History YMMV / TheLegendOfHei

* DracoInLeatherPants: Out of all the antagonists, [[spoiler:Feng Xi]] gets this treatment the most. He might be a ruthless character fully willing to [[spoiler:endanger and uproot thousands of humans and is perfectly willing to doom Xiao Hei for his powers despite his affection for the child]], many fans still find pity for him for his sympathetic backstory and camraderie with Xiao Hei early on. Being a good-looking, powerful fighter may have helped.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Out of all the antagonists, [[spoiler:Feng Xi]] gets this treatment the most. He might be a ruthless character fully willing to [[spoiler:endanger and uproot thousands of humans and is perfectly willing to doom Xiao Hei for his powers despite his affection for the child]], many fans still find sympathy for him for his sympathetic backstory and camraderie with Xiao Hei early on. Being a good-looking, powerful fighter may have helped.

* SequelDisplacement: Prequel in this case. Not a lot of first time viewers and even fans know of [[WebAnimation/TheLegendOfLuoXiaoHei the web series]] that predates the movie. It doesn't help that the movie, especially at the time of release, had very few ties to the original shorts besides the main character and the credits sequence.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Out of all the antagonists, [[spoiler:Feng Xi]] gets this treatment the most. He might be a ruthless character fully willing to [[spoiler:endanger and uproot thousands of humans and is perfectly willing to doom Xiao Hei for his powers despite his affection for the child]], many fans still find sympathy for him for his sympathetic backstory and camraderie with Xiao Hei rarly on. Being a good-looking, powerful fighter may have helped.

* DracoInLeatherPante: Out of all the antagonists, [[spoiler:Feng Xi]] gets this treatment the most. He might be aa ruthless character fully willing to [[spoiler:endanger and uproot thousands of humans and is perfectly willing to doom Xiao Hei for his powers]], many fans still find sympathy for him for his sympathetic backstory and camraderie with Xiao Hei rarly on. Being a good-looking, powerful fighter may have helped.
* FoeYayShipping: There are a lot of fans of [[FoeYayShipping Wuxian/Feng Xi]] thanks to their rivalry.

* EvilIsSexy: Out of all the antagonists, [[spoiler:Feng Xi]] gets this treatment the most. Having an {{Elfeminate}} appearance may have helped.
* FanPreferredCouple: There are a lot of fans of [[FoeYayShipping Wuxian/Feng Xi]] thanks to their rivalry.

* {{Moe}}: Xiao Hei, both his cat and human form are just ''huggable''.

* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler:Feng Xi gets this treatment the most. Having an {{Elfeminate}} appearance may have helped.]]

* SequelDisplacement: Prequel in this case. Not a lot of first time viewers and even fans know of [[WebAnimation/TheLegendOfLuoXiaoHei the web series]] that predates the movie.

* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler:Feng Xi, having an {{Elfeminate}} appearance may have helped.]]

* FanPreferredCouple: There are a lot of fans of [[FoeYay Wuxian/Feng Xi]] thanks to their rivalry.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Feng Xi's death at the end. Rather than redeem himself and help find a solution where humans and elfins and cooexist, [[RedemptionRejection Feng Xi rejects and kills himself by turning himself into a giant tree,]] while apologizing to Xiao Hei. [[BlackAndWhiteMorality Xiao Hei even questions if Feng Xi really is a bad person.]]]]

* MagnificentBastard: [[BigBad Feng Xi]] lead group of Elfins who wanted to live in a world without humans. His previous homes were industrialized, and desiring Godhood to make such a world exist, Feng Xi realizes the power young Luo Xiao Hei has and takes him under his wing, offering him a home with his gang of Elfins. After being forced to leave Hei behind, Hei is adopted by Wuxian, a spirit, forcing Feng Xi to get informants to talk through his sheer charm, then Feng Xi sends his minions after them. During the struggle, Feng Xi decides to kidnap Hei and drains him of his Dimension power, leaving the young cat demon comatose. After a climatic battle with Wuxian in Xiao Hei's Dimension he created, Feng Xi easily defeats Wuxian despite Wuxian being the better fighter. Xiao Hei realizes he was wrong to hate humans and trust Feng Xi, wakes up revealing he has two Dimensional powers. Wuxian and Hei work together to defeat Feng. Offering him a chance to redeem himself by living in a world with humans, Feng Xi [[RedemptionRejection instead]] commits suicide by falling off a tree he created and burying his own body.

* FanPreferredCouple: There are a lot of fans of [[FoeYay Wuxian/Feng Xi.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Feng Xi crosses it when he restrains Xiao Hei and forcefully steals his Domain power to use for himself, which kills him (albeit [[DisneyDeath temporarily]]). The act not only angers [[NotSoStoic Wuxian]] and [[BrokenPedestal Xiao Hei]], but even his fellow elfin [[TokenGoodTeammate Luo Zhu]] finds the act unforgivable and storms off in disgust.]]
* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Feng Xi's death at the end. Rather than redeem himself and help find a solution where humans and feys and cooexist, [[RedemptionRejection Feng Xi rejects and kills himself by turning himself into a giant tree,]] while apologizing to Xiao Hei. [[BlackAndWhiteMorality Xiao Hei even questions if Feng Xi really is a bad person.]]]]