YMMV / The Cartoon Hero

• Archive Panic: The Cartoon Hero is probably one of the most prolific reviewers outside of Channel Awesome with 350 episodes and counting.
• Awesome Music:
  • "The Greatest Show Unearthed" by Creature Feature. When combined with the nightmare-inducing animations in the intro to So Bad It's Horrible Halloween, the result is pretty Creepy Awesome.
  • Season 5 had the song It's Not My Time by 3 Doors Down and it matched perfectly with the imagery shown during the intro. Just perfect.
• Broken Base:
  • As of 2016 he brought up his politician beliefs (particular with plenty of take thats against Donald Trump) which some people don't mind but made other people feel annoyed and/or say will date his videos in no time.
  • His Rock-A-Doodle review. A decent review that brings up his own opinions or a copycat (if angrier) version of the Nostalgia Critic's review of it?
• Critic-Proof: In the beginning, the Hero had a low-quality camera, clearly read from a script, and at first didn't even have a real personality — yet somehow, on the TGWTG forums and in his later videos, his views were almost even with Diamanda Hagan. To be fair, though, he did fix those problems later.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Number 6 is very popular amongst the fans because of his married couple like interactions with the Hero which are amongst the funniest moments of the series.
• Friendly Fandoms: With Anime Abomination, TV Trash, and The Hardcore Kid, due to their occasional crossovers.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • In his Hey Arnold! The Movie review, he said that Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie would probably never be made due to being stuck in development hell for over 10 years. Several months later…
  • At the end of his Samurai Jack review, he gives a speech about never giving up your dreams and he also tells his audience that just because someone says your work is terrible and you don't deserve another chance, that you should never stop doing what you love to do. About two years later, Samurai Jack finally got its chance to continue.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!:
  • His Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within review got some heat from audiences who felt that he was too mean to this movie.
  • He got some heat from the DCEU fanbase for his scathing attack on Man of Steel, which he even acknowledged and apologized for in his Justice League: War review… only for him to make fun of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, pretty much undoing his apology in the process. (Though to be fair, he was much nicer about that.)
• He Really Can Act: In the Tales of Symphonia review, he starts off on the verge of tears due to Six's death in the previous episode. And for some audience members, his delivery got them choked up as well.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: During his review of Delgo, he wonders why it was on the So Bad, It's Horrible page, due to him finding that the film was more generic and dull than “horrible.” Indeed, this was exactly the reason the film was removed from the page just under a year later.
  • During the beginning of the Alice in Wonderland review, which was also the last part of March of the So Bad, It's Horribles, he found it “messed up” that Delgo was on the So Bad, It's Horrible page but Foodfight! wasn't. Several years later everyone seems to have come realized this as well since the former was removed from the site while the latter one was added to it.
  • In mid-July of 2023, Eli did a Patreon-requested video talking about Cybersix and how it can be bought on DVD, even though said DVDs had fallen out of print. A few weeks after that, Discotek Media announced that they would be re-releasing Cybersix on Blu-ray.
• Inferred Holocaust: One apparently happened in the future Number Six came from. We even hear the last few moments of numbers 7-9…
• Special Effects Failure: During the In Search of the Titanic (a.k.a. Tentacolino) review, there's a flash when the Cartoon Villain kills Nina Galas/alternate good Diamanda Hagan but it's not until a second later that you hear the explosion.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The beginning of his Tales of Symphonia review.
  • In his Avatar: The Last Airbender review: The "In Honor of Mako" was already quite touching in the series, but what is just as emotional is that immediately after this scene we get to see the Hero doing a Military Salute towards Mako.
  • The Series Finale. Hoo boy, the series finale: Hero dies after saving the world one more time. Six then chooses to save his life by sacrificing himself by combining their minds in a new reincarnated mind of a newborn child from another universe. Eli Stone's performance where Six reacts to the Hero's inevitable demise really sells the whole episode.
  • Meta: Eli Stone had announced to retire the Cartoon Hero in 2018, which he managed to achieve in 2019 with the release of his 350th episode, which still hits hard with a lot of fans.

---