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1* AssPull:
2** At the end of "Class Act", Coop suddenly knows real magic for no apparent reason when he has to subdue Kat.
3** Millie, Lorne, Harley, and Fiona suddenly getting all their memories of Kat being an alien erased at the end of the final episode by Kat himself was viewed as a cheap way to return the show back to the status quo. With the show's cancellation, some felt the show ended on an unfair DownerEnding, especially after Coop had gotten more allies and Kat started becoming more sympathetic. The ending is so controversial [[WordOfGod that the creator had stated that Coop and Kat are now friends]].
4* CultClassic: Despite the flaws the show has and its controversial ending, it received a cult following from viewers who either like it or hated it.
5* CreatorsPet: Millie is over focused and has little growth other than to cause Coop even more trouble, and the writers love showing how sweet her relationship with Kat is while being an insufferable brat.
6* DesignatedHero: Millie. Whenever she doesn't get what she wants, she screams at the top of her lungs until someone caves in, and she just generally acts like a SpoiledBrat, yet she is loved by ''everyone'', including Old Lady Munson (who hates pretty much everything) and sometimes Kat (an alien invader out to kill all humans). In one episode, she finds out Coop was right about Kat all along, and she's totally cool with it, in a scene we're supposed to find sweet.
7* EnsembleDarkhorse:
8** Fiona for adding more variety to the show and for her ActionGirlfriend qualities with Coop.
9** Coop's grandparents for being legitimately cool and for being the only adults to know that Kat is an alien.
10* {{Fanon}}:
11** It's a common assumption that Kat Kommander is Kat's father.
12** It's also a common assumption that [[MissingMom Coop's mother is dead]], with [[WordOfGod Rob Boutilier]] [[AscendedFanon even stating that he personally saw it that way]].
13* FoeYayShipping: Kat and Coop are actually paired very often by fans. Common {{Fanon}} AlternativeCharacterInterpretation is that [[BlueAndOrangeMorality intense antagonizing is a perfectly acceptable way to court mates]]. Not helping is that in one episode where Millie gets PsychicPowers, one of the things she does is make Coop and Kat kiss each other. Which only fueled the shippers.
14* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Will induce ''massive'' nostalgia attacks in Latin America and Eastern Europe.
15* GrowingTheBeard: Both with fans of the show and those who detest it, ''Kid vs. Kat'''s second season is widely seen as being better than the first, thanks to several improvements to the show's writing, like giving Coop more victories over Kat, improving on some of the less liked characters of the first season, and adding Fiona as a new ally and love interest for Coop.
16* HilariousInHindsight: In the Japanese dub, Creator/ChiwaSaito as Coop counts as this if you take into account she already played [[Anime/StrikeWitches roles]] [[VideoGame/BlazBlue involving voicing]] [[Anime/TsukuyomiMoonPhase cats or cat-like creatures]]. And later on as someone in a [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica metaphorical chess game against a cat-like creature]] (for bonus points, [[spoiler: that cat is evil]]).
17* JerkassWoobie: Coop switches between this and being an IronWoobie. Despite his smugness at times and falsely thinking that Kat wants to take over the world, he does have to deal with Kat and Millie's antics, is ultimately a nice kid trying to keep his loved ones' state, and being TheScapegoat for the town whenever something bad happens. Part of his attitude seems to stem from people shooting down his words every time and having few friends he can rely on, especially due to how even his own family turns out.
18* ParanoiaFuel: Not only your cat, but also your hamster could be an alien invader. As Mr. Cheeks says, '''"We're everywhere"!'''
19* TheScrappy: Pretty much a lot of people who aren’t Dennis and Fiona, but these are the most notable:
20** Millie, for being an insufferable CreatorsPet that is never fairly punished and enjoys tormenting Coop.
21** Old Lady Munson, due to her crankiness and how rude she is, [[JerkassToOne especially to]] [[ButtMonkey Coop]].
22** Coop's father, since [[TheCassandra he never believes Coop]] and in fact punishes him in many occasions. Not to mention that he always allows Millie to get away with her terrible behavior.
23** Hell, '''anybody''' in Coop's town that constantly make him TheScapegoat.
24* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: There are some who hate the show because they accuse it of being a ripoff of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', due to both having a premise in which a ButtMonkey kid faces off against an alien invader whose existence only he is aware of.
25* TooBleakStoppedCaring: While the show does have a very devoted fandom (media reviewer WebVideo/MrCoat put it among his top 10 best Canadian animated series; the only one from the 21st century to make the list), one of the biggest criticisms many haters threw at the show was its mean-spirited tone and lack of likeable characters (with the exceptions of Dennis, Fiona and Coop themselves). Coop is constantly abused by everybody around him, his family are jerks and are rather one-dimensional, and all-in-all they just never win in the end. Season 2 did rectify some of this, however, though it still popped up occasionally, ''especially'' in the final episode.
26* ToyShip: Coop + Phoebe, though it's completely one-sided. Not so one-sided with Fiona.
27%%* UglyCute: Kat.

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