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Mission: 2110 was a Game Show on CBBC, similar to Raven. Like Raven, there was a fictional storyline with the Game Show itself, although Mission:2110 was set in the future, as the title suggests. The basic premise was that in the Future, humans had built robots called Roboidz as servants, but for some unknown reason, the robots rebelled against humanity. A Robot War ensued, with the majority of humans becoming extinct or turned into "Shades", cyborg slaves of the Roboidz. The only (known) surviving human in the future is Caleb, a cyborg who retains more of his humanity and fights for the survival of humankind. Together with the AI Cybele, they fight to save humanity. Using Time Travel to bring children "recruits" from the year 2010 to 2110, he hopes to create an army that can defeat the Roboidz and their leader, Neuros. The show lasted two series, both airing in 2010. The second series ended on a cliffhanger, with Neuros appearing to be defeated but then reawakening again in The Stinger

Due to featuring a Storyline, this show also contains many tropes like Raven.

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  • All in The Manual: The Tie-In Game on the CBBC website explained a lot of the backstory.
  • Brain In a Jar: Neuros, the Big Bad of the series.
  • Color-Coded Characters/Fantastic Caste System: the Roboidz were themselves divided into three classes, Worker/Drone, Wardroid/Battle and Guard/Commander. Workers are yellow and black, Wardroids are Red and Guards are silver. Each has different strengths and weaknesses.
  • Cyborg: Both the main character (apart from the contestants), Caleb and also the Shades, the zombie like slaves of Roboidz who are said to be former humans.
  • Call a Hit Point a Smeerp: Contestants are called Recruits. Justified, due to the fictional storyline.
  • Darker and Edgier/Lighter and Softer:Is both of these compared to Raven, its Spiritual Predecessor. Raven was set in a Fantasy world, and whilst Nevar, The Demons & other Villains could be intimidating at times, the fact that Nevar appeared every week and was usually defeated by the contestants made him somewhat less frightening (although he did seize the Island of Alaunus and Freeze Raven's homeland in the Spin-Off series). Mission:2110 is set in The Future, in the middle of a Robot War where most of humanity is either dead or has been converted into Shades. Neuros, the Big Bad of this series, only appeared in the end credits of each episode, taunting Caleb as well as appearing physically in the series finale of each series in the game Neuros Web, thus delaying Villain Decay somewhat. However Mission 2110 was also Lighter and Softer than Raven in the fact that Caleb, the mentor figure of Mission 2110, has various humorous moments including slapstick and short sketches whereas Raven (the character) tending to be a more serious figure. The series also includes a safety warning that the Raven series lacked in most of its seasons and Spin-offs, with the exception of Raven: The Dragon's Eye.
  • Denser and Wackier: Whilst not this to Raven as a whole, Caleb is this compared Raven (the character) as The Mentor. Caleb has more humorous moments whereas Raven was usually portrayed as a stoic and serious figure. See above for more details.
  • The Dragon: Arkon is this to Neuros. Arkon led the Gamma F14 Revolt of the Roboidz to earth, but Neuros is in control of the Roboidz over all. Arkon can also speak English, unlike the other Roboidz.
  • Exty Years From Now: The show was set exactly 100 years after it aired in 2010, in the year 2110 as the title suggests.
  • Great Offscreen War: The War between the humans and the Roboidz that occured in the backstory
  • Harmless Freezing: Subverted. Caleb was cryogenically frozen after his parents couldn't save him from disease. When he awoke, he had amnesia. However, apart from that, he seems fine.
  • Hive Queen: Neuros acts as this to the Roboidz and Shades, although the Roboidz do seem to have some individuality, especially Arkon, Neuros' Dragon
  • It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY": The "2110" in the title is pronounced "Twenty-One Ten", not "Two Thousand, One hundred and Ten". Justified, as in Real Life, many people refer to 2010 as "Twenty Ten" rather than "Two Thousand and Ten" or "Two Thousand Ten"
  • Keystone Army: Played With:The Roboidz and Shades can be defeated individually; the former by removing their "Bio-Rods". But when Neuros is defeated they all shut down. When Neuros awakens again in the Stinger, they reboot, presumably.
  • Robot War: The basic Premise of the Show as well as its backstory
  • Recycled in Space: The show can be described as Raven! IN A ROBOT APOCALYPSE!
  • Last of His Kind: Played with, depending on what you define as human. Caleb is said to be the last human (although he is technically a mostly human cyborg with free will), but Cybele is an AI with the mind and conscience of Caleb's mother Laura Grant. The biological half of her mind, her brain, became Neuros, leader of the Roboidz and the Big Bad of the series. The Shades are also ex-human cyborgs, though they've been heavily cybernetically modified and lack free will as slaves of the Roboidz. The Recruits Caleb takes with him are also completely human, although they are not native to his time period.
  • Left Hanging: The series ended on a cliffhanger, with Neuros appearing to be defeated by Caleb, and all the Roboidz and Shades shutting down along with her, only for Neuros to turn back online in The Stinger. The third series would have followed on from there, but the show ended after 2 series in 2010.
  • Name's the Same: In-Universe, according to the tie-in online game, the Roboidz we see in the series had the same name as a series of toys that were made many decades earlier by the same company
  • Noodle Incident: The exact details of why the Roboidz revolted against mankind is never explained in detail, although something called the Gamma FI4 revolt happened.
  • Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: The Shades are basically cyborg zombies, being part human and part machine as well as being foul-smelling (like many zombies traditionally are) and acting as slaves to more intelligent beings (like zombies in folklore). In this case, the Shades are the slaves of the Roboidz.
  • Parent Service: In the intro to series, Caleb gets a very brief Shirtless Scene. This is justified in-universe: Caleb is being medically examined (probably by Cybele), presumably to revive him after cryogenic stasis, as we see an electrocardiogram on screen at the same time as Caleb's Shirtless Scene.
  • Prop Recycling: Not in this show itself, but two of the yellow worker droids were modified to be Solomon's Robots in the Doctor Who Episode Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. A few episodes later in the Rings of Akhaten, a Shade's head was used as one of the citizens of the planet.
  • Short Runners: Only lasted 2 series, both aired in 2010. More seasons were rumoured (and seemingly expected by a cliffhanger), but Caleb's actor, Stuart Goldsmith, said "No More Missions are planned at the moment".
  • Spiritual Successor: to Raven, due to sharing much of the same production team. Sadly, Mission: 2110 was a Short Runner whether you look at it on its own merits or in comparison to Raven, as Mission 2110 only has 2 series with 13 episodes each (both aired in 2010), whereas Raven's original Run lasted for 10 series (plus 3 Spin-Offs) airing from 2002-2010. Ironically, Raven's own revival in 2017 can be seen as a Spiritual Successor to Mission 2110 itself.
  • What Measure is a Non-Human?: Played with: Caleb and Cybele are heroes, and Caleb is a mostly human cyborg and Cybele is an AI with the mind and conscience of a human woman (Laura Grant, Caleb's mother). The Shades and Neuros are mooks and the big bad, respectively, despite their being not much difference between them and the heroes, as the Shades are also cyborgs (although more machine than human) and controlled by the Roboidz and Neuros is a biologically human brain in a jar.
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