History SalvagedStory / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDRagonPrince'':

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeDistantLands'': Despite "Come Along With Me" receiving critical acclaim by critics, it is considered one of the most divisive finales of the decade, with the number one reason being Finn and Jake's role in it: reduced to secondary characters, having no major role whatsoever during the second half, Finn not partaking in the final battle against [[FinalBoss GOLB]] and spending the majority of the episode EatenAlive alongside Simon and Betty, no closure to his love life and having no significant scenes during the [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue ending montage]] other than the end. The third special of the ''Distant Lands'' miniseries, "Together Again", addresses most of the criticism from the finale, being advertised as the definitive finale to Finn and Jake's adventures, as the special is centered around Finn and Jake [[spoiler:reuniting themselves after their deaths in the Death Worlds, culminating in a final battle against the returning Lich before their reincarnation.]] However, ''most'' is the keyword: while it addressed a lot of the issues from the finale, some of the issues from it, like the lack of closure to Finn's love life and [[spoiler:what happened to Ooo after the finale]], aren't addressed.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeFionnaAndCake'' addresses one criticism from ''Distant Lands'' and the finale right from the very start: Finn's relationship with Huntress Wizard. "Simon Petrikov" implies that they're still together.

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** Everyone expected Finn to lose his arm since "Mortal Folly", to the point where it became an recurring element throhough the series, as it show alternate versions of Finn (from other universes, past incarnations or alternate futures) with his right arm either missing or replaced with a robotic one. When it finally happened during the Season 6 premiere, despite the shocking moment, no one was surprised. And then, four episodes later, Finn recovers his arm at the end of "Breezy", which angered a lot of fans. This issue was later addressed in the Season 7 finale "Reboot", where not only Finn loses his arm for good, [[spoiler:which unites itself with the Finn Sword, fusing together and becoming Fern in the process]], but he also gets a robotic arm in the Season 8 premiere.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeDistantLands'': Despite "Come Along With Me" receiving critical acclaim by critics, it is considered one of the most divisive finales of the decade, with the number one reason being Finn and Jake's role in it: reduced to secondary characters, having no major role whatsoever during the second half, Finn not partaking in the final battle against [[FinalBoss GOLB]] and spending the majority of the episode EatenAlive alongside Simon and Betty, no closure to his love life and having no significant scenes during the [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue ending montage]] other than the end. The third special of the ''Distant Lands'' miniseries, "Together Again", adresses most of the criticism from the finale, being advertised as the definitive finale to Finn and Jake's adventures, as the special is centered around Finn and Jake [[spoiler:reuniting themselves after their deaths in the Death Worlds, culminating in a final battle against the returning Lich before their reincarnation.]] However, ''most'' is the keyword: while it addressed a lot of the issues from the finale, some of the issues from it, like the lack of closure to Finn's love life and [[spoiler:what happened to Ooo after the finale]], aren't adressed.

** After Quagmire was rewritten into a TakeThatScrappy avatar who loathed and called out Brian on a regular basis, some fans complained it was overdone or skewed due to Quagmire's own shortcomings. Later episodes TookAThirdOption and made Brian hate Quagmire back, with both characters trading equal blows and calling out each other's hypocrisies, usually with neither character portrayed as particularly more moral than the other.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': The Quasar and Pat-Tron segments get a major revamp in "Blorpsgiving" through both characters' recharacterization. Quasar goes from being an obnoxious MilesGloriosus to being more emotional and dramatic FishOutOfWater compared to Pat-Tron's family, making his character more entertaining and sympathetic. With most of the conflict focusing on Quasar's misguided attempts to impress one of Pat-Tron's relatives, Pat-Tron's LethallyStupid nature is dialed down. While he does cause trouble at the start, he's mostly out of the story after it and even manages to save Quasar in the end. It also helps that their appearance is the main story this time around, rather than being {{padding}} to a completely unrelated one.

** In general, [[WinBackTheCrowd Book 3]] was this to [[SophomoreSlump Book 2]] in correcting numerous mistakes from [[CharacterRerailment re-railing]] several characters that had been turned into [[TookALevelInJerkass jerks]], [[TookALevelInDumbass idiots]] and/or were made [[BadassDecay weak]], giving a proper reason for ''why'' Korra had been [[GildedCage secluded]] instead of [[PoorCommunicationKills the White Lotus messing up Aang's wishes]], more [[VillainHasAPoint compelling]] and [[EvilIsCool cooler]] [[BigBad villains]] to overall getting back to the franchise's CentralTheme that meant the ''[[ActionGirl women]]'' were rivaling the men in competence again.

** "The Red Throne" was considered by many fans as one of the most reviled and hated episodes of the series, if not the worst, due to Finn acting like an immature teenager trying to win Flame Princess back after their already controversial break-up in "Frost and Fire" and "Earth and Water" while trying (and ruining every attempt) to help her reclaim the throne, Cinnamon Bun becoming smart via an AssPull and the ending, with Cinnamon Bun saving the day and declaring his love to FP. Season 7's "Bun Bun" not only reunites the two again after not talking to each other for an entire season, but none of the events of "The Red Throne" are mentioned or referenced whatsoever in the episode and the rest of the series, meaning that most of the episode was retconned from the series (that and the Fire Lord being removed from the series due to Roddy Piper's death).

** The extensive LoveTriangle subplot between Korra, Mako, and Asami in Book 1 of was widely panned as bring rushed, getting in the way of the real story involving the Equalists, and ultimately feeling shallow and unsatisfying. Season 4 featured a ClipShow episode with the first segment exclusively dedicated to Mako's messy love life, with side characters pointing out all the mistakes that Mako made. Mako ends up agreeing with them and admitting his mistakes, in what was basically an apology to the fans.
** In general, [[WinBackTheCrowd Book 3]] was this to [[SophomoreSlump Book 2]] in correcting numerous mistakes from [[CharacterRerailment re-railing]] several characters that had been turned into [[TookALevelInJerkass jerks]], [[TookALevelInDumbass idiots]] and/or [[BadassDecay weak]], giving a proper reason for ''why'' Korra had been [[GildedCage secluded]] instead of [[PoorCommunicationKills the White Lotus messing up Aang's wishes]], more [[VillainHasAPoint compelling]] and [[EvilIsCool cooler]] [[BigBad villains]] to overall getting back to the franchise's CentralTheme that meant the ''[[ActionGirl women]]'' were rivaling the men in competence again.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Many fans did not like Rainbow's fate at the end of the Season One episode "Mime For A Change", where in the girls beat him up and sent him to jail ''after'' he was [[HeelFaceTurn reformed]]. Perhaps to rectify this, he is seen again at the girls' birthday party in the season two episode "Birthday Bash" as a free and happy clown. What helps is that the writers never intended to hurt Rainbow at the end of "Mime".

* ''AuthorsSavingThrow/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
* ''AuthorsSavingThrow/StarWarsTheCloneWars''
* ''AuthorsSavingThrow/UltimateSpiderMan2012''
* ''AuthorsSavingThrow/YoungJustice2010''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': One longstanding criticism of ''Videogame/LeagueOfLegends'' is [[OnlyOneFemaleMold the lack of variation regarding its female character designs]], where even with more recent female champions, they tend to have similarly slim builds and [[OnlySixFaces generically "pretty" faces]] regardless of their background. ''[[TheAnimeOfTheGame Arcane]]'' addresses this and adds more variation among the women, and also isn't afraid of having them looking realistically "plain" even within its stylized art style. Preexisting female champions get subtle tweaks that make them better stand out among each other and feel more appropriate, such as giving [[BoxingBattler Vi]] actual [[MusclesAreMeaningful defined muscles]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'':
** Now that he has much more writing experience, Robert Kirkman greatly regrets waiting so long to kill off the Guardians, a {{Shocking Moment|s}} that doesn't happen until Issue #7. The show does it in the first episode after giving us just barely enough time to get attached — if it had happened when it was originally set, it would've happened around the first half of the season and likely wouldn't have attracted as much attention.
** Nolan's fight with the Guardians is significantly expanded on, as Nolan's claim of killing for the sake of weakening Earth's defenses comes off as borderline Narm when they were easily taken care of and evidently not a threat to the Viltrumite. Here, there's more weight to the reasoning.
** Monster Girl is not nearly as flirtatious as she was in her source material, the furthest she gets is playful banter. This makes her character easier to swallow for many people, as someone in a prepubescent girl's body throwing out solicitations strongly veered into Squick territory.
** Several female characters have received more focus and development than they do in the comics where they were more {{satellite character}}s. Notable examples being Debbie and Amber.
** The moment Robot reveals to the Guardians of the Globe that he's a human in a cloned body of Rex's teen self is actually treated like an issue. In the comics, the moment was brushed over pretty much immediately, but here, the whole team is concerned with the revelation and many fans were appreciative of the subsequent interactions as a result.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', a three-part episode ("The Savage Time") revolves around the Justice League trying to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong after Vandal Savage usurps control of the Nazis and uses them to conquer the world by way of time travel. They succeed, but the episode ends with [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Hitler about to be cryogenically defrosted and restored to power]]. This led to a massive fan-outcry, to the widespread FridgeHorror that this implied the Justice League had blithely ''ensured that the Holocaust would still happen'' in the process of returning to their own world. It got so bad the producers [[WordOfGod publicly stated]] that Vandal's manipulations meant that Hitler had neither the time nor the resources to enact the Holocaust, having been frozen before he could start and then put back in charge during the end of the Nazis' reign over Germany.

* ''WesternAnimation/KidVsKat'': Season 2 fixed many of the issues people had with season one. Coop's ButtMonkey status was toned down while giving him some victories over Kat, the supporting characters became much more likeable and active (and in some of TheScrappy characters weren't as dislikable compared to Season 1), Coop's new ally and love interest Fiona added more variety to the show and the writing overall improved.
* The extensive LoveTriangle subplot between Korra, Mako, and Asami in Book 1 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' was widely panned as bring rushed, getting in the way of the real story involving the Equalists, and ultimately feeling shallow and unsatisfying. Season 4 featured a ClipShow episode with the first segment exclusively dedicated to Mako's messy love life, with side characters pointing out all the mistakes that Mako made. Mako ends up agreeing with them and admitting his mistakes, in what was basically an apology to the fans. In general, [[WinBackTheCrowd Book 3]] was this after [[SeasonalRot Book 2]] in correcting numerous mistakes from [[CharacterRerailment re-railing]] several characters that had been become [[TookALevelInJerkass jerks]], [[TookALevelInDumbass idiots]] and/or [[BadassDecay weak]], giving a proper reason for ''why'' Korra had been [[GildedCage secluded]] instead of [[PoorCommunicationKills the White Lotus messing up Aang's wishes]], more [[VillainHasAPoint compelling]] and [[EvilIsCool cooler]] [[BigBad villains]] to overall getting back to the franchise's CentralTheme that meant the ''[[ActionGirl women]]'' were rivaling the men in competence again.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' spin-off ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'''s very first episode addressed the long term criticism of ''The Lion King'' promoting "segregation" of the hyenas and the portrayal of them as evil. Jasiri is the first non-antagonistic hyena introduced in the series (the second if you count book canon), and she mentions that the roles hyenas play are just as much a part of the Circle of Life as the lions. It goes so far as to {{retcon}} away the evil nature of hyenas; apparently, they're mostly good as a species, it's just The Pride Lands have coincidentally seen more evil ones than good ones.

* A lot of people hated ''WesternAnimation/NinaNeedsToGo'' because Nina kept [[AesopAmnesia saying it would never happen again but it did]]. Later episodes would have her learn additional lessons that did stick.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Many fans did NOT like Rainbow's fate at the end of the Season One episode "Mime For A Change". Perhaps to rectify this, he is seen again at the girls' birthday party in the season two episode "Birthday Bash" as a free and happy clown. What helps is that the writers never intended to hurt Rainbow at the end of "Mime".

* In Season 4 of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' Beth and Jerry's "[[RomanticPlotTumor relationship]]" is barely even touched on, and when it is it's typically very briefly to set up a joke. This is in direct response to fans [[TheScrappy coming to dislike the two]] and how their marriage problems were focused too much on, particularly in Season 3 where they bordered on [[SpotlightStealingSquad taking the spotlight from the titular Rick and Morty]], and fans complaining that Beth and Jerry are much more interesting and entertaining characters when they're not constantly padding episodes with their relationship drama.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Fans took issue with Mr. Krabs being a KarmaHoudini for the past few seasons, but episodes such as "The Cent of Money" have him finally getting some comeuppance.
** An even better example is the return of the show's creator, Stephen Hillenburg, which is explained in detail in the [[AuthorsSavingThrow/AnimatedFilms Animated Films page]].

* Several aspects of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' were written to appease disgruntled fans of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' who felt the latter had gone through serious SeasonalRot:
** The length of the SpinOff went back to 26 episodes instead of 13.
** The host (Don) was not as sadistic as the previous one (Chris) was.
** The various romances didn't stifle other plots by [[RomanticPlotTumor hogging all the screentime.]] They were still there but the longer season meant the writers didn't have to focus on them alone.
** Owen, one of the franchise's biggest {{Base Breaking Character}}s, was [[CharacterRerailment rerailed]] for the first time since ''Total Drama Island''.
** While the season/show had more Screaming Gophers (Noah and Owen) than Killer Bass (Geoff), the season's only former Killer Bass member made it further than the two former Screaming Gophers. The past seasons, especially ''Island'' (where the final three were all Screaming Gophers) and ''All-Stars'' (where Gwen was the only season one contestant to be in the final four this season), favored the Gophers more than the Bass.

** The good future shown at the end of ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovidTheReturnOfCovid'' shows Cartman's ultimate fate as a drunken, miserable hobo. While many fans interpreted his fate to be KarmicOverkill, subsequent episodes show Cartman paving his own path to his miserable destiny. "City People" ends with him forcing his mom to quit her job as a real estate agent, causing them to move out of their home and live in an abandoned hot dog stand while irreparably damaging their relationship. Meanwhile, "[=DikinBaus=] Hot Dogs" has Cartman show himself to be too lazy and selfish to work hard to his future, and his schemes in this episode rob Butters of the money he had earned through hard work.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS22E6TimeToGetCereal Time to Get Cereal]]" was widely seen as a repudiation of and apology for the climate-change-denial message of "[=ManBearPig=]", to which it is a SequelEpisode.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Fans took issue with Mr. Krabs as a KarmaHoudini for the past few seasons, but episodes such as "The Cent of Money" have him finally getting some comeuppance.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', a three-part episode ("The Savage Time") revolves around the Justice League trying to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong after Vandal Savage usurps control of the Nazis and uses them to conquer the world by way of time travel. They succeed, but the episode ends with [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Hitler about to be cryogenically defrosted and restored to power]]. This led to a massive fan-outcry, to the widespread FridgeHorror that this implied the Justice League had blithely ''restored the Holocaust'' in the process of returning to their own world. It got so bad the producers [[WordOfGod publicly stated]] that Vandal's manipulations meant that Hitler had neither the time nor the resources to enact the Holocaust, having been frozen before he could start and then put back in charge during the end of the Nazis' reign over Germany.

** "The Red Throne" was considered by many fans as one of, if not, the most reviled and hated episode of the series, due to Finn acting like an immature teenager trying to win Flame Princess back after their already controversial break-up in "Frost and Fire" and "Earth and Water" while trying (and ruining every attempt) to help her reclaim the throne, Cinnamon Bun becoming smart via an AssPull and the ending, with Cinnamon Bun saving the day and declaring his love to FP. Season 7's "Bun Bun" not only reunites the two again after not talking to each other for an entire season, but none of the events of "The Red Throne" are mentioned or referenced whatsoever in the episode and the rest of the series, meaning that most of the episode was retconned from the series (that and the Fire Lord being removed from the series due to Roddy Piper's death).

* ''AuthorsSavingThrow/TheLoudHouse''

** [[spoiler:When Brainiac makes his return, he created a skullship. It's design is more closer to the comics and is meant to address complaints some people had with the other skullship that appeared in ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'': After "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyTalesS1E2TooSickToNotice Too Sick to Notice]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyTalesS1E3BattleOfTheBands Battle of the Bands]]" had the characters receive extremely minor scoldings from their parents for their actions [[note]]While Bon Bon's father does say he's not happy that she lied about being sick, that is quickly swept under the rug in favor of being glad she's ''not'' sick, and Melody's mother simply congratulates Melody for winning the contest without saying a word about her taking her younger sisters with her,[[/note]] this episode does it better; while Miss Hackney is relieved Patch and Bon Bon are safe and sound, she places greater focus on scolding them for their irresponsible behavior.

* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': Despite its public and critical acclaim, many fans felt that Season 3 was unreasonably punitive of [=BoJack=], and that he didn't deserve most of what happened to him, despite his previous actions. The DownerEnding to his plotline while everyone else's ended on a positive note didn't help. Season 4 appears to be made with this in mind; [=BoJack=] makes major strives in more positive CharacterDevelopment, [[spoiler:makes some amends with his mother, finally manages to not destroy a relationship with his half-sister Hollyhock]], and several of his broken friendships are, if not mended, then at least patched up. [=BoJack=] even gets to drop [[BreakingPointSwearing the season's sole F-bomb]]. His own ending is an unambiguous HopeSpot, while the overall angst is about evenly divided by the EnsembleCast, with [[spoiler:Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter's marriage breakdown, Princess Carolyn's miscarriages and Todd's sexuality issues]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': Despite its public and critical acclaim, many fans felt that Season 3 was unreasonably punitive of [=BoJack=], and that he didn't deserve most of what happened to him, despite his previous actions. The DownerEnding to his plotline while everyone else's ended on a positive note didn't help. Season 4 appears to be made with this in mind; [=BoJack=] makes major strives in more positive CharacterDevelopment, [[spoiler:makes some amends with his mother, finally manages to not destroy a relationship with his half-sister Hollyhock]], and several of his broken friendships are, if not mended, then at least patched up. [=BoJack=] even gets to drop [[PrecisionFStrike the season's sole F-bomb]]. His own ending is an unambiguous HopeSpot, while the overall angst is about evenly divided by the EnsembleCast, with [[spoiler:Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter's marriage breakdown, Princess Carolyn's miscarriages and Todd's sexuality issues]].

* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'':
** One of the criticisms of ''{{WesternAnimation/Dumbo}}'' was that Jim Crow was voiced by a white actor imitating a black man (though the rest were voiced by actual black actors). When the crows make an appearance in "Donald Wants to Fly", Jim is voiced by black VA Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson.
** After her absence from ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie'' was met with great ire from fans of ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' (especially those who felt [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter her character was underutilized to begin with]]), Roxanne returns to be Max's official girlfriend.