified in "City of Fire" as this was a learning driver and played unfortunately straight in "Vault of Death" — although perhaps justified in that she's been driven around by other people her whole life. Averted in later episodes, when Penny actually does learn to drive.
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Thunderbirds / int_9151375	type	Cool Garage
Thunderbirds / int_9151375	comment	Cool Garage: Tracy Island, with all its retractable and hidden landing and launch bays.
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Thunderbirds / int_923450a9	type	Suspicious Missed Messages
Thunderbirds / int_923450a9	comment	Suspicious Missed Messages: Although not mentioned, it seems that scheduled calls are part of International Rescue's policy, to ensure their own safety. In "The Uninvited", Scott radios from the pyramid saying he is trapped inside. Jeff says that if he does not hear from Scott within ten minutes, he will send Thunderbird 2 out; and he follows through on this. In "Desperate Intruder": When Tintin and Brains have been hypnotised by the Hood, those on Tracy Island know that something is wrong when they are impossible to contact. Suddenly an alarm sounds, implying that a scheduled message had been missed, prompting Jeff to send out the Thunderbirds to investigate.
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Thunderbirds / int_92e5b254	type	Communications Officer
Thunderbirds / int_92e5b254	comment	John has the dubious honour of being the Communications Officer: he answers the call, passes on the message, and then his job is done.
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Thunderbirds / int_9723e2cd	type	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?
Thunderbirds / int_9723e2cd	comment	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Sure, Jeff Tracy is a millionaire and Brains is a Gadgeteer Genius, so International Rescue certainly has the resources and the technical knowhow to set up their organization, but that still begs the question how they managed to build their entire fleet of futuristic machines, an island base filled with secret hangars to house these machines, and even a manned space station, without anyone finding out. It's hard to believe Brains could have done all that with only the Tracys' help. There was a handwave provided in the episode "Terror In New York City" for how the eponymous Thunderbird vehicles are kept in service; components are bought from a variety of different manufacturers -presumably through various shell companies- and no one part is significant enough to clue someone in as to who and what it is going towards, even when they needed to carry out extensive repairs on Thunderbird 2 after some trigger-happy warship captain tried to blow her out of the sky with surface-to-air missiles. Of course, this only explains where International Rescue gets the parts without attracting attention. It doesn't explain how they ever build their vehicles, or their base of operations.
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Thunderbirds / int_98591d23	type	Speech Impediment
Thunderbirds / int_98591d23	comment	Speech Impediment: B-B-Brains has a t-tendency to s-stutter.
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Thunderbirds / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Thunderbirds / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: The Hood crashes at least three times in the series, including once flying a light aircraft into a villa. His face gets a bit dirty, and the film he's transporting is destroyed. It's implied, however, that he's Killed Off for Real in Thunderbird 6.
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Thunderbirds / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Thunderbirds / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Several projects and vehicles, such as the Fireflash atomic powered airliner and the Sunprobe project, as well as characters involved in those projects, turn up more than once and reference the previous encounters. Not surprising really, they did still have the models after all.
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Thunderbirds / int_9e03dbd6	type	Mr. Fixit
Thunderbirds / int_9e03dbd6	comment	Brains is a combination of Mr. Fixit and The Scientist, supported by Tin-Tin as Wrench Wench.
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Thunderbirds / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
Thunderbirds / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Subverted, as the bulk of the Tracy family fortune comes from selling aerospace-related technology through various front companies. The reason they are so adamant about keeping the Thunderbirds secret is that that level of aerospace technology has several direct military applications, none of which the Tracys want to be party to.
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Thunderbirds / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Thunderbirds / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Travel website Orbitz briefly had a series of commercials dubbed Destination: Orbitz, with Anderson-esque puppets helping people with travel- the lead puppet was voiced by Maurice LaMarche and they even had the insert shots!
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Thunderbirds / int_a7defafd	type	Code Name
Thunderbirds / int_a7defafd	comment	Code Name: Very much zig-zagged: The team's engineer/scientist "Brains" is never called by any other name, excepting the episode Alias: Mr Hackenbacker. Given the episode's title, there is no guarantee that "Hiram Hackenbacker" is even his real name, and Brains may be layering codenames upon codenames. The Hood's real name is never revealed. Heck, even the name "The Hood" is never uttered on screen. The only name he is ever called by on screen is "Agent 7-9", and that in just a single episode. As for our boys in blue — who take their anonymity seriously enough to attempt murder to preserve it — they merrily parade around the danger zones calling each other by their real names. Are they taking refuge in the fact that a first name alone is not very useful in identifying someone? Well: It often happens that rescuees and officials call them by their surname, so they're not secret about that, either; Scott will often radio their top-secret agent Lady Penelope, addressing her by both title and name whilst surrounded by non-IR-ers.
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Thunderbirds / int_a950584d	type	Combining Mecha
Thunderbirds / int_a950584d	comment	Combining Mecha: In 2086, Thunderbirds 1 and 3 connect to Thunderbird 2 for transport.
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Thunderbirds / int_ab68c5cc	type	Chronic Hero Syndrome
Thunderbirds / int_ab68c5cc	comment	Chronic Hero Syndrome: International Rescue will never turn down a call for help, even if they put themselves at risk of being unmasked.
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Thunderbirds / int_ac7b87df	type	Off-Model
Thunderbirds / int_ac7b87df	comment	Off-Model: The Thunderbird craft in the Comic-Book Adaptation only vaguely resemble the models seen on screen. One wonders if the artist had seen an episode of Thunderbirds once and was trying to do it from memory.
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Thunderbirds / int_ad295cc3	type	Weaponized Car
Thunderbirds / int_ad295cc3	comment	Weaponized Car: Lady Penelope's Rolls Royce, which is heavily armoured, and has guns coming out of the back and front.
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Thunderbirds / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Thunderbirds / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "F.A.B.", International Rescue's codeword for "yes". Fan theory is that it stands for "Fully Advised and Briefed". However, when asked what it meant, Gerry Anderson replied, in an isn't-it-obvious sort of way, "Fab..."
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Thunderbirds / int_b13573b7	type	Machine Monotone
Thunderbirds / int_b13573b7	comment	Machine Monotone: The robot Braman constructed by Brains as well as the vocal interface of an elevator. Note that in-series it was very surprising to hear these voices respond with pleasantries like saying 'thank you' and 'you're welcome.'
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Thunderbirds / int_b1f18adb	type	Ray Gun
Thunderbirds / int_b1f18adb	comment	Ray Gun: Used by the Tracy boys a couple of times and on one occasion the baddie.
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Thunderbirds / int_b22797b8	type	Rescue
Thunderbirds / int_b22797b8	comment	Rescue: A genre example on the grandest scale.
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Thunderbirds / int_b33dd99e	type	Epic Launch Sequence
Thunderbirds / int_b33dd99e	comment	Epic Launch Sequence: Tracy Island seems to have been completely repurposed specifically to facilitate this trope, as each of the eponymous vehicles gets its own lengthy sequence of being moved into position every time they launch, complete with sections of the landscape moving aside.
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Thunderbirds / int_b3f0fc91	type	Track Trouble
Thunderbirds / int_b3f0fc91	comment	Track Trouble: In "Brink of Disaster", the fully automatic monorail track is damaged by a patrolling heli-jet crashing into it.
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Thunderbirds / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Thunderbirds / int_b434558	comment	Video Phone: These are used extensively. However, there are only a couple of occasions when the visual aspect is actually used to convey information (other than the callers' faces): "Move - and you're dead": Jeff sends a picture of the bridge of San Miguel to Brains in Thunderbird 2. "The man from MI5": Lady Penelope uses her powder compact transmitter while "fixing her make up", sending a coded message using her lipstick.
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Thunderbirds / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Thunderbirds / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Pretty much the raison d'Ãªtre of many episodes. It's almost as if Gerry Anderson decided the most dangerous thing about the 2060's was that they were populated by idiots. The Fireflash in "Trapped in the Sky", an atomic-powered aeroplane which would have killed all of its passengers by radiation poisoning if it didn't land within 2 hours. In "Day of Disaster" a vehicle is transporting a giant rocket. Fully fuelled. With people inside. And it's set up with an unstoppable automatic launch countdown. And they have to cross a weak bridge. And there's a storm. And the bridge supervisors are idiots. The Crablogger in "Path of Destruction", an atomic-powered logging machine which was going to blow up if not shut down properly, a complicated process that took upwards of five minutes. We guess a red "emergency stop" button was too simple — then anyone could have stopped it should it have been about to smash through a village or destroy a dam. The monorail in "Brink of Disaster": completely automatic, and cannot stop if the signal wires are severed. When the owner of this train tries to persuade Jeff to invest in it, Jeff is none too happy about having to be rescued because of this. Unlike most other examples, this episode actually lampshades the trope with Jeff, Brains and Tintin all pointing out the glaring safety issues.
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Thunderbirds / int_b5b4f78e	type	The Tag
Thunderbirds / int_b5b4f78e	comment	The Tag: Almost all the episodes have short and usually funny scene at the very end, after the rescue has taken place, often involving the secrecy of International Rescue. (See the Recaps for individual examples.)
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Thunderbirds / int_b85c06f2	type	Glowing Eyes of Doom
Thunderbirds / int_b85c06f2	comment	Glowing Eyes of Doom: When the main villain, the Hood, uses his mesmeric powers on any other character, his eyes glow yellow.
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Thunderbirds / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
Thunderbirds / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: Lady Penelope was designed to resemble her voice actress, Sylvia Anderson.
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Thunderbirds / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
Thunderbirds / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: Used in several episodes. "Sun Probe": When those in Thunderbird 3 have to move closer to the sun than was estimated, they hope that they can stand up to the heat. There is a cut to Virgil and Brains wrapped up in warm clothing on the side of a mountain, hoping that they can stand up to the cold. "The Uninvited": After Scott has crash landed in the desert, Jeff says that there is not a single solitary soul for miles. There is a cut to Scott in the desert, and the archaeologists coming across him. Later, the archaeologists say they will die without water, and there is a cut to Tintin saying "The water's lovely!" in the swimming pool at Tracy Island. "Cry Wolf": When the boys call for help about being trapped down a mine, and are not believed, they then despair that they will never get out. The action then cuts to Gordon relaxing on Tracy Island, saying "this is the life".
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Thunderbirds / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
Thunderbirds / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Thunderbird 4, piloted by Gordon, is a Cool Boat: a submarine for underwater rescues. Small enough to be transported in Thunderbird 2's pod 4, but very versatile thanks to its huge variety of tools.
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Thunderbirds / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
Thunderbirds / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: Five main ones, and many more which needed to be rescued. More specifically: Thunderbird 1, piloted by Scott, looks like a space rocket but is in fact a Cool Plane: a hypersonic aircraft powered by a nuclear thermal engine, designed to get to the crisis scene as fast as possible to gather intel and perform damage control until the heavy equipment arrives. Thunderbird 2, piloted by Virgil, is also a Cool Plane: a giant less-hypersonic-but-still-fast lifting-body transport for moving the specialist gear needed for a particular rescue. (This one is unsurprisingly the most frequently seen of the lot, appearing in both (all right, all three) movies and all but one episode of the TV show.) Thunderbird 3, piloted by Alan, is a Cool Starship: an SSTO rocket used for space rescues (sadly underused in this regard) and reaching Thunderbird 5. Thunderbird 4, piloted by Gordon, is a Cool Boat: a submarine for underwater rescues. Small enough to be transported in Thunderbird 2's pod 4, but very versatile thanks to its huge variety of tools. Thunderbird 5, manned by John: a space station which monitors all radio frequencies worldwide and filter out the distress calls from the rest of the chatter. Also the Mole, used for underground rescues, and a host of souped-up construction gear hauled in the rest of Thunderbird 2's pods.
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Thunderbirds / int_bc281366	type	Costume Copycat
Thunderbirds / int_bc281366	comment	Costume Copycat: This happens in the "The Impostors". Two men pose as International Rescue, having copied the uniform, so they can commit crimes for which International Rescue will be blamed.
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Thunderbirds / int_beb1cc89	type	Computer Equals Tapedrive
Thunderbirds / int_beb1cc89	comment	Computer Equals Tapedrive: Seen everywhere from secret spy installations to nuclear power stations, but most prominently on the main communications console of Thunderbird 5.
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Thunderbirds / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Thunderbirds / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: John Tracy up on the TB 5 station, Jeff Tracy back at HQ, and Scott once he was on the scene of the rescue. Folks spent a lot of time talking to microphones on this show.
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Thunderbirds / int_c23525d4	type	Character Title
Thunderbirds / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title: Let's face it, the Thunderbird machines are just as much characters in the show as the puppets themselves. In the live action movie, members of International Rescue are often called "the Thunderbirds" by the public. They seem to have adopted the title, as teenaged Alan dreams of the day he will become "a Thunderbird".
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Thunderbirds / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Thunderbirds / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: "F.A.B.", the Tracy boys' catchphrase, essentially meaning "understood." Anderson himself has said that it wasn't really intended to stand for anything other than "fab" — even though it takes longer to say. Fanon sometimes has this as standing for "Fully Advised and Briefed." Using acronyms like FAB, and those seen in other Anderson series, such as P.W.O.R. (Proceeding With Orders Received) from Stingray and S.I.G. (Spectrum Is Green) in Captain Scarlet, was a nod to then-current real life radio practice which required responses to messages to be understandable even if the signal was bad. Oddly enough, the show's use of actual radio practice — giving directions like "Left-left two degrees" got it wrong, as there should only have been one "left" but two "rights" so as to be decipherable even if all that could be heard was one or two unintelligible squawks.
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Thunderbirds / int_c26ebed4	type	Finagle's Law
Thunderbirds / int_c26ebed4	comment	Finagle's Law: The series loves this trope, as the vast majority of episodes revolve around something going terribly wrong, thus motivating the characters into action. A notable example is the episode "City of Fire" where a giant building goes up in flames because of a car accident in the basement. Naturally, cars in The Future are all Made of Explodium...
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Thunderbirds / int_c3f37181	type	Glowing Mechanical Eyes
Thunderbirds / int_c3f37181	comment	Glowing Mechanical Eyes: when the Tracy Brothers' portraits in the lounge are used for communication, their eyes flash while the portrait is static, before converting to a Video Phone.
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Thunderbirds / int_c6e9e40d	type	Retro Rocket
Thunderbirds / int_c6e9e40d	comment	Retro Rocket: Thunderbirds 1 and 3, as well as some other vehicles.
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Thunderbirds / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Thunderbirds / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In "Brink of Disaster", the gadgets that Lady Penelope deploys from the Rolls Royce are reminiscent of the Aston Martin in Goldfinger.
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Thunderbirds / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
Thunderbirds / int_c7b5445c	comment	Thunderbird 3, piloted by Alan, is a Cool Starship: an SSTO rocket used for space rescues (sadly underused in this regard) and reaching Thunderbird 5.
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Thunderbirds / int_c9da2b5	type	Cast Full of Rich People
Thunderbirds / int_c9da2b5	comment	Cast Full of Rich People: Jeff is a billionaire, and he and his family are the focal characters, living in the lap of luxury on a private South Pacific island. The main secondary character is Lady Penelope, who downplays her wealth, yet still lives in an English stately manor with an awful lot of works of art and jewellery.
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Thunderbirds / int_cce399	type	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman
Thunderbirds / int_cce399	comment	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Poor Gordon, and his favoured ride, Thunderbird 4. His skills as a diver and submersible pilot were not useful as often as he might have liked. Most of the times he was called out on a rescue he was riding shotgun with Scott or Virgil as generic backup, and despite being a Tracy brother he was less important to the plot than Tin-Tin, Brains, or Penny almost all the time. TB 4, despite being a main-line vehicle, was the size of a van next to a fleet of giants, and was overshadowed in importance by many barely-seen robotic pod vehicles, like the Mole. On the few occasions when there was danger at sea, he really did shine. Gordon was recognised as the best marksman on the team, though, and was often utilised when something needed aiming, e.g. firing the cable from Thunderbird 2 into the Zero X in the first movie. Gordon's insignificance is also notable in that we never see him using his portrait in the lounge to talk to Jeff. A particularly bad example of this is seen in Thunderbirds Are Go (the movie) when IR covers the second launch of Zero X. Scott, Virgil and Alan are all sent off in TB 1, 2 and 3 to watch over the launch, but Gordon has to stay home because "It's unlikely [TB 4] will be needed." Okay, but what is, say, TB 2 going to do if Zero X gets in trouble? Virgil will be too busy flying to do anything to help, whereas Gordon could have done something if he'd been there. And he did have more to do than John Tracy, who was stuck on Thunderbird 5 just about all the time. (In part because Gerry Anderson didn't like how the puppet looked — to the extent that "Operation Crash Dive", the only episode in which Thunderbird 5 actually does something other than relay the mission of the week, coincides with Alan being on duty relieving John!)
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Thunderbirds / int_d074c3a2	type	Coming in Hot
Thunderbirds / int_d074c3a2	comment	Coming in Hot: Does the episode centre around an aircraft or spacecraft? Hope you weren't too attached to it because it will be crash landing before the credits roll. Such a pervasive trope it is that even the ''Thunderbirds'' themselves are not immune.
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Thunderbirds / int_d8afec40	type	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome
Thunderbirds / int_d8afec40	comment	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome: Any time a member of International Rescue is incognito around a civilian, you can expect the civilian to start singing the praises of International Rescue to them while they modestly try to change the subject. Alternatively, if disaster strikes under those conditions, the undercover member must convince the civilian that only International Rescue is capable of saving them.
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Thunderbirds / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
Thunderbirds / int_d99d9918	comment	Jeff takes the role of The Captain: he is the final decision maker.
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Thunderbirds / int_d9eee868	type	Spin-Off
Thunderbirds / int_d9eee868	comment	Spinoff: The presence of Zero-X in the first movie seems to make it double up as the pilot of the following series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. However, it isn't really confirmed in-series as the Thunderbirds never showed up in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
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Thunderbirds / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Thunderbirds / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: The Fireflash's stated top speed is Mach 6, but it evidently cruises at a much lower speed as it still takes several hours to get anywhere. Rule of Drama, perhaps, but Mach 6 is approximately 4,000 mph. Against that, at the start of "Trapped in the Sky", the flight time of Fireflash's maiden commercial flight (between London and Tokyo) is given as 2 hours. That actually works out to be pretty close for a cruise altitude of 250,000 feet as given in the episode.
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Thunderbirds / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
Thunderbirds / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: Tracy Island.
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Thunderbirds / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Thunderbirds / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The average rescue is set up by means of a series of comically ludicrous coincidences and horrible design/engineering. For example, in Day of Disaster a vehicle is transporting a giant rocket. Fully fuelled. With people inside. And it's set up with an unstoppable automatic launch countdown. And they have to cross a weak bridge. And there's a storm. And the bridge supervisors are idiots.
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Thunderbirds / int_dcebff1	type	Command Roster
Thunderbirds / int_dcebff1	comment	Command Roster: While not a military organisation, International Rescue has its chain of command: Jeff takes the role of The Captain: he is the final decision maker. Scott is his Number Two, and takes command at the danger zone. Brains is a combination of Mr. Fixit and The Scientist, supported by Tin-Tin as Wrench Wench. John has the dubious honour of being the Communications Officer: he answers the call, passes on the message, and then his job is done. Lady Penelope is the Security Officer, though secretly so in the eyes of the world. Virgil, Gordon, Alan and Parker take the roles of Ace Pilot / Submariner / Astronaut / Driver respectively.
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Thunderbirds / int_ddb124b3	type	Cast Herd
Thunderbirds / int_ddb124b3	comment	Cast Herd: The Characters section shows pretty well that this trope is in effect. Especially noticeable with Lady Penelope and Parker, who usually have their own adventure that only intersects that of the Tracys towards the end of the episode.
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Thunderbirds / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Thunderbirds / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: But of course. Charging into danger is part of the day job of International Rescue. You can't expect them to go all to pieces every time their lives are at risk.
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Thunderbirds / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
Thunderbirds / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: Hoo boy! The series was first released in 1965. Since then we've had movies, comics, novels, annuals, guide books and interviews with the cast/crew — all of which largely contradict themselves. This include topics such as: How did the boys' mother die?note Car crash? Skiing accident? Giving birth to Alan? What order were the boys born in?note Pick an order. Any order you like. At least one obscure source will back you up. Up to and including, what year is the show set?note 2026, or 2065?
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Thunderbirds / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
Thunderbirds / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: There's the Hood and some one-shot villains, but there are also many episodes where the accident is down to pure bad luck or innocent mistakes.
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Thunderbirds / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
Thunderbirds / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: In the Thunderbirds universe, everything can explode or burn with really cool flames if the plot commands it. Or even if it would just be really cool if something exploded. If something is introduced that might conceivably blow up, rest assured that it will have done so by the end of the episode. The tail end of the opening credit sequence has a totally random oil refinery in the background. Its only purpose is to explode. A particularly bad example occurs in "Brink of Disaster", in which a monotrain is stuck on a disintegrating bridge. Of course, it's not enough for the bridge to just fall apart, its joints and bars actively and regularly explode. In "The Uninvited", the trailer of the archaeologists' desert jeep becomes uncoupled, and falls down an embankment. Just after one of them has said "all our gasoline and water is in that trailer", it explodes spectacularly. OK, maybe justified with the gasoline, but would it not happen immediately on falling?
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Thunderbirds / int_e34541d	type	One World Order
Thunderbirds / int_e34541d	comment	One World Order: Possibly. The government is never really explored, but there is seemingly a "World Navy", though whether it represents the entire world is unclear, as it seems to enjoy testing nuclear weapons for no apparent reason. Tie-in material hints that the show may be in the same universe as Stingray and Captain Scarlet, and it's made clear there is a world government.
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Thunderbirds / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
Thunderbirds / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: During times of anxious waiting, characters are often seen with a cigarette between their fingers. Even the heroic members of International Rescue do this when their family members are in danger. This was filmed in the 60s, after all.
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Thunderbirds / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
Thunderbirds / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: In 30 Minutes After Noon, the main villain is not seen, and communicates with his subordinates by radio. There is also a brief scene where three British agents are discussing infiltrating the mission; we do not see the men, only their hats on the stand.
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Thunderbirds / int_e63c3cf4	type	Restricted Rescue Operation
Thunderbirds / int_e63c3cf4	comment	Restricted Rescue Operation: The show runs on this trope, as the titular craft are designed specifically for rescue. Despite really specific equipment, expect a lot to go wrong, forcing an out-of-the-box solutions. Also, International Rescue must operate under strict secrecy, as they do not wish their technology to fall into the wrong hands.
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Thunderbirds / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Thunderbirds / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Kyrano, a reluctant example. The Mole was not, to the best of our knowledge, a double agent.
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Thunderbirds / int_e80cdd72	type	Almost Out of Oxygen
Thunderbirds / int_e80cdd72	comment	Almost Out of Oxygen: The creators liked this trope and used it in several episodes as it gave a natural sense of urgency to their rescues.
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Thunderbirds / int_e8f16dc2	type	Automobile Opening
Thunderbirds / int_e8f16dc2	comment	Automobile Opening: Each episode kicks off with a countdown of the Thunderbirds vehicles racing to the rescue.
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Thunderbirds / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Thunderbirds / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: A few locations and directions are a bit off. See the Recap section for specific examples.
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Thunderbirds / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
Thunderbirds / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: International Rescue only stick around long enough after each mission to make sure the victims are safe, then they jet back to base and let the local authorities take care of the cleanup.
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Thunderbirds / int_f1029720	type	Rising Water, Rising Tension
Thunderbirds / int_f1029720	comment	Rising Water, Rising Tension: In Terror in New York City, Ned and Joe are trapped underground in a cave which is slowly filling with water from an underground river. Although breathing apparatus is passed down to them from above, the tension rises as they wonder if they will be rescued before the air runs out. Not only that, but buildings above them are collapsing, which might cause the roof to cave in. In "Martian Invasion", the actors trapped in the cave are threatened with this.
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Thunderbirds / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Thunderbirds / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The title sequence proclaimed it to be filmed "In Videcolor" and "Supermarionation." Plain-English translation: "It's in colournote Though shot on film, contrary to what the designation would indicate, and it's a (sophisticated) puppet show." The "super" in "Supermarionation" referred to the automated lipsynching. The characters' voice tracks were fed to solenoids in the puppets' heads that moved the lips based on the audio level of the speech.
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Thunderbirds / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
Thunderbirds / int_f314f8c4	comment	Traveling at the Speed of Plot: Thunderbirds 1, 2, and 3 are all ridiculously fast, moving anywhere around the globe (or Earth orbit) inside a couple of hours. For example, Thunderbird 1 once flew from Tracy Island (somewhere in the Pacific Ocean) to London, England at a quoted speed of at least 7500 mph, which is just shy of Mach 10. Tie-in media establishes TB1's top speed as 15,000 mph, and TB2's as 5,000 mph. TB1's speed was given in the original script for the pilot episode ("Trapped in the Sky"); TB2's is quoted on-screen in "Terror in New York City". Special mention to Thunderbird 3 which flew from Earth to so-close-to-the-Sun-that-it-was-on-the-verge-of-melting in the time it took Thunderbird 2 to fly from the South Pacific to the Himalayas.
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Thunderbirds / int_f373e2f8	type	Hover Bike
Thunderbirds / int_f373e2f8	comment	Hover Bike: International Rescue has several of these at its disposal for navigating around a danger zone. note In reality, they were introduced to reduce the amount of walking the puppets would otherwise have to do on screen.
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Thunderbirds / int_f3a8ec93	type	Billions of Buttons
Thunderbirds / int_f3a8ec93	comment	Billions of Buttons: Surprisingly averted. Although the fancy equipment is capable of many things, when control panels are seen, they have relatively few buttons and dials, and often only those relevant to the plot are seen. Sometimes the equipment is operated by speaking into it. However, large panels of unlabelled lights (which are always filament lamps, rather than the LEDs they would be nowadays) are regularly seen, which flash all the time.
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Thunderbirds / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Lady Penelope, of all people, at first. She grows out of it. Also the woman who causes the inferno in City of Fire by crashing in the underground parking area, and the archeologist Wilson who drives carelessly in the desert, causing the trailer to break away from the truck.
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Thunderbirds / int_fa4c90cb	type	Split-Screen Phone Call
Thunderbirds / int_fa4c90cb	comment	Split-Screen Phone Call: This happens only once: in the pilot episode Trapped in the Sky, between Scott and Lady Penelope.
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Thunderbirds / int_fa7d3dfe	type	Number Two
Thunderbirds / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	Scott is his Number Two, and takes command at the danger zone.
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Thunderbirds / int_fb9e0265	type	Team Dad
Thunderbirds / int_fb9e0265	comment	Team Dad: Jeff Tracy is a literal example.
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Thunderbirds / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Thunderbirds / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: International Rescue is altruistic and will stop at nothing to rescue those in need. However, those who take pictures of their technology are dealt with harshly, whether it be having their film wiped remotely, or even find themselves shot off the road by Lady Penelope.
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Thunderbirds / int_fd7267dd	type	Master of Disguise
Thunderbirds / int_fd7267dd	comment	Master of Disguise: The Hood, and, to a lesser extent, Penelope.
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Thunderbirds / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Thunderbirds / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: All the Tracy sons were named for American astronauts. The Mercury Astronauts in particular: Scott Carpenter, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Alan Shepard, Gordon Cooper and John Glenn. Jeff being a former astronaut himself, it's probable that this is an in-universe example.
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Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Road-Sign Reversal / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Rock Beats Laser / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Rudely Hanging Up / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Sand Necktie / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Scale Model Destruction / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Schematized Prop / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Shoe Phone / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Short-Lived, Big Impact / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Shout-Out Theme Naming / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Sibling Team / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	65-Episode Cartoon / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Slippery Skid / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Slurpasaur / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Soft Water / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Spoken Word in Music / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Stock Footage / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Stock Footage Failure / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Stuff Blowing Up / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Super Civil Services / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Super Multi-Purpose Room / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Surprisingly Happy Ending / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Suspicious Missed Messages / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Syndication Title / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Talking with Signs / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Tear-Apart Tug-of-War / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Technological Pacifist / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	That Was Not a Dream / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	The '60s / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	The Alleged Computer / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	The Food Poisoning Incident / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	The Future / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	The Heavy / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	The Main Characters Do Everything / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	The Paralyzer / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	The Power of Rock / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	The World Is Not Ready / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Thememobile / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	This Is a Drill / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Throw It In! / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Title Montage / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Title Theme Tune / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Toyless Toyline Character / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Track Trouble / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Translation Matchmaking / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Trap Door / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Trrrilling Rrrs / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Two First Names / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Unfinished Dub / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Unintentional Period Piece / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Unique Pilot Title Sequence / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Unraveled Entanglement / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Vanity License Plate / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Vehicle Title / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Vehicular Sabotage / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Vetinari Job Security / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Victim of the Week / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Villain Opening Scene / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	We Will Meet Again / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Weaponized Car / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Western Zodiac / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	When It Rains, It Pours / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	When Things Spin, Science Happens / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys? / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Who Would Want to Watch Us? / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	"X" Makes Anything Cool / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Xenafication / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Xtreme Kool Letterz / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Yellow Peril / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Zeerust / int_9b7e31d
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	Human Snowball / int_9b7e31d

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