History YMMV / TheOwlHouse

* FandomEnragingMisconception: With how frequently it occurs, referring to Raine as either male or female will earn you some scorn from fans who will be quick to tell you that Raine is non-binary. If you want to get technical, Raine is a transmasculine non-binary according to Avi Roque, which is hugely different from identifying as male.

* GrowingTheBeard:
** While the show was very well-received from the start, with praise going towards the characterization, worldbuilding, and LGBT representation, Season 2A pushed all of the positive elements of the first season even further, introducing new already beloved characters (Hunter, Raine, Vee) while fleshing out old characters to make them even more likable or interesting (King, Hooty, Lilith, the Blight twins and Camila), teasing new hints about Belos' true nature and the Day of Unity, and canonizing [[spoiler:Lumity]] before the halfway point of the season.
** Season 2B received further acclaim for its introduction of the Collector, its new character arcs for King, Luz, and Amity, the further development of Lumity, [[spoiler: Hunter's redemption]], and the revelation of the truth behind the Day of Unity.

** The Collector was introduced in Season 2 as an [[CreepyChild extremely creepy and sadistic]] RealityWarper, [[spoiler: who easily [[CurbStompBattle defeated Belos]] shortly after being freed.]] In season 3 it is [[AssPull suddenly]] revealed that [[spoiler: they had no idea their powers were [[ObviuslyEvil hurting people]] nor had any responsibility for the death of the Titan.]] In spite of their enormous powers, the Collector is almost DemotedToExtra for the rest of the season as [[spoiler: Belos, secretly possessing Raine's body, once again easily manipulates them to accomplish his [[FinalSolution genocidal plans.]]]] While [[spoiler: they help Luz in the final battle, the Collector plays a minimal role in it and isn't even among the characters hitting Belos in his last moments.]]

** Some people are just born good or evil. [[spoiler:[[InSpiteofTheNail No matter what]], all the grimwalkers turned against Belos and embraced the Boiling Isles' culture [[HistoryRepeats exactly like his brother did]]]]. On the other hand [[spoiler:the series implies that Belos/Philip was always a monster, even before his arrival on the Boiling Isles. Likewise his past and cultural background are simply presented as an excuse for Belos to commit his horrible crimes rather than as the [[FreudianExcuse cause of them]]]].

** [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz]] is a quirky, upbeat NightmareFetishist who is kind to everyone and a pop-culture nerd, as shown with her love for anime, video games, and ''The Good Witch Azura''. Her awkward social skills make her all the more endearing. She becomes even more so in season two [[spoiler:when she starts to crush on Amity]].

** Raine Whispers is a shy, sweet middle-aged witch with a soft, high-pitched voice who is in love with Eda. The fandom almost immediately fell in love with them, and for good reason!

** The TitleSequence theme is a fun, upbeat tune with a touch of darkness. [[spoiler:The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B7jvVmpBPg extended version]] of it that was written for the TimePassesMontage in "Thanks To Them" is especially infectious and beautiful, as it journeys through a much wider range of emotions than the original rendition.]]

** The Golden Guard made his first appearance curbstomping Luz and Eda, making it clear he could kill them but wanted them to go monster hunting for the Emperor. Each subsequent appearance has had Luz, Amity, and Willow in that order proactively handling him before Hunter could fight; Hunter is especially put out that Amity, an abomination student, managed to capture him. In Willow's case, it's all the more awesome in that she was just asking nicely if "Caleb" would join her Flyer Derby team.

** Amity Blight starts off as the arrogant top student at Hexside before gradually shedding her cruel personality. Despite initially being annoyed with Luz when first meeting her, the two bond over their shared love of ''The Good Witch Azura'' book series before developing romantic feelings for her. She further falls for her after being chosen as the Grom Queen to the point she becomes an unintelligible mess whenever she was around Luz or simply thinks about her.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/WendieMalick also voiced another character in a Creator/{{Disney}} cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'', as Principal S. Folsom. Her voicing Eda leads to irony due to how much the witch hates school [[spoiler: and more so when she becomes the headmistress of the University of Wild Magic in the SeriesFinale]].

** [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]] starts off as the arrogant top student at Hexside before gradually shedding her cruel personality. Despite initially being annoyed with Luz when first meeting her, the two bond over their shared love of ''The Good Witch Azura'' book series before developing romantic feelings for her. She further falls for her after being chosen as the Grom Queen to the point she becomes an unintelligible mess whenever she was around Luz or simply thinks about her.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/WendieMalick also voiced another character in a Creator/{{Disney}} cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'', as Principal S. Folsom. Her voicing Eda leads to irony due to how much the witch hates school [[spoiler: and more so when she becomes the headmistress of the University of Wild Magic in the Series Finale]].

** Seeing that Warden Wrath is a {{Jerkass}} and EntitledBastard, it's rather satisfying when Luz rallies his escaped prisoners to use their quirks to subdue him. Then Luz blows up fireworks in his mouth, sending him running. Even better, [[spoiler:in the first season finale, she curbstomps him and makes him draw a map to Eda's cell]].
** Hooty [[CurbStompBattle curbstomping]] Lilith and the other Emperor's coven witches is quite satisfying [[spoiler: given TheReveal later on of what Lilith did to her sister]]. The icing on the cake is Eda watching with binoculars and snickering.

** [[Creator/MatthewRhys]] deserves to be praised for having a blast voicing Emperor Belos aka [[spoiler:Philip Wittebane]]. For capturing the way he speaks in a ColdHam while also doing an excellent job at making the villain sound intimidating and terrifying such as in Young Blood, Old Souls where [[spoiler:his first encounter with Luz makes him the stronger of the two when battling since they first met]], Hollow Mind whenever [[spoiler:he starts breaking both Luz and Hunter into tears after discovering the truth about the Day of Unity]], and especially Watching and Dreaming given that this is his best performance yet [[spoiler:in which he succeeds in possessing the Titan's Heart and shouts the best IncomingHam ever to be made]]. Whoever knew that the darkest Disney villain could actually pull off the most threatening voice ever so amazing?

** Matthew Rhys deserves to be praised for having a blast voicing Emperor Belos aka [[spoiler:Philip Wittebane]]. For capturing the way he speaks in a ColdHam while also doing an excellent job at making the villain sound intimidating and terrifying such as in Young Blood, Old Souls where [[spoiler:his first encounter with Luz makes him the stronger of the two when battling since they first met]], Hollow Mind whenever [[spoiler:he starts breaking both Luz and Hunter into tears after discovering the truth about the Day of Unity]], and especially Watching and Dreaming given that this is his best performance yet [[spoiler:in which he succeeds in possessing the Titan's Heart and shouts the best IncomingHam ever to be made]]. Whoever knew that the darkest Disney villain could actually pull off the most threatening voice ever so amazing?

** Some people are just born good or evil.[[spoiler: [[InSpiteofTheNail No matter what]], all the grimwalkers turned against Belos and embraced the Boiling Isles' culture [[HistoryRepeats exactly like his brother did]]]]. On the other hand [[spoiler:the series implies that Belos/Philip was always a monster, even before his arrival on the Boiling Isles. Likewise his past and cultural background are simply presented as an excuse for Belos to commit his horrible crimes rather than as the [[FreudianExcuse cause of them]]]].

** The Lunter(Luz/Hunter) ship began to wane in popularity after Lumity became canon and Hunter started interacting with Willow. The pairing definitely still has its fans but not as much as there were during Season 2A and it's become more common for fans to write them as having a [[LikeBrotherAndSister sibling-like relationship]]

* FanonWelding: Most often done with ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', due to their FriendlyFandoms and many shared crew members. The most common crossovers are:
** King being a reincarnated Bill Cipher. This was mostly due to their shared voice actor Creator/AlexHirsch doing a near identical voice for the two, [[spoiler:Bill's final words being a bizarre message for rebirth,]] [[spoiler:and the Axolotl from ''Literature/GravityFallsDipperAndMabelAndTheCurseOfTheTimePiratesTreasure'' stating the only way Bill can atone for his crimes is to be in "a different form, a different time."]] They're also both demons with a thirst for tyrannical power, although King's is totally PlayedForLaughs. Takes on a heartbreaking twist in "King's Tide" [[spoiler:when following Bill in ''Gravity Falls'' scoffing at the idea of sacrificing everything for one's sibling, King does just that.]]
** Eda being Stan's ex-wife. Some supplementary information in Gravity Falls reveals that Stan married a woman in UsefulNotes/LasVegas who has a personality very much akin to Eda, as well as a similar physical description. While that woman was known as Marilyn, it is possible that it was a pseudonym, knowing that Eda is short for Eda'''lyn'''. [[spoiler:With the confirmation that Eda did go to Vegas by [[WordOfGod Dana Terrace herself]], this theory gained plenty of steam. It gained even more steam when "Yesterday's Lie" confirmed that Eda did go by the pseudonym Marilyn in the human realm.]]

** A slightly nastier one developed with fans of ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain,'' after fans of ''The Owl House'' supposedly "co-opted" the latter fandom's tactic of "trending parties" to get the series noticed on Twitter. ''Infinity Train'' fans argued that the more popular ''Owl House'' is stealing attention from ''Infinity Train'', even though that show has a far greater need to be noticed, since was cancelled after just two seasons, while ''The Owl House'' was a cult hit with three confirmed seasons.[[note]]''Infinity Train'' divided its seasons into half-season long "books", creating the illusion that it had four seasons, when it only had two.[[/note]]

** A fairly mild, [[FriendlyRival friendly]] one popped up with ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' during that show's second season. It was mostly due to the two shows airing back to back on the same day, so you would get fans debating who had the better weekly episode or who got the better ratings. his did sometimes lead to heated debates on which show is better overall, it doesn't help that the shows are pretty similar to each other in terms of the premise, but thanks in part to both shows creators encouraging it, the two fandoms have for the most part remained friendly, with most being fans of both.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A three for one interesting plot involving Hunter’s secret of being a grimwalker and how the others, especially Willow and Gus, would react to the news. For Willow, it would have been nice to see some character flaws with her struggling to accept Hunter being a grimwalker, but eventually have her come around and being friends with him, thereby making her appear less of a Mary Sue in later seasons. For Gus, the show was seemingly building a romance around him and Hunter with plenty of HomoeroticSubtext and it being [[ImpliedTrope implied]] that he knew that Hunter was a grimwalker before anyone told him. Finally, to wrap the previous two plot lines together, it would have been interesting if Hunter had a LGBTAwakening moment, such as him finding an anatomy textbook while on Earth and discovering that he is either repulsed by female anatomy but attracted to male anatomy or attracted to both, for the younger queer audience that are still discovering their orientations, with him eventually going on to being an OfficialCouple with Gus to add a gay couple to the existing lesbian couple in the show.

** A significant number of fans believe that the show was canceled due to its inclusion of LGBT characters. Dana Terrace, however, has gone on record stating that this is not the case and that the cancellation was due to the fact that the show was too serialized and "did not fit the Disney brand"—by which they mean the Disney ''Channel'' brand, which focused on episodic comedies for young audiences rather than serialized darker stories for older audiences.
*** The show was doing quite well in season 2 when it was suddenly announced that the promised season 3 would be cut down to a few "specials" instead of a full season, but the official reason remains that it was "off-brand." However, in a later tweet she made after the 2022 Florida LGBTQ protests, Dana seemed to express [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/t8yf4t/its_hard_not_to_assume_there_was_bad_faith/ skepticism]] about this explanation.
** Likewise, most assume that the opening montage in "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS3E1ThanksToThem Thanks To Them]]" is a collection of scrapped episodes that ''would'' have been made had Disney given the crew a full third season. However, the creative team were alerted that they were OnlyBarelyRenewed after the production of Season 2A, and Dana is on record for saying there were no structured plans for a full-length third season prior to that news. In fact, she's been clear that major narrative elements such as The Collector was a plot change that resulted from the truncated third season, and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/uw4l1p/cat_mitchell_final_boards_for_clouds_on_the/ early storyboards for]] "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E20CloudsOnTheHorizon Clouds on the Horizon]]" (the penultimate episode of the second season) show Amity still having the portal key, implying that the season and the show's new conclusion was still being figured out even at that stage. The montage was just a collection of short ideas and were never fleshed out beyond what was seen.

* MisBlamed: When discussing the reasons the show was canceled and Season 3 was shortened to three 44-minute specials, people are usually quick to point to the show's LGBTQ+ representation, particularly due to the former CEO. [[Series/HighSchoolMusicalTheMusicalTheSeries Ignoring the other]] [[Series/DiaryOfAFuturePresident Disney series with LGBTQ+ representation]] that were allowed to continue despite it, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/q1x1uh/ama_except_by_anything_i_mean_these_questions_only/ Dana Terrace has stated that it was mostly due to budget cuts, the show's non-episodic nature not fitting on linear TV, and if the LGBTQ+ representation had anything to do with it, it was other countries not wanting to pick it up rather than anything domestic.]]

** Amity's detractors who don't ship her with Luz will never forget their first episode together involving Amity trying to have Luz dissected (which was actually Principal Bump's idea and likely a trick to force Luz to reveal herself [[AmbiguousSituation however it was never clarified if that was the case or not)]] or her second episode where she stomped on King's cupcake just to spite Luz, accepted her duel challenge to maim her, and blamed Luz for her misfortunes [[NeverMyFault which she actually caused herself]], all while Luz was [[MustMakeAmends trying to reconcile]].
** Regardless of her reasons for doing so, or how they feel about her choosing to try and make amends, some fans will likely never be able to truly forgive Lilith for [[spoiler: cursing her sister.]]

** While Terra Snapdragon and Adrien Graye got some focus during season 2 the same can't be said about the rest of the loyal Coven Heads. We don't know much more than their names.

** The Beast coven head witch, Eberwolf, has no confirmed gender in the show, making it common to headcanon them as nonbinary.