YMMV / Beetleborgs

• Designated Hero: Flabber is supposed to be the Big Good of the series. But given how he has a tendency to goof off instead of helping, and in one episode decides to gaslight newcomer Josh despite it being clear he shouldn't be doing it right now, he comes off as very immature.
• Ending Fatigue: It's impressive that a show with No Ending can suffer from this, but after the Astral Coins saga, the show kind of loses its drive. Many of the episodes following it are just the Beetleborgs and Crustaceans fighting and summoning their Humongous Mecha, who also fight each other. Most of the final episodes don't even feature a unique Monster of the Week.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Dr. Frankenbeans showing genuine love to Frankenbeans is this, especially given that how the monster was treated by Dr. Frankenstein in the original story.
  • In the episode "Mega Borg Power", the Beetleborgs trick the Crustaceans into losing the Astral Ax. The Titanium Silver Beetleborg gets ahold of it and Boron switches to the good guys. Before they team up to fight Repgillian, Boron states that he'd prefer fighting on the side of good instead of evil.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • All four human Beetleborgs have unique powers that they can use in civilian form but not in hero form. This concept was used in almost every Disney Era season of Power Rangers. In fact, this show is practically a predecessor to Power Rangers: Dino Thunder:
    • Before they get new powers, the main three Beetleborgs wear blue, green and red armor. They are later joined by a fourth Beetleborg who wears white armor. Replace green with yellow and you have the colors worn by the four teenage Dino Thunder Rangers. If one counts Shadowborg, that includes the color black, which was Tommy's Ranger color in Dino Thunder.
    • Both Nukus and Mesogog are dinosaur humanoids who serve as contrasts to the more comical villains they succeeded (Vexor for Nukus, Lothor for Mesogog).
    • Trent the White Dino Thunder Ranger and Ethan the Blue Dino Thunder Ranger are both comic geeks who become superheroes, just like the main three Beetleborgs.
    • Flabber bringing the main villains into the real world could be seen as a parallel to Tommy, the Big Good of Dino Thunder, also creating some of the monsters in that show.
    • The White Beetleborg has the power of invisibility. Trent and Tommy (who has worn white before) also have this ability.
    • Jo and Roland have Super-Strength and Super-Speed, respectively. Mack and Ronnie from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive also have these respective powers. For bonus points, Mack's color is red just like Jo.
  • Fangula, in an episode where he can see the future, predicts the Cubs will never win the World Series. Come 2016...
  • Derek Stephen Prince, who voiced Noxic, voices Vexen/Even in the Kingdom Hearts series. Shigeru Chiba is the voice of Schwartz, the character from B-Fighter whom Noxic is based on, and is Vexen's current voice actor in the Japanese version of Kingdom Hearts III.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Although the White Blaster Beetleborg was short-lived, many fans enjoyed the dynamic of having a fourth Beetleborg, and were left hanging when Josh never showed up again, despite claiming that he'd be there if the others needed him. Even if there wasn't any B-Fighter footage they could work with, Josh still never returned, even as just a friend who knew the Beetleborgs' secret identities.
  • Similarly, many people were fans of Shadowborg, and appreciated having a villain who was dead serious. However, as Shadowborg was outright destroyed, it was harder to justify bringing him back.
• The Scrappy: Little Ghoul is abrasive and troublesome, but for some, the episode "Who's That Ghoul" really pushes her into Scrappy territory. She has done nothing for the protagonists but gotten them chased by the house monsters, but when a bounty hunter comes looking for her — for a crime she definitely committed — Flabber and the Borgs go to great lengths to defend her.
• Spiritual Successor: Originally Saban planned to adapt B-Fighter into a third season of VR Troopers, but they decided to start from scratch instead with a new Americanized adaptation of the Metal Heroes franchise.
• Stock Footage Failure:
  • It's very noticeable in the first season, due to the fact that the Sonic Lasers would change color during the same fight in certain episodes. The US prop was a red/purple color scheme, like the US toys (which were changed for safety reasons). While in the B-Fighter footage, the gun props were silver and black, like a real fire arm (with the exception of the big blue keypad on the side). The Data Lasers were less noticeable due to the US props not being changed from the silver-and-black scheme. They were changed for the toy again, this time colored white and blue.
  • At least one episode showed the Beetleborgs defeating the Monster of the Week in US footage with the plain Sonic Lasers — and when they cut to a B-Fighter shot of the monster exploding, the Beetleborgs were then shown holding the Sonic Laser Sabers!
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Quite a few B-Fighter fans aren't very fond of Beetleborgs and all the changes it made to B-Fighter, itself already a fairly light-hearted series that still had some serious moments, to make it goofier and more kiddy.

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