History YMMV / Splatoon3

** Frye is widely seen as a MemeticLoser who is always given the worst or least popular Splatfest themes. Of the game's first 19 Splatfests (counting the Splatfest World Premiere and regional themes separately), Frye's teams were the most popular seven times, and she's only been third place by a margin of more than 8% twice (Teams Fame and Frye, and the latter just barely so). Using these metrics, the least popular team is actually Big Man's, being most popular only five times, the least popular by more than 10% four times,[[note]]Teams Scissors, Sour, Bigfoot, and Sunday[[/note]] and having the least-voted Splatfest team in ''Splatoon'' history so far (Team Bigfoot). The misconception seems to stem from conflating popularity with a guaranteed win, when popularity is just one of the five categories a team needs to score in to win; it's just that popularity is the most visible and least balanced category, so most people blame it for Frye's losing streak.

** As we all know, Frye is a MemeticLoser who is always given the most awful, least popular Splatfest themes... except, no, not really. Of the game's first 19 Splatfests (counting the Splatfest World Premiere and regional themes separately), Frye's teams were the most popular seven times, and she's only been third place by a margin of more than 8% twice (Teams Fame and Frye, and the latter just barely so). Using these metrics, the least popular team is actually Big Man's, being most popular only five times, the least popular by more than 10% four times,[[note]]Teams Scissors, Sour, Bigfoot, and Sunday[[/note]] and having the least-voted Splatfest team in ''Splatoon'' history so far (Team Bigfoot). The misconception seems to stem from conflating popularity with a guaranteed win, when popularity is just one of the five categories a team needs to score in to win; it's just that popularity is the most visible and least balanced category, so most people blame it for why this keeps on happening.
** Related to the above, the idea that Shiver is winning because of the "Shiver Simps" (ie. the supposed LowestCommonDenominator fans that influence the whole Splatfest's outcome by voting for their favorite idol, Shiver, rather than answering the Splatfest topic) is highly unlikely. While it is true that Shiver usually has the most voted teams, (as of the Drums vs. Guitar vs. Keyboard Splatfest) there are only two Splatfests where her team won the whole Splatfest because they also won the popularity vote: Team Rock and Team Gear. In the other 19 Splatfests (again, region-specific Splatfests counted separately), Shiver either lost, or won enough categories for the popularity vote to not influence the final outcome even if it went to the runner-up. Unless there's some way to prove that voting Shiver is linked to winning the other four categories -- which is highly unlikely, given that these categories are based on the skill of each team, and the difference in score percentage is way more narrow than in the popularity vote -- it's very safe to say that Shiver doesn't win because people vote for her.

** As we all know, Frye is a MemeticLoser who is always given the most awful, least popular Splatfest themes... except, no, not really. Of the game's first 18 Splatfests (counting the Splatfest World Premiere and regional themes separately), Frye's teams were the most popular six times, and she's only been third place by a margin of more than 8% twice (Teams Fame and Frye, and the latter just barely so). Using these metrics, the least popular team is actually Big Man's, being most popular only five times, the least popular by more than 10% four times,[[note]]Teams Scissors, Sour, Bigfoot, and Sunday,[[/note]] and having the least-voted Splatfest team in ''Splatoon'' history so far (Team Bigfoot). The misconception seems to stem from conflating popularity with a guaranteed win, when popularity is just one of the five categories a team needs to score in to win; it's just that popularity is the most visible and least balanced category, so most people blame it for why this keeps on happening.
** Related to the above, the idea that Shiver is winning because of the "Shiver Simps" (ie. the supposed LowestCommonDenominator fans that influence the whole Splatfest's outcome by voting for their favorite idol, Shiver, rather than answering the Splatfest topic) is highly unlikely. While it is true that Shiver usually has the most voted teams, (as of the Drums vs. Guitar vs. Keyboard Splatfest) there are only two Splatfests where her team won the whole Splatfest because they also won the popularity vote: Team Rock and Team Gear. In the other 18 Splatfests (again, region-specific Splatfests counted separately), Shiver either lost, or won enough categories for the popularity vote to not influence the final outcome even if it went to the runner-up. Unless there's some way to prove that voting Shiver is linked to winning the other four categories -- which is highly unlikely, given that these categories are based on the skill of each team, and the difference in score percentage is way more narrow than in the popularity vote -- it's very safe to say that Shiver doesn't win because people vote for her.

** Frye has only won '''two''' Splatfests since the game's launch, one of which was exclusive to Japan, and is the only idol in ''3'' who has had a team be voted most popular but fail to win the Splatfest overall - five times in fact, counting both international and Japan-exclusive themes. The early ones had her teams either be the least supported or her team would earn the fewest amount of points. She got out of this status during the Spicy vs Sweet vs Sour Splatfest where she finally won her first Splatfest with 56% player popularity, but after that, she's slowly crept back into this, with Teams Milk Chocolate and Strawberry failing to score any Splatfest score at all, while Team Fame barely managed to escape being the new least-voted team in ''Splatoon'' history at 9% of votes. And with the Shiver vs Frye vs Big Man Splatfest, she ended up being the least popular idol with 17% of the vote. Things got even worse after the regional Splatfests of Handshake vs. Fist Bump vs. Hug and Friday vs. Saturday vs. Sunday, where she still managed to lose both to Shiver despite representing the most popular team by far in both cases (though she at least won the Japanese regional Splatfest in the former case)... and then it was followed up with taking the most popular team in Springfest and not only losing but ''getting last place in rankings.''

* OneTrueThreesome: As stated above, those that don't want to leave Big Man out when it comes to romance will add him to Shiver/Frye.

** One of the new weapon classes are known as "Wipers" in Japan, which is a bit of a NonIndicativeName since only one of them is made out of a windshield wiper (the others are made from a rolling stamp). English localizes them as "Splatanas", which features a pun (splat + katana) and better communicates a shared trait between all of them (that they're sword-like).

** The French and Spanish versions of the Nessie vs. Aliens vs. Bigfoot refer to the "Aliens" team as "Martians", specifying which cryptid players are voting for and ruling out the concept of any extraterrestrial life in the far reaches of the universe distant from Earthling eyes.

* [[ScrappyWeapon/{{Splatoon}} Scrappy Weapon]]

** Like Big Man, Frye had this status for not only losing the early Splatfests, but the early ones had her teams either be the least supported or her team would earn the fewest amount of points. She got out of this status during the Spicy vs Sweet vs Sour Splatfest where she finally won her first Splatfest with 56% player popularity, but after that, she's slowly crept back into this, with Teams Milk Chocolate and Strawberry failing to score any Splatfest score at all, while Team Fame barely managed to escape being the new least-voted team in ''Splatoon'' history at 9% of votes. And with the Shiver vs Frye vs Big Man Splatfest, she ended up being the least popular idol with 17% of the vote. Things got even worse after the regional Splatfests of Handshake vs. Fist Bump vs. Hug and Friday vs. Saturday vs. Sunday, where she still managed to lose both to Shiver despite representing the most popular team by far in both cases (though she at least won the Japanese regional Splatfest in the former case)... and then it was followed up with taking the most popular team in Springfest and not only losing but ''getting last place in rankings.''
** Agent 4 is alluded to by the game in a number of spots, particularly in ''Side Order'', but never actually shows up in the flesh. Contrast this to how every other major character (who isn't dead) appears in ''Splatoon 3'' in some form. Some fans like to dunk on Agent 4 for this, acting like every other character and/or Nintendo themselves have forgotten or abandoned them. Though the developers did throw a bone Agent 4's way in ''Side Order'' - their Palette is unlocked early on, Marina's dev logs and the Palette notes reveal that she hired Agent 4 to handle Memverse security, and the Parallel Canon boss fight is based on Agent 4's data (the leader even takes on Agent 4's appearence from your ''Splatoon 2'' save file), meaning that that boss is essentially Side Order's equivalent of the Agent 3 fight from ''Octo Expansion''.

** ''Side Order'' encourages minimalist runs with [[spoiler:Eight's Palette, which gains more Color Chip slots the fewer [[SkillScoresAndPerks hacks]] you have active]]. You can [[BraggingRightsReward earn a special badge]] for your Splashtag by [[spoiler:successfully completing an Eight's Palette run with four or fewer hacks active]].

** Pearl's new outfit features a jacket with big, puffy white sleeves that looks far too big on her. She looks just like a little marshmallow.

** Like Big Man, Frye had this status for not only losing the early Splatfests, but the early ones had her teams either be the least supported or her team would earn the fewest amount of points. She got out of this status during the Spicy vs Sweet vs Sour Splatfest where she finally won her first Splatfest with 56% player popularity, but after that, she's slowly crept back into this, with Teams Milk Chocolate and Strawberry failing to score any Splatfest score at all, while Team Fame barely managed to escape being the new least-voted team in ''Splatoon'' history at 9% of votes. And with the Shiver vs Frye vs Big Man Splatfest, she ended up being the least popular idol with 17% of the vote. Things got even worse after the regional Splatfests of Handshake vs. Fist Bump vs. Hug and Friday vs. Saturday vs. Sunday, where she still managed to lose both to Shiver despite representing the most popular team by far in both cases (though she at least won the Japanese regional Splatfest in the former case).