History YMMV / TheFutureIsWild

** The fact that the show only covers three time periods, with just four ecosystems in each. Many fans have taken to creating their own species and ecosystems to cover the rest of the world over the course of the 200 million years shown.

** The use of multiple time periods opened up the possibility of showing the progression of evolution, such as by showing how an organism from one time period evolved into a descendant that lived in a future time period. However, this idea is never used, with every organism that appears in each time period having no relation to anything featured in the time periods before it (though it's vaguely implied that the Swampus was the ancestor of the Megasquid and the Squibbon).

* AmericansHateTingle: This seems to be the case in France, given that the now-closed attraction "Les Animaux du Futur" (in the amusement park Futuroscope, Bordeaux, France), based on this series, flopped, and the franchise since became obscure there, despite being locally adapted as a book too. [[MissingEpisode Even, it's very difficult, if no longer possible, to find the french dub version, given that some of the last available copies]] [[https://www.amazon.fr/Animaux-Futur-Coff-Tim-White/dp/B001TR1V10/ref=mp_s_a_1_11?crid=29OGMVYV4MI04&keywords=les+animaux+du+futur&qid=1690367655&sprefix=les+animaux+du+futur%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-11 has been bought in 2015 and 2016]], even though said book version has a CD that show scenes from the now-probably lost french dub.

** Mammals, especially poggles, are in-universe of this trope : they are described as being the last mammal. This becomes even more sadder when they go extinct because of the +100 mya mass extinction.
*** In Literature/TheFutureIsWild, poggles are revealed to be the very last mammals. However, 13 years later, in 2015, in ''Demain les Animaux du Futur'', there's also one another animal, the benthogyrinus, that is the very last member of an once deversified class, [[spoiler: except that it's the very last amphibian instead.]]

** the french book "Demain, les Animaux du Futur" can be seen as this since some of the animals are probably inspired by their "The Future is Wild" counterparts, like the tyrranornis (a carakiller-like predatory parrot).

* AmericansHateTingle : this seems to be the case in France, given that the now-closed attraction "Les Animaux du Futur" (in the amusement park Futuroscope, Bordeaux, France), based on this series, flopped, and the franchise since became obscure there, despite being locally adapted as a book too. [[MissingEpisode Even, it's very difficult, if no longer possible, to find the french dub version, given that some of the last available copies]] [[https://www.amazon.fr/Animaux-Futur-Coff-Tim-White/dp/B001TR1V10/ref=mp_s_a_1_11?crid=29OGMVYV4MI04&keywords=les+animaux+du+futur&qid=1690367655&sprefix=les+animaux+du+futur%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-11 has been bought in 2015 and 2016]], even though said book version has a CD that show scenes from the now-probably lost french dub.

** Just like poggles, humans are in-universe examples of this trope : the British version of the 2002 tv series speculates that they go extinct because of an ice age. 5 years later, in the 2007 cartoon series of the same name, humans are threatened by an ice age in Cassiopeia's period (+10 000 in the future).

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The Creator/{{Nelvana}} cartoon gets this reaction from some. While it does have its fans, it's not uncommon to hear people criticize the show for its more kid-friendly changes, such as having all the creatures engage in AnimalTalk, using more cartoonish designs, and just being LighterAndSofter overall. Of course, there were also those who just hated it for being [[MadeInCountryX made in Canada]] (never mind that its from [[Creator/{{Nelvana}} the country's most celebrated animation studio]]).

** all vertebrates but fish (even then only being relegated to the flish group) being extinct 200m in the future is seen as a missed opportunity by some fans. With the really creative stuff that they could have come up with for those groups of animals 200m in the future.

** Because of certain groups of surviving species (like turtles, sharks, monkeys or raptors), or populations (such as
** Mammals, especially poggles, are in-universe of this trope : they are described as being the last mammal. This becomes even more sadder when they go extinct because of the +100 mya mass extinction.
european wolverines) being now endangered, some of the future species have become less plausible than they were.

** Because of certain groups of surviving species (like turtles, sharks, monkeys or raptors), or populations (such as european wolverines) being now endangered, some of the future species have become less plausible than they were.

** Mammals, especially poggles, are in-universe of this trope : they are described as being the last mammal. This becomes even more sadder when they go extinct because of the +100 mya mass extinction.

** The avians of this series seem to have inspired some of the evolved canary descendants from Sheather's ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'' project. The quadrupedal burrowing bumblets appear to be based on the Spinks, the four-winged archangels are reminiscent of the Great Blue Windrunner, the porporants are similar to Gannetwhales, and the flightless predatory banshees have quite a lot in common with Carakillers.

* AmericansHateTingle : this seems to be the case in France, given that the now-closed attraction "Les Animaux du Futur" (in the amusement park Futuroscope, Bordeaux, France), based on this series, flopped, and the franchise since became obscure there, despite being locally adapted as a book too. [[MissingEpisode Even, it's very difficult, if not no longer possible, to find the french dub version, given that some of the last available copies]] [[https://www.amazon.fr/Animaux-Futur-Coff-Tim-White/dp/B001TR1V10/ref=mp_s_a_1_11?crid=29OGMVYV4MI04&keywords=les+animaux+du+futur&qid=1690367655&sprefix=les+animaux+du+futur%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-11 has been bought in 2015 and 2016.]]

* AmericansHateTingle : this seems to be the case in France, given that the now-closed attraction "Les Animaux du Futur" (in Futuroscope, France), based on this series, flopped, and the franchise since became obscure there, despite being locally adapted as a book too.

* TaintedByThePreview: Many fans were excited by the premise of a brand-new Future Is Wild VR game, with new creatures set in 20 million and 50 million years. Then they caught a glimpse of the infamous Titan Dolphin and...let's just say reception was far from warm.

* HarsherinHindsight :

*** Somewhat...awkwardly adressed by the VR game, with a creature called the Titan Dolphin. However, aside from the ContinuitySnarl of having mammals 200 myf where they're canonically extinct, the design is also completely unlikely: it turned its foreflippers into legs to walk bipedally on land and evolved into something looking like a twisted version of a theropod dinosaur.

* SpiritualAdaptation: As mentioned above, the Creator/{{Nelvana}} cartoon is more similar to Dougal Dixon's original idea for ''Man After Man'' than the actual book ''Man After Man'' is.

** Because of certain groupe of surviving species (like turtles, sharks, monkeys or raptors), or populations (such as european wolverines) being now endangered, some of the future species have become less plausible than they were.

** The series speculates that 200 million years in the future, nearly all land vertebrate life, including humanity, have been rendered extinct and sealife will move to land to fill the void, with squids becoming the new dominant species, and a particular squid species being hinted to become as or more intelligent than humans and making civilization sprout on Earth again. Jump 12 years later and out comes [[{{VideoGame/Splatoon}} a game whose lore has that scenario actually happen]].

* HilariousInHindsight:

* UncannyValley: The Babookaris. Their faces look disturbingly human.
** The Poggle. Something about those big eyes and invisible mouth is enough to send chills down the viewer's spine. Doesn't detract too much from [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter their cuteness]], however.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The avians of this series seem to have inspired some of the evolved canary descendants from Sheather's ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'' project. The quadrupedal burrowing bumblets appear to be based on the Spinks, the four-winged archangels are reminiscent of the Great Blue Windrunner, the porporants are similar to Gannetwhales, and the flightless predatory banshees have quite a lot in common with Carakillers.