YMMV / The Fight for the FoxBox

• Accidental Aesop: Thanks to hindsight from the years since then, one could make the argument that sometimes, Wanting Is Better Than Having, for the villains, being tired of being defeated by the heroes all the time, went through with a plan that may have given them what they wanted in the short term, but in the long run, left many of them forgotten, or worse. Even the few that are still well remembered saw the shutdown ultimately amount to nothing.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Following the end of Fox Box/4Kids TV, the end of this special counts, and the Big Bad Wayne likely had got what he wanted.
  • Even harsher? This is a plan Gone Horribly Right; you could argue that the villains may be regretting their decision, since many of them have gone from being beaten all the time, which led to them agreeing to Wayne's plan to begin with, to becoming straight up forgotten in the years since then. Wayne himself is among the forgotten, with those who do remember him and his show not remembering it fondly. In some ways, it's actually worse than what they were dealing with before.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: On the other hand, this is the first time Sonic and Kirby had a crossover, fake or otherwise. In fact, this is the first time any Nintendo property had anything of a proper crossover with Sonic. While Sega had been putting their games on Nintendo's systems a year prior, this could be seen as one of the first real signs that the two companies, who were once bitter rivals, were on their way to truly burying the hatchet.
  • Fortunately, the franchises for Kirby, Sonic, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles continue into the present day. While Cubix may have faded to oblivion, three of the main four are alive and well.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • This isn't the last time that Kirby and Sonic met.
  • Over a decade after this special aired, an entire genre of similarly cobbled-together crossovers would arise on the internet, many of them involving some of the same shows as this one.
  • A very early issue of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) had the Ninja Turtles appear for one panel, commenting on on how they're in the wrong comic book. If we consider Turtles Forever to have established a multiverse, and it extends beyond what we saw in that film, and Archie Sonic itself had crossovers with Sonic Underground and the comic version of Sonic X, as well as two crossovers with Mega Man (Archie Comics) (the second one of which also has crossovers with different franchises, including Sonic Boom), and if we consider the Sonic here separate from the Sonic of the actual anime...apparently, several different versions of Sonic exist in the Ninja Turtles multiverse.
  • On that note, this isn't the first time any of the Ninja Turtles met a bunch of cartoon characters. Nor was it the last.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Minor example. Wayne's Slasher Smile is kind of creepy during The Reveal as he's facing the audience while declaring that he'll destroy the FoxBox. After kicking Lucien down the stairs, it cuts to a variation of The Cramp Twins' logo showing Wayne's head giving a disturbing The Bad Guy Wins kind of smile to the viewer.
  • The end of the special, in which the narrator advertises the upcoming new shows/episodes...but says the audience may never know if they don't have the codes. The music distorts with creepy static as he tells you the website.
  • Depending on who you are, looking back on this after the Fox Box/4Kids TV's end may only amplify this.
• Production-Related Period Piece: The film itself is this; it was made as a promotional tool for the Fox Box block, which changed its name in 2005 to 4Kids TV even before it shut down entirely in 2008, dating it to a time when the block actually existed. Even before that, many of the shows on the block had been cancelled prior to the block's eventual shutdown, with only Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) managing to survive beyond the block by doing a Channel Hop to Toonzai (then known as the CW4kids) for its final episodes...before that show itself got cancelled following Peter Laird's sale of the franchise to Nickelodeon. Sonic X managed to survive in reruns long after its end, but even that stopped when Vortexx shut down. Heck, many of the shows here have become long forgotten, and even the franchises that continue have either seen at least one Continuity Reboot, or have otherwise moved on from the older versions represented here.
• Signature Scene: One could argue that the interrogation bit is the best scene of the special, since it manages to put one show's character into another show's setting, and is the only scene to do so without the use of monitors.
• So Bad, It's Good: It's cobbled together from different shows, and it hasn't aged well at all, but it's still an entertaining look back at what the Fox Box was like, and in some cases, showing how the characters from these shows interact with each other. It's blatant advertising at its finest, but if nothing else, it's fun to see these characters trying to save a TV block in Stock Footage.

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