YMMV / Dragon Hunters

• Adorkable: Aside from being small, gangly and goofy, Gwizdo has his moments of actually being very cute, particularly when in "Baby Love, Oh Baby Love" he falls for a beautiful stranger and tries to impress her. Further emphasised by the fact that Jeanneline is clearly in love with him. Periodic naivety is also one of his main characteristics despite the fact that he often notices it in his mighty childhood friend.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: Is Mother Hubbard a generous caregiver bringing up children on an island populated by flesh-eating dragons, a firm but fair matriarch who punishes naughty children and rewards good ones, or a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who bullies cowardly children (like poor young Gwizdo) by talking about them behind their backs and forces them to grow up too fast?
• Awesome Music: The Cure performs the theme song, so it goes without saying.
• Bowdlerise: In "Dragon in the Hearth" Gwizdo and Lian-Chu find a house overrun with ice that looks abandoned. Gwizdo remarks that the people must have been fed up with the cold winters and left. Then Lian-Chu opens another door and gasps, "Come take a look at this, Gwizdo!" In the original French, however, what he says translates as "Nobody left this place, Gwizdo", making it obvious that Everybody's Dead, Dave.
• Chaotic Good: Hector as a kind of trump card of the story. He has a trickster's attitude toward strangers but sometimes he performs real feats, guided by his own unpredictable impulses. He has saved Zaza from dragons several times and shows himself selfless when he protects other children. Although Hector often taunts and confronts Gwizdo, he feels grateful to him for his allowing to stay in the team. Frequent frictions with Gwizdo don't stop Hector from regularly and voluntary pulling him out of almost every trouble.
  • Far from being as mature as Lian-Chu, Gwizdo is also capable of good deeds, not as much guided by a certain moral code, as listening to his own soul.
• Growing the Beard: Season 2 plots were noticeably darker, more character centric, and even the general palette was slightly darker. However, the voice actors aren't as good as the ones from Season 1.
  • Billy Toughnut is arguably the first truly good episode of the series.
• Jerkass Woobie: Gwizdo in the episode "The Orphan Farm". When we find out how he was treated at the farm and even Mother Hubbard made fun of him for being a coward, you really feel sorry for him, even though as an adult he's a Miles Gloriosus.
  • Hector. Though he can be rude and a little mean-spirited, for the most part he just doesn't deserve Gwizdo's insults.
• Moral Event Horizon: It's shown throughout the series that Gwizdo would happily (and regularly) cross it if not for Lian-Chu insisting they do the right thing. In "For a Few Veggies More", Lian-Chu stops Gwizdo from murdering Chief Big Beard, although that's partly justified as the Zimbrenelle Dwarfs tried to kill them first.
• Tear Jerker:
  • In "Gland of the Mimikar", Gwizdo storms outside to brood, as Lian-Chu is slowly being poisoned. He wants to help, but he doesn't know how.
    • Later in the episode, Lian-Chu has collapsed after Hector got the last of the Mimikar's gland into his mouth. Gwizdo thinks that they've failed.
  Gwizdo: Lian-Chu, without you I'm useless, a total loser! I'll never make it on my own!
  • The look on Lian-Chu's face when he thinks that Gwizdo left to become a hermit in "Prince Charming!" (The truth was, Gwizdo was kidnapped by Prince Charming's minstrel, and left bound and gagged in a closet in his own bedroom).
  • In "The Family Fortune", while Gwizdo, the Richmonds and Haskell are freezing in the Freezeasaurus' pond, Gwizdo confesses to Lord and Lady Richmond that he pretended to be their son to con them, but realized that he really is their son. Before he finishes talking, Lord and Lady Richmond see their actual son floating by and move in towards him. Gwizdo thinks that they're moving in to hug him, but Lord Richmond pushes him out of the way, leaving Gwizdo to freeze alone.
• Ugly Cute: A few of the dragons are this. Hector, for example.

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