History YMMV / RescueHeroes

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: This show promoted a toyline marketed at preschoolers, yet seemed to forget which target audience it was made for. A lot of the natural disasters and rescue operations are taken very seriously and many times the situations featured were very mature in tone. Even if things never got too dark and no one dies on any emergency, this show makes it clear disasters are nothing to take lightly. And we shouldn't get started on the ''Global Response Team'' era...

* CriticalResearchFailure: In "Twister", Roger states that a tornado warning has been upgraded to a tornado watch since there were tornado sightings. This is the ''reverse'' of what it actually is -- a tornado watch is when conditions are good for a tornado but one hasn't been spotted, where a warning is when there ''is'' a tornado (or at least rotations in the clouds/wind that are strong enough to potentially create one within several minutes). The reason this is a critical research failure is that this is a ''basic safety fact'' that ''anyone'' who has been in any sort of tornado storm can tell you about, or anybody who's been in a storm, period (such as a flash flood or severe thunderstorm).

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: This show promoted a toyline marketed at preschoolers, yet seemed to forget which target audience it was made for. The series take many natural disasters very seriously. Any natural disasters and rescue operations are taken very seriously and often times the situations featured were very mature in tone. And we shouldn't get started on the ''Global Response Team'' era...

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: This show promoted a toyline marketed at preschoolers, yet seemed to forget which target audience it was made for, and often times the situations featured were very mature in tone. And we shouldn't get started on the ''Global Response Team'' era...

* AdaptationDisplacement: To some degree; some have trouble remembering the show was based on a toy line. Of course, now that the show is still in reruns on Qubo, modern children are much more likely to be unaware of this as well, since the original line of toys has since been discontinued and merged with Imaginext.

* UncannyValley: The CGI in TheMovie has held up ''horribly,'' and is frequently cited as one of the biggest negatives to what is otherwise one of the series' greatest highlights. You can't fault them too much -- it was pretty decent for 2003's standards, if on the low budget side, and it's slightly mitigated by using a cel-shaded look, but it's still not exactly pleasant to look at.

* UncannyValley: The CGI in TheMovie has held up ''horribly,'' and is frequently cited as one of the biggest negatives to what is otherwise one of the series' greatest highlights. You can't fault them too much it was pretty decent for 2003's standards, if on the low budget side, and it's slightly mitigated by using a cel-shaded look, but it's still not exactly pleasant to look at.

* UncannyValley: The CGI in TheMovie has held up ''horribly,'' and is frequently cited as one of the biggest negatives to what is otherwise one of the series' greatest highlights. You can't fault them too much it was pretty decent for 2003's standards, if on the low budget side, and it's slightly mitigated by using a cel-shaded look, but it's still not exactly pleasant to look at.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In "Twister", Roger states that a tornado warning has been upgraded to a tornado watch since there were tornado sightings. This is the ''reverse'' of what it actually is -- a tornado watch is when conditions are good for a tornado but one hasn't been spotted, where a warning is when there ''is'' a tornado. The reason this is a critical research failure is that this is a ''basic safety fact'' that ''anyone'' who has been in any sort of tornado storm can tell you about, or anybody who's been in a storm, period (such as a flash flood or severe thunderstorm).

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: "Blackout" has a teenage girl begging her dad to get a cell phone because everyone in her class has one. When this episode first aired in the early 2000s, the idea of a teenager having a cell phone was generally seen as them being spoiled, so the viewer was not meant to sympathize with her. Now that it is uncommon to see a teenager who ''doesn't'' have a cell phone, it doesn't work so well and turns into UnintentionallySympathetic.

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: "Blackout" has a teenage girl begging her dad to get a cell phone because everyone in her class has one. When this episode first aired in the early 2000s, the idea of a teenager having a cell phone was generally seen as them being spoiled, so the viewer was not meant to sympathize with her. Now that it is uncommon to see a teenager who ''doesn't'' have a cell phone, it doesn't work so well and turns into UnintentionallySympathetic.
* UnfortunateImplications: The designs of Jake and Rocky were accused of racial stereotyping due to both characters having [[GagLips bigger lips]] than the other characters, not helped by the fact that both are the only black members of the main Rescue Heroes team. Nelvana seemed to notice this and gave both characters normal lips for the second and third seasons.

* UnfortunateImplications: The designs of Jake Justice and Rocky Canyon were accused of racial stereotyping due to both characters having [[GagLips bigger lips]] than the other characters, not helped by the fact that both are the only black members of the main Rescue Heroes team. Nelvana seemed to notice this and gave both characters normal lips for the second and third seasons.

* UnfortunateImplications: The designs of Jake Justice and Rocky Canyon have been accused of racial stereotyping due to the fact that both characters had [[GagLips bigger lips]] than the other male characters, not helped by the fact that both are the only black members of the main Rescue Heroes team. Nelvana seemed to have noticed this and gave both characters normal lips for the second and third seasons.

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: "Blackout" has a teenage girl begging her dad to get a cell phone because everyone in her class has one. When this episode first aired in the early 2000s, the idea of a teenager having a cell phone was generally seen as them being spoiled, so the viewer was not meant to sympathize with her. Now that it is uncommon to see a teenager who ''doesn't'' have a cell phone, it doesn't work so well and turns into UnintentionallySympathetic.

* DespairEventHorizon: Billy comes close to crossing this in "Storm of the Century"; while it's fairly downplayed compared to most other examples, it's probably the episode that contains the most major screw-up of any hero. [[spoiler:First off, he abandons higher priority work to try taking after his father who is in a position that Billy knows good and well he won't be able to handle alone, and after Billy already snapped at Wendy earlier on for bringing this subject up. He also ends up taking the Hyper Jet, which has up to this point been established as a prime tool for the heroes that they couldn't get along very far without, and he uses it to help out a single person. As if that weren't enough, the wind storm ends up picking up enough that the ship's electrical system gets badly damaged, completely cutting him off from all radio communication and losing all signal, and in the process gets the both of them lost. Top this off with him trapped in the jet with only his father, already [[IAmNotMyFather upset enough at him for not taking the path he was expecting Billy to take]], and getting badly injured from the impact of the jet's landing, and you can just see the look of utter defeat and despair on his face. Much of it only heightens if you consider the fact that perseverance is one of the major themes of the show, discussed almost OnceAnEpisode, and it's one of the only times that Billy, one of the ''hardest pushers'' of this message and the chief above the heroes, looks completely ashamed and ready to just give up on everything from how much he feels he let everyone down.]]

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: The episode "Blackout" has a teenage girl begging her dad to get a cell phone because everyone in her class has one. When this episode first aired in the early 2000s, the idea of a teenager having a cell phone was generally seen as them being spoiled, so the viewer was not meant to sympathize with her. Now that it is uncommon to see a teenager who ''doesn't'' have a cell phone, it doesn't work so well and turns into UnintentionallySympathetic.

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: The episode "Blackout" has a teenage girl begging her dad to get a cell phone because everyone in her class has one. When this episode first aired in the early 2000s, the idea of a teenager having a cell phone was generally seen as spoiled, so the viewer was not meant to sympathize with her. Now that it is uncommon to see a teenager who ''doesn't'' have a cell phone, it doesn't work so well and turns into UnintentionallySympathetic.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In "Twister", Roger states that a tornado warning has been upgraded to a tornado watch since there were tornado sightings. This is the ''reverse'' of what it actually is -- a tornado watch is when conditions are good for a tornado but one hasn't been spotted, where a warning is when there ''is'' a tornado. The reason this is a critical research failure is that this is a ''basic safety fact'' that ''anyone'' who has been in any sort of tornado storm can tell you about.

* MissingEpisode: "Lava Alarm", the original pilot, was never aired and had different animation and voice acting. Besides those details, it's a standard episode.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: From the LicensedGame ''Hurricane Havoc'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAaFR7hqnpQ Well, there's Jack, Jake Justice, and Wend-y Watt-ers...]]

* MissingEpisode: "Lava Plunge", the original pilot, was never aired and had different animation and voice acting. Besides those details, it's a standard episode.

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: The episode "Blackout" has a teenage girl begging her dad to get a cell phone because everyone in her class has one. When this episode first aired in the early 2000s, the idea of a teenager having a cell phone was generally seen as spoiled, so the viewer was not meant to sympathize with her. Now that it is uncommon to see a teenager who ''doesn't'' have a cell phone, it doesn't work so well and turns into UnintentionallySympathetic.
** YourMileageMayVary; some people think that development just makes it [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funnier]] and more adorable.

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: The episode "Blackout" has a teenage girl begging her dad to get a cell phone because everyone in her class has one. When this episode first aired in the early 2000s, the idea of a teenager having a cell phone was generally seen as spoiled, so the viewer was not meant to sympathize with her. Now that it is uncommon to see a teenager who ''doesn't'' have a cell phone, it doesn't work so well and turns into UnintentionallySympathetic.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: From the LicensedGame ''Hurricane Havoc'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAaFR7hqnpQ Well, there's Jack, Jake Justice, and Wend-y Watt-ers...]]