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  • Awesome Music: The theme song by Adam Lambert sums up Megamind succinctly. Even those who hate the show admit that it's pretty catchy.
  • Designated Hero: Megamind isn't a villain anymore but he causes so many of the problems in the show that it's hard to call him a hero now.
  • Fanon Discontinuity: Just like the Pilot Movie, fans have written this show off as non-canon for all the same reasons, on top of even more retcons from the original film, such as Megamind studying under another supervillain to become evil (whereas in the original film, he was a genius at a young age who turned evil because he was raised by inmates, was shunned and bullied at school, and wanted to feel special).
  • Informed Wrongness: The season one finale has Machiavillain make the citizens believe that Megamind is sliding back into villainy. While that isn't the truth, Megamind's actions throughout the whole show did cause more problems for the town, so Machiavellian isn't wrong about how chaotic Megamind is in this show.
  • Memetic Mutation: HOW. (slap) DO. (slap) YOU. (slap) DO. (slap) FELLOW. (slap) KIDS!!!Explanation
  • So Okay, It's Average: Compared to the universally reviled Pilot Movie, this show is considered to be a lot more harmless and tolerable, but still hardly something to write home about.
  • Stock Footage Failure: The picture of Metro Man in Megamind's phone is very obviously a stock picture of his model in the original movie, contrasting hard with the cheaper animation of the show.
  • Uncertain Audience: Much like its Pilot Movie, Megamind Rules is a more overtly-kid focused spin-off of a family movie made to bank off the audience of the original. However, it came out over a decade after its original movie, meaning said movie's original audience would no longer be children and actual children would be unfamiliar with the movie. The result is a series made to appeal to an audience too old for it, while those in the targeted age range don't know about the character and setting.

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