History YMMV / Bibleman

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The animated series has some pretty bad animation, even for a Christian video series. One of the more obvious errors in the episode "Crushing the Crusher" has Cypher's arm clipping through a boy's '''''entire body''''' at the end of the episode.

** "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Lambasting the Legions of Laziness?]]"

* InternetBackdraft: 'The Incredible Force of Joy'' we have Bibleman covertly monitoring and obtaining biological samples from a troubled child without his knowledge. Worse, ''Conquering the Wrath of Rage'' has Bibleman and sidekick Cypher squatting in some bushes, watching a group of preteen boys...

* CriticalResearchFailure: Probably deliberate, but in the episode ''A Fight for Faith'' the vile Wacky Protestor comes up with a plan to convert kids to UsefulNotes/{{Atheism}}. Which according to him is "The belief that there is no God, no hope, and no future." It skids a lot closer into ''UsefulNotes/{{Nihilism}}'', but again, they're probably playing it up for drama/entertainment's sake.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Probably deliberate, but in the episode ''A Fight for Faith'' the vile Wacky Protestor comes up with a plan to convert kids to UsefulNotes/{{Atheism}}. Which according to him is "The belief that there is no God, no hope, and no future."

* DorkAge: Most people agree that the Powersource videos or 'Third season' of Bibleman weren't all that great.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Probably deliberate, but in the episode ''A Fight for Faith'' the vile Wacky Protestor comes up with a plan to convert kids to {{Atheism}}. Which according to him is "The belief that there is no God, no hope, and no future."

* ConfirmationBias: Part of the reason the show's survived for [[LongRunner fifteen years]] is its instant appeal to the parents of Christian children.

* ValuesDissonance: Both Bibleman's team and his nemeses' have robots--fully sentient AIs--to help them out. [[AIIsACrapshoot The problem]] is that UNICE (Universal Networking Intelligence Computing Entity) happily spreads the word of the Lord while LUCI (Link to Underhanded Computer Influences) is quite against it. Now, when only humans are involved this is no problem, but LUCI quite understandably isn't terribly happy about following God's will because '''''[[StrawmanHasAPoint robots don't have souls!]]''''' So whenever they face off UNICE, chipper as can be, tries to convince LUCI that it is a worthless pile of scrap with no higher purpose in life than to teach humans to accept Christ into their lives, and that its dreams of living independently of humans are evil.

* JumpingTheShark: Willie Aames leaving the show is regarded as this by viewers. See also Replacement Scrappy below and also BrokenAesop on the main page for details.

* HilariousInHindsight: The fact that Luxor Spawndroth's, an enemy in league with Satan, contains the word "{{Comicbook/Spawn}}" in it is likely not intended as a ShoutOut to that Comic book series.

** JumpingTheShark: Willie Aames leaves the show. That is all.

* UnfortunateImplications: In ''The Incredible Force of Joy'' we have Bibleman covertly monitoring and obtaining biological samples from a troubled child without his knowledge. Worse, ''Conquering the Wrath of Rage'' has Bibleman and sidekick Cypher squatting in some bushes, watching a group of preteen boys...
** And, of course, the whole anti-Semitic vibes some viewers get from Wacky Protestor.
*** Or simply that a villain on a show where the villains embody sinful behaviors is called the Protestor, which some viewers take to mean speaking out against [[StatusQuoIsGod the status quo]] will get you on God's bad side.
*** To be fair, however, that sentiment does come straight from the Bible. Adam and Eve lost paradise because they disobeyed God, people who break God's commandments get punished, he flooded the world because they'd turned away from him, etc. Speaking up against the status quo, ''if God created that status quo'', ''does'' get you on God's bad side, if you take the Bible as the truth.
*** It's worth noting that many Christian believe that ''earthly'' authorities are far from infallible, and would feel morally obligated to speak out against an unjust status quo.

*** To be fair, however, that sentiment does come straight from the Bible. Adam and Eve lost paradise because they disobeyed God, people who break God's commandments get punished, he flooded the world because they'd turned away from him, etc. Speaking up against the status quo, ''if God created that status quo'', ''does'' get you on God's bad side, if you take the Bible as the truth (and some Christians do). It may be unfortunate implications to ''us'', but it's right in line with their beliefs, and they are the show's audience anyway.

*** To be fair, however, that sentiment does come straight from the Bible. Adam and Eve lost paradise because they disobeyed God, people who break God's commandments get punished, he flooded the world because they'd turned away from him, etc. Speaking up against the status quo, ''if God created that status quo'', ''does'' get you on God's bad side, if you take the Bible as the truth (and Christians do). It may be unfortunate implications to ''us'', but it's right in line with Christian beliefs, and Christians are the show's audience anyway.

* VillainDecay: After having a two-part episode with a villain who came dangerously close to actually beating Bibleman, our heroes spent the next three episodes (and two live shows) having to contend with the Wacky Protestor, a blue-skinned uber dork fond of Jerry Lewis impersonations and who's more a threat to himself with that lightsaber than any costumed do-gooder he might meet.
** To make the VillainDecay clearer, the Protestor IS the same villain, Primordious Drool, who came so close to defeating the heroes (says Biblegirl in the Wacky Protestor's first appearance: "But I thought we got rid of him when he was Primordious!") {{Satan}} apparently downgraded him to a lesser form (his original form?) after his defeat in the two-parter.

* GrowingTheBeard: Regardless of the actual quality, the series really started getting ''entertaining'' upon "Defeating The Shadow Of Doubt", where the Christian {{Barney}} format of "The Bibleman Show" was dropped and the series got revamped to be more of a real superhero spoof.

** To make the VillainDecay clearer, the Protestor IS the same villain, Primordious Drool, who came so close to defeating the heroes (says Biblegirl in the Wacky Protestor's first appearance: "But I thought we got rid of him when he was Primordious!") {{Satan}} apparently downgraded him to a lesser form (his original form?) after his defeat in the two-parter.

* LargeHam: All the villains, but Luxor Spawndroth in particular. Being evil looks so much fun when he's onscreen.
** No matter ''what'' one's opinion on the show is, let it not be denied that Luxor Spawndroth is awesome.

* PreachingToTheChoir: Part of the reason the show's survived for [[LongRunner fifteen years]] is its instant appeal to the parents of Christian children.
** Though there are Christians [[DontShootTheMessage who don't care for the way it presents their beliefs]].