YMMV / No Evil

• Adorkable: Corn, Huey, and Ichabod seem to stand out for this.
• Awesome Music:
  • The ritual to cure Vinkle in Episode 10 has a beautiful rendition of The Wayfaring Stranger sung as a duet between Kitty and Huey, with Calamity joining in towards the end with a rendition of Ain't No Grave. Keep in mind that Betsy Lee voices, and sings, for both Kitty and Calamity, and they sound completely different. Listen to it here- one version with sound effects from the episode, one without.
    • Notably, this rendition of Wayfaring Stranger only included the first two verses. The third verse was eventually sung in 023 Hollow Victory, and is an absolutely haunting rendition, with Kitty singing in a much softer voice, accompanied by Xochiquetzal's string instrument. The more somber tone definitely is appropriate, considering the name of the episode, and the fact that Ichabod is affected by Black Ick despite the cleansing ritual having removed the rest of it. Listen to it here.
  • Quetzalcoatl's theme, Soft Child, from the episode of the same name, is a piece that perfectly captures Corn's character. It starts off with a music box tune showing his immaturity and frailty compared to the rest of the cast, adding in some mystic sounding flutes around the time he lashes out at Calamity, as a reminder that, despite his demeanor, he still has some bite to him. The whole piece conveys a melancholy, almost broken character; those who have read the prequel comic will know that Corn was born during the first Black Ick crisis, which probably affected him in ways far worse than any of the rest of the cast. Listen to it here.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • We know that Kitty drove away Amoraq, but we don't know the details other than it involved fishing, and his tail is now messed up. As it turns out, there is a myth that involves Kajortoq (AKA the mythological figure Kitty is based on) tricking Amoraq into using his tail as a fishing pole in a frozen lake. He doesn't catch anything, and when he tries to pull his tail out, it's badly injured. Something similar probably happened here- granted, the myth ends with Kajortoq eating Amoraq, so the parallels aren't exact. Episode 34 confirms that this is exactly what happened, but the reason he was driven away was due to the fact that McCoy acted so callously to his tail being mangled, and that a family in McCoy was willing to get rid of a baby due to the fact that their father was from Hatfield.
  • In the prequel comic Judgement, it's stated that each of the four Teszcatlipoca- Red, White, Blue, Black- correspond to a specific virtue- Judgement, Mercy, Liberation, and Peace, in that order. The Black Tezcatlipoca, representing peace, being a sleeping sickness makes a lot more sense; after all, if everyone in the world went to sleep, it would be a lot more peaceful.
  • In Conduct, Ichabod is able to control lightning using Tlaloc's tuning fork. Due to his avian nature, this technically makes him a thunderbird.
• Genius Bonus: A character known as "Mother Spider" is known to have taken care of Xochipili, Xochiquetzal and Ixilton at some point in the past. There's not much known about them, but they correspond to The Great Goddess of Teotihuacan, also known as the "Spider-Woman", a deity with little known about them that predates the Aztecs.
• Heartwarming Moments: Subject to many with its fantastical slice of life premise. Highlights include:
  • Icky devoting all his focus to finding a cure for Vinkle after the black ick reappears in spite of the love triangle between the two of them and Wrip. It proves that, even with a conflict of interests, the two of them are friends first and hold no ill will.
  • Calamity selecting Huey as a user of the fork because he's the first person she would ever trust with finding something that was lost. In the same vein, Icky being able to use the fork proves just how close and loving their relationship even as different as they are.
  • Icky and Calamity during the first Tezcatlipoca crisis, full stop. The prequel comic Judgement first confirms their status as siblings and spends a good chunk of their panel time with Icky carrying Calamity on his back while they travel, Calamity protecting a punch-drunk Icky from a Black Tezcatlipoca construct, Icky waiting hand and foot on Calamity when she's infected by the black ick, and Icky flat out embracing Kitty in gratitude when her song is able to give Calamity a small amount of relief.
  • Kitty and Corn have a dynamic very similar to that of a mother and son. When Corn was first born in Judgment, he would cry nonstop if anyone but Kitty held him. Cut to the main series and one of the early episodes shows Kitty dressing Corn with winter clothing she hand sewed and later her losing her temper at Huey for plotting to scare him. When tasked to get Corn so they can perform the ritual that will cure Vinkle, Wrip outright says that the only person who can get Corn to do anything is Kitty.
  • While rather harsh to most of the cast in Judgement, Murder seems to have a soft spot for Ichabod, as she takes note of his anxiety over being an important part of solving the crisis and tries to share some calming wisdom with him. When he passes out after getting too excited, she chews Xochipilli out for putting so much pressure on the boy's shoulders.
  • Xochiquetzal giving the Ick to Charles when he promises to save Ichabod. Pity Charles is such an asshole, really.
• Ho Yay: Kitty and Paula are shown to be very close, with, for example, Paula instantly knowing that leaving a job unfinished was out of character for Kitty when even Ichabod, in many ways Kitty's adopted son, didn't catch it. They're also shown picnicking together, and neither has shown any romantic or sexual interest in men. There's a reason that one of the most popular pairings on the tumblr side of the fandom is "Kitaula".
• Magnificent Bastard: Mahtigwess, better known as Wrip, is a rabbit spirit who hides a skilled illusionist and cunning trickster beneath her Southern Belle charm. Wrip first shows her quick thinking when helping the lizard spirit Calamity track down who stole the food of Hatfield village, and spies on brigands from McCoy who sought to starve out their rivals. Pretending to reward them for their theft, Wrip leads them to a well and signals for Calamity's water magic to suck them in, intending to teach them a lesson by starving them to near death over a month. Using her alchemical magic to create illusions, Wrip takes the form of the mother figure of the shy snake spirit Corn to trick him into healing her lover, the lynx sprit Vinkle, and later breaks up a violent confrontation between the feuding villages by weaving an illusion of how she first met Vinkle by getting the better of him while he was hunting her.
• Nightmare Fuel: Anything to do with the Black Tezcatlipoca is horrifying.
  • As of the episode "Black Bart", Charles now has two pieces of the seal on the Black Tezcatlipoca, having ripped the earpieces off Xochipilli, and unlike Ixtlilton, we get to see the black ooze pour from his ears and encase him!
• Visual Effects of Awesome:
  • No Evil may be one of the few animated works to attempt to portray real-time sign language; as in, characters are speaking, but they're simultaneously signing words to go with it, and they're doing it quickly, too. While a minor detail, it's still an impressive feat, considering that you have to both lip-sync the voice actors to the animation and synchronize rapid-fire hand movements to the lips.
  • The series itself, for a flash animated one, takes extreme pains to make sure it's animated fluidly and detailed. "And The Raven Brought Fire" is one of the best examples.
  • Although arguably less impressive than the previous examples, No Evil does away with "blue water" and instead portrays it as a clear liquid. This is very rare in animation and gives it a notably more unique appearance, seen best in Tlaloc's Test.
• The Woobie: Poor, poor Corn...