YMMV / Hilda and the Mountain King

• Accidental Innuendo: The image on the main page has the logo cover the big troll's eyes, making his nose look like something else. Not helping is that Hilda's entirely naked while in troll form. When this was pointed out, the image was promptly removed from the Hilda Twitter page and edited to remove the nose and beard.
• Award Snub: The first time the Hilda franchise failed to win any of their Annie Awards nominations. The movie was nominated for "Best Directing" and "Outstanding Music" only for them to lose to the Netflix animated series, Arcane, to win the awards instead, which sparked either a Fandom Rivalry between the two shows or the fans came out as good sports by giving Arcane great respect.
• Continuity Lockout: One must watch "Chapter 13: The Stone Forest" to understand the events leading up to this movie.
• I Knew It!: A good chunk of the fandom guessed that Gerda would become head of the Trolberg Safety Patrol.
• Magnificent Bastard: Trundle the Mountain King is a disgraced ruler of Trolls, hellbent on reuniting with his mother Amma, buried underneath the city of Trolberg. Hundreds of years ago, he was able to unite majority of his kind to attack Trolberg, only to be defeated and imprisoned. In present, when now-troll Hilda stumbles upon his cave by accident, he proceeds to trick her into freeing him and bringing him his eye back. Once that’s done, he wastes no time in attacking the city again, first by destroying the bell towers, then having his brother restrained and lastly allowing himself to be killed by Safety Patrol to force Amma to finally stand up. A master of physiological warfare, who only does what he deems necessary for his goal, Trundle ultimately succeeded in reuniting Amma and her children, even if not the way he wanted.
• The Scrappy: Trylla is hated by fans. The main issue fans have with her is that she is supposed to be depicted as a well-intentioned, caring, and sympathetic figure... even though she kidnaps Hilda and abandons her own child, making her indirectly responsible for everything bad that happens in the film, while also causing both Hilda and Johanna a lot of grief and trauma throughout the film — most notoriously leaving the latter to potentially die at the hands of trolls and lying to the former about her mom shortly after — making her very unsympathetic to fans despite the film's attempt to portray her otherwise. It doesn't help that she rarely shows any remorse for her actions, nor does it help that she never faces any major consequences for her actions. Likely as a result of this, she is Put on a Bus in season 3, being one of the only major characters to not be acknowledged.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: The Frida & David subplot feels like this, if not outright Padding. Neither really add anything to the main story, since ultimately, nothing they do contributes to the A-plot (Hilda trying to restore her humanity). They do attempt to mix troll and witch magic with a spell, but it ultimately goes nowhere due to not mixing well, and everyone else never find out they attempted to try something. The B-plot of Johanna trying to find Hilda before the Safety Patrol can harm her stifles Frida and David, who get literally left on the curb in fear of endangering them. By the time Frida sneaks out of the city to find them, Hilda is already back to being human. Even their protests against Ahlberg and the bells are forgotten about pretty quickly. Their only plot relevance is Frida's use of a magic spell that lets her see into the mind of a troll, which is impactful to the plot, as Hilda uses that information to partially workout what's going on. It's clear the writers knew they needed to do something with them, since they're main characters here, but since they were not prominent characters in the original graphic novel, they had to think of something passive that wouldn't interrupt the original story's flow of events.
• Unfortunate Character Design: One of the trolls shown in the background toward the end is a Cephalothorax whose face, Gag Nose and all, is on the bottom half of his torso.
• The Woobie:
  • Johanna spends a good chunk of the movie with the revelation that her daughter has essentially been kidnapped and transformed into a troll and spends most of the movie trying to find her. Her first few attempts to find Hilda are met with failure and she becomes increasingly anguished and tearful about whether she will ever get her daughter back.
  • Hilda herself. She finds herself back in the stone forest without any warning, realizing that she has essentially been kidnapped by the troll mother. In a desperate panic, she struggles to escape, at one point being turned to stone by the sun before coming to and being tortured by a bell hung around her nose and one of the bells in Trolberg's bell towers, likely the absolute worst pain she's ever gone through. Upon seeing that she has been turned into a troll and finding out that the caster has no way of knowing how to turn her back, she breaks down crying with the revelation that she might never be able to go home. You honestly can't help but want to give her a hug to comfort her.

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