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  • Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Puddingtown just a really nice guy, or did he deliberately guilt-trip Young!Chris into sparing him?
  • Anvilicious: The season four episodes "The Conscious Liberator of the Female State" and "The Crowd I'm Seeing" have very heavy-handed messages on how sexism is wrong, the latter especially since the Upta Gals are quick to label all males as misogynist douchebags and (unlike the Malien and the Brain Dogs he convinced into becoming misogynists from the former episode) are never punished or shown the error of their ways, while Beth makes a half-hearted attempt at telling the Upta Gals that sexism against men is just as bad as sexism against women before giving up and joining them in their acts of petty vandalism.
  • Awesome Music:
    • The OST has some great stuff on it, and includes both music from the show and fanmusic.
    • "Bravest Warriors, GO!"
    • "The Bravest Warriors Of Them All"
    • "To Impossibear, From Wallow"
  • Captain Obvious Reveal: The revelation that the Emotion Lord is actually Chris from the future isn't really hard to figure out, given their similar wardrobe and knowledge about the eponymous warriors.
  • Character Perception Evolution: Immediately after his first appearance as a minor character in "Gas Powered Stick", Catbug rapidly became the show's biggest Ensemble Dark Horse due to being a Ridiculously Cute Critter with an equally-cute voice. This led to him easily turning into the most popular character in the whole show, with more fans than even the Bravest Warriors themselves. Noticing this, the writers elevated him to Breakout Character status, giving him an appearance in nearly every episode of Season 2, including multiple Days in the Limelight for him while producing more and more Catbug-themed merch, which became the show's biggest source of revenue. This Catbug oversaturation, combined with some of his actions being controversial (like an alternate universe version of him turning into a misogynistic dictator in "Hamster Priest", or killing Jelly Kid, the show's second-biggest Ensemble Darkhorse, in "Jelly Kid Forever") led to him becoming more of a Base-Breaking Character.
  • Designated Monkey: The constant and horrible abuse that Danny has gone through has actually caused some fans to stop watching the show. These fans often give the writers a What the Hell, Hero? type reaction in the comments due to them using the abuse he goes through for laughs.
  • Die for Our Ship: Plum for several Chris/Beth shippers. Even Chris's future selves want this in-universe!
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Catbug. Although given that he's a Ridiculously Cute Critter it's not surprising how quickly comments became filled with "Catbug for the win!" The writers took notice of this and turned him into the show's Breakout Character, though this led to him becoming more controversial over time.
    • Plum became an instant fanart favorite after her debut episode, leading to her becoming an Ascended Extra in season 2.
    • The Paralyzed Horse had already gained quite a few fans during the Season 1 finale. After the Season 2 premiere, however, the number of fans skyrocketed.
    • The Jelly Kid is also quite popular.
  • Growing the Beard: Debatable, but even though it started out good, the consensus is that it seems to get even better as it goes on. The season 2 premiere's reception cemented said consensus.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Plum and Chris frenching amongst the gags in "Hamster Priest" takes on a whole new meaning after the events of "Merwif Tag".
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: One of the characters is Catbug, who is a cross between a cat and ladybug.
  • Ho Yay:
    • Wallow's glove is male. He gets extremely jealous when Wallow gets back together with Gale.
      Pixel: What's this?! WHAT IS THIIIIIIS?!?
    • In the comics, Pixel asks for a new body, "one that Wallow would want to kiss".
    • Wallow is also the only one cool with dancing with the unicorn Chippendale dancers in Beth's holojohn scenario.
    • While Danny seems to be a shipper on deck for Beth and Chris, he and Chris have had a few hoyay-ish moments during season 1.
      • Funny enough the hoyay mostly comes from Chris.
      • In season 4 episode 1, Chris's emotions are damaged in a fight, and he needs "the kiss of life" to be revived. Danny gets into a bit of a fight with Plum because they both want to kiss Chris. At this point, it would not be unreasonable to assume Danny has romantic interest in Chris. In fact, he quickly switches from "reluctant" to "desperate" when Plum suggests doing it herself.
      • And of course in the end, Wallow is the one who ends up kissing Chris.
    • A scene from "Emotion Lord".
      Danny: (Just wakes up after being comatose for most of the episode) Hey-hey-hey! (Pinches Wallow's ass) I feel fresh as a dickens!
      • The fact that there's a "honking" noise and Wallow's " :0 " face makes this moment undeniable.
    • "RoboChris"... ALL OF IT. As a Youtube commenter put it, if Robo-Chris actually looked like his fleshy counterpart, the yaoi fangirls would explode.
    • In the comics' first arc, Plum has this to say about Beth's naked body: "It was so friggin' beautiful."
    • In "Ghosts of the See-Through Zone" Danny exclaims why Chris doesn't love him.
    • Beth and Plum have some more in the 21-24 arc. For one, Plum seems more worried about Beth than anyone else. At one point she randomly tells Beth "You look very pretty when you have been sweating." Later, Beth gives her jacket to Plum to keep her warm.
  • Hype Backlash: Not to the show itself but to the character Catbug. Catbug's fans are very... vocal about their love for him. While the fan base as a whole agrees he's adorable, there is a growing annoyance over his being a spotlight stealer. There's also the problem that his voice actor is a young boy who's occasionally made to say age-inappropriate things, which doesn't sit well with fans who expected the epitome of cuteness. Thankfully Season 3 takes note of this and scales his role back considerably.
  • Memetic Mutation:
  • Memetic Molester: The Aeon Worm achieved this within minutes of the season two finale, when it mind controlled Beth into becoming his wife.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • The cereal master. And her dad, for that matter. He obviously was horribly abusive to her, and because of this, she's got serious issues. She's constantly screaming in despair about the past abuse, and when she thinks someone is insulting her, she actually SLAMS HER FACE DOWN ONTO A SCALDING-HOT STOVE AND BURNS HERSELF AS SHE SCREAMS. *shudder*
    • Beth's horse, who's been fully paralyzed for years but is still aware of it.
    • In the back up comic for the fifth issue, Wallow is lead to believe that Beth, Chris and Danny have been devoured and impersonated by an alien that escaped from the Mars zoo. It turns out the alien has the power to impersonate multiple people at the same time and the skeletal remains of the three are in the closet behind Wallow. He thinks nothing of it and believes their story. As non-canon as it is, it was pretty disturbing.
  • Romantic Plot Tumor: Some fans are annoyed that the Chris and Beth thing is the basis for several episodes and is often brought into the frame when they interact with each other, even when something else is happening.
  • Seasonal Rot: Season four (and, to an extent, season 3) have been derided by fans due to the drop in animation quality, and focus on romantic subplots.
  • The Woobie:
    • Danny when he was a kid. He was forced to vomit on command by a group of Floating Hackers.
      • Taken up a notch in the comic adaptation, where Danny feels terrible guilt for exploding a sexist planet back in issue one and for issues 5-8 lives out a dream were he lives out said guilt.
      • This exchange pretty much sums up Danny's woobie-ness.
        Robot: What do you mean you don't want to have your brain back? You like being stupid?
      • Taken up another notch in "Mexican Touchdown" when Plum out and out rejects him after he spends the entire episode, and horribly injures himself, trying to impress her. The fact he says he doesn't have a reason to live anymore afterwards doesn't help.
      • Somehow taken further in Season of the Mitch, where after his reckless testing of the Falcon Glider caused Wallow to lose his arm. Unlike the previous times, it's not remotely played for laughs, and Danny loses all will to do anything even as Ralph Waldo Picklechips hacks his and Wallow's sticker pets and restrains them. He only snaps out of it when he sees the Aeon Worm about to make Beth his bride.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many fans had reacted like this towards use of Toon Boom Harmony in season 4, as it resulted in a noticeable drop in animation quality.
  • Values Dissonance: In the United States, the show airs on Cartoon Hangover and is aimed towards older audiences. Japan, however, treats it as a children's cartoon in the same vein as Adventure Time and airs it on Cartoon Network. Then again, it’s not any worse than several of their animes, and Japan's broadcast standards for children's shows don't have a lot of the same restrictions as countries like America and Canada do, thus are more lax about what they consider acceptable for kids shows, both international and domestic.
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Despite sharing an animation/humor style with Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors is much edgier. Danny's catchphrase is "Up yours!" and he flips one character the bird. Another character uses the word "whore". Then again, it's on a channel called Cartoon Hangover, so it's not exactly for kids in the first place.

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