History YMMV / ThePiratesOfDarkWater

* Chickification : when Tula is introduced, she is a capable sailor ActionGirl with her own agenda. After she finds out about her magical powers, she not only gets a more revealing outfit, but is mostly shown either swooning and moaning because of using said powers, or just shouting at other characters and [[DistressedDamsel needing some sort of rescue.]]

* Chickification: when Tula is introduced, she is a capable sailor ActionGirl with her own agenda. After she finds out about her magical powers, she not only gets a more revealing outfit, but is mostly shown either swooning and moaning because of using said powers, or just shouting at other characters and [[DistressedDamsel needing some sort of rescue.]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Niddler's obsession with food and his cowardice both become a lot less comical when you recall he's a member of a ''slave race'' who was sold to ''Bloth'' of all people. Starvation was clearly a big part of his life before Ren rescued him, and courage likely wasn't rewarded by either the slavers who raised him or the Maelstrom's crew...
* HoYay: young and (as much as we can tell) pretty Tula runs about with a bare midriff among seamen ([[HehHehYouSaidX snicker]]) and the only one who really takes notice of her is Bloth of all people. Ren seems pretty comatose when it comes to the opposite sex and while Ioz does mention that he enjoys women, he keeps grabbing and hugging Ren by the waist. Also, Ioz and Zooley are pretty shippable.
* NightmareFuel: It's never pretty when Dark Water gets a hold of anything or anyone. In one episode, ''one drop'' consumed someone from the inside out.

** Opening of episode four. Skulls and bones and creepy ship and carnivorous dragons...
** Ren's eyes NEVER move. Although that may be more UncannyValley. Especially since half the time he's looking at the screen head on when there's no way he should be able to...

* OlderThanTheyThink: This show is one that haters of [[Creator/HannaBarbera its studio]] love to give a slide to. But this sometimes crosses over into it being one of the studio's "not rip-offs", even though if we say WesternAnimation/WallyGator owes a lot to early WesternAnimation/YogiBear, then this show owes a lot to WesternAnimation/{{Wildfire}} and WesternAnimation/GaltarAndTheGoldenLance. All three of which being show's about displaced royalty on quests in a basic sense among other similarities.
** Adding to this both Galtar and Sara are also blonde displaced royals on quests.

** Also this would be the second HB show to have it's heroes on a quest for 13 of something. See WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo
** To the majority though, most of such examples are TropesAreNotBad.

* {{Squick}}: In ''A Drop of Darkness'' Cray is insistent on marrying Ren while calling him Primus. A whole new level is taken when considering that earlier in the episode Cray muses that Ren might have been [[ParentalIncest her son]].

** And any of Bloth's crew. Scratch that. Any bad guy. Konk can fit his entire hand up to the wrist in his giant maw. And does.

** Take it one step further: Brock Peters (aka [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Ben Sisko]]) also voiced Galtar's main antagonist; a couple of years later he would also voice [[WesternAnimation/SwatKats Dark Kat]] for the studio. Making that series OlderThanTheyThink as well in terms of recycling.

* OlderThanTheyThink: This show is one that haters of [[HannaBarbera it's studio]] love to give a slide to. But this sometimes crosses over into it being one of the studio's "not rip-offs", even though if we say WesternAnimation/WallyGator owes a lot to early WesternAnimation/YogiBear, then this show owes a lot to WesternAnimation/{{Wildfire}} and WesternAnimation/GaltarAndTheGoldenLance. All three of which being show's about displaced royalty on quests in a basic sense among other similarities.

** Take it one step further: Brock Peters (aka [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Ben Sisko]] also voiced Galtar's main antagonist; a couple of years later he would also voice [[WesternAnimation/SwatKats Dark Kat]].

** Adding to this both Galtar and Sara are also blonde displaced royals on quests
** Take it one step further Brock Peters also voiced Galtar's main antagonist.

* OlderThanTheyThink: This show is one that haters of it's studio love to give a slide to. But this sometimes crosses over into it being one of the studio's "not rip-offs", even though if we say WesternAnimation/WallyGator owes a lot to early WesternAnimation/YogiBear, then this show owes a lot to WesternAnimation/{{Wildfire}} and WesternAnimation/GaltarAndTheGoldenLance. All three of which being show's about displaced royalty on quests in a basic sense among other similarities.

* HoYay: young and (as much as we can tell) pretty Tula runs about with a bare midriff among seamen ([[HeheYouSaidX snicker]]) and the only one who really takes notice of her is Bloth of all people. Ren seems pretty comatose when it comes to the opposite sex and while Ioz does mention that he enjoys women, he keeps grabbing and hugging Ren by the waist. Also, Ioz and Zooley are pretty shippable.

* HoYay: young and (as much as we can tell) pretty Tula runs about with a bare midriff among seamen and the only one who really takes notice of her is Bloth of all people. Ren seems pretty comatose when it comes to the opposite sex and while Ioz does mention that he enjoys women, he keeps grabbing and hugging Ren by the waist. Also, Ioz and Zooley are pretty shippable.

* OlderThanTheyThink: This show is one that haters of it's studio love to give a slide to. But this sometimes crosses over into it being one of the studio's "not rip-offs", even though if we say WesternAnimation/WallyGator owes a lot to early WesternAnimation/YogiBear, then this show owes a lot to WesternAnimation/Wildfire and WesternAnimation/GaltarAndTheGoldenLance. All three of which being show's about displaced royalty on quests in a basic sense among other similarities.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad The Dark Dweller]] is the being behind the titular [[MurderWater "Dark Water,"]] a menacing oily substance that devours whatever it touches and is spreading all throughout the world. By proxy, the Dweller is responsible for countless deaths of places that the Dark Water has devoured. The Dark Dweller is focused on domination and destruction who plans to unleash its Dark Water throughout the world, focused only on consuming and controlling what it can.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad The Dark Dweller]] is the being behind the titular [[MurderWater "Dark Water"]], a menacing oily substance that devours whatever it touches and is spreading all throughout the world. By proxy, the Dweller is responsible for countless deaths of places that the Dark Water has devoured. The Dark Dweller is focused on domination and destruction who plans to unleash its Dark Water throughout the world, focused only on consuming and controlling what it can.

* CompleteMonster: The being behind [[MurderWater the titular 'Dark Water']], a menacing oily substance that devours whatever it touches and is spreading all throughout the world. By proxy, the Dweller is responsible for countless deaths of places that the Dark Water has devoured. The Dark Dweller is the true BigBad of the story, a being focused on domination and destruction who plans to unleash its Dark Water throughout the world, focused only on consuming and controlling what it can.

** And any of Bloth's crew. Scratch that. Any bad guy.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Averted. The SNES game is a very competent BeatEmUp, and the Genesis version is practically a 16-bit variation of ''{{Zelda}} II''.
* {{Squick}} - In '' A Drop of Darkness '' Cray is insistent on marrying Ren while calling him Primus. A whole new level is taken when considering that earlier in the episode Cray muses that Ren might have been [[ParentalIncest her son ]].

* VillainDecay - In the miniseries, Konk is a very capable bad guy saddled with incompetent minions, capable of giving the heroes a difficult time on his own. He is later downgraded to being an incompetent minion himself.

** AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Konk's apparent VillainDecay is actually ObfuscatingStupidity so that Bloth will underestimate him. Notably his scenes of great competence were well away from Bloth's view.

* NightmareFuel - It's never pretty when Dark Water gets a hold of anything or anyone. In one episode, ''one drop'' consumed someone from the inside out.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Konk's apparent VillainDecay is actually ObfuscatingStupidity so that Bloth will underestimate him. Notably his scenes of great competence were well away from Bloth's view.
* AnimationAgeGhetto: A ''definite'' attempt to work around this. In the end it was killed more by the production costs (compared to the income it was getting) than by breaking the "for kids" rule.
** As for the age perception, it was noted for really managing to work around this - it was still quite kid-friendly but was ''way'' more complicated than other shows of its time, with a MythArc.
* HoYay - young and (as much as we can tell) pretty Tula runs about with a bare midriff among seamen and the only one who really takes notice of her is Bloth of all people. Ren seems pretty comatose when it comes to the opposite sex and while Ioz does mention that he enjoys women, he keeps grabbing and hugging Ren by the waist. Also, Ioz and Zooley are pretty shippable.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Konk's apparent VillainDecay is actually ObfuscatingStupidity so that Bloth will underestimate him. Notably his scenes of great competence were well away from Bloth's view.

* {{Squick}} - In 'A Drop of Darkness' Cray is insistent on marrying Ren while calling him Primus. A whole new level is taken when considering that earlier in the episode Cray muses that Ren might have been [[ParentalIncest her son ]].

* HoYay - young and (as much as we can tell) pretty Tula runs about with a bare midriff among seamen and the only one who really takes notice of her is Bloth of all people. Ren seems pretty comatose when it comes to the opposite sex and while Ioz does mention that he enjoys women, he keeps grabbing and hugging Ren by the waist.

* VillainDecay: In the miniseries, Konk is a very capable bad guy saddled with incompetent minions, capable of giving the heroes a difficult time on his own. He is later downgraded to being an incompetent minion himself.