YMMV / Evil Con Carne

• Adaptation Displacement: Many people forget that this show and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy originated as Grim & Evil. Or to a bigger extent, this show.
• Adorkable: Skarr, believe it or not. he happens to be trigger-happy when trying betray Hector or dictatorship is involved. not to mention during his screen-time in grim adventures, he loves to care for his garden and tries to act nice as a neighbor despite failing to do so.
• Awesome Music:
  • The theme song is very epic-sounding and is a perfect match for the size of Hector's determination to conquer the world.
  • All of the songs from the Musical Episode "The Pie Who Loved Me" are very catchy and well-written.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: Ghastly had a surprising amount of fanservice.
• Common Knowledge:
  • The misconception that Grim & Evil was only 2 seasons and everything onwards was made for Evil Con Carne and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy respectively. While it is justified since only the first two aired as Grim & Evil proper, an unaired third season for 2003 was produced and only aired as part of the individual shows when the decision to split them for broadcast was made (and only surfaced on VOD services in 2017). Everything from 2004 onwards is original to the individual series.
  • General Skarr is often cited to be an expy of Herr Starr from Preacher. This was debunked by Maxwell Atoms himself on Tumblr who confirmed that it was a coincidence, and he also confirmed that Skarr was in fact an expy of Fearless Leader from The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle and Starscream from Transformers.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Or four times.
  Skarr: Stick the knife in his back, and twist! TWIST! TWIIIIIIIIIIIST!!!!
• Crossover Ship: Ghastly gets one with Hoss Delgado.
• Cult Classic: While the show was forgotten when it first came out, it gained some notability in the 2010s when supervillain films such as Suicide Squad (2016) and Venom (2018) came out.
• Fandom Rivalry: There are some fans who debate over whether this show or The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is the better of the two.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Some fans choose to disregard the "Company Halt" segment from Billy & Mandy.
• Friendly Fandoms: There are some Megamind fans to like this show because they show original supervillains that are given a short run.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Hector Con Carne shares similarities with Ricky Verona from Crank, including the fact they are Mexican criminals with their brains in a jar.
  • Seeing a villain dressed up as a nurse setting a bomb is hilarious to watch following the release of The Dark Knight.
  • In Evil Con Carne, one of the commandos biting into Hector is extremely similar to Baraka's fatality from Mortal Kombat 11.
  • In Devolver Part 2, the sausage in Boskov's stomach is named Frank.
  • In Bring Me the Face of Hector Con Carne, the antagonist disguised as a nurse sets up a bomb.
  • General Skarr seems to have inspired the appearance and mannerisms (the scar and accent) of Dryden Vos from Solo. Even funnier is that they are simply The Dragon to Hector and Maul respectively.
  • In Max Courage, Rick is repeatedly called "Dick" or "Nick". Rick was voiced by Scott Menville, who also voiced Robin from Teen Titans (2003), as well as Teen Titans Go!, and one of the Robins is named Dick Grayson. Even funnier is that in SCOOB!, Dick Dastardly's name was corrected by Scooby-Doo as "Rick".
  • In Ultimate Evil, a giant toy train with eyes nearly runs over Cod Commando.
  • In No No Nanook, Hector and a group of mounties run over a Gollum expy (voiced by Billy West) and a Frodo expy. Three years after this episode, Elijah Wood got to voice alongside Billy West in The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Billy and Mandy fans watch the show because of Skarr's debut.
  • Voice acting fans watch the show just to hear Frank Welker's various voices.
• Mainstream Obscurity: While the series was forgotten quickly, General Skarr is the most well-known of the characters.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Hector's brain and/or stomach on anything, including Kuma from Tekken.
  • Ghastly repeatedly pressing the letter Y while yelling "Why?"
  • The commando biting into Hector became this thanks to Mortal Kombat 11.
• Moral Event Horizon: Cod Commando went beyond the pale when it was revealed that he's the reason Hector is reduced to a Brain in a Jar in the first place.
• Most Wonderful Sound: Hector Con Carne's laugh.
• Nausea Fuel: All the brain injuries to Hector Con Carne can get pretty sickening and hard to watch.
• Older than You Think: Many people believed Skarr came from Billy & Mandy when it turns out he came from this cartoon first.
• Quietly Performing Sister Show: The cartoon is the least well-known of the two shows that originated from Grim & Evil.
• Rooting for the Empire: Can be seen by many as the whole point of the show.
• So Okay, It's Average: Like many fellow lesser known Cartoon Cartoons, this show is considered to be a pretty decent watch that never quite lived up to its contemporaries. In Evil Con Carne's case, its more popular sister show The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy makes things harder to live up to.
• Vindicated by History: Thanks to several superhero/supervillain films and shows being released in the years since Evil Con Carne, the show is now seen by many as a thought-out cartoon featuring supervillains. It also helps that it has more digital releases than its sister show.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" was about Hector and his allies were getting prepared for invading New Zealand as Operation Z-Day but Boskov stayed for hibernation. About nine minutes of the two-part segment consisted of being boring.
• Woolseyism: To preserve the wordplay in the title, the Polish dub changed the last name of the titular character to "Potrawka" (meaning "stew") and retitled the show "Zło w Potrawce"; "[X] w potrawce" is a way of saying "[x] stew", but it can be read literally as "[The] Evil in Potrawka".

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