History YMMV / DiGataDefenders

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Lady K'Tashsh's death. After being a constant and significant threat to the defenders as Ethos!Malco's main enforcer, and even having an intense emotional reunion with Brackus at the time of his own death, her death comes extremely abruptly and with almost zero dramatic impact, as Eric uses the two lost sigils to split the earth open and cause her to [[DisneyVillainDeath fall to her death]] in the chasm as he closes it behind her.

* UncannyValley: Maia's {{Magical Eye}}s.

** [[BigBad Lord Nazmul]] and his brother, Professor Alnar, were members of the Wizards of Yan, the protectors of [=RaDos=]. Obsessed since childhood with unlocking [[ImmortalitySeeker the secret of immortality]], Nazmul betrayed the other Wizards and freed the [[EldritchAbomination Megalith]], which he tried to use to acquire the power necessary to create a spell that would 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. [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport 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 [[GrandTheftMe 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 [[UngratefulBastard by tossing him into an abyss]] before trying to feed on the young Di-Gata Defender trainee Rion.

** TheProfessor, from "The Lost Children", lost his job at a prestigious university due to his "[[IgnoredExpert 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 [[OnlyFatalToAdults adult-killing]] contagion called the Toten' Ka Virus. When he finally finds the ship, the Professor orders his henchmen [[WouldHurtAChild 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 "[[InTheirOwnImage 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=].

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: 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 ([[spoiler:whose right forearm is destroyed, leaving him with a petrified stump]]) and Kara ([[spoiler:who outright ''[[DeathOfAChild dies]]'' from an energy overload, afterward becoming a kind of SpiritGuide]]).

* GrowingTheBeard: The series starts off a bit slowly, although they're still important to watch for continuity and foreshadowing, it gets much better once the first pure stone is found as that's when the series starts getting ''DarkerAndEdgier'' and going into a different direction which the series is known for by fans.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The amount of major characters that die with some of them being a ''FamilyUnfriendlyDeath'', especially near the end of the series, one of the main character's losing their right hand, the various monsters and villains that are also terrifying looking for children. It's kind of hard to believe that this was aimed for children, even by Canadian Cartoon standards.

GrowingTheBeard: The series starts off a bit slowly, although they're still important to watch for continuity and foreshadowing, it gets much better once the first pure stone is found as that's when it starts getting ''DarkerAndEdgier'' which the series is known for.

WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The amount of major characters that die with some of them being a ''FamilyUnfriendlyDeath'', especially near the end of the series, one of the main character's losing their right hand, the various monsters and villains that are also terrifying looking for children. It's kind of hard to believe that this was aimed for children, even by Canadian Cartoon standards.