YMMV / Bob Morane

• Adaptation Displacement: When hearing the name "Bob Morane", more people are probably going to think of the Indochine song L'Aventurier than of the work it pays homage to. An instrumental version of said song serves as the animated adaptation's opening theme song (French version only).
• Archive Panic: There're over 200 novels and 50 comics.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Fair for Its Day: The series was first serialized in 1953 and, much like Tintin, it definitely reflects the worldview of its time. On one hand, Bob Morane regularly runs into hostile indigenous tribes and Triads gangs and, most infamously, his Arch-Enemy is an inhumane Mongol known as "The Yellow Shadow"^note In-universe, he takes the moniker because of his creed that "the yellow of light will come from the shadow" but even then it's hard to overlook the racist undertones. On the other hand, there're plenty of competent and heroic ethnic characters and author Henri Vernes did travel around the world to get some accuracy about foreign cultures.
• Fridge Brilliance: One of the epithets Doctor Xhatan uses to describe himself is "son of Ra", which is also how Egyptian pharaohs were referred to, and in The Mysterious Dr. Xhatan (at least in the animated series), his computer password is "pharaoh". In the animated series, Xhatan's haircut and beard make his head shaped like he was a pharaoh wearing some of his regalia (the upper part of the nemes headgear and the fake beard).
• Genius Bonus: In the animated series, The Walls of Ananke (the first episode of the Ananke arc), one of the men stuck in the Ananke dimension tells Bob "Ananke means fate". While the scene obvious meaning is to tell "there's no way to leave Ananke", "Ananke" ("Ἀνάγκη"/"Anánkē") is an ancient Greek word which literally means "fate".
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Bob Morane franchise is about the adventures of an elite secret agent. The 2024 film live-action Argylle heavily features an in-universe books series about an elite secret agent named Agent Argylle. A few scenes features figurines or statues of the character, and their faces looks a lot like the cartoon version of Bob Morane thanks to the statues' simplified artstyle.^note They're supposed to be based on Henry Cavill, who plays the character in the film Contrary to Bob Morane, Argylle isn't a serious spy fiction but a parody.
• Unfortunate Character Design: The villain Roman Orgonetz is supposed to have golden teeth. His teeth's dark shade of yellow in the animated series instead makes him looking like he has mundane teeth ruined by an awful dental hygiene.
• Values Dissonance: Bob is (perpetually) 33 years old but many of his love interests are as young as barely 17 or 18. While the editor mandated No Hugging, No Kissing prevents this for being too creepy, the many Ship Tease wouldn't fly nowadays.
• Viewer Pronunciation Confusion: Bill Ballantine's surname is a minor source of contention. The live-action series and the song "L'Aventurier" pronounce it "Ballan-teen" like French people do but the animated series pronounces it "Ballan-tine" which makes sense because he's Scottish.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The animated adaptation is directed toward children and was broadcasted in children TV programs. The episodes are relatively violent, featuring gunfights and often onscreen deaths; while there's not much blood and no outright gore, one episode (The Crown of Golconda) shows a character's hand being cut off onscreen. The episodes' plots often deal with terrorism or mass murder attempts. Another episode (The Towers of Crystal) is explicitely set in the aftermath of a nuclear war and features characters suffering from radiation poisoning.