History YMMV / TheFutureIsWild

* TheWoobie: Poggles. [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter They're so cute]]. [[spoiler: And so tasty for spiders.]] That, and they're also the very last mammal species on the planet.

* FanficFuel: The unlikely and impossible anatomy of the Titan Dolphin has had [[https://alphynix.tumblr.com/post/175439816884/so-in-the-light-of-the-ridiculous-titan-dolphin many fans trying to redesign a more plausible land cetacean]], or alternatively come up with [[https://www.deviantart.com/dragonthunders/art/Titan-flish-749333093 an evolutionary pathway for it that's consistent with the show's timeline]].

* GatewaySeries: Before ''Literature/AllTomorrows'' took that distinction in 2021, this series and its cult following were this to SpeculativeBiology in general.

* HilariousInHindsight: 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]].

* GatewaySeries: Before Literature/AllTomorrows took that distinction, this series and its cult following were this to SpeculativeBiology in general.

* 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]].

* AccidentalInnuendo: The episode "Scared Safe" of the cartoon series has C.G. run several safety drills, one of which involves her lighting up the beacon on her helmet to see if it's bright enough for her crew to see. When she wants the crew to confirm if they can see the light or not...

** The premise of the cartoon, with the human characters traveling forward in time to colonize the future, becomes this when you find out that was Dougal Dixon's original plan for ''Literature/ManAfterManAnAnthropologyOfTheFuture''.

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

** Squibbons are amusingly reminescent of the infamous Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus hoax, created in 1998 as a social experiment on seeing if young people believe everything they see on the internet.

* 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 reminescent of the Great Blue Windrunner, the porporants are similar to Gannetwhales, and the flightless predatory banshees have quite a lot in common with Carakillers.

** The cartoon qualifies too, especially if you watched after seeing the original miniseries. Instead of using its admittedly cool premise--humans are threatened by an ice age and must travel further into the future to a time when the planet is hospitable again-- to its full potential, it spends most of its time focusing on the humorous antics of the various creatures (which can all now talk for some reason).

* FanficFuel: The unlikely and impossible anatomy of the Titan Dolphin has had [[https://alphynix.tumblr.com/post/175439816884/so-in-the-light-of-the-ridiculous-titan-dolphin many fans trying to redesign a more plausible land cetacean]], or alternatively come up with an evolutionary pathway for it that's consistent with the show's timeline.

* FanficFuel: The unlikely and impossible anatomy of the Titan Dolphin has had [[https://alphynix.tumblr.com/post/175439816884/so-in-the-light-of-the-ridiculous-titan-dolphin many fans trying to redesign a more plausible land cetacean.]]

* SpiritualAdaptation: As mentioned above, the cartoon is more similar to Dougal Dixon's original idea for ''Man After Man'' than the book he eventually published is.

* SpiritualAdaptation: As mentioned above, the cartoon is more similar Dougal Dixon's original idea for ''Man After Man'' than the book he eventually published is.

** 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 implied that the Swampus was the ancestor of the Megasquid and the Squibbon).

%%* CreepyAwesome: The Sharkopaths again.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The avians of this series seem to have inspired some of the evolved canary descendants from {{Sheather888's}} ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'' project. The bumblets appear to be based on the Spinks, the four-winged archangels are reminescent of the Great Blue Windrunner, the porporants are similar to Gannetwhales, and the flightless predatory banshees have quite a lot in common with Carakillers.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The avians of this series seem to have inspired some of the evolved canary descendants from Sheather888's [[WebOriginal/{{Serina}}]] project. The bumblets appear to be based on the Spinks, the four-winged archangels are reminescent of the Great Blue Windrunner, the porporants are similar to Gannetwhales, and the flightless predatory banshees have quite a lot in common with Carakillers.

* FanficFuel: The unlikely and impossible anatomy of the Titan Dolphin has had [[https://alphynix.tumblr.com/post/175439816884/so-in-the-light-of-the-ridiculous-titan-dolphin many fans trying to redesign a more likely land cetacean.]]

* BrokenBase: Fans completely ''dislike'' the new VR creature, the Titan Dolphin, for easily being the worst designed creature in the series. It completely screws over all basic cetacean anatomy, looking more like an ArmlessBiped theropod dinosaur.

* CrazyAwesome: The Sharkopaths are super intelligent, super fast and super tough sharks with bioluminescence. The acid-spraying Spitfire Bird and the [[PsychoElectricEel electricity-generating]] Lurkfish also rank pretty high in this department.
* CreepyAwesome: The Sharkopaths again.
* EarWorm: No doubt you'll be humming that surprisingly catchy theme song after hearing it.

** 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.

* CrazyAwesome: The Sharkopaths are super intelligent, super fast and super tough sharks with bioluminescence. The acid-spraying Spitfire Bird and the [[PsychoElectricEel electricity-generating]] Larkish also rank pretty high in this department.

* CrazyAwesome: The Sharkopaths are super intelligent, super fast and super tough sharks with bioluminescence.

* HilariousInHindsight: An actual (extinct) flightless caracara was described in 2008, making the Carakiller this.
** This 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]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Not only is it totally implausible that any ice age short of another Snowball Earth would wipe out anywhere near all marine mammals (who have so far survived many relatively recent ice ages), but doing so for the series cuts off many fascinating possibilities to explore. For instance modern river dolphins evolved when shallow inland seas retreated and became river basins, this could happen again perhaps in new ways. It would be fascinating to see what the first freshwater baleen whale might be like! Or, what might future pinnipeds be like if they evolved to become fully aquatic? Would they resemble modern cetaceans? In what ways would they be different? Could cetaceans ever develop a civilization?