History YMMV / FelixTheCat

* DorkAge: The franchise is considered to have gone into this post-''Twisted Tales'' by fans, due to Felix lingering through generally mediocre spinoffs and tie-ins.

* BrokenBase: The reception of the post-silent era Felix cartoons are contested among the fanbase, particularly in regards to the [[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat TV-era Felix cartoons]] and [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie the movie adaptation based on it.]] Some fans champion the Silent cartoons as untouchable masterpieces and consider the Trans-Lux Felix (and, to a lesser degree, [[StillbornFranchise the very short lived Van Beuren Felix]]) to be where the series entered a DorkAge, while some nostalgic fans unapologetically love the Van Beuren and TV Felix cartoons and consider the silent shorts [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny to be mostly dated and boring.]] ''Twisted Tales of Felix'', for better or worse, tends to land somewhere in the middle in reception.

YMMV for the [[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons]] (sans the game tie-in) goes [[YMMV/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat here]]. YMMV for ''[[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie Felix The Cat: The Movie]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas'' goes [[YMMV/FelixTheCatTheMovie here]] and [[YMMV/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas here.]]

YMMV for the [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatClassic Silent/Golden Age and Van Beuren Felix cartoons]] goes [[YMMV/FelixTheCatClassic here.]]

* MemeticMutation: нет. WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Joel was playing a Russian bootlegged version of the game and selected нет, meaning no, on the continue screen, leading to a rather gory game over screen featuring Felix tearing his face off, revealing his skull, and standing in a pool of blood. This was later expanded upon by Music/SiIvaGunner, who played a sick and cruel joke based on the game over screen as a rip of the song "Rhythm Code" from ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'' that shows a harlequin baby when "нет" is selected. The bootleg and the ''Kirby'' song is often linked with Felix himself to those in the Vinesauce and [=SiIvaGunner=] community.

* BigNameFan: Surprisingly, Creator/CharlieChaplin himself, who Felix was patterned after, loved the original Felix the Cat cartoons and envied the amount of control of timing animation allowed over live action. Fitting, since Otto Messmer had previously worked on a series of silent Charlie Chaplin cartoons in the past (which Chaplin also liked) and had studied Chaplin's films for reference, which proved as a ground zero of sorts for his Felix cartoons.
-->'''Otto Messmer''': "I patterned him after Charlie Chaplin. The audience loved him. And so did Chaplin. The cartoon format let Felix do things that Chaplin couldn't do on film..."

--> "'''WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!"

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While Felix is still modestly popular in the US, he is ''very'' popular in Japan to this day, to the point that an entire spinoff, ''Baby Felix and Friends'', was made for that country. Also Felix served inspiration for Suihō Tagawa to create a black dog named Norakuro.

* PacifistRun: It's entirely possible to get through the NES game without killing a single enemy (excluding boss fights), but not in the Game Boy version, where you have to kill at least one tree enemy in the first world to bypass it.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While Felix is still modestly popular in the US, he is ''very'' popular in Japan to this day, to the point that an entire spinoff, ''Baby Felix and Friends'', was made for that country.

* MemeticMutation: нет. WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Joel was playing a Russian bootlegged version of the game and selected нет, meaning no, on the continue screen, leading to a rather gory game over screen featuring Felix tearing his face off, revealing his skull, and standing in a pool of blood. This was later expanded upon by Music/SiIvaGunner, who played a sick and cruel joke based on the game over screen as a rip of the song "Program Rhythm" from ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'' that shows a harlequin baby when "нет" is selected. The bootleg and the ''Kirby'' song is often linked with Felix himself to those in the Vinesauce and [=SiIvaGunner=] community.

* ArchivePanic: The series has been around [[LongRunner for 99 years]], so there's a lot of ground to cover if you want to experience the whole series. For animation, you have the original silent theatrical cartoons and the three Van Beuren era shorts (while many of the silent shorts are lost, quite a few survive and it can take a while to sit through the surviving ones), the 260 made-for-TV cartoons by Joe Oriolo (which run six to seven minutes each), [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie a theatrical movie]], the mid 90's revival cartoon series ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat'' (which ran for 21 episodes, with three shorts in each one), the [[SpinoffBabies toddler aimed spinoff]] ''Baby Felix & Friends'' (which ran for 65 five minute episodes), and a 2004 direct to video Christmas special ''Felix the Cat Saves Christmas''. The comics are where one will really start running into trouble--the Felix comics started in 1923, with the newspaper comics and comic books running a solid 40 year run up to the 1960's. And then you have the 80's newspaper comic crossover with WesternAnimation/BettyBoop to look out for (which has never been reprinted), and a short lived early 90's comic book revival. After that, you have a history book and some comic compilations, three video game tie-ins, the very obscure live action TV series ''Felix the Cat Live'', and a monstrous amount of toys and merchandise to wrap it all up. Good luck!

* CrossoverShip: Felix and WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit has its fans.

* CanonDefilement: The infamous GameOver screen of the Sega Genesis bootleg tainted the character for ''WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}'' and ''Music/SiIvaGunner'' fans. Just look for the comments that say "[[MemeticMutation нет]]" on any Felix {{YouTube}} video.

* CanonDefilement: The infamous GameOver screen of the Sega Genesis bootleg tainted the character for ''WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}'' and ''Music/SiIvaGunner'' fans. Just look for the comments that say "[[MemeticMutation HET]]" on any Felix {{YouTube}} video.

* CanonDefilement: The infamous GameOver screen of the Sega Genesis bootleg tainted the character for ''WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}'' and ''Music/GiivaSunner'' fans. Just look for the comments that say "[[MemeticMutation HET]]" on any Felix {{YouTube}} video.

* ArchivePanic: The series has been around [[LongRunner for 98 years]], so there's a lot of ground to cover if you want to experience the whole series. For animation, you have the original silent theatrical cartoons and the three Van Beuren era shorts (while many of the silent shorts are lost, quite a few survive and it can take a while to sit through the surviving ones), the 260 made-for-TV cartoons by Joe Oriolo (which run six to seven minutes each), [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie a theatrical movie]], the mid 90's revival cartoon series ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat'' (which ran for 21 episodes, with three shorts in each one), the [[SpinoffBabies toddler aimed spinoff]] ''Baby Felix & Friends'' (which ran for 65 five minute episodes), and a 2004 direct to video Christmas special ''Felix the Cat Saves Christmas''. The comics are where one will really start running into trouble--the Felix comics started in 1923, with the newspaper comics and comic books running a solid 40 year run up to the 1960's. And then you have the 80's newspaper comic crossover with WesternAnimation/BettyBoop to look out for (which has never been reprinted), and a short lived early 90's comic book revival. After that, you have a history book and some comic compilations, three video game tie-ins, the very obscure live action TV series ''Felix the Cat Live'', and a monstrous amount of toys and merchandise to wrap it all up. Good luck!

* SignatureScene: Felix's "[[ThinkingTic Thinking]] [[PuttingOnMyThinkingCap Walk]]", which is frequently used throughout his cartoons, is the most iconic piece of animation from the series. It has appeared in virtually all of the incarnations of the series.

YMMV for Series/FelixTheCatLive goes [[YMMV/FelixTheCatLive here]].

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The Hudson Soft video game adaptation is a surprisingly enjoyable Mario clone, with fun gameplay and appealing graphics and music, with it's only real flaw being its very easy difficulty, underwhelming final level and very easy final boss. [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames The same cannot be said]] for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis [[https://youtu.be/pqbuW7KPVaM?t=7m22s bootleg of it]], which is a PortingDisaster with bad controls, and inexplicably features a [[NightmareFuel frightening game over screen]] where Felix ''rips his face off''.

** Master Cylinder (the boss of 3-3) is a joke when you fight him with power-ups, but he can become a nasty WakeUpCallBoss if you fight him without them. While he has a very simplistic and predictable attack pattern (float up and down and occasionally shoot a laser), he has no telegraphing for his laser attack, and since you'll only have your boxing glove without power-ups, that means you have to put yourself right in his line of fire in order to hit him. Combined with the floaty umbrella controls that make it very easy to collide into Master Cylinder, along with the fact that Master Cylinder can always move up and down at a consistent speed while Felix descends much slower, and this fight can be tricky.

* PortingDisaster: The Game Boy version of the game axes out more than half of the levels, has very cramped and simplified level design, lots of slowdown, [[HitboxDissonance bizarre hit detection]], and it makes the game even ''easier'' than the NES version.

** Master Cylinder is a joke when you fight him with power-ups, but he becomes a nasty WakeUpCallBoss if you don't fight him with them. While he has a very simplistic attack pattern (float up and down and occasionally shoot a laser), he has no telegraphing for his laser attack, and since you'll only have your boxing glove without power-ups, that means you have to put yourself right in his line of fire in order to hit him. Combined with the floaty umbrella controls and the fact that its very easy to collide into Master Cylinder, along with the fact that Master Cylinder can always move up and down at a consistent speed while Felix descends much slower, and this fight will really test your skills.