YMMV / Watership Down (1999)

• Awesome Music: Mike Batt, who wrote "Bright Eyes" in the film, returned to make some awesome tracks.
• Creepy Cute: Silverweed. Creepy mystic, invades Fiver's mind yet somehow he's adorable at the same time.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Hawkbit usually complains and makes sarcastic remarks and at one point even calls Fiver a curse on the warren but considering Bigwig works him to near exhaustion and he's reduced to panicked sobbing in one episode, it's hard not to feel sorry for him.
  • Vervain of all characters could be seen as this. He's a lying, rude and paranoid scumbag throughout the series but by the third season, he's completely terrified most of the time and is pretty much the Butt-Monkey of Woundwort's army.
• The Scrappy: A lot of fans hate Primrose for being manipulative, self-centered, and good at nothing else. Particularly jarring if you realize that she's supposed to be Hyzenthlay, who in the book was intelligent, had a great deal of common sense and was a seer on top of it. Primose, in contrast, has few of those Hidden Depths, though she has her moments.
• Strangled by the Red String: Campion and Blackberry. In the season 2 finale, they meet very briefly and barely have time to speak to each other before Campion's apparent death and their consequential separation. Of course, they pine for each other, and all the other characters, who are strangely aware the two's feelings for each other, try to comfort them for their losses.
• The Woobie:
  • In addition to the examples above, there's Bark the rather needy badger - the Sole Survivor of her clan, living in a sett and terribly lonely.^note Makes more sense when you realize Bark is a European Badger, which are highly social, versus an American Badger, which are the famously grumpy, solitary ones.
  Fiver: Get it over with! Stop tormenting me! Just go ahead and kill me!
  Bark: Bark...not kill. Bark help.
  Fiver (startled): ...Why?
  Bark: You...hurt. Bark, knows hurt. No-one help Bark when she hurt. Sad to hurt. Sad, to be lonely. Let Bark help. *offers paw*
  • Corporal Aspen from the 3rd season is introduced as an adorable Kindhearted Simpleton. He's only there for one episode and the only character he interacts with is Vervain before he gets killed off by a weasel.
  • Campion also fits the bill. Sometimes.

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