History YMMV / TheAnnotatXperiment

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Some of the annotations note how creepy Mother Brain is.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation
* AwesomeMusic: Some of them actually like the "surf music" used in some DiCEntertainment shows.
* DudeNotFunny: Bouchedags was mercilessly ripped apart for its racial stereotyping, misogyny and making light of various mental and physical handicaps.
-->*audience doesn't laugh*
** A few were like this when Santa started to cry in Christmas Comes To Pacland.
** A lot had trouble with the more serious parts of Tricky People what with child molestation hitting a little too close for home
* EnsembleDarkhorse: There's almost always ONE character that the annotators actually like.
** Cheatsy and Kooky in ''Super Mario Bros 3.'' as well Doug the Bug, who was merely a frequent animation error.)
** BISON!!! *flames* from Street Fighter
** Raiden from Defenders of the Realm. Night Wolf too perhaps due to him taking a level in bad ass in the then recent Mortal Kombat 9, so people were easier on him. And for being genuinely amicable, when everyone seemed to bicker every five seconds, and rarely being useless when he got to head out into the field. Jax and Sonya got just a little less hate near the end when they started to show a little character development.
*** Quan Chi, a recurring [[MortalKombat]] villain, debuted in Defenders of the Realm of all places. For that was referred to as the best original character ever.
** The buzzard (not turkey!) in the Bubsy pilot.
** Simon of ''Captain N: The Annotated Series''.
*** Bizarrely enough, '''[[TheScrappy GAMEBOY]]''' of all people is becoming one as well, aided by "trying to kill" Pit and sporting [[CoolShades bitching sunglasses]] in one episode.
** Santa, from Christmas Comes To Pacland, wasn't really ripped on much by most annotators. Some even were kinda depressed when he started to cry after he realized he missed his deadline for Christmas for the first time.
** The Little Panda Fighter just barely one ups Ratatoing with having a very last minute dark horse: Polaris. In the last five minutes the cartoon gets 'awesomely mean spirited' and Polaris was a chess master and pulled a huge 'deal with it' poise at the end.
* EarWorm: The surf music.
* EvilIsCool: Ganon was complimented among his very first scene in ''The Legend of Zelda: The Annotated Series''.
* {{Fanon}}: Michael in Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue was made out to be Mike from an early episode Captain N: The Game Master. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Despite now being enemies, he and his friends were sincerely distraught by Kevin's disappearance and turned to drugs to cope with the loss.]]
** He's also [[{{Videogame/Darkseed}} Mike Dawson]] as interpreted by {{Retsupurae}}.
* HoYay:
** Some time after the [[HeroicBSOD Heroic BSODs]] expressed throughout Bouchedags, one Annotator admitted the reason he made it all the way through it himself was because he thought Sam was kinda cute.
** [[WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo]], much to the AlternateCharacterInterpretation-induced [[FanDisservice disgust]] of the Annotators. To that end, Kevin and Mike as well.
* IAmNotShazam: Despite this page's name, the Annotators have never had an official name for their group. The YouTube channel is named after the fact that they were seeing if it would work, and back when it was on beeupyou's channel everything was just Title: The Annotated Series.
* IdiotPlot: Lampshaded.
* MostWonderfulSound: The Annotators had ''a lot'' of fun with the chicken noises coming from the robots in ''Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Annotated Realm''.
* NeverLiveItDown:
** Sagat in ''Street Fighter: The Annotated Series'' was made fun of for his inability to use a tank to knock down a gate.
** Guile was consistently mocked for the fact that he boasts about Honor, Justice, and Commitment... When, at some point during season 2, he ''used a Sonic Boom on a guy from behind''. It did not help he proceeded to do it again in later episodes. People tend to say he has some sort of compulsion to shoot them from behind with a Sonic Boom, and say something along the lines of "He had his back turned, he was asking for it!".
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Bully Koopa saw some love after bullying (what else?) Kootie Pie and Big-Mouth in one episode.
** The "Surf Music" counts, too. The annotators hated it in ''SMB3'', but have warmed up to it since ''Captain N''.
* RootingForTheEmpire:
** Characters the audience is supposed to hate tend to get the most sympathy.
** Seems to be averted in ''Captain N'', as of current.
** NME, from Armor of Light, just barely passes. Nobody likes the annoying bad guys, except maybe Dark Master's look, the Annotators just despise smarmy protagonists more. Also NME wasn't shown doing anything bad in the special so the kids came off as a bunch of Christian extremists that sabotaged corporate broadcasts and interrupted a vague band contest.
* TheScrappy:
** Given that their work so far consists almost entirely of animated adaptations of works full of already established characters that are already recognisable, most original characters (insistently termed OCs) get a lot of hate. Exceptions to the rule take the other extreme; see the EnsembleDarkhorse entry above.
** In [[CtrlAltDel CAD]], Ethan. One might refer to [[AuthorAvatar Buckley]] himself as such too.
** Super Mario World had Oogtar, Yoshi and Kootie Pie. Any appearance by the latter brought in a running gag of her tolerance meter showing up on screen. It was always quick to max out, and the very last time it literally went off the scale, let out an AtomicFBomb and exploded.
--->''Kootie Pie Tolerance Level: Exceeded''
*** While Oogtar and Yoshi were frequently compared to Mario 3's Toad, they went quite easy on him once they annotated that series. Maybe they realised he could've been much worse.
*** Come Super Mario Bros. 3 they got quite sick of Big-Mouth and Bully Koopa too.
** Nearly EVERYONE from Nutshack with a little less hate for Dickman.
** Stryker seemed to get the most hate out of the heroes of Mortal Kombat.
** Everyone in Bouchedags.
** While the cast of the Bubsy pilot were generally disliked, Terri and Terry got the worst reception by far, even more so than Bubsy himself.
** Everyone from {{Ratatoing}}. Even the VILLAINS were terrible, since they never really had any good ideas throughout the film.
*** Continuing with the Video Brinquedo hate, everyone from The Little Panda Fighter sans Polaris was hated, especially Beth, The bear bitch that shows no character development other than: "Pandas are so ridiculous and stupid. Big, muscular, and popular bears are sooo hot~".
** Puff, a OneShotCharacter from ''Captain N,'' was a baby dragon that knew how to say "Mama!" and how to scream. And that was it. Also from Captain N are Kid Icarus, and to a lesser extent Megaman, due to their voices and verbal tics. Gameboy was played up to be this, although it's uncertain so far just how hated he'll be in retrospect.
** The Pause Annotation is becoming this because somebody/ies really likes using it for every slightly off face.
* SoBadItsGood: What their targets often are.
* {{Squick}}: Simon Belmont tearing off Donkey Kong's toenail.

** Raiden from Defenders of the Realm.

** Simon, as of the first episode of ''Captain N: The Annotated Series'', appears to be heading this route to a few.

** Puff, a OneShotCharacter from ''Captain N,'' was a baby dragon that new how to say "Mama!" and how to scream. And that was it. Also from Captain N are Kid Icarus, and to a lesser extent Megaman, due to their voices and verbal tics.