YMMV / Fantendo

• Archive Panic:
  • The wiki features well over 40,000 articles, though the jury is out on how much of that is worth reading. The Sysop Approval system was originally meant to mark the highest-priority articles to be moved to a new web host if the need arose, but that's still grown to more than 900 articles, and that count ignores subpages and any prior context required to fully appreciate an article.
  • The main story content of the New Fantendoverse is splintered across around 70 articles, amounting to over 5 years of writing by a team of editors.
• Awesome Art:
  • The Image Hall of Fame is designed to front-page the best original artwork on the wiki.
  • Purple Paw Studios managed incredibly precise anatomic construction and linework, creating art that holds up excellently over a decade later. Savant the Goetian's is arguably the best of the bunch and is absolutely out of its league for 2011 Fantendo. It is (more than deservedly) the first Image Hall of Famer that wasn't retrofitted into the "Classic" section due to rising standards.
  • The high-profile Paper Mario fangames, such as Paper Mario: The Ancient Book and Paper Mario: Countdown to Chaos, demonstrate clear passion and skill in this regard. Old and new character designs alike, and entire scenes and screenshots, are drawn faithfully in the style used from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door through Paper Mario: Sticker Star. These authors' other projects tend to feature equally impressive art that would regularly reach the Image Hall of Fame.
  • UNiPON also features incredibly clean character art despite being an NES game that could have gotten away with simple sprites.
  • The Mario franchise attracted lots of fanart for official characters, power-ups, and enemies that had either gone absent since the classic games, or simply hadn't yet gotten renders. The most convincing of these may be recognizable, as they've been used across the internet—sadly without crediting the artists or fact-checking whether they were official Nintendo artwork, likely due to appearing on Google Images in lieu of a genuine product. Without defending the widespread art theft, it's impressive in its own right that this fanart could match the style and quality of a major publisher's rendering pipeline^note Nintendo had yet to transition to physically based rendering, leaving a clear throughline from Nintendo GameCube renders up to the Wii U era in the eyes of many.
  • Due to many editors learning CSS and trying to push the limits of MediaWiki page formatting, the graphic design on individual projects has long been growing more custom, elaborate, and stylish, helping fangames stand apart and complementing the written content and other artwork.
• Common Knowledge:
  • The wiki isn't for developing playable fangames. Not even if an infobox lists a release date. Several efforts have been made to prevent this misconception, but the community's Insistent Terminology and pursuit of increasingly convincing and branded articles makes it difficult to solve this with confidence.
  • Unten's relatively well-known backstory was more recently codified than most users realize, leading to a simplified perspective on the character and his series.
• Continuity Lock-Out:
  • Was complained of the New Fantendoverse, leading to a plot summary and timeline of works on the project's landing page. World Tournament features an additional recap from Fan-Tan-Doe and Enemy-Tan-Doe.
  • Pyroverse: Breach makes a concerted effort to avoid this. Everyone in the story mode is introduced with a character splash that shows their visual appearance, a descriptive subtitle, and links to their debut and character page, to provide the reader more context.
• Discredited Meme: Several inside jokes, such as the "Suppose:"^note a portmanteau of "Support:" and "Oppose:" voting template, a welcome message copypasta based on Five Nights at Freddy's, and a The LEGO Ninjago Movie McDonald's commercial have been considered overused.
• Friendly Fandoms: Initially with the Mario fandom, due to Fantendo spinning off from a Self-Parody of the Super Mario Wiki. The connection is mostly lost nowadays as the userbases have drifted apart, and Super Mario Wiki opinions on Fantendo now vary widely.
• Growing the Beard:
  • Some of the older featured articles have retroactively been deemed "Classic Featured Articles"; that is, no longer considered to meet the feature standards. Oftentimes these are decent articles with little impressive about them from a modern perspective. The last Classic Featured Article is in 2010, providing a good sense of when the wiki started coming into its own, getting and recognizing better articles more consistently, with its best work only escalating in quality from there.
  • Fantendo Smash Bros. Shattered is an inflection point for the Fantendo Smash Bros. series and other works in the Fantendoverse continuity. It gave the concept of the Fantendoverse a clearer, consistent vision and bar of quality, and longterm renewed interest. This spurred an influx of fresh content throughout the community for half a decade, including a recognized system of alternate universes where canon-disrupting premises had a sense of place and influence, rather than lumping any and all new ideas into the same universe.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Osiris was renamed from Isis as the old name stopped being associated with the ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman goddess.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Tuba Flower, an idea for a Super Mario Bros. power-up from 2010, looks incredibly similar to the talking flowers in Super Mario Bros. Wonder. This is compounded by the reveal trailer opening on one and continuing to focus on it for several seconds before showing the full screen.
• Iconic Character, Forgotten Title: For Unten, the name "That One Series With a Long and Uninteresting Name That I Do Not Wish to Remember" is a little tough to remember. But it doesn't help that the series consists of limited and sporadic content, and the recent games are reboots meant to tie into larger works. Many readers know Unten as the wiki's mascot and through the Fantendoverse, so they might not recognize the pithier Prodigy rebrand, or the game names Fissure, Underground, and Tragedy.
• Memetic Badass: Shy guy yellow, after proclaiming "I HAVE HOUSE OF BIKINIS GIRLS!" during an argument^note BIKINIS DO NOT OWN GIRLS, AND YOU ARE NOT THEIR LANDLORD.. This was used as an Ascended Meme in Fantendo Smash Bros. Shattered.
• Memetic Mutation: Chiefly in the form of inside jokes.
  • "bnur"^note A corruption of "burn"
  • "crals"^note An abbreviation for "chat's really annoying lag syndrome", used when the on-site chat client was acting up. Now in disuse following the removal of the wikichat feature.
  • "See and feel the excitement in turtle canyon. Learn more."^note A blog advertising a Kentucky aquarium exhibit in 2014, posted by a then-bureaucrat. Despite how much time has passed, Turtle Canyon remains a relatively well-known inside joke, perhaps due to the dully punctuated prose about "excitement" or its ability to stand outside of the community's culture and proceedings at the time. Some works have tried to incorporate a location with this name.
  • "qotd: Is X ethical?"^note A snowclone question format used to undermine philosophical discussion.
  • Once the 2013 Mario fan character Drake (Dark Toad) saw a round of this offsite in late 2021, he was quickly accepted as an inside joke in his original wiki's community.^copypasta Drake used to be a servant at Princess Peach's castle. He was the most loyal of all servants, but he heard rumors floating around that Princess Peach was saying things about him behind his back. Stuff like he was the worst Toad ever to live and that he should never have been born. Then, he turned against Princess Peach and joined the Koopa Troop. He is one of Bowser's best minions and he despises Mario and Luigi. He now studies dark magic and is determined to get revenge on Peach.
  • "ratio + cope + Becky"^note A Non Sequitur spin on Twitter "comebacks", inspired by the WordGirl fandom's viral resurgence in 2021, and perhaps Becky Botsford's arrogance or fixation on linguistic misuse.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: Voltdozz is commonly used for shipping Volt × Vindozz, aka The Threat. Rachten for Rachel Harel × Unten also has footing.
• So Bad, It's Good: A "Wall of Shame" was created a few times on the wiki for articles fitting this description. It has long been removed due to prompting conflict over whether the concept is overly hostile, but community members from the time may remember some of the articles that were added there.
• Unexpected Character: New Super Mario Bros. Ω features guest characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Strangely, the game's branding avoids capitalizing on this to keep it a twist, and their inclusion surprised many readers.