History YMMV / LittleNemo

** While the Imp characters do wear garb that today might be offensive, the characters themselves don’t sport any racist features that would’ve been seen at the time such as Blackface, and they are shown to be just as coherent as the main cast. Even the character of Impie is also treated as a main character and equal amongst the other characters, and the tribe is shown to have BambooTechnology such as a car that has goats instead of wheels and a frog instead of a horn.

** However, a group of the Princess's very African-looking ''slaves'' show up to march in a parade in Slumberland.

** While the Imp characters do sport features that today might be offensive, the characters themselves don’t sport any racist features that would’ve been seen at the time such as Blackface, and they are shown to be just as coherent as the main cast. Even the character of Impie is also treated as a main character and equal amongst the other characters, and the tribe is shown to have BambooTechnology such as a car that has goats instead of wheels and a frog instead of a horn.

** While the Imp characters do wear garb that today might be offensive, the characters themselves don’t sport any racist features that would’ve been seen at the time such as Blackface, and they are shown to be just as coherent as the main cast. Even the character of Impie is also treated as a main character and equal amongst the other characters, and the tribe is shown to have BambooTechnology such as a car that has goats instead of wheels and a frog instead of a horn.

** The Imp characters of candy island may be offensive to some.

** Subverted with the Imp characters where the characters do wear garb that today might be offensive, the characters Themselves don’t sport any racist features that would’ve been seen at the time such as Blackface, and they are shown to be just as coherent as the main cast. Even the character of Impie is also treated as a main character and equal amongst the other characters, and the tribe is shown to have BambooTechnology such as a car that has goats instead of wheels and a frog instead of a horn.

** The extreme racial caricatures of the natives of Candy Island. Standard fare for 1907.
** What's more, a group of the Princess's very African-looking ''slaves'' show up to march in a parade in Slumberland.

** The AbusiveParents issue. It was normal at the time. It is still normal in some places around the world, and considered the only way to be good parents. Ouch.[[note]]Literally![[/note]]
** The appearance of ethnic stereotypes played for laughs was normal in the early 1900s, but today will likely make most readers uncomfortable at best. In particular, the entire character of The Imp owes more than a little to HollywoodNatives.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Most people today know about Little Nemo because of the NES Game ''Little Nemo the Dream Master'', which was based on the animated movie (''not'' the other way around). You'll even be hard pressed to find anyone who has heard of the animated movie, and even fewer people know that the movie was based on a comic strip. So the comic strip of ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'' suffers from two degrees of adaptation displacement. Not to mention that whenever anyone talks about Little Nemo these days, people assume they mean [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo that Pixar movie with the fish]].

* ArchivePanic: So the strip ran from 1905 to 1923. At roughly 52 pages a year. Wow. You have some reading to do.

* AwesomeArt: Windsor [=McCay=], despite being self-taught, was an exceptional draftsman. The early 20th century newspaper layouts, which allowed for comics to take up full pages (as opposed to now, when they're made small enough to fit in as many ads as possible), meant that his drawings could be properly appreciated.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Most people know about Little Nemo because of the NES Game ''Little Nemo the Dream Master'', which was based on the animated movie (''not'' the other way around). You'll even be hard pressed to find anyone who has heard of the animated movie, and even fewer people know that the movie was based on a comic strip. So the comic strip of ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'' suffers from two degrees of adaptation displacement. Not to mention that whenever anyone talks about Little Nemo these days, people assume they mean [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo that Pixar movie with the fish]].

** In the comic, one strip has Nemo going around giving animals the ability to talk to humans. One male hippopotamus begs him not to let a female hippopotamus talk because "she'll talk to you deaf, dumb and blind about women's suffrage!" (Then again, this was around 1910)

* WhatAnIdiot: Nemo's parents keep letting him feed himself before bedtime and when the AcidRefluxNightmare kicks in, all they do is either warn him to stop eating or threaten to beat him.

* AwesomeArt: Windsor [=McKay=], despite being self-taught, was an exceptional draftsman. The early 20th century newspaper layouts, which allowed for comics to take up full pages (as opposed to now, when they're made small enough to fit in as many ads as possible), meant that his drawings could be properly appreciated.

* AwesomeArt: Windsor McKay, despite being self-taught, was an exceptional draftsman. The early 20th century newspaper layouts, which allowed for comics to take up full pages (as opposed to now, when they're made small enough to fit in as many ads as possible), meant that his drawings could be properly appreciated.

** The AbusiveParents issue. It was normal at the time. It is still normal in some places around the world, and considered the only way to be good parents. Ouch.

* ValuesDissonance: In the comic, one strip has Nemo going around giving animals the ability to talk to humans. One male hippopotamus begs him not to let a female hippopotamus talk because "she'll talk to you deaf, dumb and blind about women's suffrage!" (Then again, this was around 1910)
** Not to mention the extreme racial caricatures of the natives of Candy Island. But it was 1907.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Most people know about Little Nemo because of the NES Game ''Little Nemo the Dream Master'', which was based on the animated movie (''not'' the other way around). You'll even be hard pressed to find anyone who has heard of the animated movie, and even fewer people know that the movie was based on a comic strip. So the comic strip of ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'' suffers from two degrees of adaptation displacement. Not to mention that whenever anyone talks about Little Nemo these days, people assume they mean [[FindingNemo that Pixar movie with the fish]].

!!The original comic provides examples of:

!!The film provides examples of:
* BetterOnDVD: See DeletedScene on the Trivia tab for the reason. [=DVDs=] with prices in the single-digits became easier to find in 2009.
* CompleteMonster: The Nightmare King.
* EarWorm: The song that the Boomps sing. Trust us, it'll stick in your head for a while.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: {{F|unPersonified}}lip and [[{{Moe}} Bon Bon]].
* HilariousInHindsight: One of the voice actors, Danny Mann, plays a flying squirrel named Icarus. A couple decades later, he plays several characters in [[Videogame/KidIcarus Kid]] '''''[[Videogame/KidIcarus Icarus]]''''' [[Videogame/KidIcarusUprising Uprising]].
* NightmareFuel: It would have done Tim Burton proud. It can be rather amusing in retrospect that Nightmare Land, where all nightmares come from, can be considered NightmareFuel. Or: A fictional world responsible for all nightmares in a fictional Earth is also responsible for nightmares ''in the real world.''
* TheScrappy: Flip.

* NightmareFuel: It would have done Tim Burton proud. It can be rather amusing in retrospect that Nightmare Land, where all nightmares come from, can be considered NightmareFuel. Or: A fictional world responsible for all nightmares in a fictional Earth is also responsible for nightmares ''in the real world.''
* BetterOnDVD: See DeletedScene on the Trivia tab for the reason. [=DVDs=] with prices in the single-digits became easier to find in 2009.

* HilariousInHindsight: One of the voice actors, Danny Mann, plays a flying squirrel named Icarus. A couple decades later, he plays several characters in [[Videogame/KidIcarus Kid]] '''''[[Videogame/KidIcarus Icarus]]''''' [[Videogame/KidIcarusUprising Uprising]].

* ArchivePanic: So the strip ran from 1905 to 1923. At roughly 52 strips a year. Wow. You have some reading to do.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: {{F|unPersonified}}lip and [[{{Moe}} Bon Bon]].

* AdaptationDisplacement: Most people know about Little Nemo because of the NES Game ''Little Nemo the Dream Master'', which was based on the animated movie (''not'' the other way around). You'll even be hard pressed to find anyone who has heard of the animated movie, and even fewer people know that the movie was based on a comic strip. So the comic strip of ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'' suffers from two degrees of adaptation displacement. Not to mention that whenever anyone talks about Little Nemo these days, people assume they mean [[FindingNemo that Pixar movie with the fish.]]

* BetterOnDVD: See DeletedScene on the main page for the reason. [=DVDs=] with prices in the single-digits became easier to find in 2009.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[FunPersonified Flip]] and [[{{Moe}} Bon Bon]].
* NightmareFuel: It would have done Tim Burton proud. It can be rather amusing in retrospect that Nightmare Land, where all nightmares come from, can be considered NightmareFuel. Or: A fictional world responsible for all nightmares in a fictional Earth is also responsible for nightmares ''in the real world.''

** The above AbusiveParents issue. It was normal at the time. It is still normal in some places around the world, and considered the only way to be good parents. Ouch.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Most people know about Little Nemo because of the NES Game ''Little Nemo the Dream Master'', which was based on the animated movie (''not'' the other way around). You'll even be hard pressed to find anyone who has heard of the animated movie, and even fewer people know that the movie was based on a comic strip. So the comic strip of ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'' suffers from two degrees of adaptation displacement. Not to mention that whenever anyone talks about Little Nemo these days, people [[WallBanger assume they mean that Pixar movie with the fish]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Flip and Bon Bon.

* BetterOnDVD: See DeletedScene. [=DVDs=] with prices in the single-digits became easier to find in 2009.