Line #55 YMMV/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts


1	* AdaptationDisplacement: The original webcomic, which only lasted four months and thirty-two pages before a Dreamworks Animation executive discovered it and urged the creator to start developing it as a television series. It doesn't help that the website for the comic is [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes no longer active]].
2	* {{Adorkable}}: Kipo falls into this because of she's a socially awkward and all-around nice person who's prone to acting cute and geeky.
3	** Benson is very endearingly awkward around Troy. He stumbles his words a lot, but he means well.
4	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Did [[spoiler:Emilia]] tell Song about how [[spoiler:she killed her own brother]] simply to prove how far she was willing to go to accomplish her goals? Or was it because she genuinely wanted to get the secret off her chest after keeping it inside for so many years?
5	** In "It’s a Trap", Dr. Emilia ignores Zane’s pleas for help even though he is trapped inside a cage. Was Dr. Emilia being genuinely dismissive of him to show how she doesn’t care about other people as much as she puts on, or did she actually plan on freeing Zane, but only after fighting off all the enemies in Timbercat territory?
6	* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Chèvre Sisters use cheese with magical properties to see the future. Divination through cheese-making is tyromancy, a technique practiced in the Middle Ages.
7	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: While the webcomic was already beautifully drawn in its own right, the art and animation teams behind the series takes Sechrist's artstyle even further to make the environments [[SceneryPorn even more stunning]].
8	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Dave. You either find him funny, or you find him obnoxious.
9	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Kipo's [[DisneyAcidSequence hallucination]] in "Beyond the Valley of Dogs".
10	** "Everything Is Crabs" has an opening narration from Kipo when no other episode does.
11	* BrokenBase:
12	** Season Three. Some people find the final season of Kipo just as great as the first two seasons by having higher stakes, great comedy, hard-hitting emotional moments, and a nearly perfect resolution to the series that stays true to its themes. Others criticize it for having less polished animation, underdeveloped plot lines, and a rushed pace.
13	** The fact that the cause of the Great Mutant Outbreak [[RiddleForTheAges is never revealed]]. Quite a few people wish there would have been more of a clear explanation as to why the world ended up the way it did, while others feel diving deeper into the history of the world would distract from the current narrative of the series.
14	** Margot’s return in Season 3. Fans are split on whether or not she was utilized well. Some people are glad that [[spoiler: Wolf did not forgive Margot because [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse even if she regrets leaving Wolf to fend for herself, Wolf was not obligated to forgive someone who emotionally scarred her.]] People on this side of the argument say that it serves as a lesson that you don’t have to forgive everyone who has done bad things to you. Others felt that Margot’s return was not used to its full potential and doesn’t leave much of an impact in the grand scheme of things for Season 3. [[WeHardlyKnewYe These people point out how Margot only properly shows up in two episodes, gets suddenly cured into a regular animal,]] [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and is not acknowledged again afterwards.]] They argue Margot was wasted and still had some room for development to redeem herself, which could assist in Wolf’s character arc too. A third group even argues that Margot should not be at fault in a scenario like this [[JustFollowingOrders because she was a little girl doing what her parents told her to do]], which means all the blame should not be placed on Margot.]]
15	** There have been mixed reactions to [[spoiler: Scarlemagne’s death in the final episode. While some people thought it was satisfying and fitting for Scarlemagne to die saving Kipo and accepting his old name, there are fans who thought that his death was a largely unnecessary example of [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dying just to show he redeemed himself]], despite already doing enough to show he was a changed person. There are even a few people who thought the way he died was anticlimactic due to simply crashing into the ground when the flamingo mute he was riding on loses its balance. He also [[BloodlessCarnage barely has any injuries to show he is badly hurt]]]].
16	* CargoShip: Wolf and "Stalky", her deathstalker weapon.
17	* CatharsisFactor: After [[spoiler: Dr. Emilia killed her brother for going against her beliefs, worked Hugo to exhaustion for his pheromones, enslaved Song as a Mega Mute using said pheromones, ordered Song to kill her own daughter, attempted to kill Kipo, attempted to kill her friends, cured various mutes into mindless animals, tried to leave Zane to die for talking against her, and [[UngratefulBitch tried to kill Kipo after she had saved her from losing her mind inside a Mega Mute,]] many fans expressed joy seeing Dr. Emilia end up in the clutches of Fun Gus never to be seen again.]] Most fans are just happy to see a villain get their comeuppance without redeeming themself even when given multiple chances to surrender.
18	* CommonKnowledge: Many people thought that [[spoiler: the vaccine Song and Lio were going to make for the cured mutes was an [[AbortedArc unresolved plot line]] because all the mutes are still shown as normal animals in the DistantFinale. However, it is important to remember that Kipo’s parents thought of making a ''vaccine'', which would not undo the effects of the cure, but would instead be used on mutes to prevent them from being turned into normal animals in case they were hit by a cure dart.]]
19	* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Dr. Emilia]] is the finest and most steadfast proponent of FantasticRacism in a series that otherwise emphasizes the importance of reaching out to people. Years ago, Emilia [[CainAndAbel murdered her own brother Liam]] for reaching out to the surface-dwelling Mutes and used his death as an act of propaganda to further her eventual designs of Mute eradication. Emilia helped shape the misanthropic views of Scarlemagne with her cruel experiments on him when he was still Hugo, and used her former colleague Song as a brainwashed weapon for years on end after Song became a Mega Mute, kicking off the series by coldly ordering Song to murder her own child Kipo and devastate her people's burrow in the process. In the third season, Dr. Emilia invents a cure that forces a permanent DeathOfPersonality on the uplifted Mutes, using it to devastating effect on several of Kipo's allies as well as the remaining members of Wolf's old Mute family. Emilia consistently rejects and suppresses every single attempt to better herself to the end of the series, attempting to kill human and Mute alike when the two sides reconcile and trying to kill Kipo [[UngratefulBitch after the latter saves Emilia]] from a FateWorseThanDeath.]]
20	* CrossoverShip: Benson being shipped with Adam from ''WesternAnimation/TheHollow'' because both of them were open on being gay.
21	* CryForTheDevil:
22	** [[spoiler:Hugo's]] sad backstory and everything he had to go through [[spoiler:before snapping and becoming Scarlemagne]] is really rough, especially when he ends up feeling left all alone and abandoned by the only people he'd ever considered family.
23	** While [[spoiler:Emilia]] is an inexcusably vile Mute-hating terrorist, her backstory of being a [[UsedToBeASweetKid promising and well-meaning burrow student]] raised by [[AbusiveParents a bigoted, paranoid father]] who was never proud of his children comes off as slightly pitiful. It's implied that she killed her brother in the first place because she was that afraid of disappointing him again. It isn't enough to excuse her actions today however, as Kipo soon learns.
24	* EnsembleDarkHorse:
25	** The Mod Frog Jamack is popular for his character development and eventual HeelFaceTurn throughout season 1. Quite a few fans were hoping for him to be an official member of Kipo's pack.
26	** Kwat, Harris, and Mrs. Sartori are other Mod Frogs who also get a lot of attention in fan-art despite being minor antagonists. [[spoiler: There are lot of fans who were sad to see them die.]]
27	** Troy and, to a lesser extent, Asher and Dahlia are popular in the LGBTFanbase with Troy having a lot of ShipTease with Benson (the two boys later having a RelationshipUpgrade) and Asher being confirmed non-binary.
28	** Several mute groups tend to be PopularWithFurries. Most notably the Timbercats, Newton Wolves, Ratland Rats and the Fitness Raccoons.
29	** One Timbercat named Shoelace [=McCutty=] has some fans who love her for [[PuppyDogEyes her derpy and adorable design.]]
30	** Margot. She's a [[{{Moe}} cute little wolf pup]] who [[spoiler:seems to genuinely regret what she did to Wolf when they were younger. Too bad she was [[ForcedIntoEvil forced to betray her again]] lest she risk being devolved by Dr. Emilia. And what's worse, that's exactly what happens to her anyway.]]
31	* FanNickname: Dr. Emilia is often called a [[ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife “Karen”]] by the fandom due to being a [[FantasticRacism mute-hating sociopath]] who refuses to admit when she is wrong.
32	* FansPreferTheNewHer: More like the new ''them'', but many fans have quickly latched onto Asher’s new hairstyle in Season 3. Most fanart featuring Asher even features them with short hair and the lighting-shaped curl as their default look despite having a different hairstyle for most of the series before the third season.
33	* FandomSpecificPlot: In one plot, Kipo was raised on the surface by Scarlemagne rather than in a burrow with her father after the season one finale revealed [[spoiler:these characters are ConnectedAllAlong]]. After Season 2 elaborated more on this tidbit, fics wherein [[spoiler:Lio raises both of them]] were added to the mix.
34	* FriendlyFandoms:
35	** With ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', thanks to having very similar themes and style. It also helps that the series was ending just as ''Kipo'' premiered and that Kipo herself shares [[Creator/KarenFukuhara a VA with Glimmer.]]
36	** With ''WesternAnimation/TheHollow'' after Season 2 has Adam revealing that he's gay in a similar way that Benson did.
37	* FanficFuel: Finding a way to [[spoiler: reverse the condition of the cured Mutes.]]
38	** What was Margot’s life like after Wolf [[spoiler: killed her mother? Considering how she lives with one of her brothers and mentions how she had been living a rough life ever since that night, that leaves a lot of room to explore what she has been through.]]
39	* GeniusBonus: Good Billions and Bad Billions are a nod to astronomer Carl Sagan, who (among his other accomplishments) is known for frequently saying the phrase "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmafy_v8g8 billions and billions]]" in his educational series ''Series/{{Cosmos}}''.
40	* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler: The Timbercats acting as if Yumyan Hammerpaw will never come down from the trees and Kipo initially believing he's dead becomes this in the final season where he is the first to be cured onscreen, [[DeathOfPersonality effectively killing him off]]. And he and the other Mutes that get cured aren't changed back either]].
41	** Around the end of "Code Word Milkshake", Camille congratulates Kipo for saving her from [[spoiler: Emilia]], fearing she would never get to play guitar again. [[spoiler: Sadly, just a few episodes later, Camille would be one of many mutes hit by a cure dart and turned into an ordinary snake. Now she will never be able to play her guitar.]]
42	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: The scene in Season 1 where Kipo calms down and gets through to the Mega Monkey by singing a song becomes this with the reveal in Season 2 that [[spoiler: the Mega Monkey is actually her mother, Song, having transformed as a result of side effects from her pregnancy, meaning that she probably recognized the song, and possibly realized that the person singing it was her daughter]]. The same goes for Kipo getting through to her again in the first episode of Season 2.
43	* IAmNotShazam: The sapient mutated animals in this story are called Mutes. Despite the show's title, they are never referred to as "Wonderbeasts" until the final episode when Kipo gives a TitleDrop.
44	* InferredHolocaust: "Requiem for a Dave" shows a flashback set 200 years in the past where [[spoiler: Dave has a fight with a nerdy man over a fan. When the man steals the fan from him, [[DisproportionateRetribution Dave actually leads a group of colossal Mega Beavers into the city so he can get the fan back.]] The thing is, Dave tears down an entire city while people and mutes are still populated in it. Since the destroyed city eventually became known as Skyscraper Ridge, just how many people and mutes died while the Beavers’ reconstruction was going on?]]
45	* ItWasHisSled: Benson being gay was supposed to be a surprise to the audience after a seemingly romantic trip between him and Kipo to Ratland but with TheReveal shared across social media due to how well received this was by the LBGT community, many viewers begun to [[WatchedItForTheRepresentation watch this series]] ''thanks'' to Benson's homosexuality.
46	** [[spoiler: Kipo]] being a human-Mega Jaguar hybrid is no longer a secret to most people, especially since Netflix has shown her half-mute form and full Mega Jaguar form across promotional images for the show.
47	* LesYay: Kipo and Wolf have some interactions like this and in "Mulholland", Wolf's dream seems to suggest that she wants to be more than just friends with Kipo.
48	* LGBTFanbase: Many fans fell in love with this show, particularly of how they handled Benson explaining to Kipo how he's gay by being completely open about it.
49	* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Dr. Emilia]] crossed it when she [[spoiler:murdered her brother after their first trip to the surface led him to befriending Brad and Amy and he wanted to convince the people in their burrow to coexist with Mutes.]] Song invokes this trope by relaying the first story to Kipo as proof [[spoiler:Emilia]] is beyond saving. [[spoiler: Kipo tries anyway, and Emilia predictably attempts to kill Kipo in response to confirm she's never, ever going to change for the better.]]
50	* MisBlamed: Many fans like to accuse either Netflix or Dreamworks of purposely cancelling the show, which admittedly is supported by the fact that the show had [[InvisibleAdvertising very little promotion]] from either company. In actuality, the show was always intended to end with three seasons, something that the showrunners even had to confirm multiple times.
51	* {{Narm}}: One episode ends with Kipo inviting the villains to "P.R.A.H.M.," with the show not explaining what that means until the following episode, but the scene is still played completely seriously like we're supposed to understand it. Plus, unless you have the subtitles on it just sounds like she's talking about a prom.
52	* ParanoiaFuel: [[spoiler:As of Season 2, Tad Mulholland, the [[LotusEaterMachine Lotus Eater]] HiveMind has apparently inflitrated the ''entire water system'' of the local area and possibly entered the greater water cycle. This, combined with water bears' famous ability to survive extreme temperature, radiation, and even space means that the only Tad-free water is that which was bottled before he left his old home, and that there's pretty much no way to remove him from the water once he's in it. Good thing he's nice now!]]
53	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Season 1 Dave, being a {{Jerkass}} and rather useless, annoyed some fans. The writers seemed to realize that and dialed down those traits in future seasons.
54	* SelfFanservice: When Jamack is drawn as a human in fanart, he tends to be designed as a very attractive man with a slick pencil mustache, well groomed hair, and a slender body.
55	** The K-Pop Narwhals are also turned into a group of [[PrettyBoy Pretty Boys]] when they are drawn as people. People especially don’t mind making Hyun-Soo’s muscles even more detailed now that he is a human.
56	* SignatureScene: Benson revealing to Kipo that he's gay quickly made its way around social media, as most if not all LGBT representation in children's shows by that point in time never dropped any LGBT-related words or phrases.
57	-->'''Benson:''' I'm gay.
58	* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: Kipo/Asher. Asher is a pretty minor character who has barely even had any interactions with [[SocialCircleFiller Kipo despite being one of her friends]], yet many people ship them together anyways.
59	* SpecialEffectFailure: The UnmovingPlaid on the Timbercats' shirts can be very distracting.
60	* SpiritualSuccessor:
61	** The post-apocalyptic world filled with mutated wildlife, exotic technology (or rather improvised versions), and civilizations formed by sapient animals made it an adaptation of ComicBook/{{Kamandi}} and TableTopGame/GammaWorld.
62	** Set two hundred years after the apocalypse with the surface dominated by mutants and most of humanity being forced to live in secret underground settlements, it's like they made a family friendly AnimatedAdaptation of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''.
63	*** Or possibly ''Webcomic/{{Endtown}}''.
64	** A world forever changed by a mass event that unleashed massive mutated animals. A protagonist with shapeshifting abilities and are a factor for the cure. Sounds a lot like WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex.
65	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: In “Mute-Eat-Mute World”, the background music accompanying the Humming Bombers sounds ''very'' similar to an instrumental version of the song “Danger Zone”.
66	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
67	** Troy was never given any characterization beyond just being a love interest for Benson. Likewise, not much is known about Asher and Dahlia other than that they're Kipo's friends and classmates from the burrow. Even after these three made their debuts, they rarely appeared as focus remained primarily on Kipo's group.
68	** Emilia and Liam's Father is a very intimidating character. After all, he's the reason why Emilia turned so evil. However, not only does he appear in only two scenes but also, he's never even mentioned again in present day by his daughter. Leaving his fate and current relationship with Emilia ambiguous. And what the heck happened to his wife? Although his old age makes it very unlikely he would've still been alive during Kipo's time. Also, given his lack of experience on the surface, it's also unlikely he would've been an actual threat towards Kipo and her friends.
69	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
70	** Despite reintroducing Wolf's old sister and setting up a redemption arc for her, Margot gets unceremoniously "cured" in the very next episode and is never mentioned by Wolf or anyone else again. Even moreso since Wolf killed their own mother and this is never addressed. Sechrist has said he hopes to make more supplementary material for the show, including a deeper exploration of Wolf confronting her past.
71	** Some people think Lio should have had a role in the episode Margot was reintroduced in, particularly in the subplot where Hugo tries to get along with the other mutes, considering Lio is Hugo's adopted dad.
72	** The Mod frogs don't appear except as random stragglers in the background in season 3 and we never learn of what happened after their leader died. They don't even join HMUFA unlike every other major mute pack from season 1.
73	*** Additionally we don't see Jamack's reaction to his ex-leader's and ex-teammates' deaths or if he was bothered at all.
74	** We don't get to see Scarlemagne's reaction to [[spoiler:the cured Yumyan Hammerpaw.]]
75	** Despite all the pain [[spoiler:Emilia]] caused her, Song Oak never gets a proper confrontation and is mostly sent to the sidelines after being made human again. What makes this frustrating is that she has ''every reason'' to want payback, given [[spoiler:Emilia]] tortured her adopted son, [[spoiler:enslaved her as a Mega-Mute for 13 years]], and tried to murder her daughter. [[spoiler:The final BehemothBattle could've easily been between Emilia and Song, but instead she literally gets tossed aside when she tries to help Kipo.]]
76	** [[spoiler:Asher and Dahlia's parents got very little to do after realising they were wrong about Mutes. At the very least, we could've gotten a scene at P.R.A.H.M where they thanked the Timbercats for taking their kids in for all those months. At least they saved Molly Yarnchopper in return for her saving their kids.]]
77	* ViewerGenderConfusion: Wolf is confused for a boy by many a viewer. It doesn't help that her androgynous young appearance and voice don't really give any indication.
78	** Most people don’t consider Shoelace [=McCutty=] to be a girl due to her lack of TertiarySexualCharacteristics.
79	* WatchedItForTheRepresentation: The show included not just a racially diverse cast, but a black gay character (Benson) who actually referred to himself as "gay," a rarity in children's television. This got the show a sizable LGBTFanbase who used Benson as a major selling point to animation fans.
80	* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: While generally a light-hearted show, it also includes surprisingly dark elements like [[spoiler:a cure that permanently strips Mutes of their intelligence]] and a villain who [[spoiler:unleashed the aforementioned cure on children and even murdered her own brother.]]
81	* TheWoobie:
82	** Wolf is a StoicWoobie with a dash of JerkassWoobie. She was [[spoiler:raised by a pack of Mute wolves to serve as a final hunting test for their pups, and had to spend the next five years fending for herself all alone.]]
83	** The humans forced into Scarlemagne's control by his pheromones doing exhausting act and capturing more humans for Scarlemagne while being completely aware they can't control their bodies.
84	** The Mega Monkey for not only having her free will taken away by Scarlemagne’s pheromones but also [[spoiler:being a human stuck in the form of a Mega Mutant (namely, Song Oak) and being separated from her family (Kipo and Lio) for years.]]
85	** The Ratland attendants Amy and Brad become this after [[spoiler:Scarlemagne and his army destroy the Ratland amusement park, with them only escaping with their van.]] Later, [[spoiler:Brad was one of the Mutes who got hit with the "cure." Amy is reduced to tears, and she brings him to Prahm to show the humans what they did to him.]]
86	** All the Mutes who [[spoiler:get turned back into normal animals by Dr. Emilia in Season 3, but ESPECIALLY Bad Billions, whose final words while he's still sentient compare the fading of his intellect to a dying star.]]

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