History YMMV / SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower

* FanartAtFirstSight: When the designs for the reboot were revealed, there was plenty of fanart for Adora, Catra, Bow, and Glimmer before the series premiered proper. Some even had them standing alongside or meeting their 80s counterparts.

* CompleteMonster: [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerHordePrime Horde Prime]], true ruler of [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerTheHorde the Horde]], is an ancient being who exists by stealing the bodies of his clones who he breeds to be mindlessly loyal drones, any hint of individuality or imperfection resulting in erasure. Having exterminated countless worlds in the name of order, Prime is only swayed from destroying Etheria by the realization he can use it as a weapon, sending his discarded "brother" [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerHordak Hordak]] to have his identity erased. Later brainwashing [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerCatra Catra]], Horde Prime tries to force Catra's suicide before [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerAdora Adora]] when she resists, using those he controls as weapons against their loved ones. Seeking to activate the Heart, Prime launches attacks on Etheria with threats to destroy the world, ending by trying to have Hordak himself kill his beloved Entrapta when she tries to warn him of the consequences. Finally activating the Heart, Horde Prime gleefully attempts to annihilate the entire universe as the ultimate culmination of order and his twisted ego.

** Many fans have latched onto newly revealed villain Double Trouble, despite how little information we have on them. It helps that their design is very cute, and they seem to be a LargeHam. Plus, the other actors get to ruthlessly mock their own characters whenever Double Trouble turns into them. And of course, being a canon non-binary character who absolutely ''no one'' ever misgenders, referring to them with the proper pronouns as if it's the most natural thing in the world. Their alter ego, [[spoiler:Flutterina]] also has a sizable fanbase.

** Catra has many signs of Borderline Personality Disorder. She has a tendency to be ambivalent to outright hostile towards her underlings, distancing herself from them, but when they leave, she becomes clingy and jealous. She forms intense but unstable relationships - her FoeRomanceSubtext with Adora and her inability to decide whether she wants to earn Shadow Weaver's trust or just skin her alive are both examples of this. She exhibits notable anger issues, and demonstrates suicidal tendencies in seasons three and four. Of course, she was also the target of [[AbusiveMom Shadow Weaver's A+ parenting]], so it's hardly surprising that she's a bit messed up.

* EvilIsSexy:
** Catra is very attractive to many audience members due to being a scrappy catgirl. This only intensified when she grew older as the show went on, and her outfits exposed a bit more skin.
** Hordak absolutely exploded in this audience reaction around the third season, when some of his HiddenDepths were revealed and he first shed his armor for a long period of time, revealing a figure many found more attractive than they did before. His relationship with Entrapta and Keston John's [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct shocking performance]] absolutely did not hurt.
** Double Trouble, whose occasional flirtatiousness, pure control of any situation, and Jacob Tobia's voice led them to develop a fair number of admirers.
** Horde Prime, despite looking strange, is a fairly muscular figure with an exposed chest, whose voice is like a more refined version of Hordak's. Notably, this is clearly [[{{Narcissist}} also his opinion of himself.]]

** Glimmer is already a flawed character, who can be jealous, temperamental, reckless and ruthless, but also kind, brave and ultimately heroic. However, some segments of the fanbase insist on interpreting her as some sort of wildly unempathetic borderline monster who goes out of her way to be cruel to Catra. (It is probably not a coincidence that these segments are generally [[DracoInLeatherPants Catra stans]] and [[DieForOurShip hardcore Catradora shippers]].)

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: For a show rated "Y7" it doesn't pull its punches with dark and mature themes. Things like child abuse, death, and post-traumatic stress disorder are played completely straight and explored in great detail. The psychological horror of Season 4 in particular is spectacularly intense for a kids show, with [[https://twitter.com/Gingerhazing/status/1193258977099796481 influences from]] R-rated media like ''{{Film/Annihilation}}''.

** While it's clear that the AdaptationalModesty and AdaptationalDiversity approach with the show's redesigns was meant to promote body positivity, many artists draw the characters looking much more attractive, sometimes even provocative than they are in the show (whether [[SelfFanservice intentional]] or [[AccidentalPervert not]]). There are even some fans who have nothing against the redesigns, but will still do things like draw Adora as [[BuxomBeautyStandard very curvaceous with sometimes huge buxom]], make Glimmer slimmer, or give OnlyOneFemaleMold to the princesses, for their personal choice without any sexual intention. Not even the male characters are safe, with Bow and Sea Hawk being drawn more muscular in many fanarts.

** While it's clear that the AdaptationalModesty and AdaptationalDiversity approach with the show's redesigns was meant to promote body positivity, many artists draw the characters looking much more attractive, sometimes even provocative than they are in the show (whether [[SelfFanservice intentional]] or [[AccidentalPervert not]]). There are even some fans who have nothing against the redesigns, but will still do things like draw Adora as [[BuxomBeautyStandard very curvaceous with sometimes huge buxom]], make Glimmer slimmer, or give OnlyOneFemaleMold to the princesses, for their personal choice without any sexual intention. Not even the male characters are safe, with Bow and Sea Hawk being drawn with a more muscular build in many fanarts.

** While it's clear that the AdaptationalModesty and AdaptationalDiversity approach with the show's redesigns was meant to promote body positivity, many artists draw the characters looking much more attractive, sometimes even provocative than they are in the show (whether [[SelfFanservice intentional]] or [[AccidentalPervert not]]). There are even some fans who have nothing against the redesigns, but will still do things like draw Adora as [[BuxomBeautyStandard very curvaceous with sometimes huge buxom]], make Glimmer slimmer, or give OnlyOneFemaleMold to the princesses, for their personal choice without any sexual intention.

* MisaimedFandom: There is not supposed to be a "right" side [[EvilVersusEvil in Catra and Hordak's struggle for control of the Horde.]] Both of them are depicted as having sympathetic traits and seriously vile misdeeds to their name, with neither necessarily being worse than the other and both being driven to evil by their own tragic pasts, consistently hurting one another and the people around them. While they're similar, that didn't stop fans who [[BaseBreakingCharacter liked one and not the other]] from insisting that one of them was the better side in the conflict. This can be seen clearly in Tumblr in [[https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/anti-hordak the forms]] [[https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/anti%20catra of these tag]].

** [[spoiler:After '''years''' of manipulations and abuse to both Adora and Catra, Adora finally [[CallingTheOldWomanOut call Shadow Weaver out for her behaviors]] and gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, saying that she hurts people and deprives them of happiness, before stating she won't get her forgiveness. She then assures that she won't even get the chance to near the magic released from the Heart of Etheria after she uses it.]]

** The princesses acting dismissive and rude towards Entrapta throughout the series has earned many viewers' distain. As a result, it's nevertheless fulfilling to see [[spoiler:Entrapta telling them she did try saving Glimmer after [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech they accuse her of being inconsiderable to others]], proving that they're wrong about her all along.]]

** Overlaps with TheyWastedAPerfectlyGood Character: Adora doesn't really interact with Lonnie, Kyle and Rogelio as She-Ra beyond brief moments in battles and an extended ImagineSpot (during which neither side remembers Adora became She-Ra). It might have been nice to see how Adora would deal with fighting her former Horde friends who aren't opposed to her for deeply personal reasons like Catra. Showing them mercy or trying to turn them could have further motivated their eventual desertion, or even lead to them defecting and inspiring dissent amongst the Horde's rank and file, and further contextualized Catra and Adora's relationship.

** [[spoiler:For those troubled by Glimmer's behaviors in Season 4, it's cathartic when she realized what the Heart of Etheria really was and how much she messed up as Horde Prime arrives.]]

* Adora can be this sometimes. While she does have legitmative concerns about others' questionable behaviors, she can be come across as unsympathetic as she tends to ignore others' reasons and motivations behind their actions, such as being betrayed by her defection (Catra and Lonnie) or devastated by the lost of a loved one (Glimmer). It could be said that many of the problems in the show can be solved had she willing to sit down and have neutral talks with others instead of being dimissive of others' needs. Her ControlFreak actions are also meant to be sympathetic due to her abusive childhood, but they're instead being treated as annoying and stand-offish to many viewers.%%This is treated as an audience reaction of "FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse". For your information, anybody that tries to remove an UnintentionallyUnsympathetic entry for her without consulting thread would implementing an Administrivia/EditWar.

** Lonnie receives some of this in the series. While her character in the show is meant to be a tough soldier with a hidden caring side, most of her time onscreen shows her as a loud and commanding person who is rude to her friends.

** Same can be applied to Catra. While many fans treat her as a [[TragicVillain sympathetic villain]], some view her as irredeemable and abusive to Adora with no redeeming qualities. Some even go as far to dismiss her [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn redemption in the show.]]]]These viewpoints ignore the fact that Catra's toxic behaviors have a tragic reasoning behind them and she doesn't pursue them out of evil reasons, instead genuinely believing that they're necessary to gain self-worth. The show itself also doesn't downplay the harm that her toxic treatment to others is causing, and Catra sincerely regrets her actions when she is finally made aware of this.