Samba de Amigo (TV series)/Tropes


 * Adaptional Dumbass:
 * Downplayed with Amigo, as he is depicted as naive and clueless in the show, something he does not display in the game.
 * Age Lift:
 * Amigo is depicted as a child in the show.
 * Canon Foreigner:
 * Amigo's parents are this, as is Arman.
 * Companion Cube:
 * Amigo almost always carried his maracas with him.
 * Darker and Edgier:
 * Heavily downplayed, as the show is still lighthearted like the game, but unlike the game, it features a rather horrible villain and sometimes deals with somewhat serious situations.
 * Friendly Enemy:
 * Subverted, Arman pretends to be friendly towards Amigo in order to take advantage of the latter's Stupid Good nature.
 * In Name Only:
 * As Samba de Amigo is a plot-less video game starring a group of characters with little to no developed personality (outside of the instruction booklet for the 2008 rerelease on the Wii), the series has the characters being depicted in ways they are never seen behaving as such in the games. Additionally, the game is a music rhythmn game, whilst music is generally only a focus at the end of each episode.
 * Knight of Cerebus:
 * Despite the show's very silly and lighthearted nature, Arman is quite a menacing villain, who is shown to be a careless, backstabbing jerk on multiple occasions.
 * Large Ham:
 * Almost everybody in the English dub. The only characters whose dialogue isn't regularly over-the-top are Amigo's and Arman's.
 * Once per Episode:
 * Every episode has a musical number performed right before the credits.