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* AnticlimaxBoss:
** [[spoiler: Acheron]] is released from the Legendarium, causes a little havoc, summons a giant turtle monster, and is resealed in a new prison all in the span of one episode. He at least beat the Trix fairly easily.
** [[spoiler: The Wizards of the Black Circle]] are defeated ''less than five minutes'' into the last episode. The fandom was ''pissed,'' and it's usually considered the worst season finale, even with Season 5.
* {{Anvilicious}}:
** The "save the rainforest" mini-arc in Season 4.
** Happens a lot in the comics too, for example:
*** Issue 24: Love is earned, not taken.
*** Issue 43: We should treasure books as a source of valuable information.
*** Issue 52: DrugsAreBad.
*** Issue 55: Be wary of people in online chatrooms, especially if they ask you to meet in real life.
*** Issue 73 is a GreenAesop and emphasises the use of natural ingredients within perfumes.
** Season 5 opens with an accident that was inspired by the BP platform oil spill, and new villain Tritannus is powered by ''pollution''.
* ArcFatigue: Bloom's missing [[spoiler:biological]] parents. They are first mentioned in episode 13[[note]]her "mysterious past" was hinted at as early as episode 2, but this could have gone in any number of directions[[/note]], but it takes three seasons and one movie before they are finally reunited. It doesn't help that there were other plot threads going on at the same time, with the show only coming back to her missing parents seemingly when it felt like it.
* AssPull:
** The reasoning behind the need to replace Believix for Sirenix in Season 5. It is stated that their Believix powers won't work as well underwater. However in Season 3, the Winx had no problem fighting underwater, be it in Winx or Enchantix. Somehow, the ''most basic fairy transformation'' has a better performance underwater than a ''transformation earned by restoring an entire world's belief in magic''.
** Bloom's friendship flame. The Winx realized they needed the help of everybody to defeat the zombies attacking and Bloom just so happened have a spell that allows her to share her power, something that you'd think would be a simple standard spell for all fairies.
** Near the end of Season 7, the Trix return, despite the fact they got sealed away in the Legendarium for eternity back in the end of Season 6.
** In Season 8:
*** The return of [[spoiler:Valtor]] despite [[spoiler:being killed off in Season 3]]; and the Trix returning despite having been sealed away by the Swan of Infinity at the climax of Season 7.
*** The Trix are allowed in a dance contest without anyone recognizing them. These are the women who either tried to TakeOverTheWorld or allied with people trying to do so (often as DragonWithAnAgenda) several times over.
* AudienceAlienatingEra: It's widely agreed that the series entered this during [[SeasonalRot Season 5]], and that it never recovered from it. The series going through a SoftReboot, [[AudienceShift dumbed down]], and [[{{Bowdlerize}} the outfits being made less revealing]] went over as well as one could expect. It also doesn't help that ''every'' season post season 4 is considered to be [[SeasonalRot subpar at best]]. While [[WordOfGod Straffi originally stated]] that the changes were necessary for the series to continue, this has widely been derided as a FanDislikedExplanation, and it seems that [[https://www.reddit.com/r/winxclub/comments/15404hq/heres_all_of_the_qas_with_iginio_straffi_from_the/ Straffi]] has come to [[CreatorBacklash come to agree with the fans]] on that one. This era was so poorly received that the announcement that ''Winx'' would go through a complete reboot after season 8 was met with widespread acclaim from the fanbase.
* BadassDecay: Valtor. For a good part of Season 3 he was an astute and almost invincible villain, but after the Winx got the Water Stars he tried to avoid direct fights and lost much of his intelligence when he went OneWingedAngel.
* BaseBreakingCharacter:
** Bloom is loved by the TargetAudience but disliked by [[PeripheryDemographic many others]]. Tends to get the RonTheDeathEater treatment in fanfics quite a lot.
** Some love Riven for his "bad boy" persona, morally gray nature, and/or his DarkerAndEdgier personality compared to the other specialists. Others hate him how much he's [[TookALevelInJerkass become a Jerkass]] over the series, as his character development is often reset to stir up drama with Musa and/or Sky.
** Half of the fandom like and enjoy Diaspro for her classiness, inner passion personality and wish she would’ve pulled a HeelFaceTurn like in the comics, while others despise her for being a typical SpoiledBrat cliche and were kind of glad Sky called off his relationship with her.
** Half the fandom hates Nex with a passion because of his abrasive personality at first and the way he acted while competing with Roy for Aisha. The other half doesn't mind him, saying he got better after the LoveTriangle, and point out that at least he isn't [[FlatCharacter Roy]], who is probably the biggest scrappy of the series. [[spoiler: Nex won the love triangle.]]
** Sky. Fans view him, in Bloom's words, as "a courageous, handsome, gentle" person and believe he has his good moments, while others despise him, mostly due to the fact he didn't get any blame for the problems between Bloom and Diaspro, and is viewed at best as too boring and perfect.
** Selina. Some love her, others hate how much of a cruel {{Jerkass}} she is and an EntitledBastard.
** Half he fandom like the pixies liked for their genuine bond with the Winx, while the other half find their voices annoying (depending on the dub), the screentime they take up in season 2, the infamous "pixie village" episode in season 3, and for starting the whole "bonding" plotline which got recycled in the subsequent seasons (the Love and Pet animals in season 4, the selkies in season 5, and the fairy animals in season 7). The fact that they had [[WesternAnimation/{{PopPixie}} their own spin-off series]] doesn't help much.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
** The part in season 3 episode 25 where Bloom is randomly attacked by a mud monster during the fight against Valtor.
** The dance during the Butterflix transformation is pure filler and is repeated during ''every'' transformation.
* BrokenBase:
** Over whether anything from season 5 and beyond are worth watching. Most of the fandom have refused to watch anything from those seasons due to the retcons and continuity errors made, while others assure they had a fair share of good points (like finally exploring Tecna's homeworld for example).
** Musa and Riven's relationship. Either it's loved for being the most realistically portrayed relationship out of all of them or it's hated for never being stable, with some considering it a romanticized abusive relationship.
** While the [[ArchEnemy Trix]] are generally well-liked, the fan base is split on whether they've been overused. For example, the ''only'' season in which they have ''no'' involvement is season 4. This got really bad after [[spoiler: they appeared at the end of season 7, taking the place of the original villains.]]
** Starting from Harmonix, the transformations start to look more similar to one another and less individualistic. Some people criticized Winx' earlier designs, saying they didn't make the group like a team and will praise the newer transformations. However, some people feel like the designs have gotten lazy and/or lost their personality.
** The ArtShift to Fairy Couture Style initiated with ''World of Winx'' and continued with Season 8 has divided the fanbase: on one side, some people enjoy the stylistic evolution, which they claim as coherent with the fact the Winx have been at it for years and look more like adults under the new style, while on the other side, people decry that the Winx now look like plasticine Barbie dolls, with yet another section of the fandom criticizing Flora and Aisha's lighter skin complexion.
** The outfits have generally been less revealing and more sensible since the series was revived, including older outfits in new promotional materials.[[labelnote:Explanation]]The [=DVDs=] of season 1 and 2, released after Viacom became a co-owner of Rainbow, colored in the midriffs of the original transformations to make them less revealing dresses.[[/labelnote]] While some appreciate this, other fans dislike the [[{{Bowdlerize}} Bowdlerlization]] and think that the show has lost the unique edge it once had. As mentioned in AmericansHateTingle above, part of this can be chalked up to different attitudes about revealing clothing in the many countries the show is broadcast in.
** The finale of season 4 is pretty hit with this for either being [[SoOkayItsAverage solid since it closes out Roxy's subplot]] or [[AntiClimax terrible since it feels rushed]].
** The second movie, ''Magical Adventure'', is pretty divisive. People either enjoyed the movie since it explores more depth in the characters, others rather ignore it due to the {{Continuity Snarl}}s made.
** Which dub is preferable? 4kids? Cinélume? Atlas Oceanic? [=DuArt=]? Dubbing Brothers?
* CompleteMonster:
** [[WickedWitch The Ancestral Witches]], real names Belladonna, Liliss, and Tharma, are [[MonsterProgenitor the first witches in existence]] and some of the first evil beings in the Magical Dimension. Under the orders of their master Lord Darkar, the Witches launched an attack across the Magical Dimension which reduced heroine Bloom's home planet Domino to a frozen wasteland, with its petrified inhabitants dragged into the Obsidian Dimension where the Witches torture them. The Witches are also responsible for wiping out the city of Havram to force its king, Erendor, to avoid conflict with them and [[BarredFromTheAfterlife condemned the souls of the deceased to constantly wander the ruins]]. The Witches attempt to capture the reincarnation of the Flame Dragon, Bloom, who was just [[WouldHurtAChild a baby]], forcing her elder sister to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice her life to save her]]. The Witches are also terrible parents, viewing their son Valtor as useless and eventually transforming him into a mindless monster to use as a tool to destroy the Magical Dimension. Ultimately, the Witches plan to wipe out positive magic to rule supreme.
** Season 2: [[EvilOverlord Lord Darkar himself]], the Shadow Phoenix, is the GreaterScopeVillain of the series. Born from the void as the Flame Dragon's [[DarkIsEvil opposite]], Darkar launched an attack on the Magical Dimension with the goal of destroying it, including ordering the the Ancestral Witches to attack and devastate Domino. Defeated and {{sealed|Evil In A Can}}, Darkar plots to steal the Relix Codex to gain ultimate power. He captures Pixies to learn the location of the Codex, torturing them and their friend Aisha by draining their magical powers. After learning that the Codex has been split into four pieces, he frees Trix from their imprisonment to serve him and captures and tortures Altea's new professor Avalon for months while placing his spy in his place. Darkar successfully obtains all the pieces of the Codex and brainwashes Bloom into being his minion while banishing Trix to the void since [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he doesn't need them anymore]]. When her friends come to rescue her and stop Darkar, he almost kills them all before condemning Bloom to die with her friends after she breaks free of his control.
* CrossoverShip: Stella is shipped heavily with Ben Tennyson from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' and has seemingly been popular for years. [[https://youtu.be/VBk5VwYBUiE Don't believe it?]]
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* DesignatedHero:
** Bloom is basically treated like she can do no wrong, and becomes somewhat of a brat in [[SeasonalRot season five]], essentially getting upset every time something does not go her way. For instance, she solely blamed Diaspro for ruining her relationship with Sky, despite the fact that 1) Diaspro had no idea who she was 2) [[ConflictBall Bloom randomly decided she was one of the Trix in disguise and attacked her]] and 3) Sky was essentially cheating on Diaspro with Bloom, meaning he deceived two people, not just one. Sky is also never held accountable for it. What really sells it, however, is that Sky's father clearly seems to see Bloom as someone rushing headlong into a situation she doesn't understand and upsetting things for specious and self-serving reasons. He's thus cast as a nattering nabob of negativity for letting someone charge around the whole situation like a bull in a china shop.
** Some think Riven is a ''massive'' Jerkass whose relationship with Musa would be abusive in real life, and hate how we are supposed to ''cheer'' for him when he keeps getting back together with her.
** Griffin spent the first season encouraging the Trix's bullying and harassment of Alfea's fairies, only expelling them because their failures kept embarrassing her. Later seasons would try to put her in a more heroic light but she's never called out for being the one who enabled the Trix's evil habits in the first place.
* DesignatedVillain:
** The witches of Cloudtower are considered evil and malicious by most of the fairies, but they're more on the level of the average "mean schoolgirl" and some of them even seem to be rather good-hearted.
** Diaspro. Bloom blamed her solely for ruining her relationship with Sky, despite the whole thing being Sky's fault for not telling Bloom about Diaspro (or about his real identity for that matter).
* DieForOurShip:
** [[spoiler:Aisha/Nabu]] and [[spoiler:Musa/Riven]] fans are the most resistant when it comes to accepting other pairings. Roy, Nex, Darcy, and Orlando are common threats. Nex is especially hated since he's [[spoiler:now Aisha's new boyfriend.]] Fanfic writers have found a lot of creative ways to write him out of her life.
** The same can be said for Bloom (who tends to get bashed by most [[spoiler:Sky/Diaspro]] shippers) and to Krystal, who too gets flacked on a lot by [[spoiler:Helia/Flora]] shippers.
** Bloom/Stella or Bloom/Icy shippers tend to dislike Sky.
* DracoInLeatherPants:
** Riven isn't actually a villain, excluding season 1, but he's become such a {{Jerkass}} [[TookALevelInJerkass over the series]] that people were glad he appeared to be written off in season 6 -- only for him to come ''back'' in season 8. His fans tend to gloss over his ''many'' flaws.
** Diaspro tends to be victimized by fans because of Sky cheating on her with Bloom and Bloom attacking her, believing she was one of the Trix. Beyond season 1, she drugged Sky with a love potion, put the entire planet of Eraklyon in danger by siding with Valtor, and attempted to assassinate Bloom in season 6.
* EnsembleDarkHorse:
** Mirta for being TheWoobie and adorable and cute PerkyGoth.
** Lucy gets a lot as well for [[NonstandardCharacterDesign defying]] the usual [[OnlyOneFemaleMold cookie-cutter face/body molds as all the other girls.]]
** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Dark Bloom]] is incredibly popular, with ''far'' more fan art than her good personality.
** Though all three of the Trix sisters are very popular, Darcy has the strongest fan base for her dynamic personality and appealing design.
* FandomRivalry: With ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', another Italian MagicalGirl series starring a FiveManBand that uses ElementalPowers and debuted in the same year. Though it's not universal among fans, as there are some degree of FriendlyFandoms, it is official in the sense that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winx_Club#Lawsuit the Walt Disney Company actually filed a lawsuit (and lost it)]] against the creator of Winx back in 2004. There used to be an entire meme about this rivalry (see Memetic Mutation below).
* FanPreferredCouple:
** Fans have latched onto two non-canon pairing above all others, [[FoeYayShipping Bloom/Icy and Bloom/Valtor]]. The art and fics for these two outnumber [[OfficialCouple Bloom/Sky]] exponentially.
** A non-romantic example, but several fics have Zing be Roxy's bonded Pixie.
* FanonDiscontinuity:
** Many fans don't consider ''[[NonSerialMovie Magical Adventure]]'' canon, not necessarily because they think the movie is bad, but because there are so many {{Continuity Snarl}}s that many argue it makes more sense for the Winx to be in ''Enchantix'' rather than ''Believix''. Then again, despite [[spoiler: killing off the Ancestral Witches, which is something that could have easily been done in ''[[SeriesFauxnale Secret of the Lost Kingdom]]'']], the film adds nothing to the series or tells us anything new.
** As far as many fans are concerned, Winx Club only had four seasons and two movies. The third movie is derided for claims of it not having much plot and for having a boring villain [[spoiler: Politea]] who didn't add much to the story, and the later seasons are practically reviled due to the retconning of certain characters' backstories, the plot holes that ensued, and the flanderization of several characters. A good example would be Season 5, due to SeasonalRot and the heavily disliked decision to [[spoiler: revive Daphne, as well as retconning her backstory so that she was cursed instead of killed.]]
** The most infamous example is season 8. Many fans have chosen to ignore it due it bringing back a popular villain, [[spoiler:Valtor]], who had been killed at the end of a previous season, and also for giving a FreudianExcuse backstory to Icy. Not only does it {{retcon}} the fact that [[spoiler:the Trix are sisters]], something that WordOfGod and the show itself has said for ''years'', but the fact that it's a retcon is also blatantly obvious due to everything from the previous seasons contradicting it. And due to how [[EvilFeelsGood unabashedly evil]] Icy and the Trix have had been since the beginning, Icy [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic certainly has]] ''[[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic not]]'' [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic earned any sympathy from the fans]]. They also made Musa and Riven get back together.
** Many fans like to pretend that Nabu's death from the 24th episode of season 4 never happened and like to think he is still around the series, whether it be from fanarts or fanfics.
** There's also several fans that like to pretend anything after season 6 didn't exist since it was the last season dubbed by Atlas Oceanic before [=DuArt=] took over.
** Most Musa/Riven shippers like to think their breakup in season 6 never happened. On the flip side, those who ''didn't'' like Musa/Riven as a couple like to pretend the breakup stuck and that they didn't get back together in season 8.
** Many Nabu fans like to ignore seasons 5 and beyond, which features Aisha getting new boyfriends, in the form of Roy and Nex.
* FoeYayShipping: Darcy and Musa in season 1, because they both like Riven (albeit for different reasons).
%%** Bloom and Valtor in Season 3. Context?
* FranchiseOriginalSin: The overwhelming focus on Bloom was one of the show's biggest criticism from Season 5 onward. However, the disproportionate focus on Bloom, which is ridiculous even for a main character, has been there since the beginning of the show due to her [[MacGuffinSuperPerson having the Dragon Flame]] and the MythArc of her biological parents being [[ArcFatigue unresolved until the last (supposed) moment]].[[note]] Season 1 revolves around the Trix obtaining her Dragon Flame. Season 2 has Bloom being used as the Light counterpart for the BigBad to obtain the power of Relix. Season 3 has Valtor reveal personal ties with her missing biological parents and homeworld. Season 4 has her be mistaken for the last fairy on Earth.[[/note]] What made this slide to most viewers was that at that time, the other Winx members had their own concurrent subplots to let them shine on their own. However, Season 5 and beyond proceed to [[DemotedToExtra demote anyone that isn't Bloom to window dressing]] while [[DesignatedHero constantly pushing her in the right]], making her focus practically impossible to ignore. [[note]]Season 5 had her revive Daphne, who was (mostly) alright with being dead while Season 6 has a transformation ''created and named after her''.[[/note]]
* FriendlyFandoms:
** There's been overlap with the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles fandom, especially during 2012-14 when both franchises had just been relaunched by Nickelodeon. Nick's promo events from that time usually revealed new content for both shows, and many fan blogs helped each other out by posting all of the new info about both Winx and TMNT.
** There are many fans of WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug and WesternAnimation/TotallySpies who tend to get along with Winx fans.
** Despite the FandomRivalry mentioned above, there are a cross-section of fans of both Winx and WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}} that have no problem crossing over the two franchises in fan works (especially fan art,) helped by the fact the main characters have counterparts with each other that have similar powers or personalities, whether shipping is involved or not.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:
** In Japan, the show has a small but ''very'' devoted cult following despite not even airing there. Its spin-off ''World of Winx'' eventually received a Japanese dub.
** And believe it or not, it's very popular in Vietnam as well. All eight seasons received Vietnamese dub and merchandise for the show were advertised on cable TV.
* GirlShowGhetto: Even though the girls get more focus, Iginio Straffi has said that the Specialists and action scenes were made for male viewers.
* HarsherInHindsight: "Hallowinx" in season 2 had Mitzi and her friends make the Winx believe three sisters inside the house she rented were coming back as ghosts to avenge their dead fourth little sister and cause mayhem upon the house. While it's revealed it was all just a prank, the girls ponder if the "three sisters" weren't the Trix. [[spoiler: Come season 8, it's [[RetCon changed]] that the Trix aren't really sisters, but Icy ''does'' have a little sister who was attacked by an evil witch, leaving her bitter and in despair]].
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: In the movie Winx Club 3D adventure where Sky proposes to Bloom, becomes even more heartwarming when their original English voice actors Christopher Corey Smith and Cindy Robinson got married in 2022.
* HesJustHiding: Since Morgana promised to look after [[spoiler:Nabu]] until he "wakes up", some believed to think that he might not be dead after all. [[spoiler:But he was KilledOffForReal.]]
%%** Lord Darkar and Valtor seem to get this treatment in fanfiction. This is HilariousInHindsight for the latter as of Season 8. Context?
* HilariousInHindsight: The FandomRivalry with ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' would become relevant when ''Series/FateTheWinxSaga'', this franchise's live action adaptation, received complaints of resembling more ''W.I.T.C.H.'' than ''Winx Club''.
* HoYay: There is an episode where Palladium takes Avalon to the forest, carries him back to Alfea when he is hurt by a plant and starts ''blushing'' when he thanks him.
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* IdiosyncraticShipNaming: Some ship names allude to the characters' respective magic affinities. Bloom x Flora is called [=FireFlower=] (i.e., they are the fairies of the Dragon's Flame and Nature) and Bloom x Stella is [=SunFire=] (i.e., the latter is the fairy of the Sun, Moon, and Stars). The quasi-paedophilic shipping Bloom x Valtor (she's barely 18 and he's at the very least middle-aged when they meet) is called Sparksshipping because both of them are bearers of the Dragon's Flame--although just a Spark in his case--which originates in planet Sparks (aka Domino).
* ItWasHisSled:
** Bloom is the long-lost princess of a distant planet.
** Nabu [[spoiler: dies]].
** Due to fan reaction, the fact that Musa and Riven broke up became common knowledge ''overnight'' -- although it didn't last, and they got back together again.
* JerkassWoobie: Diaspro. Can you ''really'' blame her for her FaceHeelTurn given the circumstances? The poor girl got treated like shit by Bloom and Sky.
* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Diaspro put Sky though a love spell and attempted to kill Bloom in season six, Darkar brainwashed Bloom and made her his minion, and the Trix have repeatedly attempted to take over Alfea and steal the Winx's powers. None of these characters are hated compared to Mitzi, a recurring character from the earlier seasons. Between her self-imposed sense of overall superiority, her attempting to ruin Stella and Brandon's relationship just to have Brandon to herself, her siding with the Wizards of the Black Circle because she didn't like the attention the Winx were getting, keeping the Lilo away from the Winx, and being a generally abusive sister to Macy.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips:
** Riven is the most pair-able character in the whole show.
** Bloom has been shipped with almost every character in the show, both good and evil.
* LesYay:
** Moreso in the comics than the cartoon, as shown in an issue where Stella looking ''pretty'' happy when tickling Bloom and trying to prove she's not fat.
** Musa and Aisha in Season 2. The two girls form a bond thanks to their common interest in the music. Add that Aisha, before Season 3 and meeting Nabu, did not seem interested in boys.
** Bloom comforting Flora in her room involves her taking about how ''beautiful'' and ''amazing'' she is, and how lucky Helia is to have her. Friendship pep talk, or poorly disguised pining?
* LGBTFanbase: This show has a decent sized fanbase of gay males who gush over the Specialists. Also the amazing fashions probably help as well.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: This was the majority of fans' reasoning after Riven and Musa broke up in season 6. Many felt that they would make up near the end of the season or in the next one. It actually happened in the season ''after'' the next one, a timespan of around four years in real life, which was just long enough for fans to start thinking the break-up would stick.
* MemeticMutation:
** You're either a Winx or a W.I.T.C.H[[note]]A meme, which used to be popular in Tumblr, about the FandomRivalry between ''Winx Club'' and similar series ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}''[[/note]]
** Back in the heyday of both ''Winx'' and ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' in Europe, there was a popular joke that the two series were secretly connected and the Specialists were actually older versions of the male Lyoko Warriors, as the two teams happen to physically resemble each other '''a lot''' (Brandon - Ulrich, Timmy - Jeremie, Helia - William, and Sky - Odd, with additional jokes that Odd had [[DecompositeCharacter decomposed himself]] in Sky and Riven becaue he combines the hair colors of both and the hairdo of the latter).
* MisBlamed:
** Fans have mistakenly blamed Nickelodeon for the show's shift to a preschooler demographic and childish plotlines. Series creator Iginio Straffi has clearly stated the reasons why he personally changed the show's target to young children, in interviews like [[https://issuu.com/worldscreen/docs/tv_kids_licensing_expo__annecy___na/30 this 2019 one]]:
--->'''Straffi''': “In the last ten years, the animation audience has skewed younger. Nowadays, it's very difficult to get a 10-year-old to watch cartoons... When your [new] target is 4-to-8, your story cannot have the same level of complexity as the beginning seasons of ''Winx'', where we had a lot of layers of different stories... The fans of the previous ''Winx Club'' say on social media that the new seasons are childish, but they don't know that '''we had to do that'''.”
** Fans also blame Nickelodeon for making the show "less European," ignoring how much Straffi values the American team's involvement in ''Winx'' (and other Rainbow shows). In April 2019, Straffi talked highly about his near-decade of work with Nickelodeon, saying [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1urrkM364fRIWWQycQQpKxbV0LceoNfQu/view "Nickelodeon is a guarantee of success."]] Elaborating a little further, he said [[https://issuu.com/worldscreen/docs/tv_kids_licensing_expo__annecy___na/28 here]]:
--->'''Straffi''': “...the know-how of Rainbow and the know-how of Nickelodeon are very complementary; the sensibilities of the Americans, with our European touch.“
* {{Moe}}: Flora, for being [[ShrinkingViolet shy]] and having [[SelfDeprecation low self-esteem]].
** Mirta as well, due to her sweetness and shyness basically making her into a witch version of Flora.
* MoralEventHorizon:
** [[spoiler: Not only does Ogron ultimately cause Nabu's death, he also steals the power that could revive him and wastes it, gloating to the poor Aisha. No wonder she decides to join Nebula, still bent for revenge.]]
** Tritannus initially crossed it when he tried to murder his own brother out of jealousy, and it got worse from there.
** Stormy crosses this when she nearly kills Flora's kid sister right in front of her.
** Icy proves that she's completely beyond redemption when she attempts to murder Oritel and Marion after using them as leverage against Daphne just for her own amusement.
** Selina crosses it when she almost tricks Bloom into giving Flora a lethal poison by saying it was an antidote. She really had no reason to do that other than to be a complete sadistic bitch.
* {{Narm}}: An infamous (and ''hilarious'') bit of [[{{Bowdlerise}} Bowdlerisation]] in the Nick recap of season 4 -- since the series had [[SoftReboot been changed]] so the Winx [[NotAllowedToGrowUp never grew up and graduated]], Nabu asking Aisha to marry him was changed to Nabu asking Aisha to "be my Forever Girlfriend," -- which was every bit as ridiculous as it sounds.
%%zce** The Season 5 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_LOksa7AKo&feature=relmfu 'positive energy']] sequence is infamous for this.
* NarmCharm: Tecna's angry rant at Stella about being ''emotionless'' (two episodes after the one where she'd been [[ItMakesSenseInContext temporarily turned into a robot]]) came straight out of nowhere, was melodramatic to [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Anakin]] levels, ended up being ironic [[DullSurprise due to her actress' performance]]... and it was funny as hell.
* [[PeripheryDemographic Periphery Fandom]]: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTdESvWH7Es Boys liked Winx Club too]].
* QuestionableCasting: Many people thought Ariana Grande did a poor job voicing Diaspro, as Grande was criticized as being too soft spoken for the character and having a bad case of DullSurprise. Partially due to the criticism, Grande was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] in season 6.
* ReplacementScrappy:
** [[spoiler: Roy is one of Nabu. Thankfully, Aisha doesn't hook up with him, and he disappears after she ends up with Nex.]]
** The selkies seem are this for the pixies, being essentially rehashes without anything that made the pixies likable. Thankfully it seems Rainbow realized how unpopular they were, as they don't return after season 5.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Before making it big as the voice of [[WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017 Sypha Belnades]], Alejandra Reynoso voiced Flora in the Atlas Oceanic dub.
* RomanticPlotTumor:
** Season 4 has actually two: Musa and Riven fighting and breaking up ''again'', and the Brandon-Stella-Mitzi LoveTriangle.
** Bloom and Sky were this since the start. Especially with the Bloom/Sky/Diaspro love triangle.
* RonTheDeathEater:
** Because of her extreme amount of focus and the fact she seems to be unable to do no wrong in the show, a lot of fans started holding a grudge against Bloom, going even as far as villanizing her in fan-content. The existence of dark Bloom doesn't really help her case.
** Although being an occasional jerk, Riven's alignment is officially good after season 1. However the guy still gets treated as villain by some fans. Likewise, Musa is treated like this by Riven's fangirls.
** Roy and Nex were disliked by many people, to the point there were serious theories they were evil and would be unmasked as the real villains of the story. Even when there was no indication of their bad nature, they, especially Nex, would be written out or portrayed as evil in fan-content.
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* TheScrappy:
** The villain for [[SeasonalRot Season 5]], Tritannus, became this almost immediately due to being probably the most pathetic antagonist in the entire show. He's considered one of the absolute ''worst'' things of [[SeasonalRot Season 5.]] Valtor and Darkar had problems, but they still had their fans. Tritannus has very few fans.
** Roy, from [[SeasonalRot Season 5]], is hated due to being a complete FlatCharacter and a ReplacementScrappy to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Nabu]]. The fan base rejoiced when he was PutOnABus after Aisha's LoveTriangle ended.
** %% She was never liked to begin with, but during season 4, most fans really wanted Mitzi to just disappear already. Who is she and why is she hated?
* SeasonalRot:
** Generally agreed to have started around season 5, which is also when the show was revived by American company Viacom and [[SoftReboot retooled]] to appeal to younger audiences. Low points include the retconning of important continuity points -- such as changing Daphne so [[spoiler:she was never actually dead]] -- characters losing whatever [[CharacterDevelopment development]] they had, and the girls being treated like they're still 16 year old high school students, with anything set up to the contrary -- the graduation, Bloom's engagement -- [[{{Retcon}} being quietly ignored and forgotten]]. Seasons 5 and 6 also marked the use of unnecessary, jarring, and downright ugly shifts to computer graphics (sure, the movies weren't ever Pixar quality, but it least didn't look disturbing). The Trix also get complaints about being overused, especially seeing as how they [[UnexplainedRecovery inexplicably come back]] from being sealed away for all eternity ''twice over.''
** Season 5 in particular gets this for having an utterly pathetic villain, Tritannus -- essentially a petulant child having an prolonged ''temper tantrum'', yet [[InformedAttribute being built up as a threat to the entire magical universe]].
** Season 6 also gets flack due to how the season's reliance on nostalgia bait due to it being released during the series' 10th anniversary, bringing back the Pixies only to replace two of them (Tune and Digit) with entirely different characters for seemingly ''no reason''. Selina and Acheron were also seen as lackluster villains with the latter [[AntiClimaxBoss getting defeated in the same episode he is released in]], and the former for having a shallow connection to Bloom. Season 6 also introduced Bloomix and Mythix, the latter of which is disliked due to the CGI outfits, and the former for its earnings almost all relying on [[AssPull ass pulls]] (Such as Stella and Aisha getting their Bloomix's by doing ''backflips'' of all things).
** Season 7 introduced the widely disliked Butterflix transformation, featuring very generic outfits and an annoying dance number that goes for ''way'' too long. While season 8 is officially where the series [[AudienceShift becomes a preschool series]], many fans feel it actually starts this season.
** And as for season 8; the sudden change in animation style makes the characters look about ''12'', the increased focus on the preschool crowd means the plots are even simpler, and the return of [[spoiler:Valtor]], despite his fan-favorite status, is derided as an AssPull since he ''died'' in his last appearance. And then there's the retcon of the Trix's backstory, particularly Icy's. The entire season is yet another SoftReboot to appeal to an even ''younger'' demographic.
%%* SelfFanservice: The Winx and the Trix receive this treatment a lot in fanart. What treatment?
* ShipToShipCombat: Darcy/Riven vs Musa/Riven rivalries were once very heated during season 1's first airing.
* SignatureScene: Flora blowing some magic powder. The scene was used in every merchandise commercial up to season 3, often with whatever the commercial was for edited on Flora's hands, giving the impression she's magically delivering it to some little girl.
* SlidingScaleOfSocialSatisfaction: Classifying Magix is tricky because of the continuous soft reboots.
** From seasons 1 to 4, it's a solid "Sweet with a Helping of Sour". Lingering problems such as political betrothals, poverty, and civil wars are mostly only alluded to as the conflicts stem from power-hungry individuals, but they exist nonetheless. Magix is mostly a very good place to live in -- magic and technology fuse to make things such as interplanetary travel or repairing buildings extremely easy. Earth, meanwhile, it's the "True Neutral" it is in real life, therefore giving the impression that magic does make things better, albeit not perfect.
** From season 5 onward, the aforementioned lingering problems are not even mentioned anymore. Villains (the Trix and Tritannus) can still be veritable menaces but society is essentially a SugarBowl at this point. This is {{lampshaded}} with the art style shift in season 8 and the fact most of the clashes against the villains are solved without involving violence.
* SoOkayItsAverage: Season 4 tends to get this reaction. The Wizards of the Black Circle are beloved villains, and Roxy, though initially a very divisive character, has been somewhat VindicatedByHistory. However, the magic on earth subplot doesn't really go anywhere and the finale is a rushed AntiClimax. Even those who like the season agree it's not as good as the first three seasons, though everyone agrees that it's better than the [[SeasonalRot seasons that came after it]].
%%* SpecialEffectFailure: The CGI in [[SeasonalRot seasons 5 and 6]] isn't the best. Context (Describe at least one scene)?
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The song "Love Is All Around" from "The Alfea Natural Park" has a backing rhythm that sounds almost the same as Music/KatyPerry's "Roar".
* ThemePairing:
** If all the HomoeroticSubtext wasn't enough, Musa/Aisha is one of the most popular pairings. They are both passionate, {{Broken Bird}}s (the former's mother died and the latter's childhood was loveless) who have to rebel against their parent(s) so they can achieve their dreams (pursuing a musical career and [[RebelliousPrincess breaking out of the perfect princess]] ideal). They are also [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak tomboys with a girly streak]] in the form of loving dancing, liking cute critters, and being sensitive inside. Coincidentally, they both maintain a VitriolicBestBuds friendship with Stella, as they clash the most against her.
** SixthRanger Roxy and DragonWithAnAgenda Selina are paired both platonically and romantically because they are the {{Tag Along Kid}}s of their respective teams, come from Gardenia (Earth), and have very similar [[TheBeastmaster magic sources]] -- Roxy is the fairy of animals while Selina is the witch of snakes.
** Bloom's name alludes to a flower blossoming and her Enchantix transformation reflects that; also her mother owns a flower shop. Flora is the [[GreenThumb fairy of nature]] and her bedroom is always a miniature greenhouse brimming with plants (and flowers) of all kinds. Add that they've been roommates since the series began and it's very easy to see why [=FireFlower=] was born.
** Most winxers have gotten very tired of SourSupporter Riven's toxicity, immaturity, and UngratefulBastard tendencies. As a result, a good chunk of the fandom decided to ship Riven's BettyAndVeronica canonical LoveInterests: Musa and Darcy. It doesn't help that they are [[ArchEnemy arch-enemies]] and, aesthetically, their spells often take the form of fluorescent ripples.
** A platonic example occurs with Daphne and Sylvanas Windrunner from ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. As it turns out, they are {{Mirror Character}}s in just about everything -- powerful warriors who get brutally murdered by {{The Dragon}}s of invading, {{Zerg Rush}}ing evil forces led by a SatanicArchetype. Then, they are cursed watching the ruins of their loved home planet/country for years as bodiless spirits. Fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Paradoxus}}'' makes this a key PlotPoint.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
** Fits some of the fans' responses to the series from season 5 onwards (when the show was specifically targeting younger viewers, so it's no surprise). The addition of CGI segments in seasons 5 and 6 was met with a particularly poor reception from fans.
** The ArtShift for Season 8, along with an even more pronounced shift to a younger demographic, has been contentious with fans for a variety of reasons. Many fans hate the apparent whitewashing, with Aisha and Flora now being AmbiguouslyBrown (which was a criticism that was also directed at ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfWinx''), and the fact that the characters look more like children than ever in the new art style.
** The return of Enchantix, the most popular transformation, in Season 8 was widely anticipated. Fans, however, immensely disliked the redesign, with the simplified details, more pink being added and [[{{Bowdlerize}} less revealing outfits]] resulting in what was considered an inferior TransformationSequence compared to its predecessors. A common complaint is that the transformation has lost the elegance it originally had, making it resemble Butterflix more than Enchantix. The iconic Enchantix theme being replaced with the less well-liked movie version just made the fan reception even worse.
** Many fans flew into a rage when the Trix were [[spoiler:retconned into not being sisters (in spite of being confirmed to be triplets years ago by the creator and the show canonically having them as actual sisters)]] and that Icy was [[spoiler:a princess of a frozen world with a younger sister]], as it brought about many [[SeriesContinuityError continuity errors]] and [[PlotHole plot holes]]. Many loathe it not only because it's [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks recycling Bloom's backstory]], but also because it distorted Icy's character, trying to change her from a villain who ''[[EvilFeelsGood liked]]'' [[EvilFeelsGood being evil]] to a [[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds Woobie]] who only wants to [[spoiler:save her home]] - even though many of her actions and motivations since the beginning of Season 1 do not align whatsoever with what Season 8 is trying to establish her goals to be. Some fans are trying to find ways to prove that it's ''not'' a blatant retcon, twisting canon and using dubbing errors to match their theories, in spite of the fact that the creator of the show [[https://www.corriereadriatico.it/SPETTACOLI/rainbow_avventure_winx_iginio_straffi_villa_musone_marche_rai2/notizie/421983.shtml actually had the story all planned out and was going to end the series after Season 3 (with the first movie being the "grand finale" of the series)]], making the fact that this is a retcon even more obvious. The arguments are not pretty.
** Fans were ''not'' happy when early reports came out that Tecna and Aisha would be [[AdaptedOut cut]] from the LiveActionAdaptation. This was made worse with the initial cast announcement, as it revealed that it was Tecna and ''Flora'' that were being cut, with Flora seemingly being replaced with a white girl named Terra.
* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks:
** Many reviews criticize the unoriginal plot, usually comparing it to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' or ''Anime/SailorMoon'' or both of them, with the series being often described as "Sailor Moon meets Harry Potter", or "Salor Moon with some Harry Potter elements". It doesn't help that Iginio Straffi himself said that he took inspiration from ''Sailor Moon'', including the TransformationSequence scenes.
** The series was initially accused of being a rip-off of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', and it still is to an extent, for people who remember both shows/comics. It's easy to see why, since it debuted the same year, has a redheaded protagonist who is TheLeader of a MagicalGirl team, and even has a similar-sounding title (with no in-universe explanation of the meaning of the word "Winx") though the plots and the art style are quite different.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Roxy, the Fairy of Animals. She's pretty much the reason Season 4 exists, yet by the time Season 5 rolls around, she was DemotedToExtra. Season 7, which focuses on enchanted animals, gave her a bigger role at first, but she was demoted to MissionControl after Brafilius stole her Time Stone.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** Some people thought that Mitzi becoming a dark fairy could have been much better and ended too quickly.
** Season 3 revolves around the girls having to make a sacrifice for someone from their planet, which initially became a problem for Bloom, since she was the sole survivor of Domino. While there were a lot of ideas the show could have went with (reveal there were other survivors from Domino, save Daphne, save somebody from Earth and learn her adoptive home is just as important, make a sacrifice for the dimensions like Tecna, which would allow Domino a chance to be saved), it instead went with her earning her Enchantix by believing in herself hard enough. It is noted that the very next episode addresses this by revealing that her Enchantix was incomplete as a result, an issue that won't be rectified until ''Secret of the Lost Kingdom''.
** Likewise, the premise promised we'd get to see each of the girls' planets, but we still had to wait until Season 5 to see Zenith.
** By the end of Season 4, the Winx Club had graduated from Alfea as young adults, Bloom had become engaged with Sky, and the club had started taking up mentorship roles with new younger fairies. Also, the Earth fairies had returned, bringing magic back to the realm with them. The following seasons, being a SoftReboot, ''completely ignored everything'' in those last two sentences -- the Winx suddenly started attending Alfea again with no explanation, characters like Tecna were reverted back to their pre-character development selves, Bloom's engagement subplot was dropped like a hot potato and new concepts and characters were either DemotedToExtra or gradually written out altogether. Needless to say, most are hoping there will be a new reboot in the future that will address seasons 5-8's issues and bring back the writing quality of seasons 1-4.
** Riven's backstory, which was only revealed in [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental material]], revealed that he was abandoned by his mother at a young age and forced to spend most of his childhood alone, which is why he's so rude and sexist. If this had ever been addressed in the show, Riven could have tried to work out his issues and attempt to become a better person. Musa could even have helped him with his problems and the two could have grown closer as a result. Instead, Riven just became such a huge {{Jerkass}} until Musa broke up with him and he was PutOnABus for a whole season -- after which, of course, [[StatusQuoIsGod they got back together again.]]
** Aisha has had several plots that could've been handled better - and differently.
*** First, the premise of her going blind in Season 3 could have been a great buildup for character development and Aisha having to learn how to deal with being handicapped, as it tied in perfectly with her character and what she stood for: a girl that would always rush in to help others now needing to learn to accept help herself (not to mention her two main character arcs were her distrusting nature and her fear of the dark, which went along nicely with being blind making her wrapped in eternal darkness and forced to rely on her friends). Instead, it gets fixed literally two episodes later with a DeusExMachina.
*** Second, her staying single for a whole season (and presumably for the rest of the series) without having to gain any new love interests post-season 4 as well as the Love Triangle not existing would've helped her boost her CharacterDevelopment more, considering the fact that she is known to dislike show off-y/bad-boy stereotypes.
*** Third, her fans felt that she should've been the one to take down Tritannus in the Season 5 finale instead of Bloom since [[ItsPersonal she had so many stakes throughout the season.]] With the BigBad being her cousin, imprisoning her family by turning them into aquatic abominations, and the final battle taking place in the oceans of Andros. Yet, Bloom is the one to finally defeat Tritannus, robbing poor Aisha of her glory.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: When we first meet Diaspro hanging out with Sky in season 1, we are supposed to sympathize with Bloom and see her as a villain trying to [[LoveTriangle come between Bloom and Sky.]] However, while Diaspro is a bit of a snob, Bloom proceeds to [[DisproportionateRetribution attack her]] with very weak reasoning and without trying to understand the situation. We later find out Diaspro is Sky's fiancee, meaning he was cheating on both Bloom and Diaspro on top of lying to Bloom about his true identity. Diaspro had ''no idea'' who Bloom was or why she was being attacked and doesn't come off as much of a bad person at all with this context. Later seasons attempt to correct this by instead portraying Diaspro as a RichBitch and a {{Yandere}}, but the damage was already done.
* ValuesDissonance:
** Complaints about the Winx's outfits being too revealing (at least, for a show that targets young girls) come generally from the United States and other non-continental European countries, as the local standards for what is considered risqué clothing are, or at least used to be, quite lax in comparison. Tellingly, the few stylistic complaints the show received in Europe were directed instead at more universal things, like the girls being drawn unhealthily thin or the romance element being given too much weight.
** There's a scene where a straight-haired AmbiguouslyBrown girl has her hair turned into an afro. She freaks out and the others [[CurlyHairIsUgly are disgusted by her hair]]. In Italy such a scene might not have meant much, but it couldn't pass in a place like America with so many black people and a lot of history involving kinky hair. As a result, the 4Kids dub [[{{Woolseyism}} had the girl freak out over her ''voice'' changing, not her hair]].
* VindicatedByHistory: Both fans and detractors of the [=4Kids=] dub can agree that [=4Kids=] treated the show well. ''Winx Club'' originally aired via over-the-air broadcast television on [[Creator/{{Fox}} a major network]]. The worst treatment the [=FoxBox=]/[=4KidsTV=] block could give a show was having it air in the 7am EST slot, a time when the target audience might still be asleep.[[note]]Adding to 4Kids' infamous reputation, they've saved the worst treatment, both in dub production and TV broadcast, to shows targeting girls.[[/note]] Even then, western markets air the block at a later time, while '''reruns''' got the same amount of promotion as new premieres.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The show has some pretty intense moments, such as Nabu's death scene, which children could find to be upsetting. Even with the show being retooled to appeal a preschool audience from Season 8 onward, it will still be prone to this.
* WinBackTheCrowd:
** Some feel that season 7, particularly the removal of uncanny CGI segments, is a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, the [[BrokenBase base was broken again]] by the end of it, and season 8's monumental shift in art and tone did not help.
** Many of the PeripheryDemographic were excited for ''World of Winx'' due to aiming for an older audience than the main series, with the characters looking and sounding more their age. The art style has been commended for using the already well received Winx Couture style as its base, and the animation has been lauded for being ''much'' more fluid than the show currently is.
* TheWoobie:
** Mirta in the first season. She is the only NiceGirl among the witches, so nobody respects her at the school and she is bullied by the Trix. Plus, for interfering with the Trix's business, she is punished by being transformed into a pumpkin for the second half of the season.
** Musa. In [[ADayInTheLimeLight ''The Show Must Go On'', ]] her father threatens to transfer her to another school if she performs in a concert just because he can't move on from Musa's mother's death (Musa has moved on).
** Roxy fit during the first few episodes of season four because she had no choice in whether to become a fairy or not. To sum it up, her choices were either become a fairy or be captured/killed.
** Aisha is one too. In Season 2, her pixie friends were captured by Lord Darkar, and she at first had difficulty fitting into the Winx Club due to her lonely childhood. In Season 3, she was temporarily blinded by Valtor, and later was upset about her parents setting up an ArrangedMarriage for her, until she actually met and got to know the guy, that is. [[spoiler: In Season 4, Nabu died. And in Season 5, her cousin turned into a monster that is trying to take over the oceans, and she still hasn't gotten over Nabu's death, and a scene in episode 7 of Season 5 suggests that Aisha feels guilty about having been unable to save him.]] And also in season 5, she has to deal with the fact that her cousin is the villain this time and not just some random bad guy like in the past. And she recently learned that her aunt, uncle, and two cousins were turned into horrible monsters by Tritannus.
** Stella was one temporarily. She tries to hide it, but her parents' divorce had a shattering impact on her and it's implied she feels she's partly to blame. Then, in Season 3, she had hopes of her parents reconciling, only to have her hopes crushed by her father revealing he intended to marry a new woman, who almost became Stella's WickedStepmother. Also, her vanity comes from being teased about her appearance as a child, which could mean she's very sensitive to how others perceive her.
** Daphne. Good lord, Daphne! Watching her endure torture up until her parents are threatened and then having her powers viciously ripped from her is too much!
** Miele gets a Woobie moment in season 7. Flora forbids her from joining the Winx on a mission because of the danger. [[OutOfCharacterMoment For some reason]], Flora is overly harsh about it, and it's plainly obvious Miele's hurt by what she says. Flora only said it out of concern, but the harshness was not necessary.
* {{Woolseyism}}:
** Most dubs remove the giggling that plagues the {{Transformation Sequence}}s in Italian.
** The English versions have Bloom call both her adoptive and biological parents her "real" parents.
** The 4Kids dub changed a scene where a dark-skinned girl is in tears because her hair was magically turned from straight to an afro. Instead, the girl accidentally cast a spell that made her voice higher pitched, and Stella's straight blonde hair wasn't fawned over as it was in the original.
** A scene where a spell ends up killing a character (who then comes back to life) was changed to a sleeping spell that he was able to wake up from in the 4Kids dub. Not only does this help the scene make more sense, it also would remove some of the plot holes that come up later in the series.
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