History YMMV / PokemonAnime

** [[HotBlooded Burgundy]] only appeared in one episode originally. Immediately after her design was shown, fanart exploded, and she became a LauncherOfAThousandShips. Then during the Don Tournament arc, she was the only rival to become a {{Breakout Character}} due to being the only rival with actual {{Character Development}}.

* BaseBreaker: The fandom is divided over whether Ash is still interesting and deserving of being the poster boy of the franchise, or if he's a stale [[TheArtifact artifact]].

** Ash's female companions too, particularly Dawn.

** Even Misty, the original heroine, has gotten a lot of retroactive hate. A lot of it comes from her being seen as a sterotypical {{Tsundere}} and for constantly complaining about what a terrible trainer Ash is, even though from the seventh episode onward he is shown to be her equal at worst. More comes from her supposedly losing [[FlatCharacter all of her personality]] after obtaining Toegpi and [[TheArtifact having basically no role in the show]] shortly thereafter.
*** This trope is ''probably'' why her successors are given more noticeably character arcs, too - Iris in particular has similar single-type specialization (Dragon), yet has more definite character development and growth, not to mention having - like Dawn and May before her - at least one rival.

* AngstWhatAngst: [[spoiler:Losing to Zoey in the Grand Festival and then Ash in the Sinnoh League doesn't seem to bother Nando at all.]]
** He's not exactly a ten-year-old, unlike the rest of the cast. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation If he did angst, we'd be calling it]] {{Wangst}}, [[DoubleStandard wouldn't we?]]

* BoringInvincibleVillain: Paul. Zoey also counts, [[FriendlyEnemy sort of]].

* BoringInvincibleVillain: Paul

** Misty, in tandem with her {{Chickification}}.

** Dawn's rivals.

** There also existed theories about Tobias being a projection of Darkrai.

** Cilan is indeed an {{Ensemble Darkhorse}} of ''Best Wishes'' (and Pokemon Black and White in general). However, given Pokemon's [[BrokenBase status]], people will find things to hate him. The best example is that he's accused of being a CreatorsPet for taking the spotlight away from Ash and Iris and generally given more {{Character Development}} than Brock has done during the entire series. These fans are the {{Vocal Minority}} though and generally bash him due to {{Nostalgia Filter}}. Other reasons include he's way past his times within 50 episodes and want Brock back, his "[[LargeHam antics get old]]" ([[EpicFail despite the fact Brock flirting for 4 generations caused the same backdraft]]), and the fact that he's {{Ambiguously Gay}}/{{Camp Straight}} compared to the {{Lovable Sex Maniac}} Brock was. Depending on where you look depends on how much of a {{Base Breaker}} Cilan is. (EX. The main Pokemon forums like Serebi.Net and Bulbapedia will take a jab at him mainly because they are bias to ''Best Wishes'' and the 5th generation in general while websites like Youtube, Fanfiction.Net, Deviant Art and any non-Pokemon sites think the opposite.)

** Cilan is indeed an {{Ensemble Darkhorse}} of ''Best Wishes'' (and Pokemon Black and White in general). However, given Pokemon's [[BrokenBase status]], people will find things to hate him. The best example is that he's accused of being a CreatorsPet for taking the spotlight away from Ash and Iris and generally given more {{Character Development}} than Brock has done during the entire series. These fans are the {{Vocal Minority}} though and generally bash him due to {{Nostalgia Filter}}. Other reasons include he's way past his times within 50 episodes and want Brock back, his "[[LargeHam antics get old]]" ([[EpicFail despite the fact Brock flirting for 4 generations caused the same backdraft]]), and the fact that he's {{Ambiguously Gay}}/{{Camp Straight}} compared to the {{Lovable Sex Maniac}} Brock was. Depending on where you look depends on how much of a {{Base Breaker}} Cilan is. (EX. The main Pokemon forums like Serebi.Net and Bulbapedia will take a jab at him while websites like Youtube, Fanfiction.Net, Deviant Art and any non-Pokemon sites think the opposite.)

*** This trope is ''probably'' why her successors are given more noticably character arcs, too - Iris in particular has similar single-type specialisation (Dragon), yet has more definite character development and growth, not to mention having - like Dawn and May before her - at least one rival.

*** This trope is ''probably'' why her successors are given more noticably character arcs, too - Iris in particular has similar single-type specialisation (Dragon), yet has more definite character development and growth, not to mention having - like Dawn and May before he - at least one rival.

*** This trope is ''probably'' why her successors are given more noticably character arcs, too - Iris in particular has similar single-type specialisation (Dragon), yet has more definite character development and growth, not to mention having (like Dawn ans May) at least one rival.

** Cilan has become this recently, with some people thinking he's getting too much focus and has gotten as stale as Brock was as a result and is a CreatorsPet for those who find him and his antics "forced" or "overexposed."

*** An initial ''tiny'' gripe was that the new Pokémon didn't [[PokemonSpeak say their names]] like the ones in the original series did. No need to worry, though, as the problem was rectified and the voices were subsequently added in, almost immediately after the episode that ''Who's That Pokémon?'' had debuted with in ''Best Wishes''.

** Even Misty, the original heroine, has gotten a lot of retroactive hate. A lot of it comes from her being seen as a sterotypical {{Tsundere}} and for constantly complaining about what a terrible trainer Ash is, even though from the seventh episode onward he is shown to be her equal at worst. More comes from her supposedly losing [[FlatCharacter all of her personality]] after obtaining Toegpi and [[TheArtifact having basically no role in the show]] shortly thereafter.

* AccidentalAesop: [[spoiler: Tobias is a GodModeSue who uses legendary Pokemon against children easily half his age.... much like what will likely happen to any child who's a fan of the anime and tries to battle the PeripheryDemographic who dominant tourneys.]]

* VillainDecay: Prior to BW, from Johto and onward Team Rocket went from [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains]] to [[HarmlessVillain complete buffoons]]. The trio's creator, Takeshi Shudo (who left the show during Johto), has [[CreatorBacklash blogged about how pissed he is at this.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: "''Volcanic Panic''" has Ash and co. try to stop the eruption of Cinnabar Island's volcano. [[{{ptitleh2xwpnnp}} One year in real life later...]][[hottip:*:the time gap was between the Japanese debuts of "''Volcanic Panic''" and ''Gold and Silver'']]

** After the revelation that they're simply [[PunchClockVillain punch clock villains]] in "Island of the Giant Pokemon", it's impossible not to feel sorry for poor Arbok and Weezing. After getting [[CurbStompBattle curb stomped]] by the heroes every single episode, you'd think that they would run away from Team Rocket just to escape the daily pain. But no- they keep on because they care about their trainers. And their final appearance [[TearJerker is a testament to how Jessie and James feel the same way.]]

** Cilan has become this recently, with some people thinking he's getting too much focus and has gotten as stale as Brock was as a result and has TheWesley for those who find him and his antics "forced" or "overexposed."

* StopHavingFunGuys: Paul, who was created as a TakeThat toward those types of players, but (thanks in due part to [[TheWesley the writer's favoritism toward him]]), he developed a MisaimedFandom.

* TheWesley: Dawn's Piplup, for its being a SpotlightStealingSquad. The fanbase doesn't hate all Piplups; [[AmericansHateTingle they hate this one in particular]].

** [[HotBlooded Burgundy]] only appeared in one episode. Immediately after her design was shown, fanart exploded, and she became a LauncherOfAThousandShips.

** Even Misty, the original heroine, has gotten a lot of retroactive hate. A lot of it comes from comes from her being seen as a sterotypical {{Tsundere}} and for constantly complaining about what a terrible trainer Ash is, even though from the seventh episode onward he is shown to be her equal at worst. More comes from her supposedly losing [[FlatCharacter all of her personality]] after obtaining Toegpi and [[TheArtifact having basically no role in the show]] shortly thereafter.

* MemeticMutation: [[Memes/{{Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Chock full of em]].

* EarWorm: [[EarWorm/{{ptitleuwj4vs3q}} Here.]]

* FridgeLogic: [[Headscratchers/{{Ptitleuwj4vs3q}} Has its own page]].

* BrokenBase: [[{{Understatement}} Very]], and could apply to almost anything.