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  • Ass Pull: The Weldos in "A Quest for the lost Mixamajig". While they were expected to appear, they only show up in the last minute and act completely oblivious to everything that just happened.
  • Awesome Art: The series originally used a bright and vibrant art style animated in Toon Boom, capturing the toy-like aesthetics of the titular Mixels. Since "Mixel Moon Madness", the series uses duller hand-drawn animation, but as a side-effect, the animation was much smoother and would continue to grow in quality and expressiveness until the end of the series.
  • Awesome Music: The series constantly reused a specific melodic pattern that despite getting different instrumentations throughout it's run still hits the same notes every single time. All of them, however, are memorable and catchy.
  • Base-Breaking Character:
    • To some, Chomly is a hilarious and fun character due to his manic personality. To others, he's vindictive and petty, due to how he treated Flain and Slumbo in "Fang Gang Log Toss".
    • Booger is divided between the fandom. Some like him for being a unique background Mixel, while others dislike him for being the focus of the finale, taking away from the established toy-based characters.
  • Broken Base:
    • The Glorp Corp caused a major argument between the fandom on whether or not the members were going to be female or continue to be male. Eventually, information released with them as male.
    • Later, when Gobba went instead of Jawg with the rest of the tribe leaders in "Mixed Up Special", there was a giant rift caused in the fandom on whether Jawg or Gobba was the leader.
    • Every Knight Has Its Day got some negativity for not giving all three of the Series 7 tribes a major spotlight with one character, Tapsy, being completely absent from the episode. You can either see this a way to develop characters by not cramming too many major characters all in just one episode, or a lazy collaboration between the show and toy series.
    • Thanks to Jamzy being voiced by a female voice actor, the fandom has been heated with arguements regarding Jamzy's gender.
  • Cult Classic: Despite only having 26 episodes and being overshadowed by many other Cartoon Network shows at the time, the show developed a dedicated fanbase that enjoys and wishes for a return for the franchise.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • The fandom loves Scorpi. And Nurp-Naut is climbing in the ranks just as high as him.
    • After Mixel Moon Madness, the Glowkies (Well, Globert and Vampos at least.) are very popular in the fandom.
    • Vaka-Waka is one, probably due to his funny German accent and having two heads with different personalities that makes him a funny and likable character.
    • Some of the background Mixels in Every Knight has its Day are this, particularly Booger, the Glowkie student, and the Teacher, who is the first female Mixel on the show.
  • Fan Nickname:
    • Flamzer was given the nickname "Shrimp Boy" by Mixels Wiki members. Vaka-Waka is "The Destroyer".
    • Before their tribe name was revealed, fans jokingly gave the Weldos the nickname of the "Constructicons".
    • The Glowkie student that formed the Royal Mix along with the Medivals, Jamzy, and Booger in Every Knight has its Day has been nicknamed "The Smol Glowkie" due to his tiny size.
    • The Mixels Wiki has given almost all of the QFM and EKHID introduced background characters a placeholder name based on the winning vote of the placeholder names vote.
    • Five of the adult Mixels introduced in "Every Knight Has It's Day" (Principal Knave, Ranger Jinx, the Frosticon Narrator, the Flexer Teacher, and the Muncho Coach) are all five commonly collectively referred to as "The Mixadults".
  • Fanon: One of the most common fan ideas suggested is that the core members of the tribes are brothers, bar a couple. This comes from the fact that the 2015 waves of the established tribes are called the "cousins" of the original iterations of the tribes. note 
  • Fan-Preferred Couple:
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Earlier on, some fans made their fan tribes based on pirates, police, firefighting, knights, music, etc. Later, in 2016, Series 7-9 has official tribes based on those themes.
  • Ho Yay: The fandom tends to do this with the Mixels, especially with Series 1 and Series 4 due to lack of female-specific Mixels.
  • It's Short, So It Sucks!: One of the biggest complaints about the series is that the short nature doesn't help when it comes to character development, and only leaves the audience wanting more.
  • Just Here for Godzilla: Most people are here just to see their LEGO sets on screen, and others just to see the animation style or the famous voice actors.
  • Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Flain. Either he gets shipped with canon Mixels or fan characters.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • Rokit's derp face from Mixel Moon Madness has become popular with fans, most notably on DeviantArt.
    • Helloooo ladies!
    • After the release of A Quest for The Lost Mixamajig's commercial, fan art depicting their fan characters holding the key of the Mixamajig and calling themselves "The Chosen One" started swarming in the fandom.
    • Chomly got six.
    • Are you deranged? I would love to have my ass kissed all day. note 
  • Moe:
    • Scorpi. The fandom loved him when only an image was shown, their love multiplied tenfold when his official information came out and he was shown in motion. Even characters in-show comment on his cuteness!
    • The Nurp side of Nurp-Naut qualifies as well, being a little baby voiced by an actual child.
  • Narm Charm: The series is widely beloved by many because it openly embraces it's wacky and crazy side with little remorse, with it clear that everyone involved in the series' production is having an absolute blast in bringing the titular creatures' wonderful world to life.
  • Overshadowed by Controversy: Turg was originally called a "windowlicker" in the online store's description, which was an archaic, yet still offensive term in Britain. After a media frenzy, his bio was modified.
  • Scrappy Mechanic: The teleporter beams in Calling All Mixels. One touch and you're zapped back to the start of the section. Naturally, the game has plenty of them, especially during timed levels.
  • Squick: Krader's burnt bu- er... south in Hot Lava Shower.
  • Ugly Cute: A few of the Mixels (such as the Fang Gang and the Glorp Corp) and some of the resulting Murps (especially the Flain/Krader one).
  • Viewer Gender Confusion: Jamzy is often mistaken for a girl thanks to having a female voice actor.
  • The Woobie:
    • Seismo in "Coconapple". Not only can he not reach his favorite snack, but Zorch makes him mix and then go flying, injuring himself in the process. And finally, he gets knocked unconscious by the coconapple he wanted to eat in the first place (which Zorch ends up getting).
    • Camillot for the majority of "Every Knight Has Its Day". It's obvious all he wants is friends, but his blunders only leave him ostracized and laughed at by everyone. It isn't until the climax that he's able to bring himself around.

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