Left to right: Cathy, Sam, Chris, and Danny.


"Hi! My name is Cathy. My grandpa and I came from planet Rhapsodia to power up an age-old secret society. With my new friends, our mission is to battle troublemaking aliens around Singletown. We are... the Monster Buster Club!"
Cathy Smith, the opening sequence

Monster Buster Club is a French-Canadian co-produced computer-animated series produced in 2008-2009 by Marathon, the animation company where Totally Spies! and Martin Mystery were created. It's about a foursome of twelve-year-olds (Sam, Chris, Danny, and Cathy) who, as members of an "age-old" secret society called the Monster Buster Club, protect the city of Singletown from troublemaking aliens.

The four kids are all surprisingly mature for their age; not only do they not seem to depend on their parents, they've been seen to hold part-time paying jobs in spite of being twelve years old. Their only adult supervision comes from Cathy's grandfather, a well-meaning alien disguised as an old man who oversees the Monster Buster Club's operations, although he's far from a reliable mentor, being much more interested in tending to his garden.

In each episode, the kids' everyday affairs are interrupted by one of the outrageous alien villains from their Rogues Gallery (often with a bizarre, harebrained scheme such as turning the entire planet Earth into an exclusive nightclub), whom the kid heroes must suit up and stop. Along the way, they must also deal with obnoxious millionaire Mark and their school principal, Ms. Rollins, who was an officer in the armed services and runs the school like a battleground.

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Tropes used in Monster Buster Club include:
  • Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The MBC network tunnels are large enough to park the MBC Pods. Those tunnels are said to be important tools for protecting humans and aliens on Earth.
  • Academy of Adventure: Singletown Middle School, at least for our heroes. Everyone else is unaware of the alien-battling that takes place there.
  • Acrofatic: Pizmo the Plump
  • Action Girl: Sam; Cathy
  • Action-Hogging Opening
  • A Friend in Need
  • Agent Scully: Mr. Fusster. Subverted in that he's just putting on an act and he actually knows that aliens do exist. Unfortunately, Word of God says that he and the MBC will never know if Mr. Fusster is an alien.
  • Alien Invasion: The Spoilers destroying Singletown in "Famous Four (Part One)".
  • Alien Snack: The Gumblians.
  • Aliens Speaking English
  • All Animals Are Dogs: Moppy looks like a cat, but behaves like a dog.
  • All Cavemen Were Neanderthals: Krog
  • All CGI Cartoon
  • All There in the Manual: The show's website.
  • Alpha Bitch: Wendy
  • Almost Kiss: Cathy and Jeremy in "The End Of Everything (Part One)".
  • Ambiguously Brown
    • Chris. Strangely, Chris' little brother John is a Dark-Skinned Redhead.
    • Sam to a lesser extent. Word of God confirms Sam's ethnicity: she's Italian and Armenian.
  • Amusing Alien: Casanova, Mr. Smith's favorite plant.
  • And Now You Must Marry Me
    • Krog to Principal Rollins in "Me Krog, You Rollins".
    • Mimi to Mr. Fusster in "Here Comes the Bride".
  • Anime Hair: Danny
  • Annoying Laugh: Principal Rollin's laughter.
  • Annoying Younger Sibling: John, Chris's kid brother.
  • Artificial Human: Danny and Sam's clones, D34 and S2. Turns out those two robots want to destroy and replace Danny and Sam.
  • Art Shift: Two-dimensional art, such as posters and pictures, are rendered in Animesque-style.
  • Asskicking Pose
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Jellynerp, in "Cloudy with a Change of Jellynerps".
  • Baby Planet: Planet Nebulak, which looks like a bowling ball.
  • Badass Normal: Even without their weapons they can still kick alien butt. Except Chris.
  • Bad Santa: Dingle, but he's actually sharing joy in Christmas.
  • Batman Gambit: Danny pulls off one of these in "World's Toughest Kid", tricking Brian by switching the direction of the zapper he was holding, so when Brian took it from him, he ended up shooting himself.
  • Battle Butler: Doudo
  • Because Destiny Says So: The Destiny Puzzle
  • Berserk Button
    • Never disturb Sam while she's playing video games.
    • In "The End of Everything (Part Two)", Danny gets angry since Cathy is missing.
  • Big Eater
    • Cathy, who has two stomachs
    • Baby alien Tina.
    • The Eater Aliens.
  • Big Fancy House: Mark's house.
  • Big Red Button: In "The-Forget-Me-Stone", some of the MBC supercomputer buttons can lead to pitfalls.
  • Bigger on the Inside
  • Bizarre Alien Biology: Cathy, her Grandpa, and all other aliens.
  • Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Grampa Smith, in his true form, looks like a sort of blue-skinned fish-fly thing with four limbs. Cathy's true form, on the other hand, has six tentacle-like limbs, white skin with pink spots, three crests on her head, and a squirrel-like tail. This is assuming that Grandpa Smith and Cathy belong to the same species; Cathy may well be adopted, seeing that we never hear anything about her birth parents.
  • Blatant Lies
    • King Petalia XIII claims that he's the former ruler of seventeen planets, and twenty four moons, give or take an asteroid.
    • Glor Glenemore is a self-proclaimed thief in the galaxy, but he gets clumsy every time he's doing his mission.
  • Blob Monster: Addison's real form -- the Morphering Glob.
  • Blond Guys Are Evil: Mark
  • Blondes Are Evil
    • Wendy
    • Jenny in human form.
  • Body Snatcher: The Alcascythe to Jeremy in "The Beast Within".
  • Brainless Beauty: Wendy
  • Brainwashed and Crazy
    • Danny, Wendy and Ralph in "Battle of the Bands".
    • The kids (except Danny, Chris and Cathy) in "Comic Book Heroes".
    • Mark, Ralph, and Roy in "Stupid Human Tricks".
  • Bug War: "The Bugaboos"
  • Bubble Gun: The Electrobubble.
  • By the Power of Grayskull: "MBC! Po-o-o-o-wer up!"
  • Catch Phrase
    • Cathy: "Zeewa!", "Ginchy!", and other Rhapsodian slang that she only understands.
    • MBC, especially Sam: "Let's bust them!"
  • Cardboard Prison: Wedge, the red Reptilian Morpher, and Agar do that.
  • Celebrity Star: Brain Adamapple
  • Cheaters Never Prosper: Proskar. Danny reveals that Proskar didn't follow one of the rules in Parchugal -- a game can be declared over if everyone has played.
  • Chekhov's Skill: In "The Trouble with Troublemaking", Danny's able to solve Cathy's Rhapsodian Puzzle Stick but it took him around two days. Later on, Danny uses the puzzle stick to knock out Gluten.
  • Christmas Episode: "Secret Santa"
  • City of Adventure: Singletown
  • Class Trip: "Pipe Dreams". Who wants to go on a field trip in the city sewers?
  • Cliff Hanger: The last episode "Goodbye Earth" ends with the MBC returning to Earth after the virus is eliminated. Word of God states that Cathy and Mr. Smith will continue to stay on Earth as along as there are evil aliens in town, while the MBC continues to hunt alien criminals.
  • Clip Show
  • Closer to Earth: Sam
  • Closet Shuffle: The MBC does this in few episodes. They even use it to take a shortcut to the clubhouse once.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Cathy, big time.
  • Collector of the Strange
    • Gilbert and other Packrats.
    • Speedy's twin brother, Veedy kidnaps humans for his art gallery called "Galaxy's Strangest Creatures".
  • Colonel Badass: The Galactic Commander.
  • Color Coded for Your Convenience: The MBC suits are color-coded according to the member's V-coms. Cathy wears pink, Danny wears red, Sam wears yellow, Chris wears blue and Elton wears green. Does this remind you of Power Rangers?
  • Cool Car: The MBV and Carpedo.
  • Cool Shades: The function of MBC's visors are similar to A-Scanner.
  • Cool Ship: The MBC Pods.
  • Cool Old Guy: Mr. Smith
  • Cool Old Lady: Frieda, Mr. Smith's sister.
  • Crazy Prepared: The MBC always has gadgets to use.
  • Cultured Badass
    • Cathy is shown to be knowledgeable in Rhapsodian culture as well as some customs in other planets.
    • Sam, who enjoys painting and fine arts.
  • Cute Shotaro Boy: John
  • Cyborg: Fibeloids, like Swampdweller each have a metal left arm and an electronic right eye.
  • Dark-Skinned Redhead: John
  • Death Trap: Chris, Sam and Cathy in "Battle Of The Bands".
  • Detect Evil: The A-Scanner.
  • Dude in Distress: Elton, in "Mindreader".
  • Dogs Are Dumb: Matisse, Wendy's pet.
  • Dumb Blonde: Cathy
  • Easy Amnesia: "The Forget-Me-Stone"
  • Eccentric Mentor
  • Embarrassing First Name: Mr. Smith's first name is Hugo.

Sam: She didn't seem so sensitive to me... Hugo.
(Cathy chuckles)

Cathy: Grandpa!
Sam: The flower!
Danny: The rocket!
Chris: The end of everything!

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