Sid the Hero (TV Series)/Tropes

Tropes A to D

 * Adorkable:
 * Alex Edurus. Despite acting like a tough guy with a good-natured heart, he does tend to blush whenever he shows his softer, more awkward, and more insecure side and deeply cares about his loved ones despite not wanting to show his feelings.
 * Sid. He's a giddy, upbeat, and friendly teenager who loves to draw, listen to music, and help others. His hybrid form is very adorable and makes him blush at times when it's acknowledged in an awkward way.
 * Clover. She's very nurturing and has a soft spot for children, acting as a mother/older sister figure to both them and her friends despite being a tomboy.
 * Rana. She's an adorable, shy, and socially-awkward little girl who can use her cuteness to her advantage. She's also genuinely compassionate, caring, and grateful towards those who help her despite her bratty personality.
 * Sandra acts like a giddy and enthusiastic when she's put in a science fair.


 * Dark and Troubled Past: Most of the characters have one, especially the antagonists and jerk-characters. The only ones that don’t have them are usually those who aren’t meant to be sympathetic or tragic.


 * Deconstruction:


 * Death by Childbirth: Alex's mother. This is the indirect cause for Alex’s abusive family, especially his father.


 * Dramedy: This show definitely emphasizes a heavy balance between epic action, subtle, yet still hilarious humor, and emotional, heartfelt, and heartbreaking drama for both kids, teens, and adults of all ages.


 * Dysfunction Junction: In spite of having a plethora of both comedic and dramatic moments, most of the characters in the series are very much this:
 * Sid has been transformed into a freak of nature and suffers from intense moral injury and survivor's guilt from both his and his little sister's dead parents. He also gains PTSD from his life-threatening adventures and watching his family, friends, and others being put in danger multiple times and extreme self-hatred whenever he even remotely hurts others.
 * Clover gained extreme self-confidence issues, stress, and a desire to meet others' expectations above her own due to her overbearing upbringing and role as both the leader and voice of reason for her friends.
 * Alex has arguably had it the worst. After his mother died giving birth to him, he was constantly abused and tortured by his resentful father and reluctant older siblings and forced into being both a child slave for said father after his siblings moved out and an arrogant jerk to hide his pain and insecurities and be deserving of love despite not wanting to act that way. Even after all the genuine good he's done, he genuinely believes that he is irredeemable due to these circumstances.
 * Rana had to deal with an annoying older brother despite his kindness and recent willingness to grow up and had to watch her parents get killed in front of her at the age of 4. She also has trouble making real friends on her own due to being socially awkward.
 * Sandra had to deal with intense bullying as a child and secretly has low self-esteem issues because of that. She also thinks that if her inventions do more harm than good for those she loves and others, she'll be deemed as unlovable and unwanted.
 * Bob lost his old family to a burning building at a very young age, giving him intense fear of fire, death, and losing his loved ones that lasted till his senior years.

Deconstructed Character Archetype

 * Sidney Noah Franklin, or Sid the Hero, has a few character deconstructions of his own. This first two being Ascended Fanboy and Loony Fan in his debut game appearance. Before his realization and development, Sid used to be a normal human who idolized the famous Sonic the Hedgehog for his kindness and similar love for adventure and excitement. However, after getting his own abilities and joining in on the adventure, he started to see that not only was his new life too much for him to handle due to inexperience, but that his behavior and constant annoyance caused more harm than he thought to not only his idols, but those he cared about and others as well in spite of his friendliness.
 * After his debut, Sid brutally deconstructs the four new tropes:
 * Heinz Hybrid: While Sid may have gained some cool abilities after his transformation, he also gained some drawbacks and weaknesses, too. Due to never having this transformation before, he became very inexperienced with his newfound abilities and needed to be trained in order to better control them. He can breath in space like a normal mobian, but only for a limited time. While he’s stronger than the average human, he can still be overpowered by a much stronger mobian or other being. Also, possibly being the only known hybrid in the area has made him feel out of place and develop loneliness, fears, and insecurities about being unable to relate to anyone anymore and/or being viewed as a freak by others.
 * Kiddie Kid: Sid’s immaturity, recklessness, and refusal to act his age has gotten him into a lot of trouble on more than one occasion. So much that he becomes very self-conscious and full of self-hatred when he accidentally hurts, annoys, or alienates someone with his behavior. The reason why he acts like this is because he was afraid of losing those he cared about as he grew older, but didn’t realize that he was almost losing them in a different way until now. He also wants to be less selfish and more independent, but others barely trust him with the more mature responsibilities due to his previous immaturity.
 * Kid Hero: After all the life-threatening adventures and training that he and his peers have been through, Sid’s physical and mental state have both started to take a huge toll. While he’s able to take more damage than the average human being, he’s still susceptible to being killed, mind-controlled, corrupted, or prone to illness. Even then, his body is given a lot of strains when placed in a physical situation that’s too difficult for him to handle. Not to mention, he gains a lot of stress, guilt, and PTSD due to being in a lot of near-death experiences that not only put him in danger, but his loved ones as well.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: While his usual optimism, friendliness, and compassion can be a great strength, it does have its pushbacks as well. He tends to be blind to the more realistic or cynical sides of real-life, making him viewed as a naive idiot when he’s more intelligent than he lets on. While he does gain more allies and friends, he does tend to get upset when others don’t want to be his friend. He also suffers from Break the Cutie after all the physical, mental, and emotional trauma he suffers afterwards. Despite that, he does grow out of that and becomes more mature and grounded overtime, thereby fully reconstructing this trope.


 * Clover deconstructs the Only Sane Woman, The Ace, and The Leader trope. Clover puts a lot of pressure on herself to be the best she can be thanks to her perfectionist parents in spite of their love. As a result, she secretly suffers from deep stress and self-esteem issues that she hides in order to stay in control. This gives weighs on her and gives her sufficient emotional trauma that can tear her apart, especially when being made the leader and voice of reason to a pair of friends that don’t behave right half of the time despite her mutual love and care for them. This slowly keeps building up until she eventually reaches her breaking point. Luckily, her friends and loved ones do realize how much of a burden they’ve become and help her through her own pain and insecurities.


 * Alex is a deconstruction of Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Jerkass Woobie.
 * His arrogant and cynical attitude stems from the pain and abuse he suffered in the past, causing him to hide his softer side and conceal his feelings out of extreme fear of his own trauma and insecurities.
 * He also secretly hates himself for being a jerk, despite his goodness, due to how much it’s hurting and alienating those around him, including his friends. Not to mention the fact that a lot of people are off-put by his attitude and hateful towards him, except for his friends and loved ones. This causes him to secretly view himself as a horrible, irredeemable person as a result.

Getting Crap Past the Radar

 * During their search for Sid, Clover and Alex spot Sandra and Bob doing something seemingly suggestive while hiding under a blanket. Fortunately, they were just playing chess together.

Tropes S to Z

 * Slice of Life: This is combined with the more adventure-oriented and overarching episodes, though more prominent.

General

 * Alex's snarky, yet iconic one-liners are enough to make you laugh.

Woobie
In a spin-off series mostly about character growth and developing realistic characters, there’s bound to be some that you can’t help, but feel sorry for and want to hug.


 * Alex. This boy has lost his kind-hearted mother right after his birth. Resulting in his resentful and grief-stricken father forcing his older siblings to constantly bully, abuse, belittle, and torment him under the guise that they thought he deserved it for not being cool or deserving of love. Once they moved out, he was forced to act like a child-slave to his father, who neglected him during his own work. This gave him major PTSD and a fear of his own insecurities, that he hides under a tough guy mask due to both wanting to be seen as deserving of love and not wanting to be hurt any further.
 * It's also been stated that he feels extreme guilt and self-hatred for indirectly being responsible for his mother’s death after his birth, causing the torment he suffered from, and being an arrogant jerk that he doesn’t want to be deep down, but feels as though he has no choice.


 * Bob. He had a loving and caring family who he lost to a burning building at a young age. This gave him extreme guilt, trauma, and pain that stuck with him until he was a senior. No wonder he never wanted to lose his new family.


 * Sid. This young teenager has been given a lot of emotional turmoil. So much that you can’t help, but feel bad for him when he messes something up (especially since he’s become genuinely self-conscious about it). His parents were killed by a brainwashed creature, giving him massive grief (mostly denial), and guilt for both indirectly being the cause of it and his treatment towards others. He and others put him through more punishment and responsibility than he deserves. He’s been transformed into a hybrid creature, giving him recent fear that he might be seen as a freak, especially towards his parents if they ever find out. And he gains PTSD throughout most of his life-threatening adventures with his friends. To top it all off, he has indirectly put the entire planet in danger due to said transformation, giving him even more guilt and self-hatred than before. That’s not even counting the small, but effective amount of fears that he had to suffer from. Underneath that normally optimistic and happy-go-lucky attitude is a sad, traumatized, and depressed adolescent who hates himself.


 * Clover. This girl isn’t immune to this either. She was raised by perfectionist, overly-strict, and extremely overbearing parents who pressure her to always do things the right way and punish her when she doesn’t. While they only did it out of genuine love, Clover did gain a lot of self-confidence issues and a fear of criticism, ridicule, and not being able to live up to everyone’s standards. So much that she feels as if she’ll be seen as not worthy of love and not good enough if she doesn’t follow said standards perfectly. Not to mention, the fact that she puts even more pressure on herself to be a great leader and voice of reason to a group of friends who don’t normally behave right despite mutually caring about them. That’s not even counting all the death-defying adventures that she and the others have to go through. She may be mostly a tomboy, but even tomboy's have emotional baggages too.


 * Rana. She and her older brother lost their parents, putting her through a lot of depression and emotional trauma at the age of 4! There’s also the times where said brother, despite mutually caring about him, inadvertently annoyed her at a constant rate before his realization and drive to both grow up and make it up to her and others. On top of that, she also didn’t have any real friends like Sid did due to her social awkwardness. While she eventually did get some new friends of her own, you still can’t help, but feel bad for her in spite of her somewhat bratty behavior that she outgrew overtime.


 * Sandra. While nearly not as bad as the others, she still has at least some trauma when you know what her life was like. She had to deal with intense amounts of bullying, leading up to the point where she made an accident with one of her inventions that humiliated her for days until she had to leave for college. She also wanted to make her parents and others proud of her with her knowledge of machinery and science, giving her some self-esteem issues.


 * Tanner and Katy. Alex's siblings lost their kind-hearted mother and were forced by their own father to torment and abuse their younger brother out of fear of being disowned by him if they didn’t for indirectly causing said mother's death by childbirth. While it doesn’t excuse their terrible behavior towards him, it does make you realize who the real abuser is, and it’s not them.


 * Mike Brawler.