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SheZow is an Australian-Canadian-American animated series about 12-year-old Guy Hamdon and his adventures after finding and putting on his deceased Aunt Agnes' super powered ring, inheriting her Super Hero alter ego, SheZow. Unable to take it off, he must now fight crime whether he wants to or not. In a dress. At least he doesn't have to go it alone, getting help from his best friend, Maz, who acts as his sidekick (with differing alter egos for each episode) while Guy's sister Kelly helps from the "She-lair" with Sheila the Supercomputer. Guy must also keep his identity secret from his policeman father, who has always thought SheZow was an arrogant show-off (due in part to SheZow's popularity; she has comic books and fan clubs!).

The series was originally a short on Disney Television Animation’s Shorty McShorts' Shorts shown on May 4, 2007 and created by Obie Scott Wade. It ultimately became the only short from that series to get picked up as a full show, but it wasn’t Disney that greenlit it. On December 15, 2012, SheZow debuted on Network Ten in Australia as a co-production between Australia’s Moody Street Kids, Canada’s Kickstart Productions, and Obie’s own studio ObieCo, with animation provided by Vision Animation in Malaysia. It later came to the United States on The Hub on June 1, 2013.

Despite (or because of) various anti-LGBT groups protesting the premiere (although the show does not address issues of transgenderness or homosexuality), the show received high ratings when it ran on the Hub Network, according to creator Obie-Scott Wade's Twitter account. Despite this, the series didn't get picked up for a second season, not so much due to rating but more that Hasbro was having financial issues at the time and ultimately sold network rights back to Discovery Inc. who in turn re-branded the channel to "Discovery Family" and started phasing out any non-animal related series, with SheZow becoming one of the casualties.

This cartoon includes examples of:

• Affectionate Parody: Of various Super Hero and Magical Girl media.
• A Good Name for a Rock Band: Guy's SheZow remark to Maz's "Time Travel Guinea Pigs" remark.
• All Balloons Have Helium: SheZow blows a floating bubble out of gum capable of lifting three people. Now if only he could tap into that helium for his voice...
• Ambiguous Gender: SheZap sounds male, but is sometimes referred to as a she. Though considering their origins SheZap might not even have a gender.
• Ambiguously Gay: Mocktopus. He speaks with a stereotypically gay voice & he does the stereotypical limp wrist (if his fins even have wrists.)
• Animated Tattoo: Tattoozala can bring to life the wild creature tattoos on his skin by intoning the word "incubate".
• Ascended Fanboy: Kelly is the head of the SheZow Fan Club. She ends up as SheZow's mentor, though she would much rather become the real thing.
• Amphibious Automobile: The SheHicle can transform into a submarine.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Manny Ken is a gigantic animated shop mannequin.
• The Bad Guy Wins: SheZap in his/her debut episode, which leads to a very important lesson from Kelly.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted royally. Beside the obvious, of course, SheZow's archenemy Tara's signature attack is blowing huge balls of sticky mucus out of her nose and throwing them.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: When Guy/SheZow and Gal/DudePow team up in "SheZow meets DudePow", they immediately start arguing over who should fight the villains to the point where Maz and Kelly actually debate on if they hate or love each other.
• Big "NO!": Textbook sample in the first episode.
• Boomerang Comeback: Comedic version happens to Guy's SheZow in the testing of the Boomerang Brush.
• Blessed with Suck:
  • All of Tara's powers are disgusting. Which might have something to do with why she never became the media darling she thought she deserved to be, regardless of the good works she actually did.
  • The SheZow ring comes with an array of amazing powers, but can't be removed, forces anyone who wears it - even if they're male - to wear a tacky pink outfit with a dress and heels, and places a huge number of rules and restrictions on whoever wears the ring. For a few examples, Guy isn't allowed to steal or he will lose his powers and shrink to the size of a molecule, he can't back down from a superpower contest, he can't fight crime for profit, and so on.
• Bluff the Impostor: In "SheZap is Whack", SheZap kidnaps Guy and pretends to be SheZow to the public. Kelly gets suspicious and manages to figure out the truth by speaking to SheZap in Spanish. When SheZap merely gets confused, Kelly's suspicions are confirmed, as Guy knows Spanish and would have known what she was saying.
• Bookshelf Dominoes: In "She Phat", SheZow's super-heavy footsteps cause this to happen to the shelves full of delicate china in the delicate china warehouse.
• Brain in a Jar: Mega Monkey owns one. Despite the brain being alive and conscious, he only uses it as a holder for the bathroom key.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: When asked whether his go-go boots are made of leather or vinyl, SheZow (who's having the answers fed through by Sheila) answers with "linyl".
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Guess what the "S" stands for...
• But Thou Must!: There's a rule that says that SheZow can't back down from a superpower contest, as proven in "Glamageddon", Kelly seems to be impressed by that and tells Guy to "Say hello to GLAMAGEDDON-GEDDON-GEDDON!".
• By the Power of Grayskull!:
  • Guy can voluntarily transform by saying the magic words "You go girl!", then change back by saying "She-yeah!"
  • Similarly, Gal's transformation call into DudePow is "Sock it to me, broseph!", and changes back into normal with "He-yeah!"
• Calling Your Attacks: SheZow, Tara, and BrouHaHa do this, naming their attacks as they use them.
• Camp: The show is the modern equivalent to Batman. From using "she" as a prefix (or "shefix" if you will) for everything, to very goofy villains, to a 60s style costume.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Enforced by the SheZow ring, which has numerous She-rules that must be followed by the wielder as to prevent it from being misused for evil. When Guy tries to steal a $500 dollar bill in "Makin' Bank" (which goes against everything SheZow stands for), the ring punishes him for breaking the She-rules by making him unable to transform into SheZow and making him slowly shrink to the size of a molecule until he returns it to the bank.
• Captain Obvious: This is what Boxter calls his assistant, Officer Wackerman.
• Censored Title: "SheZow Happens!" was retitled "You Go Girl!" on some American TV guides, but the title card stayed the same when it aired.
• Chekhov's Skill: In "Super Sidekick", it's offhandedly revealed that Guy can speak Spanish when he watches a TV ad in said language. Much later, in "SheZap is Whack", Kelly uses this fact to expose SheZap as an imposter by speaking Spanish to him, figuring out that he's not the real SheZow when he gets confused instead of responding.
• The Chooser of the One: The ring chooses its wearer.
• Clingy MacGuffin:
  • According to SheZow legend: "Whoever shall wear-eth the ring shall forever bear the responsibility of SheZow!" In Short, SheZow's Glamazon Power Ring can't come off, which also leads to Guy's Big "NO!" moment.
  • Subverted as of "SheZow for a Day", where it's revealed that the SheZow ring can be taken off... provided the wearer has a twin sibling and it's a day ending with "y", which Kelly takes advantage of to become SheZow. However, Guy finds himself bored and purposeless without the ability to turn into SheZow, leading him to take the ring back by the end of the episode, with the implication being that he wears the ring by choice from then on.
• Coincidental Broadcast: Happens thrice in "Super Sidekick".
• Colony Drop: In "Null and Void", the titular villains battle SheZow, starting with sending a comet crashing into the Earth. When SheZow destroys it with his "Mega Ram-tastic Super She-Punch" before it can hit anything, Void sends the moon itself falling towards the Earth. With great effort and some help from Null and Void (after they realized they would go down with everyone else), SheZow manages to throw it back into space, saving the Earth from certain destruction.
• Combat Stilettos: SheZow has these as part of his/her costume - unfortunately for Guy, the ability to run around in high heels without falling over is NOT a part of SheZow's powerset.
• Corporate-Sponsored Superhero: Aside from the comics and merch, Guy tries to go for direct sponsorship by FizzBurp but all the junk food messes with his she-tabolism.
• Costume Evolution: As shown in "Family Tree", all of the previous SheZows had different outfits to fit their respective time periods, such as Sheanderthal wearing a full-body loincloth, Flora Hamdon wearing a 1920s'-inspired outfit, and a wild west SheZow wearing a cowgirl outfit. Oddly, Guy does not get a unique outfit and instead uses a smaller version of Aunt Agnes' 50s'-inspired outfit, which also extends to Kelly when she briefly takes the ring in "SheZow for a Day".
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: After getting defeated by SheZap in the episode he's introduced, Kelly reminds Guy that none of that would've happened if he took a manicure.
• Courtroom Episode: "No Girls Allowed" has SheZow suing a chauvinistic superhero group called the Xselsior Club for refusing to let him join on account of “being a girl.”
• Create Your Own Villain: SheZap is created this way by Guy rejecting a manicure, breaking a fingernail on a fireman's ladder, then spitting the piece of the fingernail away which ends up in a toxic waste container.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Sarcazmo the Great can perform powerful magic and summon a variety of objects into existence... but only for backyards. He can't even use his magic to decorate front yards.
• Crossdresser: Not intentional on Guy's part - the ring just requires the wearer (regardless of gender) to wear the female-tailored superhero costume.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: As SheZow, Guy often speaks in a high-pitched voice while facing villains and doing public appearances, though he uses his real voice while talking to people who know his she-cret.
• Crying a River: In one episode, Guy Hamdon's sister Kelly takes him to see a chick flick. It's so intense that he briefly floods the theatre.
• Crystal Prison: SheZap shrinks Guy and traps him inside a Glam Rock in "SheZap is Whack".
• Darker and Edgier: Inspired by fellow superhero Caped Koala, SheZow tries to make the jump to Graphic Novels in "Black Is The New Pink", but it just ends up screwing up her powers. Then, the Caped Koala turns out to be a big fan of SheZow's comics!
• Deal with the Devil: In "She Pal", SheZow makes a deal with SheZap to throw off a nosy reporter. Immediately subverted when they both double-cross each other, throw the whole thing out the window, and just go at it.
• Demonic Dummy: Brouhaha appears to be one of these, though he doesn't bother even pretending to be inanimate.
• Deranged Park Ranger: A park ranger at Big Tick National Park keeps a Sasquatch called SheQuatch under his thumb and coerces her into scaring visitors.
• Description Cut: At the beginning of "Mr. Nice Guy" Maz states that he's never seen Guy cry. Cut to him at the theatre with Kelly and is showing legitimate emotional impact from the film.
• Did You Get a New Haircut?: In "SheZap is Whack", Guy's evil clone takes his place as SheZow. Despite SheZap wearing a different coloured costume from SheZow, Maz and Kelly both ask if he has done something with his hair (which, much like the costume, is identical to SheZow's in everything but coloration).
• Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In "ShePhat" it's shown that Maz's ringtone is the show's credits theme.
• Disguised in Drag: Guy wears a female superhero costume to fight crime and save the day. The public believes him to be the previous SheZow, despite his obviously being much younger. Either she was very small, or some magic effect prevents recognition.
• Distaff Counterpart: A girl named Gal from an Alternate Dimension is able to transform into DudePow, a male superhero with virtually identical powers and gadgets. Said alternate universe also has a female version of Maz, named Maizy, Gal's brother is also named Kelly, and Dudley is DudePow's Supercomputer.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The plot of "Momnesia" can easily be interpreted as a mom finding out her son is gay/transgender.
• Don't Explain the Joke: She-verted HARD. Oh, I get it! She-verted! Clever.
• Donut Mess with a Cop: Guy uses this against his dad in "Makin' Bank".
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Given that SheZow's powers include near-invulnerability, super strength and speed, and a limitless array of gadgets for every situation, there are naturally several handicaps in place to ensure Guy can't simply go SheZow and end the episode in five seconds.
  • If SheZow's hair gets messed up, he/she will lose all of his/her powers. "Fibberachee" epitomises this, with Guy having his hair messed up about halfway through the episode, forcing him to run from the mind-controlled zombies until Maz can get him some hairspray, at which point he immediately ends the threat by knocking everyone down.
  • Guy is a klutz who doesn't fully know how to use his powers, tends to be arrogant, and frequently trips over his heels or gets his cape snagged. These flaws make it so he frequently struggles in fights against others or ends up in danger to the point where Kelly or Maz have to step in.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Said word for word by none other than Kelly after Guy remarks that "I'm a dude" in "SheZow Happens".
• Edible Ammunition: Candy Rapper throws candy rocks that combust into a burst of sparks.
• Evil Former Friend: Tara was Agnes' sidekick before the latter became famous and the former faded into obscurity.
• Exactly What I Aimed At: In "S.I.C.K. Day", Señor Yo-Yo flings his Killer Yo-Yo at SheZow's head, who dodges with a "Ha! Missed Me!" Yo-Yo then yanks on the string and the yoyo whizzes back and whacks her in the back of the head.
• The Exit Is That Way: In "S.I.C.K. Day", Mega Monkey sends the candidates to join S.I.C.K. (Fun with Acronyms Society of Incredible Callous Kriminals) off to capture She-Zow. They march out of the boardroom through a door only for Mega Monkey to announce "That's the bathroom". They turn around and leave via exit (Candy Rapper steals a towel on the way).
• Expository Theme Song: And how! It lists his origin, powers, weakness, equipment, allies, and villains in just 60 seconds.
• Far East: In the episode "Fortune Kooky", SheZow faces an otherwise Chinese-themed villain who is also the number one employer of ninja.
• The '50s: The time of Anges Monroe, the previous SheZow.
• Fiery Redhead: Uma Thermal (a clear pastiche of Uma Thurman) is a superheroine with red hair and a hot temper to go with her fire powers.
• The Flapper: The costume of Flora Hamdon's SheZow.
• Flintstone Theming: There are She-puns, He-puns, Ice-puns, Fire-puns, even shaving puns.
• Flying Car: The SheHicle has a flight mode, as explained in the show's Expository Theme Song:
  SheHicle revs with power supreme
  Becoming a plane and a submarine.
• Forgot to Mind Their Head: In "Glamageddon", Guy is working on the engine of the Shehicle when he tells Shelia that he intends to blow off Tara's challenge. When Sheila tells him that he cannot, he jerks his head up in shock and slams it into the Shehicle's bonnet.
• For the Evulz: Appears to be SheZap's motivation.
• Fountain of Youth: In the episode Babysitter, some anti-ageing cream does this to Kelly, Maz and later Tara.
• Free-Range Children: Our heroes get to go to far-off places thanks to the Shehicle.
• Fun with Acronyms:
  • S.I.C.K. stands for "The Society of Incredibly Callous Kriminals".
  • Tara also forms a supervillain group called The "Get Rid Of SheZow Society".
  • The heroes get in on it too with the "Super Hero Action Guild".
• Gender Bender: Surprisingly averted, although there were a number of people who were/are confused on whether the ring caused Guy to become female when transformed as SheZow.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: "Shut The Front Door!" is used to avoid swearing.
• Gratuitous Rap: "Maz Junior" and "SheZon's Greetings" both end with the cast having an impromptu rap number. For the former, it's Guy and Maz, and for the latter, it's them plus Kelly, Santa, and Tattoozala.
• Half-Identical Twins or Always Identical Twins: Thoroughly averted. Guy and Kelly look sort of alike, but if it wasn't for the occasional Sibling Seniority Squabble, you'd think Kelly was a couple of years older.
• Harmless Freezing: Played completely straight in "Coldfinger".
• Heh Heh, You Said "X": From "In She-D" as the Pushy Pirate Posse are robbing a store selling baby booties:
  Sheila: There are still three pushy pirates inside the bootie store!
  Maz: Ha ha, you said 'booty'!
• He-Man Woman Hater: The members of X-Selsior won't allow SheZow to join them because of her "girliness".
• Henshin Hero: Guy can transform into SheZow by saying "You go, girl!", and reverts back to normal by saying "She-yeah!" While in his civilian form, Guy does not possess any of SheZow's powers except for his SheSP which alerts him of danger and also to get out of sight whenever he's about to turn into SheZow.
• Hilarious Outtakes: The Blooper Reel of the episode "Family Tree", which ironically was not a clip that came after the aforementioned episode.
• Historical Character Confusion: Maz doesn't even come close in "Mr. Nice Guy":
  Maz: You're like that famous psychoanalyst: Dr. Jekyll!
  SheZow: You mean Dr. Freud.
  Maz: Yeah, her.
• Home Base: The She-Lair, located under his aunt's (now his family's) house, with a secret exit to the sea.
• Hot Blade: SheZap's curling iron sword.
• Hurricane of Puns: Practically half of the jokes involve some She-related pun.
• An Ice Person: Coldfinger is a supervillain with - you guessed it - ice powers.
• Identical Grandson: On seeing Flora Hamdon, Maz remarks that she looks like Kelly.
• Identity Impersonator: In "ShePal", Wanda is about to deduce that SheZow is actually Guy after he gets careless and accidentally gives away too much information. Guy throws her off by making a deal with SheZap where the latter poses as Guy to disprove him being SheZow, with the end result being that Guy will turn evil and join him. The two immediately backstab each other and go at it the moment she leaves.
• Immune to Mind Control: In "Fibberachee", the titular rock star hypnotizes everyone watching his concert into attacking SheZow. Despite being at the concert, Maz is completely unaffected because his poor ear hygiene resulted in his ears being blocked to the point where he couldn't hear the music.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: Guy in "Makin' Bank" after breaking a rule, which goes along with being unable to transform into SheZow and loss of superpowers.
• Insane Troll Logic: Kelly and Maz become the victims of a literal anti-aging cream. The solution? Tear the "anti" part of the label off and it becomes "aging cream"! Voila!
• Invisibility: SheZow can do this with her vanishing cream.
• Kevlard: SheZow temporarily develops this power when she becomes overweight in "She Phat"; being able to bounce Señor Yo-Yo's yo-yos off her fat.
• Killer Yo-Yo: The primary weapon of Señor Yo-Yo.
• Knowledgeable, but Unskilled: Kelly knows everything there is to know about SheZow, being the head of the SheZow fan club and all, and wanted to become SheZow before Guy took the ring. However, when she gets to become SheZow in "SheZow for a Day", while she is an Instant Expert at using her new powers, she is rather poor at hero work, frequently overcomplicating things for herself and freezing up at the sight of a giant robot, necessitating that Guy step in to save the day.
• Larynx Dissonance: Guy, when disguised as SheZow, speaks in a very distinctive falsetto voice that doesn't sound particularly feminine.
• Laser Blade: The Laser Lipstick is Guy's go-to weapon. It can also shoot laser beams. Tara has a Laser Mascara and SheZap has a curling iron that combines this with Hot Blade.
• Legacy Character: There have been SheZows in the family dating back to the prehistoric era, all empowered by the same ring. (Guy is the first male one, though.)
• Legion of Doom: S.I.C.K. was intended to be one of these, though it never actually had any members beyond the founder (MegaMonkey), since they all failed the entrance test. Tara would later join in "Babysitting Jitters", either because she passed an entirely different entrance exam or simply because they both hold a grudge against SheZow.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: You know SheZow's serious when (s)he says "No more mister nice girl!" or "Time to get SheZow-y with it!"
• Likes Clark Kent, Hates Superman: Boxter Hamdon hates SheZow out of jealousy for constantly upstaging him and his fellow officers, going out of his way to insult her and call her "SheCow". He's completely unaware that SheZow is actually his own son, Guy.
• Living Shadow: SheZap can take the form of Guy's shadow.
• Loophole Abuse:
  • In "ShePhat", it's revealed that one of the rules for being SheZow is that SheZow cannot fight crime for profit. Guy gets around this limitation by having SheZow's "agent" - Maz - arrange for SheZow to be sponsored by Fizzburp (a soft drink company), so technically, SheZow isn't charging anyone to fight crime so much as someone else is arranging for him to be sponsored and given free stuff while he fights crime.
  Sheila: It appears that Miss Fizzburp has found a way around the She-rules.
  Guy: You see, technically, I'm not "charging" to fight crime. I just have sponsors now. Big diff. And... [burps] I didn't even have to make the deal. SheZow's agent did.
  • In "Fibberachee", Guy really needs a kid's tricycle to escape the villain's army of mind-controlled zombies, but he can't just take it or he'll lose his powers for stealing. His solution? Give the kid his Laser Lipstick in exchange for the trike, technically making it a fair trade.
• Loves My Alter Ego: Jose in the original Disney pilot, combined with Sweet Polly Oliver.
• Low-Speed Chase: One occurs in "Fibberachee", between Guy/SheZow riding a tricycle and an army of mind-controlled zombies.
• Magical Girl: The entire show is a Deconstructive Parody of both superheroes as well as magical girls, as well as the legacies of both genres. The main character, Guy, even has two deliberately outlandish transformation phrases^note "You go girl" for transforming into his She Zow form, and "She-yeah" for transforming back. Furthermore, the equipment and powers he uses (e.g., a lipstick Laser Blade, and a super "slap" attack^note i.e., a power based on the kind of slap a girl would give to a boy that annoys her, etc.) reflect various female social stereotypes as well.
• Magic Countdown: One appears in "Hot Rocks", along with a number of related tropes.
• The Merch: Implied In-Universe: Aunt Agnes had a lot of money. SheZow has her own comic book and a huge fanclub. Work from there.
• Minidress of Power: Guy's costume, refitted to suit his younger frame.
• Monochrome Past: All the time periods visited in "Family Tree" are depicted in black and white, or (in the Old West's case) sepia.
• Mundane Utility:
  • Guy has abused his power to turn into SheZow for such things as pretending to be a babysitter so he and Kelly could get the house to themselves, sneaking into a movie theatre using vanishing cream, and trying to win a bubble-gum blowing contest using his super-breath.
  • A few episodes depict Guy and Maz using the giant screen in the She-Lair - meant to detect crimes in progress - to play video games.
• Murderous Mannequin: Manny Ken is a gigantic animated shop mannequin.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Uma Thermal to Uma Thurman. She even has a similar hairstyle to Thurman's character in Pulp Fiction.
• Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: Directly quoted after the Tooth Fairy says she didn't expect SheZow to be a boy.
• "Not Wearing Pants" Dream: In "Guy and Doll", Baby Scarington traps Guy in a super-nightmare where he has to confront his worst fears. One of them involves turning up at school in his underwear.
• Ocular Gushers: In "Mr. Nice Guy" Guy gets these watching a chick flick with Kelly that are so strong he briefly floods the theatre.
• Oh, Crap!: Kelly's expression when she realize who Tara is.
• Oh My Goddess: Kelly does this on discovering SheZow's Glamazon Power Ring.
• Older Than They Look: Aunt Agnes was in her seventies at the youngest (and that's assuming she was a teenager when she fought BrouHaHa in 1952) but still appeared youthful, at least when she was SheZow.
• Once per Episode: Maz comes up with a new sidekick costume.
• Painful Body Waxing: In "Glamageddon", Droosha is helping SheZow for the Glamageddon showdown against Tara. This includes waxing SheZow's legs, which causes Guy to squeal in pain.
• Pass the Popcorn: Grilla and Coldfinger does during the heroes fight in "SheZow Meets DudePow"
• Picture Day: Happens in "Guy & Doll" — Guy's problem for the episode is that he's having a super-nightmare, which means Guy is, according to Aunt Agnes, "floating somewhere between real and not real."
• Pink Means Feminine: SheZow's costume and equipment are all pink, but it was meant for a woman. See also Weaksauce Weakness.
• Pinned to the Wall: In "Glamageddon'', Tara uses her Nails of Annihilation to pin SheZow's cape to the wall of the arena where they are fighting.
• Police Are Useless: Averted. The police can hold their own, SheZow is just faster.
• Posthumous Character: Anges Monroe — she died offscreen shortly before the series began. The only thing that's left of her are her ashes, which are lampshaded by Kelly.
• Power Crystal: The pink zowrocks scattered throughout the She-lair are shown to have powerful magical properties. Among other things, the crystals grant the Shehicle various superpowers, can erase memories of secret identities, and are used to cure super-colds.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: As SheZow, on top of gaining a variety of powerful abilities and gadgets, Guy's hair goes from a fairly short, boyish mohawk to growing out past his shoulders.
• Private Detective: Aside from delivering blows to his/her villains SheZow can also do some She-Tective work.
• Pronoun Trouble: SheZow is referred to using female pronouns by people who don't know that Guy is SheZow; people who do know generally say "he" when referring to Guy as a person, whether in "SheZow mode" or not (because Guy is still a "guy underneath", and remains so even when being SheZow), but "she" when referring specifically to SheZow as a persona, as currently held by but technically distinct from Guy (because Guy, while happening to embody her at the moment, is not always SheZow, nor vice versa). For example: “Guy put on the ring, now HE fights crime as SheZow. To do this, SheZow uses HER superpowers”. Naturally, they often get mixed up in either one direction or the other. Of course, they can avoid the issue entirely by simply referring to both as separate entities - e.g. “Guy put on the ring, and became SheZow to fight crime. To do this, Guy uses SheZow’s superpowers”.
• Pun: Any pun that can somehow have the word "She" in it will be abused.
• Recursive Crossdressing: SheZow dressed up as an ice-cream man in "Coldfinger".
• Reset Button: The end of "Momnesia", though in fairness, the title basically tells you to expect it, and besides, it was all worth it to prevent Guy Hamdon's family from going to the moon.
• Roadside Wave: In "SheZow Happens", Guy is testing out his new superspeed and runs through a puddle, soaking Kelly.
• The Roaring '20s: The time period that had Flora Hamdon as SheZow.
• Rogues Gallery: Includes Megamonkey, Coldfinger, Candy Rapper, Tattoozula, etc.
• Running Gag:
  • Maz's attempts to come up with a workable sidekick identity.
  • Boxter keeps calling SheZow "SheCow".
• Sadistic Choice: Null and Void from the episode of the same name try to force SheZow into one; Null threatens to have Kelly and Maz eaten by sharks, while Void tries to crash the moon into the Earth (which would kill everyone else). SheZow takes a third option by pointing out that Void's choice will kill everyone on Earth... including himself and Null, causing the two to argue and allowing him to save Kelly and Maz.
• Same Language Dub: In US airings, Guy/SheZow is voiced by Samuel Vincent.
• Scarecrow Solution: SheZow plays Lucy with help from his vanishing cream in "Black Is The New Pink".
• Screw Yourself: Maz's opinion on Mayzie. (For that matter, Kelly speculates the same about the rocky meeting between SheZow and DudePow.) Not to mention Kelly's attraction to her alternate counterpart, Kelli.
• "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Done by Crash Thunder's mom in "Crash Thunder".
• Secret Identity: Maz (his best friend), Kelly, Sheila, and DudePow are the only people who know about Guy's alter ego. In particular, he must keep it hidden from his father, a policeman who dislikes SheZow for being a "show off".
• Ship Tease: Maz/Kelly gets a few sporadic teases throughout the show. In "Lawn Gone Mad", when Maz and Kelly are trapped by the sentient vegetables and about to be killed, Maz is about to give what sounds like a Love Confession before Guy interrupts him and blasts the vegetables away.
• Shout-Out:
  • The show is usually pretty spare with pop cultural references, but "SheZow Meets DudePow" slips in a shout out to The Big Lebowski, of all things.
  • There are a ton of references to other superheroes in the museum scene in "Black is the New Pink".
  • Maz's sidekick alter-ego in "Super Sidekick", Shaverine, is very clearly a Wolverine homage.
  • Coldfinger's name is a reference to the movie Goldfinger.
  • The Show Within a Show, Buttwipe, is a nod to jackass.
• Serious Business: Comic books (or rather, graphic novels) in the episode "Black is the New Pink"
• Sibling Rivalry: Between Guy and Kelly, enhanced by Guy's possession of the ring. Also, possibly between Boxter and Agnes, if they were in fact siblings, although Boxter wouldn't have realized it.
• Sickly Green Glow: SheZap's skin glows green to reference his nuclear-powered origin.
• Sidekick: Maz, who can't stick to one persona every episode.
• Signed Up for the Dental: In "S.I.C.K. Day", Señor Yo-Yo explains to SheZow that S.I.C.K. is a trade union for supervillains and he really needs to join to get access to health insurance.
• Something We Forgot: At the end of "Coldfinger", Kelly shows up dripping wet and extremely angry because Guy and Maz had forgotten about her and left her frozen in a block of ice at the convention centre.
• Space Whale Aesop: Don't steal money from the bank or you'll shrink to oblivion.
• Super-Cute Superpowers: SheZow's powers will not activate if Guy is wearing any colour other than pink. And these powers include the ability to generate hurricane force winds by fluttering his eyelashes.
• Superheroes Wear Capes: SheZow's looks are based off the 70's roughly, so this makes sense.
• Superpower Lottery: SheZow has the following superpowers:
  • Blow You Away: His/Her Wind Winkers.
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power: Guy's she-latability allows him to know his enemy's next move before they make it. He's also able to take down two villains without throwing a punch by seeing their problems and talking to them about it.
  • In a Single Bound: SheZow initially can only do super leaps, leading to Guy complaining about not being able to fly.
  Kelly Hamdon (After seeing SheZow fall flat on her face when trying to fly): Ding! SheZow can't fly!
  • Sizeshifter: Part of SheZow's powerset. Usually limited to making a hand grow for the heavy-handed super she-slap and her eyelashes for the Wind Winkers - but when ill or emotionally unbalanced, SheZow's other body parts seem to grow or shrink in size, too.
  • Speaks Fluent Animal: Guy spending time outdoors during a camping trip to recharge caused him to talk to animals.
  • Spider-Sense/Psychic Powers: One of Guy's powers is the ability to sense when danger is present, which aside from letting him dodge things like the Trope Namer also automatically transforms him into SheZow. (He changes back when the danger is past.) It's called SheSP. Note this makes SheZow one of the few heroes with more than one way of transforming (as shown in a report on how Guy can transform into SheZow in two different ways), it's also the only power Guy retains when not SheZow.
  • Super-Scream: The Sonic Scream is probably SheZow's strongest power, doing anything from breaking every piece of glass in a five-mile radius to destroying really big boogers to being a pinpoint concussive blast.
  • Super-Speed: SheZow can run really fast, however her heels can cause her to trip and fall over, which is one thing that he/she didn't count on.
  • Super-Strength: SheZow can lift anything heavy, making her indestructible.
• Super Gender-Bender: A 12-year-old boy named Guy Hamdon, discovers the superheroine SheZow's ring of power inherited from his late Aunt Agnes; then subsequently puts it on and transforms into a female costumed crime-fighter by uttering the phrase "You Go Girl!"
• Sweet Polly Oliver: SheZow's a boy, well a boy in woman's clothing to be exact.
• Talking Animal: A result of SheZow's power to talk to them.
• Teleporter Accident: In "She-T", Kelly and Maz get beamed upon an alien spaceship by Sheila so they can save Guy from the aliens. When they get there, it suddenly turns out that their bodies (but not heads) were switched. Kelly notes that she's now "built like a stringbean" and smells like chips and sour milk, while Maz - who's now wearing Kelly's skirt - complains about feeling cold.
• Time Travel: Both MegaMonkey and Guy and Maz in the Shehicle in "Family Tree".
• Thememobile: The Shehicle. Can also transform into a jet (The She-C-10) and a submarine (The SS She Shell).
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After making Boxter Hamdon a laughingstock to the whole police force in the episode "S.I.C.K. Day", Guy as SheZow decides to fake an injury, and thanks to Candy Rapper setting him off, he found a nearby candy cane he can find and took Candy Rapper down in one blow.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tara and Agnes Monroe/SheZow had this dynamic before the events of the show. Tara was the Tomboy who had the very gross and unfeminine power of shooting shot out of her nose, while Agnes was the Girly Girl who had a very feminine set of gadgets and superpowers.
• Too Fast to Stop: A flaw in SheZow's Super-Speed ability.
• Toothbrush Floor Scrubbing: In "Guy and Doll", Guy's principal makes him sweep up all of the sawdust in the wood shop with a very scraggly toothbrush.
• Tongue on the Flagpole: Maz, as MEAT-eor man gets his tongue on a frozen Kelly Hamdon in "Coldfinger".
• Trapped in TV Land: In "In She-D", SheZow starts losing her dimensions due to expired vanishing cream. She enters the Buttwipe 3D movie in an attempt to regain them, and then finds she can't leave.
• Transformation Trinket: SheZow's Glamazon Power Ring, probably also the source of all of Guy's powers. Also counts as a Clingy MacGuffin.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: The episode "Family Tree" shows off some of the previous SheZows throughout history. Of them, Flora resembles an older version of Kelly, while the unnamed cowgirl SheZow and Sheanderthal have the same facial structure as Droosha (Guy and Kelly's mom).
• Utility Belt: It's called a "Beautility Belt" of all things.
• Verbal Backspace: Guy almost blurts out his secret many times.
• Villain Team-Up: Coldfinger and Grilla in the episode "SheZow meets DudePow".
• Visual Pun: So, so many. When SheZow becomes too arrogant, she literally gets a big head.
  • While suffering from She-latability, Guy's heart literally grows a few sizes.
  • Maz's Sidekick identities.
• Wacky Racing: "Shehicle Pickle" has SheZow, Kelly and Maz involved in a race around Megadale against various supervillains to get the Shehicle's zowrock back.
• Weaksauce Weakness:
  • SheZow loses her powers if her hair is frizzled. Fortunately, she is equipped with a can of hairspray that quickly rectifies said problem.
  • If the costume's color is changed from pink, her powers will go on the blink. (yes that was the actual line).
  • Her powers also malfunction when she's sick.
  • Cold Finger melts if he eats spicy food.
  • Aunt Agnes as the previous SheZow was capable of taking a truck to the face without flinching. She was allergic to custard, however.
  • Le Pigeon can't resist statues.
• Weaponized Headgear: Flora Hamdon, the SheZow of the 1920s, wears a feathered headband that transforms into a whip.
• Welcome Episode: "SheZow Happens!"
• What the Hell, Hero?: SheZow give this to Maz (as MEAT-eor Man) when he remarks on SheZow's Weaksauce Weakness in "Coldfinger".
  SheZow: Not a good idea to tell him my weakness, MEAT-eor Man.
  Maz: (Slurred) Sorry.
• "Which Restroom?" Dilemma: Happens in a report on SheZow's SheSP - Guy runs into the ladies' room while transformed into She-Zow, only to turn back to normal and immediately run out and into the men's room. Guy lampshades it by saying "I hate it when that happens."
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: One might assume from the mostly North American accents that Megadale is a moderately sized Canadian metropolis, but nothing is definitively confirmed in the show. Word of God says that Guy, Maz and Kelly are all Canadian.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Guy wears a female superhero costume to fight crime and save the day. Although he didn't take it well initially, Guy Hamdon doesn't seem too bothered that SheZow is his superhero alter ego afterwards.
• The Wild West: The period of time that the Bearded Lady that was mentioned above was SheZow.
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Apart from being forced to wear a dress, high heels and really tacky leopard print any time danger rears its head, SheZow has a pretty strict set of over 2000 rules that must be followed. The punishment for, say, stealing a $500 bill (which goes against everything she stands for), is losing her superpowers, and gradually she-rinking down to the size of a molecule. Another rule says SheZow can't back down from a superpower challenge.
• You Don't Look Like You: The pilot was drawn in a completely different style.
• You Need a Breath Mint: Apparently Tara's gross-out powers include bad breath.
• Your Television Hates You: Happens to Guy in "Super Sidekick" after Shaverine steals the limelight from SheZow.
• Younger Than They Look: Kelly is Guy's twin sister but looks a few years older than him. Truth in Television since girls tend to begin puberty earlier than boys.

"She you later."