History YMMV / WhoWantsToBeASuperhero

* BrokenBase: Monkey Woman's elimination in Season 1 will likely always have people divided between those who felt it was entirely deserved (given Monkey Woman's WhatAnIdiot mistake she'd made with giving out her real name to the waiter without having even been asked ''and'' having concealed that she'd had experience as an actress beforehand) and those who felt that, even if the reasoning for eliminating her was sound, it was unfair for Stan to forego the usual rules for elimination and not consider anyone else who'd made mistakes in that challenge for elimination, singling out Monkey Woman as the only viable option for elimination, meaning she was denied a fair chance.

* BrokenAesop: Some people think Ty'Veculus got a raw deal, since he is famously called out for dishonesty when he pretended to like an intentionally badly-designed new costume Stan gave him, and yet later he is eliminated because he was ''honest'' about who he felt should be eliminated rather than lying by offering himself up.

* TearJerker: In the convict challenge, Feedback asks his convict how he would feel if someone he was close to was killed. The convict opened up by saying ''his own father'' was killed. Feedback, having lost his own father to suicide, tells the convict: "I don't know what your life was like. But I know what it's like to lose a dad. And I'm sorry." They then share a genuine hug.

* HilariousInHindsight: Vegeta and Piccolo statements that Gotenks cannot be defeated by them due to his status as a fusion becomes hilarious in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', where in one of the filler arcs Gotenks fights off against a copy of Vegeta in his base form, and does nothing to him.

* EarWorm: The Fat Momma theme song. She even gets a crowd singing it.
--> "Fat Momma, Fat Momma, I'm here to save the day. Fat Momma, Fat Momma, I'll take your food away."

** Whip-Snap's wangsting got her ''eliminated'' - Stan Lee's final speech to her basically said, "If you can't deal with your own problems, you have no business being a superhero on top of it." He ought to have made the obvious comparison to SpiderMan, noting that ([[DependingOnTheWriter at least when written well]] and not [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay selling his soul to Satan to fix the problem for him]]) Peter Parker actually ''works'' to ''solve'' the problems amidst his superhero life, rather than crying about it ''every damn time''.

* BrokenBase: Monkey Woman's elimination in Season 1 will likely always have people divided between people who felt it was entirely deserved given Monkey Woman's WhatAnIdiot mistake she'd made with giving out her real name to the waiter without having even been asked and having concealed that she'd had experience as an actress beforehand and people who felt like, even if the reasoning for eliminating her was sound, it was unfair for Stan to forgo the usual rules for elimination and not consider anyone else who'd made mistakes in that challenge for elimination, singling out Monkey Woman as the only viable option for elimination, meaning she was denied a fair chance.
* CreatorsPet: Some fans thought that Hygenia was a lame superheroine that should not have gotten as far as she did in her season, but Stan Lee seemed to like her. A few thought the same of Fat Momma in the first season, so she was this to those for whom she wasn't an EnsembleDarkhorse.

* EliminationHoudini: Hygena. In the second-to-last episode, she revealed her ''home address'' to the TV personality and still made it to the finals out of sheer luck because Stan decided that [[spoiler:nobody would be eliminated in the second-to-last episode, and that the finale would have three contestants instead of two]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: Youtube personality and singer-song writer Trisha Paytas as Ms. Limelight.
* ShockingElimination: Creature who was eliminated for jaywalking, therefore breaking the law, during a challenge. Her justification (she didn't grow up around traffic lights and only learned to look both ways before crossing a street) didn't help, considering she also mentioned that superheroes have broken much worse laws.

** Whip-Snap's wangsting got her ''eliminated'' - Stan Lee's final speech to her basically said, "If you can't deal with your own problems, you have no business being a superhero on top of it." He ought to have made the obvious comparison to SpiderMan, noting that ([[DependingOnTheWriter at least when written well]] and not [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay selling his soul to Satan to fix the problem for him]]), Peter Parker actually ''works'' to ''solve'' the problems amidst his superhero life, rather than crying about it ''every damn time''.
** Monkey Woman in Season 1 also had this problem: she was on the verge of tears every time something didn't go right for her. The interview she gave after being eliminated was ''filled'' with self justification for why she shouldn't have been expected to be faithful to her superhero character persona because she's first and foremost "an actual person" and acting like she was a poor victim of unfair treatment.

** The above-mentioned Fat Momma in-show. In one of the final episodes, the remaining three contestants had to convince an elementary school class to be inspired by their hero persona, and then the kids of the class had to stand behind their favorite. Fat Momma gave a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming heartwarming]] speech about learning to love yourself for who you are, and more than half the class got behind her.

** Whip-Snap's wangsting got her ''eliminated'' - Stan Lee's final speech to her basically said, "If you can't deal with your own problems, you have no business being a superhero on top of it." He ought to have made the obvious comparison to SpiderMan, noting that ([[DependingOnTheWriter at least when written well]] and not [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay selling his soul to Satan to fix the problem for him]]).), Peter Parker actually ''works'' to ''solve'' the problems amidst his superhero life, rather than crying about it ''every damn time''.

* {{Wangst}}: Fat Momma in Season 1, and Whip-Snap in Season 2, both teeter on the edge between angst and wangst, ''especially'' Whip-Snap.
** Whip-Snap's wangsting got her ''eliminated'' - Stan Lee's final speech to her basically said, "If you can't deal with your own problems, you have no business being a superhero on top of it." He ought to have made the obvious comparison to SpiderMan, noting that ([[DependingOnTheWriter at least when written well]]), Peter Parker actually ''works'' to ''solve'' the problems amidst his superhero life, rather than crying about it ''every damn time'' (at least when he's not [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay selling his soul to Satan to fix the problem for him]]).
** Monkey Woman in Season 1 also had this problem: she was on the verge of tears every time something didn't go right for her.

* CreatorsPet: Some fans thought that Hygenia was a lame superheroine that should not have gotten as far as she did in her season, but Stan Lee seemed to like her.

* AwesomeMusic: Feedback's {{Leitmotif}}, which plays frequently whenever he does something heroic (which is often). It even gets an absolutely epic slow reprise when he [[spoiler:successfully hugs the convicted murderer after managing to [[BondingOverMissingParents make a connection with him over the fact that they lost their fathers]].]]
** There's also the theme song of "Cosmic Bitch", one of the rejected contestants briefly shown in the first episode of season 2. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Me9lriPCNA Her full theme song, shown here, has a pretty impressive riff during the intro, and a pretty catchy melody in the main part.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[spoiler: Feedback]]'s very detailed backstory and super powers did not transition into the comic book, which instead had them struck by lightning and subsequently using fairly generic electricity powers. It's been suggested that their original power of borrowing abilities from video games would have been a legal nightmare, which falls rather flat when there's no reason they couldn't have ''made up the games.''

** Monkey Woman in Season 1 also had this problem: she was on the verge of tears every time something didn't go right for her.

* AwesomeMusic: Feedback's {{Leitmotif}}, which plays frequently whenever he does something heroic (which is often). It even gets an absolutely epic slow reprise when he [[poiler:successfully hugs the convicted murderer after managing to [[BondingOverMissingParents make a connection with him over the fact that they lost their fathers]].]]

** Whip-Snap's wangsting got her ''eliminated'' - Stan Lee's final speech to her basically said, "If you can't deal with your own problems, you have no business being a superhero on top of it." He ought to have made the obvious comparison to SpiderMan, noting that ([[DependingOnTheWriter at least when written well]]), Peter Parker actually ''works'' to ''solve'' the problems amidst his superhero life, rather than crying about it ''every damn time''.

* CreatorsPet: Some fans thought that Fat Momma and Hygenia were lame superheroes that should not have gotten as far as they did in their respective seasons but Stan Lee seemed to like them.

** Whip-Snap's wangsting got her ''eliminated'' - Stan Lee's final speech to her basically said, "If you can't deal with your own problems, you have no business being a superhero on top of it." He ought to have made the obvious comparasion to SpiderMan, noting that ([[DependingOnTheWriter at least when written well]]), Peter Parker actually ''works'' to ''solve'' the problems amidst his superhero life, rather than crying about it ''every damn time''.

* GameBreaker: A late challenge in the second season involved bonding with children and using the knowledge they were taught in school to solve some puzzles. The guy who failed? Parthenon, who was a teacher, and therefore didn't need the childrens' help.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Monkey Woman's {{Determinator}} moment in season one where even though it takes her nine minutes, she fights her way to the target with ''attack dogs hanging off her''. To put it in perspective, most of the others just ran to the door or gave up when the dogs got them down. The only other one who gave a real fight was Feedback.
** Season 2's FinalBattle with Dr. Dark. Yes, it was staged, but let's face it, they got to live out just about anyone's childhood fantasy and fight as a superhero ''they created'', complete with their superpowers (which was CGI and they didn't get to see until after editing, but still)!
** Before that, the Defuser standing up straight and walking with ''two attack dogs biting onto his arms''. This alone probably scored him the win.