YMMV / Di-Gata Defenders

• Bizarro Episode: "Mel On My Mind" is a dissonantly lighthearted Breather Episode (an animal's defense-mechanism chemical spray causes Brackus and Rion to fall in love with Melosa, who later falls in love with herself after also being sprayed) set near the end of the otherwise very dark Season Two.
• Complete Monster:
  • Lord Nazmul was a member of the Wizards of Yan, the protectors of RaDos. Obsessed with unlocking the secret of immortality, Nazmul betrayed his brother Alnar and the other Wizards and freed the Megalith, which he tried to use to turn him into the eternal ruler of RaDos. Nazmul killed many of his old allies during his campaign, which ended when the Di-Gata Defenders and the remaining Wizards sacrificed themselves to defeat him and seal away the Megalith. Reduced to a shadow of his former self, Nazmul becomes reliant on Lord Brackus and his Yin-Tos Army to do his bidding and bring about the return of the Megalith. Since his body is failing him, Nazmul tries to possess Kara, the youngest member of the new Di-Gata Defenders, and when that fails, he resorts to taking over his fanatically loyal servant, Malco. After realizing that Brackus is untrustworthy, Nazmul kills a prisoner in front of him as an example, makes failed attempts on his life, and eventually condemns him to the Dark Realm after terrorizing the Yin-Tos Army into siding with him over Brackus. Nazmul is later trapped in the Nova Stone, but is released from it by Malco, who offers up most of his own life energy to restore Nazmul. Nazmul thanks Malco by tossing him into an abyss before trying to feed on the young Di-Gata Defender trainee Rion.
  • "The Lost Children": The Professor lost his job at a prestigious university due to his "crazy" belief that the RaDosians were descended from aliens that had immigrated to RaDos from a theoretical RaDos Prime. After triangulating the approximate location of the Prime RaDosians' lost ship, the Professor abducts children to use as slaves to help him dig it up, having discovered that the ship is housing an adult-killing contagion called the Toten' Ka Virus. When he finally finds the ship, the Professor orders his henchmen to kill all of the child slaves while he boards the vessel, followed by Seth and Rion. After incapacitating the two Defenders, the Professor reveals that he is going to fly the ship to the university to show up all of his old colleagues before killing them and all of the planet's other adults by releasing the virus, leaving a world of only children for him to mold "in my ways." When Rion damages the ship's engine, the Professor refuses to evacuate it, and instead tries to crash it in a way that is guaranteed to release the virus on an unsuspecting RaDos.
• Cry for the Devil: Despite all of the horrible things that he has done, Brackus's death and the moments leading up to it still manage to be a Tear Jerker.
  Lady K'Tahsh Is everything a lie, Brackus? Was there one thing you ever said that wasn't?
  Brackus (forlornly): Only that I loved you... once.
  Later:
  Brackus (hallucinating that Seth is Adam): Adam... Adam, my son. You must get the four icons back from Malco, and the fifth from the Defenders. We were to rule RaDos together, my boy. But now... you will rule... alone.
• Growing the Beard: The series starts off a bit slowly, though the early episodes are still important to watch for continuity and foreshadowing; it gets much better once the first Pure Stone is found, since that is when the action kicks up, and things start getting Darker and Edgier.
• Retroactive Recognition: Canadian television viewers may recognize Seth's voice actor, Noah Cappe, as the future host for the Canadian version of The Bachelorette.
• Squick:
  • The massive swarm of exploding slugs in "Shape Shifted."
  • Brackus falling in love with Melosa (who is several decades younger than him) in the aforementioned "Mel On My Mind." Also, Brackus having a befuddled Flinch make Melosa a necklace out of Sigil Slayer eyes.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: You'd think Adam and the reformed (and later not so reformed) Brackus would have interacted more in Season Two, especially after Brackus started taking in and training children like he did Adam.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: While the show was always a bit heavy, its last quarter started maiming and killing characters left and right, not even sparing main ones like Seth (whose right forearm is destroyed, leaving him with a petrified stump) and Kara (who outright dies from an energy overload, afterward becoming a kind of Spirit Advisor).

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