Zorro: Generation Z

Another Rick Ungar creation. This time the story of Zorro is updated to 2015 and the latest descendant of the De La Vega line also called Diego is a 17 year old teenager who takes up the mantle of Zorro with help from his mute friend Bernardo. To replace the famous Tornado we now have a Cool Bike called Tornado Z that helps transport Diego to fight against the corrupt mayor of the town.

Tropes used in Zorro: Generation Z include:

• Action Girl: Scarlet Whip.
• Badass Biker: Zorro.
• Beneath the Earth: One episode has "The Subway People," a civilization that inexplicably lives below Pueblo Grande.
• Broke Episode: There was an episode where Diego's dad decides to make him learn the value of a dollar and cuts him off from his trust fund, right when he needs a lot of money to rebuild his totaled bike.
• But Not Too Foreign
• Captain Ersatz: Don Payaso is basically The Joker, even down to wearing a purple tuxedo.
• Cool Bike: Tornado Z
• Cute Mute: Bernardo.
• Daddy's Little Villain: Mostly subverted with Maria. She fights the criminals working for her dad but when the opportunity arises to expose him as a criminal, she can't go through with it.
• Downer Ending: The show ends with Mayor Martinez losing his reelection campaign... to an even bigger crook.
• Family-Friendly Firearms: The future looks a lot like the present if you don't count weaponry. Guns strongly resemble the Star Trek: The Next Generation early "dustbuster" incarnation of phasers.
• Four Is Death: The Fearsome Four, who are indeed the most formidable villains in the show.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Also Bernardo.
• Heroes Want Redheads
• Laser Blade
• Legacy Character: There have been many Zorro's over the years. Diego is just the most recent.
  • Making it kind of weird is that whenever one appears, he sounds just like the evil mayor.
• Living with the Villain: Maria.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Diego's father Don Alejandro.
• Magical Computer: There's really no other explanation for the way computers work in this show.
• Morph Weapon: Zorro's single weapon can rearrange into several modes: Laser Blade, Darth Maul-esque laser staff, laser whip, and a standard laser blaster.
• My Horse Is a Motorbike: Tornado Z.
• Mutual Masquerade: Diego and Maria have no idea of each others' secret identities, until the last episode.
• Mythology Gag: Originally Maria's costumed identity was going to be the Black Whip, probably based on the movie Zorro's Black Whip actually about a masked heroine. Presumably this was changed to make her more distinct from the black-clad Zorro.
• Never Say "Die": Averted in the theme song. The show still uses euphemisms for the most part.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Scarlet Whip's method of distinguishing herself from her civilian identity... she puts on red shades and wears a red trenchcoat. That's it.
  • They never mention this but if you look close her hair is pinker in costume, implying she also wears a wig.
• Recycled in Space: Zorro IN THE FUTURE!
• Slap Slap Kiss: Diego and Maria.
• The Speechless: Bernardo is a mute.
• Talking Is a Free Action: Hilariously subverted in the pilot, where Zorro and Scarlet Whip have a spitting contest over who's a better hero, and the bad guys take advantage of their distraction to shoot Scarlet Whip off a roof.
• Totally Radical
• Twenty Minutes Into the Future
• The Voiceless: Some actually assumed Bernardo Morn-esquely never quite got the opportunity to get a word in while on screen, before it was made clear he couldn't speak.
• Whip It Good
• Whip Sword
• Xtreme Kool Letterz
• Zorro Mark: Naturally. Into the seat of an enemy's pants, usually.