YMMV / Redakai

• Ass Pull: Invoked by the writers when talking about "Inner Kairu", which it is said will "develop when the time is right". Write yourself into a hole? Time for a miraculous Inner Kairu boost!
• Audience-Alienating Premise: The original trading card game was doomed by its own gimmick. The cards are translucent with paint on certain parts so that players had to stack cards and combine their attributes, and attacks take the form of battle damage that reduces the victim's health bar. Not a bad idea on paper, but this also means that you needed a special board to prevent your opponent from seeing what you have. Combine this with the "basic" game giving you no control over what happens, and you have a game that hit the bargain bin after just a couple of months. The Animated Adaptation being a critical and commercial flop as well also hurt it in this regard.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In "The Gauntlet of Lokar" it's hinted that Zair has a crush on Ky. She flirts with him and blushes when he thanks her at the end, and Maya and Boomer have spotted it. However, this was never mentioned before or after the episode, with Zair simply treating Ky like dirt as usual.
• Bile Fascination: Maybe it's the gorgeous animation, this show came from Marathon Media after all.
• Broken Aesop: A horribly botched Green Aesop in episode five. Maya leads the charge to protect a forest by hurling a huge tornado made of pure fire within said forest.
  Boomer: Wow, when it comes to nature, you don't mess around, Maya!
• Captain Obvious Aesop: The pilot had the aesop "Slavery is bad." Really, there weren't enough plot points or other threads for the moral to be anything else. The "Taunting someone for a skin-blemish" potential moral is never closed. Nope. Slavery is bad.
• Designated Hero: Team Stax. They can hurl fire around forests, trigger avalanches, throw rocks at random people, and string someone to a Pterodactyl by their ankle and still be treated like good guys.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Imperiaz. Why? Their backstory is sympathetic, so they got many fans before their actual first appearance in the actual show, where they get treated like dirt not worthy of sympathy. Hasn't stopped them from getting it, though, and many fans are mad at the writers for not portraying them more sympathetically.
  • Season 2 does pour on the sympathy when Zane yanks Imperiaz's chain by taking up Lokar's blackmail indefinitely right when the were about to free their parents. And the finale does throw a quick bone Nan and Berkby's way when the Prism Kairu's curing of the Shadow Kairu also releases them from their crystal prison.
• Growing the Beard: Late season 1 and season 2 with regards to shaking up the status quo established in early and mid-season 1.
• Jerkass Woobie: The Imperiaz. mentioned above in Ensemble Dark Horse.
• The Scrappy: Mookee. He is The Millstone whenever he does anything other than pilot Team Stax's ship; his voice is annoying and he comes across as a racist caricature of Asians with his Fu Manchu mustache, squinty eyes and buck teeth. In one episode, he wants to be a Kairu warrior and when Team Stax lets him, he spends the whole fight fanboying then trips and accidentally fires a laser at the tree they were trying to protect. After being called out on this he promises to get better. Then in the next fight, he screws up again, but gets lucky and saves the day through his clumsiness. Everyone treats him like a great hero for this, but at least they decide not to let him be a Kairu warrior anymore. Whether or not his infrequent appearances after early season 1 is a good thing or not is up to you.
• So Okay, It's Average: There are people who have no problem with this show, but even they usually consider it to be a pretty average show with not much to write home about.

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