My Life as a Teenage Robot (film)/Tropes

My Life as a Teenage Robot is a film franchise based on the Nickelodeon TV series lf the same name, and produced by Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation Studio. Much like the series, the franchise centers on Jenny Wakeman, a robot created to be the Earth's best defender, who wishes to live a regular life as a teenager. The franchise is composed of two theatrical films, a TV series, and a short series.

Tropes for the franchise

 * Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The franchise depicts Jenny's struggle to live life as a teenager in a more dramatic light.
 * Adaptational Badass:
 * Vexus, in this version, is a far more physical threat to Jenny than in the original series, mainly due to her feline design.
 * Also, the Skyway Patrol is far more competent here, due to their new femake leader.
 * Adaptational Nice Guy/Adaptational Villany: Skyway Patrol as a whole fills both, with some officer being nice and willing to work with Jenny, and others being downright corrupt.
 * Remake Cameo: Janice Kawaye, Jenny's voice actress in the original series, voices the second-in-command/new leader of Skyway Patrol.
 * Role Reprise: Cree Summer and Moira Quirk reprise their roles from the series as the Crust Cousins from the original series.

Tropes for the film

 * An Aesop:
 * Jenny:
 * So what if the whole world dosen't like you, as whole as one person does it and for the right reasons, its OK.
 * There's far more than being human than just your biology.
 * Nora:
 * Family is not just whom you are biologically related with. Its those who love you and you love.
 * Never shut off your heart from loving someone.
 * Helen: Adventure is out there. So go for it.
 * Tuck: There are more important things in life than yourself.
 * And The Fandom Rejoiced: The announcenent of a fully animated My Life as a Teenage Robot film brought a lot of joy to fans of the original series, seeing how ot is perceived as one of Nickelodeon's most underrated series, so seeing it receive the feature-length film treatement was a welcome surprise.
 * Central Theme: The meaning of humanity.
 * Darker and Edgier: Sort of. While calling the film "dark" would be an inmense stretch, as it retains most of the original series' tone, the film does explore more profound themes than the series such as identity, family, and the meaning of humanity.
 * Disney Villain Death: Subverted with Vexus as part of a Shout-Out to The Emperor's New Groove.
 * LGBT Fanbase: Given how the original show already had one, this was expected.
 * Moment of Awesome: Jenny using a washbashin to punch one of Vexus' soldiers off the ground and onto a building at the opposite side of the town!
 * Mythology Gag:
 * The opening scene in which Jenny destroys a meteor is an homage to the ending of the pilot episode, where she did the same thing, albeit responding sooner to the threat and without Tuck.
 * The weapons Jenny uses against Vexus' army at the clikax are all taken straight out of the episode "Dressed to Kill", while the motorcycle form she takes is s reference to the episode "Voyage to the Planet of the Bikers".
 * Dyring the credits, Nora is seen showing Jenny an early version of her design, which is her design in the pilot for the original series.
 * The post-credits scene has Jenny hallucinating so she sees everything in the style of a Looney Tunes cartoon after being overloarded with energy, as an homage to the episode "Daydream Believer".
 * Playing Against Type: While Awkwafina has played many comedic characters, this is one of the few times she ever played a villain.
 * Shocking Moments: The fact that the filmmakers took a one-off gag from the series, Jenny having a washbashin inside her, and used it to creaye a scene worthy of being in a Dragon Ball film will surely be one for the fans.
 * Visual Effects of Awesome: As usual, Sony Pictures Imageworks displays a maestry when it combines 2D style with CG animation with this film, creating visuals that truly feel respectful of the original series' style.
 * Win Back the Crowd: When it was announced that the film would be made with CG animation, fans were quite worried over how the characters' 2D designs would translate to 3D, but worties lessened when it was announced that Sony Pictures Imageworks, which already combined hand-drawn techniques with CGI in the films Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs. The Machines to universal acclaim. All worries were fully calmed down once footage of the film has released, displaying an animation style that stuck close to the original series while still displaying a lot of quality.

Tropes for the TV series

 * Ascended Extra:
 * Characters such as Jenny's sisters, Misty, and Melody appear in far more promenient roles than in the original series.
 * Armaggedroid appears as the main antagonist in season 2, whereas he only appeared twice in the original series.
 * Ascended Fridge Horror: Inverted. Fans originally worried over the idea of Jenny being locked with her sisters should Nora build an XJ-10. This series not only shows Nora choosing to permanently let the others be free, but specifically builds an XJ-10 for situations Jenny can't handle not even with her friends.
 * Central Theme:
 * Sisterhood and family are depicted as the main theme in seasons 2 and 4, througth Jenny's interactions with her extended family in season 2, and with X-J10 in season 4.
 * The complexities of morality is the main theme in season 3, througth Melody and Misty.
 * Darker and Edgier: Much like the film, the series featites greater character development abd more emotional themes than the original series, albeit still retaining much of the comedy.
 * Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: The Crust Cousins are depicted as this for Jenny.

Tropes for the short series

 * Lighter and Softer: The shorts generally ditch the superhero action and character development from the rest of the franchise in favor of a Slice of Life approach.
 * Slice of Life: The shorts generally center on Jenny's regular teenager life.
 * Truer to Text: Due to the lighter tone and focus on Jenny's life as a teenager, the shorts feel more faithful to the series than the rest of the franchise.
 * Whole Plot Reference: The "Rap Battle" short was written as an homage to the rap sequence in Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021).

Tropes for My Life as a Teenage Robit in Cluster Prime

 * Adaptation Expansion: The film fratures the evebts of the special Escape from Cluster Prime in far greater detail than the special, both physically and emotionally.
 * Villant Exit, Stage Left: Vexus attemots to flee from Jenny and Vega, but her propulsors fail and falls in front of an angry crowd, whom she also attempts to escape from, but fails when she is hit by a truck.