History YMMV / RiseoftheGuardians

* EstrogenBrigade: Jack Frost is a PrettyBoy that attracts a lot of female viewers. It is lampshaded rather nicely in a [[http://rufftoon.tumblr.com/post/26685571155/wow-the-influx-of-jack-frost-fanart-is-almost comic]] drawn by one of the film's story artists.

** This wouldn't be the only time that [[WesternAnimation/Wish2023 Chris Pine voiced a male character with silvery hair]].

** Many fans think of this movie as being the first film to feature Jack Frost as a young protagonist. That honor actually belongs to the stop-motion Rankin Bass Jack Frost film.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Everything is detailed to the last hair. The design of the ice and snowflakes Jack creates perfectly captures the art style of Guillermo Del Toro.

** Tooth. In the film, children stop believing in her, causing her palace to disintegrate and her wings to stop working. Not to mention her fairy helpers (e.g., Baby Tooth) are put in danger and if you factor in ''her'' backstory from the books...

--->'''Pitch''': We don't have to be alone, Jack. I believe in you. . . . Look at what we can do! (points at a sculpture made of ice and black sand) What goes together better than cold and dark?

** Tooth. In the film, children stop believing in her, causing her palace to disintegrate and her wings to stop working. Not to mention her fairy helpers (e.g. Baby Tooth) are put in danger and if you factor in ''her'' backstory from the books...

** This wouldn't be the last time that [[WesternAnimation/Wish2023 Chris Pine voiced a male character with silvery hair]].

** This wouldn't be the first time that [[WesternAnimation/Wish2023 Chris Pine voiced a male character with silvery hair]].

* DracoInLeatherPants: Pitch has as many fangirls as Jack. Some even say, without a trace of sarcasm, that he's a complete [[TheWoobie woobie]] who should be forgiven for all his misdeeds (which includes his attempts to murder the Guardians and a child) or has done nothing wrong in the first place. This adoration can be attributed to the books of which the film is loosely based on, where he was once a human and had a daughter who he lost making him more tragic. Or, the adoration can be attributed simply to his good looks.

** Despite only a few seconds of screentime, the little mouse is beloved in Latin-America. [[{{Woolseyism}} The Latin-American dub]] has the Tooth Fairy say that the mouse is from the "Latina division", because in Latin-America, it's a little mouse named Perez who leaves children money when they lose a tooth.

* EstrogenBrigade: Jack Frost is a PrettyBoy that attracts a lot of female viewers. Lampshaded rather nicely in a [[http://rufftoon.tumblr.com/post/26685571155/wow-the-influx-of-jack-frost-fanart-is-almost comic]] drawn by one of the film's story artists.

** ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'' fans and ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' fans often accuse Disney or Creator/DreamWorksAnimation of stealing the idea of a movie focusing on AnIcePerson. Neither invented the concept: in fact, each studio have been very open about both Elsa and Jack Frost being based on pre-existing characters that predate ''both'' films, Elsa being inspired by [[Literature/TheSnowQueen a nineteenth-century tale]] written by Creator/HansChristianAndersen and Jack Frost originating in folklore. Disney had been working on a film based on the Snow Queen on and off for decades, since the days of Walt himself, and leaked pre-production art was already online by 2008, the year [=DreamWorks=] purchased the film rights to William Joyce's ''The Guardians of Childhood'' book series, which united the variety of folkloric characters seen in the film, including not just Jack Frost, but other well-known childhood staples such as the Sandman and the Easter Bunny.
** There is a small-scale rivalry with ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fandom, particularly fans of Lincoln Loud due to their physical similarities, as well as both being LauncherOfAThousandShips within their fandom. Any complaints of Lincoln's ships often end up with fans complaining about the fans' SacredCow treatment of Jack and his many crossover ships.

** With ''WesternAnimation/Klaus2019'', due to both featuring a reinterpretation of a classic holiday character. Some [[EpilepticTrees speculate that Klaus is actually North before he died]].

* HilariousInHindsight: In this movie, Creator/JudeLaw voices the BigBad Pitch a.k.a. [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight the Bogeyman]] who [[IKnowWhatYouFear knows people's greatest fears]]. In ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald'', Jude Law plays the BigGood Dumbledore as he asks children what do they fear and teaches them to fight [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight Boggarts]] who [[IKnowWhatYouFear take on the appearance of the victim's deepest, darkest fear]].

** Making his WeCanRuleTogether offer, Pitch [[NotSoDifferentRemark stresses that he and Jack are not so different]], empathizes with his loneliness, and says he longs for a family. Then, this follows:

** During an Instagram Q/A, William Joyce was asked about the ship to which he replied that "It would be delightful if they could be together", while also acknowledging the impossibility of it as the two are owned by rival studios. While met with approval, he was also on the receiving end of some not so favorable comments and he hasn't touched the subject ever since, at least on a public forum.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: A major complaint against Jack Frost is that despite his interesting character and origin, he still acts like a typical [=DreamWorks=] male lead: cocky, smug, and a smartass, yet still an outsider we are supposed to identify with and feel sorry for. Not helping is him being voiced by a A-lister, rather than a more proper voice for his supposed age.

** WordOfGod mentions in the official DVD commentary that people accused ''Guardians'' of ripping off ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', though they claim ''Guardians'' was in production long before ''Avengers'' was even announced, due to animation taking longer to create than live-action. (And that's not even getting into the books, which are older than the movie.) However, ''The Avengers'' as well as the MCU as a whole, was years in development (the first ''Iron Man'' movie was released in 2008) and it was based on a long running series of comics that were around decades before William Joyce began work on his books. Outside of the superhero team, there are barely any similarities story-wise. The film and books as a whole owe a lot more to the Rankin Bass Christmas specials than to the superhero genre.

** Some viewers felt that Creator/ChrisPine was an odd choice to do the voice of Jack Frost, as his voice doesn't sound anything like what you'd expect from a carefree 18 year old. It's just too deep and weirdly raspy at times.

* RootingForTheEmpire: There are some fans who feel that Jack should have joined Pitch just for the sake of making the movie more interesting.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A major driving force for Jack was his desire to know about his past and his reason for being. However, when he actually regains his memories, the revelation of him having a family and a sister seems to have no lasting impact on him after the reveal. While it's true that 300 years have passed since he became a mythical spirit so his family would be long dead, the story doesn't show him having any desire to explore his past life. (It's possible they were planning on exploring this in future sequels that never launched due to this movie being an AcclaimedFlop.)

** Jack's sister witnesses his death and didn't even know he became a spirit.
* {{Woolseyism}}: When the Tooth Fairy and Baby Tooth accidentally encounter the Tooth Mouse (Tooth Fairy's equivalent in a number of Latin American and European countries), Tooth Fairy refers to him as part of the European Division. The Latin American Spanish dub instead refers to him as part of the Latina Division, with Tooth's "Ça va?" being replaced by a "¿Qué tal?".

* QuestionableCasting: For some, the Australian Creator/HughJackman as the Easter Bunny. Australia doesn't have the EasterBunny since rabbits are an InvasiveSpecies there, and some think Jackman's signature baritone is unfitting for the character and makes him hard to take seriously.

* QuestionableCasting: For some, the Australian Creator/HughJackman as the Easter Bunny. Australia doesn't have EasterBunny since bunnies are seen as vermin there, and some think Jackman's signature baritone is unfitting for the character and makes him hard to take seriously.

* WTHCastingAgency: For some, the Australian Creator/HughJackman as the Easter Bunny. Australia doesn't have EasterBunny since bunnies are seen as vermin there, and some think Jackman's signature baritone is unfitting for the character and makes him hard to take seriously.
** Some viewers felt that Creator/ChrisPine was an odd choice to do the voice of Jack Frost, as his voice doesn't sound anything like what you'd expect from a carefree 18 year old. It's just too deep and weirdly raspy at times.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Pitch has as many fangirls as Jack. Some even say, without a trace of sarcasm, that he's a complete [[TheWoobie woobie]] who should be forgiven for all his misdeeds (which includes his attempts to murder the Guardians and a child) or has done nothing wrong in the first place. This adoration can be attributed to the books of which the film is loosely based on, where he was once a human and had a daughter who he lost making him more tragic. Or, the adoration can be attributed simply to his [[EvilIsSexy good looks]].

* EvilIsSexy: Pitch Black. The creators admit in the official DVD commentary that they interpreted fear as something that "seduces you," so they made Pitch sensual and seductive on purpose. One director even complained that [[PerverseSexualLust his wife seemed to like Pitch]] more than him!

** Jack's sister witness his death and didn't even know he became a spirit.

* AdaptationDisplacement: While most of the movie's fanbase knows that it's based on [[Literature/TheGuardiansOfChildhood a book series]], some people outside of it think that Dreamworks created the characters from scratch.

** ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'' fans and ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' fans often accuse Disney or Creator/DreamWorks of stealing the idea of a movie focusing on AnIcePerson. Neither invented the concept: in fact, each studio have been very open about both Elsa and Jack Frost being based on pre-existing characters that predate ''both'' films, Elsa being inspired by [[Literature/TheSnowQueen a nineteenth-century tale]] written by Creator/HansChristianAndersen and Jack Frost originating in folklore. Disney had been working on a film based on the Snow Queen on and off for decades, since the days of Walt himself, and leaked pre-production art was already online by 2008, the year Dreamworks purchased the film rights to William Joyce's ''The Guardians of Childhood'' book series, which united the variety of folkloric characters seen in the film, including not just Jack Frost, but other well-known childhood staples such as the Sandman and the Easter Bunny.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Creator/AlexandreDesplat's entire score.

* WTHCastingAgency: For some, the Australian Creator/HughJackman as the Easter Bunny. Australia doesn't have EasterBunny since bunnies are seen as vermin there, and some think Jackman's signature BadassBaritone is unfitting for the character and makes him hard to take seriously.

** For... [[EstrogenBrigade reasons]], people who like ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' also tend to like this movie: both feature an iconic character, [[YoungerAndHipper reimagined as]] a PrettyBoy DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife who gives up on everything he worked for, becoming a lonely soul in the process. Jack/The Once-ler is a rather popular CrossoverShip.

* DieForOurShip: Shipping Jack with Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' is an odd case of a non-canon CrossoverShip inspiring this treatment. The pairing grew very popular, frequently featured everywhere from fanfiction to cosplay, so some perceive Jack as getting in the way of whatever other [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Elsa ship]] they prefer. To let her hook up with someone else, quite a few fanworks humiliate, [[RonTheDeathEater demonize]], or outright kill Jack.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' fans and ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' fans often accuse Disney or Creator/DreamWorks of stealing the idea of a movie focusing on AnIcePerson. Neither invented the concept: in fact, each studio have been very open about both Elsa and Jack Frost being based on pre-existing characters that predate ''both'' films, Elsa being inspired by [[Literature/TheSnowQueen a nineteenth-century tale]] written by Creator/HansChristianAndersen and Jack Frost originating in folklore. Disney had been working on a film based on the Snow Queen on and off for decades, since the days of Walt himself, and leaked pre-production art was already online by 2008, the year Dreamworks purchased the film rights to William Joyce's ''The Guardians of Childhood'' book series, which united the variety of folkloric characters seen in the film, including not just Jack Frost, but other well-known childhood staples such as the Sandman and the Easter Bunny.

* HypeBacklash: The massive popularity of the Jack/[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa]] CrossoverShip and the heated arguments for and against it have gained a backlash not only against the movie but also [[MisplacedRetribution its fans and even William Joyce]], the original creator of the Guardians. Most of the backlash against the film is caused by it, as there was no such hate until ''after'' the ship took off.

* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Jack Frost. He's paired with the other Guardians, Pitch, and Jamie, with original characters, with [[{{WesternAnimation/Tangled}} Rapunzel]], [[{{WesternAnimation/Brave}} Merida]], [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon Hiccup]], and [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa or Anna]]. Some fans like to [[EpilepticTrees speculate]] that Elsa and Anna are somehow Jack and Rapunzel's ''daughters''.

* ShipToShipCombat: A rather odd crossover example, but fans who ship Jack with [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel]] sometimes get into disputes against those who prefer to ship him with [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa]], while the latter group of shippers is also frequently at war with fans of [[FoeYayShipping Hans/Elsa]].

* ThemePairing: Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen}}'' is shipped with Jack Frost because they share having [[AnIcePerson ice powers]].

* VindicatedByHistory: The movie bombed in cinemas but quickly developed a sizable, dedicated internet fanbase. Then, thanks to the superhero genre's popularity (especially to ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' coming out that same year), and the perceived similarities between [[AnIcePerson Jack Frost]] and [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa]], many people who missed ''Rise of the Guardians'' in theaters checked it out and came to appreciate its merits. Sadly, like ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'', Creator/DreamWorksAnimation continues to treat the movie as an OldShame.

** ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheBraveTangledDragons'' is fans of ''Rise of the Guardians'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' taking FriendlyFandoms to extreme and becoming a fandom itself. Then, ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' was released and added to the mix. Both movies give a lot of focus and development to a TragicIceCharacter and have fear as the antagonistic force, and in fanworks, Jack is often paired up with Elsa. At the same time, there is a [[FandomRivalry rivalry]] with parts of ''Frozen'' fandom, for ''exactly the same reasons''.