History YMMV / SkullGirls

** Not even the voting for the two DLC characters was immune. When Round 2's survivors were announced, many fans cried foul due to hopefuls like Marie, Umbrella, and Scythana being out-voted by Minette. Beowulf winning the second contest was met with outright revulsion from detractors, who claimed he had the least interesting design of all the male characters and Beowulf didn't make even make it to the top 4 in the first contest's voting. Many fans were not happy at Big Band taking Umbrella's second DLC character spot, especially as she lost in the fan voting soon after. What probably caused the most resentment was Alex Ahad's explanation that it would be impossible to add True Story Mode until Marie, Umbrella, and Black Dahlia were playable characters. You can imagine the rage that erupted when ''none'' of them won, meaning that the mode would never come to pass. [[AuthorsSavingThrow This was alleviated]] to an extent when Umbrella and Black Dahlia both finally made their playable debuts as DLC characters leaving only Marie remaining.

** Conversely, "the ''Skullgirls'' launch party never ends", referring to how ''Skullgirls'' continuously received attention from its developers and to how its community managed to stay alive and active for so long, despite being a niche indie title. The meme saw a further increase in usage after a DLC season with four new character was announced nearly a ''decade'' after release.
** [[CallingYourAttacks "ROLLING!"]] [[labelnote: Explanation]]Annie's j.HP, Rolling Maneuver, quickly became infamous for its [[ThatOneAttack insane crossup and reset potential]]. Its repeated use in the competitive scene combined with Annie's unusually loud yell of "Rolling" whenever the attack comes out swiftly brought the attack up to meme status in the community.[[/labelnote]]
*** It became ascended after an April Fools patch that replaced ''all'' of Annie's voice lines with that specific yell.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The game has a rather cool art style, a good story for a fighter, some interesting characters with personalities that shows they actually have more depth to them than just their looks, and is an overall fun and solid tournament fighter. Unfortunately, many people who haven't played the game for more than 10 minutes, if at all, often [[AudienceAlienatingPremise get stuck on]] what they perceive as blatant fanservice. Though [[FanDisservice this diminishes]] [[JustForFun/ComeForTheXStayForTheY really fast]].

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Given Sekhmet is Eliza's skeleton, is she still her own person with Sekhmet sparing her brain, or is she just a personality taken up by the Parasite to enjoy herself?

** Some {{Fanon}} interpretations pair up [[FoeYay Cerebella with Ms. Fortune, and Parasoul with Valentine]], conveniently ignoring the Canon that [[spoiler: Cerebella is willing to crush Fortune into another [[MacGuffin Life Gem]] in her ending (although [[WasItReallyWorthIt her regrets afterward]] shed some sympathy), and Valentine is part of the TerribleTrio that wishes to make Parasoul's little sister Umbrella [[HumanoidAbomination a Skullgirl]]]].
*** It should be mentioned that Parasoul's and Valentine's voice actors [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Bhcp4Aa7w did some videos]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edOuz6xSPT8 where the two characters display]] FoeYay.

** Some people are shipping [[ScrewYourself Filia x Fukua]] as well, although Fukua's interest in Filia [[{{Squick}} is very creepy]], [[FoeYay she wants to be Filia]] and [[AngelDevilShipping she wants to]] [[NightmareFuel have her face]]...

** Not even the voting for the two DLC characters was immune. When Round 2's survivors were announced, many fans cried foul due to hopefuls like Marie, Umbrella, and Scythana being out-voted by Minette. Beowulf winning the second contest was met with outright revulsion from detractors, who claimed he had the least interesting design of all the male characters and Beowulf didn't make even make it to the top 4 in the first contest's voting. Many fans were not happy at Big Band taking Umbrella's second DLC character spot, especially as she lost in the fan voting soon after. What probably caused the most resentment was Alex Ahad's explanation that it would be impossible to add True Story Mode until Marie, Umbrella, and Black Dahlia were playable characters. You can imagine the rage that erupted when ''none'' of them won, meaning that the mode would never come to pass.

** According to WordOfGod, Valentine is more or less {{asexual}}. Despite this, she is said to use her looks to seduce people, which might explain some elements of the ProudBeauty she expresses in-game - in fights predominantly against other women.

*** "The launch party is still ongoing."

** Legendary FGC player [[UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity Sonic]][[UsefulNotes/FGCAces Fox]] received the honor of having their avatar/[[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom fursona]] added into the game where there is a 50/50 chance that they will replace Mrs. Victoria on the Class Notes stage. This has been divisive among both the FGC and the furry community. A mod was promptly made to remove the character. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Leave it at that.]]

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clecIMqEuMY opening soundtrack piece]]'s melody is quite reminiscent of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''[='=]s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12AHLzW4kks&t=39s Satori Maiden ~ 3rd eye]]". Fans humorously compare the two games, as they both involve cute girls beating the heck out of each other.

* AmericansHateTingle: While it does have its fans there and is not exactly hated per se, the game is not ''exactly popular'' in Latin America, compared with other established fighting game franchises like ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' or ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. This is partly because unlike the aforementioned games, this game is notorious for having a steep learning curve regarding combos, meaning that any useful tactic in those games will definitely ''not'' work here, and partly because it's a console-exclusive game, while most Latin American players are more experienced with arcades.[[note]]This is not exclusive from this game, as practically games with similar playing schemes like Creator/ArcSystemWorks's fighters like ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' and ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' suffer from this as well in that region.[[/note]]

** While the game rose in popularity in its native US as more info came out, the game is also very popular in Japan, with a lot of the initial featured fanart being made by Japanese artists, and Uno Makoto (designer for Anime/WitchBlade) had even drawn fanart for ''Skullgirls''. Reverge Labs also noticed this: they planned to release a Japan-exclusive disc (due to Japan's [[AmericansHateTingle dislike of DLC]]) after the first batch of DLC.

** Mike Z's conservative approach to balance patches. Mike believes that you cannot make changes based off a limited amount of play and prefers to let the game grow before he and the team make any balance changes. This obviously appealed to older fans and fighting game veterans who are used to seeing most early [[GameBreaker Game Breakers]] eventually find counters. However, newer players, especially those new to the genre in general, were not so happy with this. Some of those same newer players were also somewhat put off by the influences from ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2'', specifically on the utility of the assists.

** For the most part, this was fortunately averted early on in the game's life, as you would see many different types of teams and assists being used online, which is likely helped by the fact that the roster was so small at launch. However... get into higher-level play and you're would see a whole lot of teams with Double on the end as an anchor. Double had an extremely good assist in her Hornet Bomber move, particularly her Light Kick variation, since it simultaneously acts as a lockdown assist and an invincible assist. Along with that, while she was mostly manageable as a normal point character, she became much scarier when she had a meter to abuse her Bandwagon Rushdown, Nightmare Legion, and Catellite Live supers with. Not to mention, the latter acts as a really good way to bring in Double through a DHC if you keep the opponent blocking. She's been nerfed pretty effectively over the course of the game's lifespan, so it's not like she's unbeatable at this point, but that doesn't stop a lot of people from tacking her on their team even after the game's support ended.

** Umbrella's [[DemotedToExtra Demotion To Extra]] has led to her "Salty Umbrella" portrayal where she looks annoyed, angry, or [[CuteButPsycho psychotic]] with DullEyesOfUnhappiness in fan-art after she fell out of the DLC character race.

** [[ScheduleSlip Two Weeks]] ([[TradeSnark TM]]) [[note]]A patch for a game has to be submitted to Sony and Microsoft for testing before it can be released on PSN and XBLA, leading to a two-week long wait period between the developers finishing up and the companies actually finishing up. When this was brought up in regards to [[TroubledProduction the Xbox patch]], the wait ended up being much longer than that, and "Two Weeks" promptly became a mantra for the ''Skullgirls'' community whenever they're waiting on something to release.[[/note]]

** Back when the game was being developed, Peacock drew the most attention for fans by virtue of being the weirdest character -- which is quite an achievement, given what the other characters are like. This is most likely due to her spouting a bunch of [[FountainOfMemes familiar lines]] and [[CrazyAwesome her appearance and fighting style being based on old cartoons.]]

* CrazyAwesome: Peacock's powers rely on a mix of her love of cartoons and her total insanity. Things like her beartrap teeth, her calling in AnvilOnHead attacks, and her creative and absurd HyperspaceArsenal make her both an incredibly deadly LongRangeFighter, and a stand-out even in a zany CastOfSnowflakes.

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** "The launch party is still ongoing."

* NeverLiveItDown: Cerebella will always have trouble living down what happened in her Story Mode Ending, despite the ending not being canon. See TheScrappy below.

* TheScrappy: To many, [[WellDoneSonGuy Cerebella]] ''completely'' crossed the MoralEventHorizon in her ending [[spoiler: where she crushes Ms. Fortune into another Life Gem for her adoptive mob-father, Vitale Medici (who massacred Ms. Fortune's gang ''and'' ran the slaver rings that mutilated Peacock during the GreatOffscreenWar)]], even though this is one of the WhatIf endings according to WordOfGod and Cerebella [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone clearly realizes she made the wrong choice]]. The fact that Marie (and more importantly, the creators) claims she's "pure," [[MoralDissonance in spite of being established as a "leg breaker" for the Medici Mob]], [[KarmaHoudini only twists the knife further.]] That said, her treatment [[spoiler: in Eliza's story has elicited reactions of both AlasPoorVillain and TakeThatScrappy]]

* IAmNotShazam: To those who don't recognize the title as referring to the main antagonist and not the characters. This reached new highs (or lows) when Big Band, the first ''male'' character, debuted.