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** Riley herself has become this retroactively. Due to her pompous attitude on certain subjects, and her inability to see other points of view. Some have pointed out how exhausting it must be to be her friend.
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* NeverLiveItDown: The AuthorTract railing against Communism in ''"Girl Meets Commonism"'' ended up going viral online, and ended up earning much derision for being a strawman view on the Political Allignment.
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** Riley herself is often viewed as this retroactively. Especially when she forces her views on her friends.
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* NeverLiveItDown: The "Girl Meets Commonism" AuthorTract in which Cory criticizes a Strawman version of Communism went viral online. It ended up creating detractors for the show who otherwise were not watching it.
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* DesignatedVillain: Missy Bradford in ''Girl Meets Sneak Attack''. Riley and co. disliked her simply because she liked Lucas (Riley's crush) and flirted him. Which... ''didn't'' make her bad person. She was only the "antagonist" of the episode simply because she liked the same boy [[ClingyJealousGirl Riley]] did. Missy had been bold and flirtatious, but that was about it. While they ''were'' all 12 at the time ([[spoiler: except for Lucas who's a year older than them]]), it was really immature of Riley to not want them together simply because she didn't want them to be. In fact, that had been the only reason she had given to Lucas as to why she didn't want him to be alone with Missy. While the moral of the episode had been "Don't be in a rush to grow up.", Missy telling them all to grow up at the end of the episode was pretty understandable.
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** Missy Bradford in ''Girl Meets Sneak Attack''. Riley and co. disliked her simply because she liked Lucas (Riley's crush) and flirted him. Which... ''didn't'' make her bad person. She was only the "antagonist" of the episode simply because she liked the same boy [[ClingyJealousGirl Riley]] did. Missy had been bold and flirtatious, but that was about it. While they ''were'' all 12 at the time ([[spoiler: except for Lucas who's a year older than them]]), it was really immature of Riley to not want them together simply because she didn't want them to be. In fact, that had been the only reason she had given to Lucas as to why she didn't want him to be alone with Missy. While the moral of the episode had been "Don't be in a rush to grow up.", Missy telling them all to grow up at the end of the episode was pretty understandable.
** The cheerleading coach in "Girl Meets Rah-Rah". The audience is supposed to see her as unfair for not allowing to Riley to join the cheerleading team when she has the amount of spirit to be one, but Riley neither has the athletic skills nor the discipline and work dedication also needed to be on the squad, which the coach has to waste time repeatedly telling Riley and Riley repeatedly doesn't listen nor takes any of the coach's advice. Then we're supposed to feel happy when two squad members fake being injured during a game so the coach reluctantly has to let Riley join the team last minute, so Riley basically gets handed a spot on the team without willing to put any effort into the work needed to be a team member.
** Missy Bradford in ''Girl Meets Sneak Attack''. Riley and co. disliked her simply because she liked Lucas (Riley's crush) and flirted him. Which... ''didn't'' make her bad person. She was only the "antagonist" of the episode simply because she liked the same boy [[ClingyJealousGirl Riley]] did. Missy had been bold and flirtatious, but that was about it. While they ''were'' all 12 at the time ([[spoiler: except for Lucas who's a year older than them]]), it was really immature of Riley to not want them together simply because she didn't want them to be. In fact, that had been the only reason she had given to Lucas as to why she didn't want him to be alone with Missy. While the moral of the episode had been "Don't be in a rush to grow up.", Missy telling them all to grow up at the end of the episode was pretty understandable.
** The cheerleading coach in "Girl Meets Rah-Rah". The audience is supposed to see her as unfair for not allowing to Riley to join the cheerleading team when she has the amount of spirit to be one, but Riley neither has the athletic skills nor the discipline and work dedication also needed to be on the squad, which the coach has to waste time repeatedly telling Riley and Riley repeatedly doesn't listen nor takes any of the coach's advice. Then we're supposed to feel happy when two squad members fake being injured during a game so the coach reluctantly has to let Riley join the team last minute, so Riley basically gets handed a spot on the team without willing to put any effort into the work needed to be a team member.
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** Ava can be a very [[BrattyHalfPint bratty and disrespectful child]], but when you see how her mother behaves, you can see where she gets it. It's implied her mother's behavior is why her parents are constantly fighting, so when the fighting results in Ava's father eventually walking out on the family, it's not hard to sympathize when she comes to the Matthews' home afterwards sad and heartbroken.
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** For some, Ava Morgenstern might be more recognized as [[Series/SydneyToTheMax Sydney's best friend Olive]].
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** In the third season, fans now debate if it's still the same high-quality show it grew into in Season 2, if it squandered all the WinTheCrowd moments the show gained during Season 2, and some arguing if it was ever good to begin with.
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* WinTheCrowd: Upon initial reports of the ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' producers looking into producing a SequelSeries following Cory and Topanga's daughter, the original audience wasn't sold on the idea. They began to turn around after Creator/BenSavage and Creator/DanielleFishel agreed to reprise their roles from the original series, and more of the original show's cast voiced their support for the new show.
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* FanPreferredCouple: While Riley/Lucas are the RelationshipRevolvingDoor OfficialCouple, most fans prefer Maya/Lucas instead, especially following recent Season 2 episodes.
** Riley/Farkle has gained some fans in Season 2, partly thanks to Farkle's CharacterDevelopment and partly because they make easy ShipMates for the popular Maya/Lucas.
** Some fans wash their hands of all the het shipping arguments in favor of praying Disney will allow [[LesYay Riley/Maya]] to become canon.
** Riley/Farkle has gained some fans in Season 2, partly thanks to Farkle's CharacterDevelopment and partly because they make easy ShipMates for the popular Maya/Lucas.
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** While Riley/Lucas are the RelationshipRevolvingDoor OfficialCouple, most fans prefer Maya/Lucas instead, especially following recent Season 2 episodes.
**Riley/Farkle has gained some fans in Season 2, partly thanks to Farkle's CharacterDevelopment and partly because they make easy ShipMates for the popular Maya/Lucas.
** SomeA lot of fans wash their hands of all the het shipping arguments in favor of praying Disney will allow [[LesYay Riley/Maya]] to become canon.canon. On Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn, Riley/Maya actually has the most fics for any ship from the show.
** While Riley/Lucas are the RelationshipRevolvingDoor OfficialCouple, most fans prefer Maya/Lucas instead, especially following recent Season 2 episodes.
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* InformedWrongness: Farkle is treated as closed-minded in "Girl Meets Belief" for not believing in God despite him really not doing anything beyond saying "I disagree with you" and having a right to be atheist. However, the whole point was getting him to look at life not just at a logical level, which has always been his struggle throughout the series.
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** Farkle is treated as closed-minded in "Girl Meets Belief" for not believing in God despite him really not doing anything beyond saying "I disagree with you" and having a right to be atheist. However, the whole point was getting him to look at life not just at a logical level, which has always been his struggle throughout the series.
** Farkle is treated as closed-minded in "Girl Meets Belief" for not believing in God despite him really not doing anything beyond saying "I disagree with you" and having a right to be atheist. However, the whole point was getting him to look at life not just at a logical level, which has always been his struggle throughout the series.
** One infamous episode lesson is "communism is bad, capitalism is good" in the extremely naive and stereotypical BlackAndWhiteMorality view (essentially, communism is bad because everyone is equal, which means no one can be better than others, while capitalism is good because people get what they worked for), ignoring the greater nuances of the capitalism vs. communism spectrum including how governments can manipulate and rig ''both'' systems (for example, capitalism can be bad or can fail if the government makes it so that lower-class/impoverished people can't succeed financially no matter how hard they work).
** In one episode, Farkle is getting diagnosed for Asperger's syndrome. His friends are in denial about it and try to assure him that he's "normal" by acting as if his behavior doesn't display symptoms of Asperger's as well as telling him to stop behaving that way. Turns out he doesn't, much to everyone's relief and happiness. While Riley and co. are meant to be in the wrong, the episode has been criticized by viewers with Asperger's for its poor portrayal of support when Riley and the others could have spent most of the episode serving as a straight example to younger viewers of being accepting of others' conditions.
** In one episode, Farkle is getting diagnosed for Asperger's syndrome. His friends are in denial about it and try to assure him that he's "normal" by acting as if his behavior doesn't display symptoms of Asperger's as well as telling him to stop behaving that way. Turns out he doesn't, much to everyone's relief and happiness. While Riley and co. are meant to be in the wrong, the episode has been criticized by viewers with Asperger's for its poor portrayal of support when Riley and the others could have spent most of the episode serving as a straight example to younger viewers of being accepting of others' conditions.
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* LauncherOfAThousandShips: As noted in the other shipping-related tropes on this page, Maya has been shipped with Riley, Farkle, Lucas, Joshua, Zay and even Cory.
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** The Halloween episodes include monsters and ghosts, [[UnreliableNarrator framed as]] Auggie [[BreakingTheFourthWall telling the audience a collection of Halloween stories]].
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* BrokenAesop: "Girl Meets Rah-Rah": The episode insists that Riley's refusal to give up on becoming a cheerleader is supportive of the idea that never giving up is the appropriate moral, but Riley never improving in skill whatsoever would insist the better lesson for the episode would be to know where your natural gifts actually lie and focus on that instead.
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* TakeThatAudience: Implied in "Girl Meets Rileytown", towards the viewers who criticized Riley's character in season 1. Here's a hint: [[spoiler:The unseen bully actually is a metaphor for said viewers who criticized her behavior and personality.]]
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* WinTheCrowd: Upon initial reports of the ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' producers looking into producing a SequelSeries following Cory and Topanga's daughter, the original audience wasn't sold on the idea. They began to turn around after Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel agreed to reprise their roles from the original series, and more of the original show's cast voiced their support for the new show.
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** Ava can be a very [[BrattyHalfPint bratty and disrespectful child]], but when you see how her mother behaves, you can see where she gets it. And when her parents' constant fighting results in Ava's father eventually walking out on the family, it's not hard to sympathize when she comes to the Matthews family sad and heartbroken.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: While this troper ''is'' aware that it's a Disney show, it does make one wonder if the costume designer actually knows what tweens really wear in middle school. Especially when they have Riley and Maya wear outlandish outfits and heels to ''middle school''.
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* FanDislikedExplanation: Let's just say that the show's reasoning for Maya's improved grades, dressing up nicer, and overall improved behavior was chalked up to her wanting to be like Riley (which the show portrayed as bad) and not her CharacterDevelopment taking place. Saying fans didn't like the explanation would be a ''major'' understatement.
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** It's only been a few years since the series ended, but viewers were quick to point out how badly the series' messages have aged. We have ableism in the episode where Farkle thinks he has Asperger's, an ''extremely'' hamfisted anti-communist/pro-capitalist message in the "commonism" episode that seems straight out of the Red Scare, outright grooming with the Josh and Maya relationship, to name a few. This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YFKQtIVA5U video]] made by [=YouTube=] personality Harryiana Hook explains all the ways the series doesn't hold up.
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* ValuesDissonance: It's only been a few years since the series ended, but viewers were quick to point out how badly the series' messages have aged. We have ableism in the episode where Farkle thinks he has Asperger's, an ''extremely'' hamfisted anti-communist/pro-capitalist message in the "commonism" episode that seems straight out of the Red Scare, outright grooming with the Josh and Maya relationship, and more. This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YFKQtIVA5U video]] made by [=YouTube=] personality Harryiana Hook explains all the ways the series doesn't hold up.
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* JerkassWoobie: Farkle, if his comments about his parents' marriage are any indication. He also admits to feeling inferior to Lucas, and one episode was all about his being bullied and feeling worthless. His obsession with world domination and bratty behavior may be a coping mechanism.
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** Farkle, if his comments about his parents' marriage are any indication. He also admits to feeling inferior to Lucas, and one episode was all about his being bullied and feeling worthless. His obsession with world domination and bratty behavior may be a copingmechanism.mechanism.
** Ava can be a very [[BrattyHalfPint bratty and disrespectful child]], but when you see how her mother behaves, you can see where she gets it. And when her parents' constant fighting results in Ava's father eventually walking out on the family, it's not hard to sympathize when she comes to the Matthews family sad and heartbroken.
** Farkle, if his comments about his parents' marriage are any indication. He also admits to feeling inferior to Lucas, and one episode was all about his being bullied and feeling worthless. His obsession with world domination and bratty behavior may be a coping
** Ava can be a very [[BrattyHalfPint bratty and disrespectful child]], but when you see how her mother behaves, you can see where she gets it. And when her parents' constant fighting results in Ava's father eventually walking out on the family, it's not hard to sympathize when she comes to the Matthews family sad and heartbroken.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Joshua Matthews became popular with fans after his appearance in "Girl Meets Home for the Holidays". Though some of his popularity squandered after he revealed an interest in Maya, who's only a high school freshman
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The message of "Girl Meets Texas Part 1" seems to be "You should support and believe in your friends all the time, even if what they're doing has a high chance of injuring or killing them".
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The message of "Girl Meets Texas Part 1" seems to be "You should support and believe in your friends all the time, even if what they're doing has a high chance of injuring or killing them".
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The message of "Girl Meets Texas Part 1" seems to be "You should support and believe in your friends all the time, even if what they're doing has a high chance of injuring or killing them".freshman.
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The message of "Girl Meets Texas Part 1" seems to be "You should support and believe in your friends all the time, even if what they're doing has a high chance of injuring or killing them".
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** Riley is a bubbly, sensitive, and overly naive DitzyGenius, but her innocence makes her lovable and relatable.
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** Riley is a bubbly, sensitive, and overly naive DitzyGenius, but her innocence makes her lovable and relatable.
** Farkle is a dorky, eccentric TeenGenius like his father in the original series.
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* TheScrappy: Charlie Gardener. He's a NiceGuy but he seems a bit ''entitled'' to go on a date with Riley - especially since his whole shtick amounts to "if you're not dating Lucas, you should date me". It doesn't help they're not really friends, and he doesn't even want to take the time to know her first, nor that it's painfully obvious that Riley isn't interested him - something he chooses to ignore.
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* TheScrappy: Charlie Gardener. He's a NiceGuy but he seems a bit ''entitled'' to go on a date with Riley - especially since his whole shtick amounts to "if you're not dating Lucas, you should date me". It doesn't help they're not really friends, and he doesn't even want to take the time to know her first, nor that it's painfully obvious that Riley isn't interested him - something he chooses to ignore. Fortunately, he isn't really seen that much afterwards.
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* LauncherOfAThousandShips: As noted in the other shipping-related tropes on this page, Maya has been shipped with Riley, Farkle, Lucas, and Joshua.
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** Evan at the ski lodge, [[spoiler: Lauren’s son]], is [[Series/Titans second a Robin Jason Todd]].
* TheScrappy: Charlie Gardener. He's a NiceGuy but he seems a bit ''entitled'' to go on a date with Riley - especially since his whole shtick amounts to "if you're not dating Lucas, you should date me". It doesn't help they're not really friends, and he doesn't even want to take the time to know her first, nor that's it's painfully obvious that Riley isn't interested him - something he chooses to ignore.
* TheScrappy: Charlie Gardener. He's a NiceGuy but he seems a bit ''entitled'' to go on a date with Riley - especially since his whole shtick amounts to "if you're not dating Lucas, you should date me". It doesn't help they're not really friends, and he doesn't even want to take the time to know her first, nor that's it's painfully obvious that Riley isn't interested him - something he chooses to ignore.
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* TheScrappy: Charlie Gardener. He's a NiceGuy but he seems a bit ''entitled'' to go on a date with Riley - especially since his whole shtick amounts to "if you're not dating Lucas, you should date me". It doesn't help they're not really friends, and he doesn't even want to take the time to know her first, northat's that it's painfully obvious that Riley isn't interested him - something he chooses to ignore.
* TheScrappy: Charlie Gardener. He's a NiceGuy but he seems a bit ''entitled'' to go on a date with Riley - especially since his whole shtick amounts to "if you're not dating Lucas, you should date me". It doesn't help they're not really friends, and he doesn't even want to take the time to know her first, nor
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* ValuesDissonance: "Girl Meets Mr. Squirrels": Maya insulting Lucas often and the one time he insults her back, she's angry that Riley didn't stick up for her. While that lesson is important, Maya should have not taken it so personally.
