YMMV / Biker Mice from Mars

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Does Vinnie really have feelings for Charley? He never does anything more than mild flirting and it's implied he's attracted to Charley because she reminds him of Harley.
• Angst? What Angst?: Charley had no problem in pulling up roots and moving to Mars without any thought of friends or family she'd be leaving behind.
• Awesome Music: The show had a really good hard rock soundtrack that complimented the action scenes well, the show even had its own soundtrack album with Jeff Scott Soto on vocals.
• Base-Breaking Character: The Catatonians and Ronaldo Rump are either refreshing antagonists who keep the series from growing stale, or inferior substitutes to the old villains. Ronaldo Rump in particular is viewed by the 2006 series detractors as a very annoying and unfunny replacement for Limburger.
• Broken Base: The 2006 series was rather divisive. On one hand, most of the original actors returned to reprise their roles and it was a straight-up Sequel Series rather than a Continuity Reboot. On the other hand, Limburger and his minions were Demoted to Extra with the Catatonians and Ronaldo Rump replacing them as the main villains.
• Cult Classic: In general the series is considered to be amongst the better ones that follow the Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombats formula. Of course being a series with musclar anthropomorphic mice has certainly helped it gain attention among certain demographics.
• Fanon: Vinnie, Stoker, and Carbine are commonly given the respective surnames Van Wham, Van Rotten, and Cannonblade even though none of the Martian mice have official last names.
  • Fanfics will sometimes depict Martian society as matriarchal. While there is some evidence for this interpretation (such as Carbine's undisputed leadership position amongst the freedom fighters and how not just Modo but other characters talk about his mother with a great deal of respect), there is not enough proof to suggest Martian society structurally favors any gender over another. There are also some shades of Fix Fic to this fanon, as it often reframes our titular biker mice's occassional chauvinism towards Charley as them looking after her as a valuable leader who is too important to do dirty work on the frontlines like a common footsoldier.
• Genius Bonus: In the 2006 series, Stoker needs Tetra-Hydrocarbons to make a new regenerator. Otherwise known as CH₄. Methane.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In the 2006 Series, Ronaldo Rump is a Hispanic Trumplica. About a decade later, the real Donald Trump became infamous for his anti-Mexican rhetoric.
• Ho Yay: In "Below the Horizon", where Modo catches Vinnie and the latter refers to him as "big fella". And then Modo drops him in the snow. Made even better in the Finnish Dub, where Vinnie calls Modo "Big Brother".
• Jerkass Woobie: Vinnie's old girlfriend Harley becomes this in "Turf Wars", the final episode of the 2006 series. Sure, she wrongly believes that the Biker Mice abandoned her and tries to kill them even when they tell her they need the regenerator to re-hydrate Mars, but it's all because she was horribly scarred during the Plutarkian invasion and nobody showed up to help her. It also helps that she eventually comes to her senses and ends up supposedly sacrificing her life to prevent the regenerator from going critical.
• LGBT Fanbase: Muscular men, barely any shirts on said muscular men, leather and motorcycles and bromance... They love hot dogs... yeah, sounds 'bout right!
• Narm Charm: The show's premise feels like it was made on drugs and the episodes themselves are as serious as a fart (except for the occasional Drama Bomb), but you can't help but love how the show is just so stupidly fun to watch.
• Nausea Fuel: Plutarkians eat worms. Yuck!
• No Problem with Licensed Games: The SNES game made by Konami, based on the 1993 series, is considered a great racing game by many fans for having a great and diversified gameplay, great circuits, great soundtrack and a fun battle mode. Plus, you can play with villains Limburger, Karbunkle, and Greasepit as well as the three titular Biker Mice. This made people who don't read the comics or watch the cartoon play the game and most of them liked it.
• Periphery Demographic: In addition to the aforementioned LGBT fanbase, the show also has a healthy amount of female fans. This is likely thanks to the innate shippability of the characters (looking at you two, Vinnie and Charley), the mice's backstories as war veterans being a great source of Angst and Hurt/Comfort Fics, and the general setting allowing you to insert your own characters - be they human, martian mice, or any type of alien - with little to no difficulty.
• Replacement Scrappy: Detractors of the 2006 series tend to see Ronaldo Rump, Dr. Catorkian, Cataclysm, and Hairball as inferior substitutes to Lawrence Limburger, Dr. Karbunkle, Greasepit, and Fred the Mutant respectively.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "Tail-Whipping Time" from the album by Jeff Scott Soto has some similarities with "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC.
• Tear Jerker:
  • In "Chill Zone", a little girl tells how her orphanage was destroyed - which makes Modo shed tears.
  • Manuelo's life, as shown in "The Pit": he was a regular dude working as a clerk and saving up to open his own shop. Then the Pit Boss's men robbed the store, took him as hostage and brought him in the pits to work as a slave. It wasn't until two years later than the Biker Mice arrived and saved him.
  • Vinnie's brief look of hurt when Charley doesn't seem to trust him with his flare in "Bleu Cheese Bros".
  • Harley's Heroic Sacrifice in the 2006 series finale "Turf Wars".
  • Vinnie's situation in "Turf Wars": he finally finds Harley again after who knows how long, only she's gone crazy, has allied with the tribe of her kidnapper, plans to make Olympus Mons erupt and hates him and his bros. He then spends most of Harley's time back under mind control, which she put him under. Then when the two come back to their senses, Harley vanishes again and may or may not be dead.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: The PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS games based on the 2006 series weren't very well-received, mainly because they had difficult controls, a rather generic plot, and, quite confusingly, were released in America about a year before the show it was based on aired in America. Some people, however, are able to look past these flaws and consider them to be decent games in their own right.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Jack McCyber in his debut episode, "Virtual Unreality" : he is Charley's ex-fiancee and clearly someone we should consider a good guy, but he is shown to be a smug jerk who draws a gun to people's head without provocation, reacts badly when someone points this out to him and put Charley's life in danger when he asked to stay the night, fully knowing Limburger was following him to steal his invention (as seen when they are later confronted by Greasepit and he immediately knew he wanted it). Sure, being an ally of the Biker Mice is not safe either, but: A) she was made fully aware of the danger in the very first episode; and B) the mice, as martian rodents stuck on Earth they don't have a lot to choice on where to stay. The episode also shills him by declaring they need his invention to stop Limburger's new machine, even if there is nothing that should stop the Biker Mice from simply storming Limburger's tower and destroying it.
  • This was greatly downplayed in his second episode ("Hit the Road, Jack"), who made him sort of a Butt-Monkey needing to be rescued and reveal his fiancee Angela was just a Plutarkian wanting his new superbike for herself, redeeming his character for a lot of viewers.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The opinion of about half the fanbase when they saw the revival series, most of it being because of the new character designs and Lawrence Limburger and his minions being replaced by the Catatonians and Ronaldo Rump as the main villains.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Any of the Biker Mice's allies who aren't Charley or a Martian Freedom Fighter only appear once or twice.
  • Charley, who never amounted to much outside of being the Biker Mice's ally. We never learn anything about her past or family.
  • Aside from Limburger, his men, Napoleon Brie and the Pit Boss, none of the original villains from the 1993 series come back for the 2006 sequel series, and the few who do only appear in a handful of episodes. The Pulverizer for instance could've made a good addition to the Catatonians due to his military theme and experience as well as being one of the more competent villains in the show, but he's never even mentioned.
  • Continuing on that, Cat Scan could've also fit in with the Catatonians, being the only cat foe the mice fought in the original series.

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