Unikitty! / YMMV - TV Tropes

And You Thought It Would Fail: Many detractors expressed worry about the show, especially considering it was advertised as being from people who worked on Teen Titans Go! (in reality, just the same animation development team, though Aaron Horvath is a staff member), but it has proven to be good to many people and profitable for the network.
Ensemble Dark Horse:
- Being the first antagonist faced, the Score Creeper from "Spoooooky Game" is pretty popular with the fans.
- Along with Master Frown, the other Doom Lords have seen a good share of popularity with the fans, being extra villains that pose a much stronger threat than Frown himself does, with cool designs to boot.
Foe Yay Shipping: Some fans like to ship Unikitty and Master Frown. With the latter often portrayed as a Loving Bully.
Genius Bonus: In "Kaiju Kitty", when the gang call out "Shining Mecha Kitty Turbo V!", Puppycorn instead calls out "Shining Mecha Kitty Turbo Five!". Pooch may be dumb, but he knows his Roman numerals.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Although the series is barely aired at all in the United States, it's absolutely HUGE in the United Kingdom. In fact, its popularity there has reached almost memetic levels:
- Its premiere at the Haymarket Odeon cinema was touted as the UK's very first "cat premiere", featuring actual cats, some of which had fake horns on their heads!
- Its UK TV premiere managed to garner 163,000 viewers, beating even free-to-air channels like CITV.
- The episode "Scary Tales", which was aired in America as the 2018 Halloween special, aired months earlier in the UK.
- Oh yes, and the tie-in LEGO sets that were released in August in the US? They were released a full three months early in Tesco stores across the UK, and would later get into LEGO stores and other toy retailers the next month.
Heartwarming Moments: Anytime Unikitty shows love for her brother Puppycorn, often calling him the most important person in the world to her, and doing anything to make him happy. She really is a good sister.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- We now have an idea what Tara Strong's take on Pinkie Pie would have sounded like.
- People initially thought that Unikitty was voiced by Tara Strong in The LEGO Movie. Now this incarnation really is voiced by her.
- As well, Unikitty's Japanese dubbed voice in The LEGO Movie is Miyuki Sawashiro, who also voices Twilight Sparkle in Friendship is Magic, the same role that Tara Strong originated.
Ho Yay: Master Frown and Brock have a ton of this. Not only is Brock the one thing Frown actually cares about, but "Top of the Naughty List" implies he kisses Brock goodnight (on the lips, even) every night. In "Batkitty", Frown becomes The Joker to Unikitty's Batman... And Brock becomes his Harley Quinn.
- In "Stuck Together" this episode establishes that one of Master Frown's favorite things are Brock's cookies. Additionally, when Brock gives Frown one to calm him down, Unikitty comments on how cute they are.
- "Dinner Apart-y", especially the ending, is full of Master Frown/Brock moments. While they were fighting during the actual party, Brock revealed to Master Frown that it was their roommate anniversary, and he wanted to invite the whole kingdom, but only Unikitty and Puppycorn came. Master Frown deeply appreciates the party, because of how chaotic it was, and blushes while hugging Brock.
- In "Beach Daze", there's a scene in which Brock 'kisses' Master Frown with lovely music and sparkles in the Background. However, Brock did so because he thought that Master Frown couldn't breathe when he was only being tackled by Hawkodile.
- In "Top of the Naughty List", Master Frown was about to give Brock a goodnight kiss, but they were interrupted by Unikitty and her friends busting open the door.^note
- As confirmed by Careen Ingle on Twitter, they share one bedroom and sleep in the same bed.
- In Brock: Most Wanted, when the Doom Lords offer a job to Brock, Master Frown laughs and says he won't because Brock is a "sweetie pie." In the end, Master Frown crashes Brock's Doom Lord Initiation and ruins it to stop him from becoming one. When Frown explains everything to him, Brock's eyes shine and they blush. Also, when Brock grabs his hands, Master Frown looks surprised and glances down a couple times.
- In The Birthday To End All Birthdays, while Unikitty and her friends fight Master Frown, Brock says to him "spending time and doing dumb stuff with you is my favourite thing in the whole world," and Master Frown stops to look at him. In the end after they defeat Master Doom, they hug and blush, and shortly after Brock kisses him on the cheek.
Memetic Mutation:
- LOVE IS NO MATCH FOR THE SUN!!! ^note
- Taking screenshots of the characters' facial expressions and/or reactions has become a growing trend on sites like DeviantArt and Tumblr.
Moe: Unikitty, Puppycorn, Dr. Fox... Let's just say everyone, for being adorable LEGO-esque Ridiculously Cute Critter, fitting with the show's nature.
Nightmare Fuel:
- The results of Dr Fox's story in "Scary Tales" is really traumatizing. It involves her being hunted down and eventually devoured by a candy monster, all while documented. Before her story ends, it reveals that she somehow fused with the monster and devours her own arm!
- Episode 25 – Buggin’ Out The episode begins harmlessly enough with Unikitty refusing to squish a scary, but ultimately harmless tiny little spider and releases it outdoors...When it spawns a literal flood of spiders on the kingdom next morning. They're cross the line from scary, to silly, and back into scary! These include:Puppycorn finding spider covering his butter... and opening the fridge to find EVERYTHING covered by spider in a disturbingly realistic way by anyone whose had to deal with an infestation. One of Dr. Fox's robot assistants reaches for her hand as his is covered by spiders and sinks into the swarm begging, "Tell my story." Hawkadile grabs a training dummy as a shield, and begs it to protect him, only for its mouth to rip open and spiders to come out. Normally unflappable Richard is brushing his teeth when spiders start coming out of the shower, the faucet, and yes, the toilet... he sees them on the counter and pulls out his tooth brush... and sees the spiders on the bristles. Richard rams a hole through bathroom door as he (and us) screams in terror! Then the spiders cover the screen.And to add insult to injury, Abagail (the original spider), has grown much larger. Unikitty thinks they can co-exists with the spiders (after Dr. Fox says their population explosion is gonna overrun the planet)... and the spiders wrap them in webs as soon as their guard is down. Then after Unikitty finally goes Ridley Scott (Aliens) on the arachnids, she ultimately spares Abagail again... and we skip the royal court outside the castle, with Dr. Fox saying they just need to wait a few years for the spider colony to collapses, and the episode ends with the spiders having grown to kaiju size. You get the feeling one of the show's writers show had Arachnophobia.
- "Roadtrip Ruckus": With Rick's tour drive turns into the roadtrip from Hell with (disturbing hitchhiker, blown tire, bathroom break, that Hawkadile had to fight SOMETHING(S?) inside, needing to go a bathroom because Puppcorn bought a soda at the gas station), and an "Evil Truck" on top of it all. Rick uses the warp drive Dr. Fox installed to get ahead of it. What follows defies all reason and logic with real life lego blocks, spitting out their own van while they're inside it, Puppycorn aging into a husk because he has his head out the window before being pulled back inside, being cooked with beacon and egg, attacked by a real life giant eagle implied to be Hawkadile's father...
One-Scene Wonder: Lego Batman (voiced by Will Arnett himself) at the end of BatKitty.
One True Threesome: Brock and Master Frown are confirmed to be romantically together by the creators, and remain as a popular ship. Some fans like to put Unikitty into the mix due to the appeal of Foe Yay Shipping between her and Master Frown.
Portmanteau Couple Name:
- Brock + Master Frown = Frock
- Doctor Fox + Hawkodile = Foxodile
- Master Frown + Unikitty = Unifrown
Squick:
- In "Tasty Heist" Richard sips the soup, with the same spoon he was stirring it with and puts it back into the pot.
- And in "Roadtrip Ruckus" Esteban has a fly fly onto his open eye and then he licks it off.
Sweetness Aversion: For some, the show can be a little too sweet.
Viewer Gender Confusion: Combined with her name, slightly masculine appearance, and androgynous voice, it is very easy to think Craig, the moose farmer, is male. However, supplemental Word of God from director Careen Ingle has confirmed her as female.
Viewer Species Confusion: Some people have mistaken Dr. Fox as a cat on first glance, thanks to lacking the "tufts" that are often associated with fox designs.
The Woobie:
- Richard in end of "Film Fest", he won but nobody understood what his movie was supposed to be, much to his disappointment.
- Unikitty herself also becomes this in "Election Day", where during an argument with Master Frown, she declares an election to see who'll be the better princess. This begins to backfire horribly on her, as all her friends, her own brother, and pretty much everyone else in the kingdom other than Dr. Fox, Hawkodile, and Richard, has a huge out-of-character experience, booing off Unikitty and siding with Frown. Dr. Fox tries to help her by giving her a totally not noticeable camera helmet, in order to record Frown in his bad moments, which results in even more bashing when Frown makes her seem like the villain in the story. At the ending, Unikitty gives a speech which finally gets her some love back, but not even the love of her own brother, who votes for Master Frown. This turns out to be All for Nothing, with the candidates votes tying up, and Ted Butter becoming princess, who begins ruling the kingdom with the iron fist.

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