YMMV / The Owl House

YMMV Tropes For The Owl House

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• Abandon Shipping:
  • The fandom ships Lumity hard. Pretty much any ship involving Amity and Luz with anyone besides each other died off fairly quickly once it became clear Lumity was a plot line the show was legitimately pursuing.
  • After getting a lot of Ship Tease with Hunter following their first interactions in "Any Sport In A Storm", the Boschlow ship is more or less dying down in favor of Huntlow. Boscha not having much Character Development or any interactions with Willow most likely fuelled it even more.
  • Early season 2 promos showed Gus blushing in Bria's presence, causing people to ship them. However, as soon as the episode in question ("Through the Looking Glass Ruins") aired, revealing her Alpha Bitch nature, fans proceeded to cease support of the ship. Though Gus's interactions with Mattholomule towards the end of the episode reignited the Gustholomule ship.
  • After "Clouds on the Horizon" showed Alador leaving Odalia over her support of Belos' genocidal plans and abusive behavior, many fans who previously liked the couple have stopped supporting the ship altogether.
  • Camila and Eda became a lot less popular after the introduction of Raine, Eda's ex and a rare nonbinary major character.
  • The Lunter (Luz/Hunter) ship began to wane in popularity after Lumity became canon and Hunter started interacting with Willow. The pairing definitely still has its fans but not as much as there were during Season 2A and it’s become more common for fans to write them as having a sibling-like relationship
  • Edric/Jerbo and Emira/Viney, while still having their fans, have seen a significant loss of support once Hunter was introduced, with most people now shipping either one of the twins with him. Though funny enough Hunter and the twins shipping would become almost non-existent after he started getting legit Ship Tease with Willow.
  • While not the most popular ship in the fandom, a couple of fans still shipped Boscha and Amity together, if only for the potential FoeYay between them. "For the Future" had these same fans jump ship once Boscha and Amity properly met again, as the former's attitude and attempt to get the latter to return to her side came across disturbingly similar to an obsessive ex trying to get their victim back with them.
  • Every single ship featuring Lilith suffered this after Word of God confirmed she is asexual and aromantic.
• Accidental Aesop:
  • "Don't let others make your choices for you". Luz was absolutely miserable in the potions track, but, while she still would've preferred studying every track, she may have been happier if she was allowed the time to decide on what track she herself wanted to go for, or even tested out each track before making an informed decision. Instead, Principal Bump dumps her into a random track with no concern for her wishes.
  • There's no shame in not knowing what you want to do at a young age. Sometimes, figuring out a plan for one's life and career takes time, and that's okay.
  • Some people are just born good or evil. No matter what, all the grimwalkers turned against Belos and embraced the Boiling Isles' culture exactly like his brother did. On the other hand the series implies that Belos/Philip was always a monster, even before his arrival on the Boiling Isles. Likewise his past and cultural background are simply presented as an excuse for Belos to commit his horrible crimes rather than as the cause of them.
  • The best way to solve problems like bigotry and religious fundamentalism is to find and get rid of the one person who is responsible. Not only is Belos/Philip solely responsible for all the troubles plaguing the Boiling Isles, but his death has also automatically led to a more open and tolerant society.
• Adorkable:
  • Amity Blight starts off as the arrogant top student at Hexside before gradually shedding her cruel personality. Despite initially being annoyed with Luz when first meeting her, the two bond over their shared love of The Good Witch Azura book series before developing romantic feelings for her. She further falls for her after being chosen as the Grom Queen to the point she becomes an unintelligible mess whenever she was around Luz or simply thinks about her.
  • Luz is a quirky, upbeat Nightmare Fetishist who is kind to everyone and a pop-culture nerd, as shown with her love for anime, video games, and The Good Witch Azura. Her awkward social skills make her all the more endearing. She becomes even more so in season two when she starts to crush on Amity.
  • Eda herself can fall into this at times, mainly when she tries too hard to act cool and behaves more like a giddy teenager when she really enjoys herself. She also has an adorable mutual crush on Raine Whispers.
  • Lilith turns out to be a very giddy and excitable student when learning rune magic, including squeeing when Luz compliments her work and going into hyperactive monologues when describing the mechanics of this new form of magic. Her increasingly affectionate friendship with Hooty helps too. Taken further in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", with her wearing glasses and having puffier hair, and adorably Squeeing over nerdy historical subjects.
  • Despite how he was initially depicted, Alador Blight is also this, thanks to being a Ditzy Genius who only wants to work on his inventions and play with whatever catches his eye, not to mention how sad he gets when someone messes with that.
  • "Hunting Palismen" boosted the popularity of the already fan favorite Golden Guard/Hunter by showing that, aside from being a hilarious Troll that loves messing with people, he's also a Badass Bookworm (with a Childish Tooth Gap!) who gets easily excited at the thought of learning more about Wild Magic.
  • Raine Whispers is a shy, sweet middle-aged witch with a soft, high-pitched voice who is in love with Eda. The fandom almost immediately fell in love with them, and for good reason!
• Alternative Joke Interpretation: In "Wing It Like Witches," when Amity, visibly flustered from thinking about running around in cute outfits and sweating with Luz, hastily excuses herself from the group, is it just because she's embarrassed about getting aroused in front of other people or is it implied that she's going somewhere to get these feelings out of her system?
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: There's a mild running gag about how giraffes are actually from the Boiling Isles and were banished to our world for being "a bunch of freaks." Surprisingly, this has precedence; the Questing Beast of Arthurian Legend was a strange, magical hybrid monster hunted by Sir Pellinore, which modern scholars are pretty sure was based on hazy descriptions of a giraffe.
• Angel/Devil Shipping:
  • A number of fans ship Luz, the All-Loving Heroine, with Boscha, a Barbaric Bully. Stories with this premise tends to give Boscha significant Character Development either before or as a result of getting together with Luz.
  • Camila, Luz' supportive but struggling mother, and Belos, a tyrannical dictator and genocidal fanatic are also a ship that sees a lot of traction in Alternate Universe fics.
• Angst? What Angst?:
  • Eda doesn't seem to be worried about her regularly transforming into an owl monster, barring her nightmare at the end of "The Intruder" asking the figure in it who was the one who cursed her. Even when knowing she almost killed her friends and that now they may even fear her. Likewise, King and Luz aren't traumatized at all by the experience. They make sure that Eda is tucked in with back-up elixir, apologize for stealing the original, and clean up the mess. For King, he's more guilty about his actions but decides to take new notes on the Snaggleback. Luz in the meantime is more excited that she can do magic.
  • Luz represents this wholeheartedly. She shrugs off any danger the Boiling Isles tosses at her with a sad face and then reassurance. Case in point that Principal Bump tried to dissect her, but she's not afraid of him at all in "Covention".
  • Principal Bump gets this in "The First Day". After dealing with Luz, he finds out an impostor has invaded his school, draining his students of their energy. He tries to protect Amity and fails, being Forced to Watch a magical terrorist hurting his kids. When the Detention Kids and Luz save his life and the school, he doesn't show any trauma and agrees to change the rules when Luz points out she knows he cares more about his students than about public appearances, and that it was the kids who didn't conform that defeated the basilisk. As thanks to Luz, he also shows her that Eda wanted to study every course, even smiling.
• Anvilicious:
  • Did you get that the moral of the first episode was "It's okay to be weird"? Don't worry, the episode itself will remind you of that a lot.
  • The first season emphasizes that you cannot believe in authority blindly and that questioning it on a regular basis is how you make a good change. In the first episode, Luz convinces a bunch of "Weirdos" in jail that they don't deserve to be locked up and should fight for their happiness. Eda emphasizes to Luz that the coven system brainwashes witches into surrendering their powers, and is proven right when Emperor Belos reneges on his deal with Lilith to make an example out of Eda rather than cure her. Luz helps Willow get on the Plant track at Hexside where she thrives, rather than staying in Abominations to please her parents, and later tells Principal Bump that the Detention Kids saved his life and thus deserve a change in curriculum. Bump is forced to admit that she's right and lets everyone study the tracks they desire.
• Ass Pull:
  • "Any Sport in a Storm" finally reveals how The Good Witch Azura exists on both Earth and the Boiling Isles: the books originated on Earth before ending up on the Boiling Isles, and no one knew that it was a human story because Tiny Nose, Tibbles, and Mattholomule all worked together to sell it as a book written by a witch. While human items leaking into the Boiling Isles has been brought up before, what makes it an Ass Pull is how the scheme was carried out by three characters who, based on their previous appearances in the show, should have no reason to associate with one another.
  • From the same episode, apparently Luz and Amity never once talked about how The Good Witch Azura can exist in both of their worlds in all the time they've been friends and girlfriends. What makes it weirder is that Luz lent Amity one of her books for an indeterminate amount of time, yet Amity apparently never noticed that the author photo on Luz's book didn't have pointed ears.
  • For some fans the revelation that the Collector did not know what death was is this. In "Hollow Mind" they knew about Belos' constant murder and replacement of the Golden Guards and even joked about it, and in "For The Future" they revealed to King that they saw the Archivists wipe out multiple planets.
• Awesome Art:
  • While the show itself has some hugely appealing character designs and animation throughout, any fight scene which gets a noticeable Animation Bump is sure to look even better.
  • The season 2 poster◊ looks gorgeous, positively Bloodborne-esque with heavy red lighting, dark, gothic scenery, and a composition that make it seem like the heroes are facing a hostile world. While not immediately obvious, the lineart and shading are done with textured brushes, which is only visible when zoomed in, and it lends a delightfully artistic effect to the whole piece.
    • Continued with the s3 poster, which features even deeper and darker shadows and turns up the stylization on the main cast.
  • The updated intro for Season 2 has incredibly fluid animation, even more than the show's standard. Every character gets a chance to show off their magic.
  • The scene in "Yesterday's Lie" where Camila and Luz try to hug despite Luz being a hologram in the rain. With the Owl House family having to pull her out of the collapsing portal and Camila's breakdown on learning Luz willingly stayed in the Boiling Isles to pursue a "witch fantasy" (Luz didn't get to tell her about Belos), it's a gorgeous scene punctuated by the act that mother and daughter hold each other for as long as possible, with Luz promising that she'll find her way home for real.
  • In "Clouds On The Horizon", when Amity and Luz meet again for what could be the final time, the animation quality sharply increases as if knowing what's about to happen...^note Word of God admitted they got a special guest animator just for that one scene.
• Awesome Ego: King may or may not be the king of demons, but he's a little guy that you want on your side during a fight. He and Eda manage to fight the Warden to a standstill, and when Tibbles traps them, he moves quickly to save Eda and free them when the opportunity arises.
  • Perhaps a better example would be Edalyn Clawthorne. She has a habit of proclaiming herself "The Most Powerful Witch on The Boiling Isles" or "The Greatest Witch Who Ever Lived". Even so, her boasting is not without merit. She manages to demonstrate a large variety of spells, regularly using them for simple, mundane tasks, like cooking food, or using powerful spells in rapid conjunction with one another against a large number of powerful foes. And then there's the fact that all these feats are while she was weakened by the curse, giving even more merit to her claim.
• Awesome Music:
  • The Title Sequence theme is a fun, upbeat tune with a touch of darkness. The extended version of it that was written for the Time-Passes Montage in "Thanks To Them" is especially infectious and beautiful, as it journeys through a much wider range of emotions than the original rendition.
  • The tango during the Grom fight sequence.
  • The credits theme is a soothing, short symphony.
  • Eda and Raine's duet from "Eda's Requiem".
  • "If We're Gonna Play Owl House…", the track that plays in "King's Tide" when the Collector takes over the Boling Isles and the Hexside Gang escapes to the Human Realm, is an epic orchestrated rendition of the Title Sequence theme very fitting for the absolute change of status-quo that the finale represents.
• Badass Decay:
  • The Golden Guard made his first appearance curbstomping Luz and Eda, making it clear he could kill them but wanted them to go monster hunting for the Emperor. Each subsequent appearance has had Luz, Amity, and Willow in that order proactively handling him before Hunter could fight; Hunter is especially put out that Amity, an abomination student, managed to capture him. In Willow's case, it's all the more awesome in that she was just asking nicely if "Caleb" would join her Flyer Derby team.
  • The Collector was introduced in Season 2 as an extremely creepy and sadistic Reality Warper, who easily defeated Belos shortly after being freed. In season 3 it is suddenly revealed that they had no idea their powers were hurting people nor had any responsibility for the death of the Titan. In spite of their enormous powers, the Collector is almost Demoted to Extra for the rest of the season as Belos, secretly possessing Raine's body, once again easily manipulates them to accomplish his genocidal plans. While they help Luz in the final battle, the Collector plays a minimal role in it and isn't even among the characters hitting Belos in his last moments.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Hooty. He's either the funniest character in the show who can kick ass when the time calls for it, or an annoying bird tube who never shuts up and whose jokes fall flat. This is actually invoked by the show itself.
  • Lilith became this after it was revealed that she was the one who cursed Eda during their youth. While some fans have already forgiven her, or are at least open to waiting to see if she can fully redeem herself in Season 2, others believe that she had crossed the Moral Event Horizon by both cursing her sister in her sleep and being willing to outright kill Luz, and didn't deserve to be forgiven. (Luz and Eda even share this opinion in-universe; Luz bluntly says she doesn't like Lilith's style of screwing her own sister over or her cheating ways. Eda in the meantime is still glaring at Lilith and seems ambivalent if her sharing the curse makes up for everything else.) Then there are those who believe that Lilith was too Easily Forgiven, and/or would have been a far more interesting character if she had remained an antagonist.
  • Boscha was initially viewed by some fans with interest who hoped that her character could be developed beyond her Jerkass Alpha Bitch Barbaric Bully characterization and hoped that she could perhaps even have her own Day in the Limelight or two where her character and motivation could be explored and given Character Development similar to Amity's where she is redeemed. However, each appearance by her in the show seems to turn more and more people off to the idea, unlike with the fans' negative sentiments towards Hooty and Lilith, which actually decreased with time, with her activities in "Wing it Like Witches" coming off as too brutal to some fans and eventually reaching a point where she becomes a Spotlight-Stealing Squad alongside Kikimora in "For the Future", where many fans would have preferred that they played no role in the special's plot at all, between generating a Trapped by Mountain Lions plot and her uncomfortable-for-some interactions with Amity. Her presence at Luz's King-ceneara also was a minor point of contention for a few fans, considering her lack of a good relationship with Luz and her friends, though some fans brush it off noting that she could have mellowed out over the prior 4 years. Overall, fans are split between those who like her and find her entertaining and cute and someone with potential depth, those who detest her for being a flat jerkass barbaric bully with no character development who took up precious screen time in the penultimate episode, and those who think she was an interesting character who had ultimately wasted potential due to misuse by the crew or the shortening of the show.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: During "For the Future", Belos is briefly confronted by the ghosts or hallucinations of his brother and previous grimwalkers, leading him to go through a brief Villanous Breakdown. While it was already implied that Belos felt some guilt over his brother's murder, this is the first and only time where he either hallucinates him or sees his ghost, and shows similar feelings for the Grimwalkers. The scene lasts only a couple of minutes, is never referenced again and plays no role in the rest of the series.

C-D

• Captain Obvious Reveal: The true identity of Emperor Belos becomes obvious when Philip Wittebane is introduced. Belos' face when previously seen does not have witch ears and Philip is the only other human with a British accent, despite having a Time-Shifted Actor for his younger self. The show does not attempt to set up any Red Herring for his identity either.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • Seeing that Warden Wrath is a Jerkass and Entitled Bastard, it's rather satisfying when Luz rallies his escaped prisoners to use their quirks to subdue him. Then Luz blows up fireworks in his mouth, sending him running. Even better, in the first season finale, she curbstomps him and makes him draw a map to Eda's cell.
  • Hooty curbstomping Lilith and the other Emperor's coven witches is quite satisfying given The Reveal later on of what Lilith did to her sister. The icing on the cake is Eda watching with binoculars and snickering.
  • Lilith being revealed to have cursed Eda when they were children to gain an edge over a duel can be pretty blood-boiling, therefore it's rather satisfying to see her suffer when she learns that Emperor Belos never intended to agree to their deal (even if it doesn't mean well for Eda), and later on when Owl Beast Eda comes close to mauling her for endangering Luz.
  • Amity standing up to Alador for being passive to Odalia's abuse, as well as trying to live their dreams through their kids instead of letting them decide what they want. It gets even better when Alador realizes that Amity is right and starts to make amends.
  • Odalia Blight is a complete Hate Sink who treats everyone around her terribly, including her own family, which makes it extremely satisfying when, after it's revealed that she's perfectly fine with supporting Emperor Belos' genocide so long as she can benefit from it, Amity and Alador finally stand up to her and cut all ties with her, before Alador starts to destroy her prized, money-making Abomatons in front of her. Even better is that she's unable to take her revenge because she's outnumbered, forcing her to bitterly retreat with nothing to show for her betrayal except a false promise from Belos that she'll be spared from his rapidly-approaching genocide.
  • Kikimora is insufferably cruel and petty towards about everyone she meets, sans Emperor Belos. Therefore, when she delivers "Hunter" to Belos and asks to become his right hand once again, it's absolutely pleasing when Belos brutally tells her just how little he actually thinks of her and then literally shows her the door, giving her a massive dose of Humble Pie.
  • The reaction of the smug, corrupt and ruthless Coven Heads when they realize that their "paradise" was a lie is pretty satisfying. Seeing Terra Snapdragon in particular have her pride broken once she realizes too late that they're all going to die and that swapping Eda for Raine was the biggest mistake she ever made is especially something to cherish considering how exceptionally nasty, smug and vicious she's been throughout all her appearances.
  • Emperor Belos has been the nigh-untouchable Big Bad for the entire past two seasons, where every attempt from the heroes at thwarting him has either been foiled or, at best, just allowed them to barely escape, and who has manipulated and gaslighted most of the cast at some point into doing his bidding, only to toss them aside and/or renege on deals with them once he no longer needs them. Therefore, it is incredibly satisfying to see the newly-freed Collector (whom he betrayed earlier) casually halt his attempt to kill Luz and her friends and reduce Belos to Ludicrous Gibs like it's nothing. Yeah, he survives, but it still renders him weak for a while.
  • After everything he's done, seeing Belos pathetically try to trick and then angrily demand Luz save him before she lets him get burned by the boiling rain and then stomped into oblivion by Raine, King, and Eda is beyond satisfying. Raine themself even lampshades it, calling the moment "immensely satisfying".
• Common Knowledge:
  • Amity tried to get Luz dissected while she was acting as Willow's abomination, something King even jokes about in "Eclipse Lake". Thing is, Luz's dissection was Principal Bump's idea, with Amity just being supportive of the idea.
  • Most assume that the opening montage in "Thanks To Them" is a collection of scrapped episodes that would have been made had Disney given the crew a full third season. However, the creative team were alerted that they were Only Barely Renewed after the production of Season 2A, and Dana is on record for saying there were no structured plans for a full-length third season prior to that news. In fact, she's been clear that major narrative elements such as The Collector was a plot change that resulted from the truncated third season, and early storyboards for "Clouds on the Horizon" (the penultimate episode of the second season) show Amity still having the portal key, implying that the season and the show's new conclusion was still being figured out even at that stage. The montage was just a collection of short ideas and were never fleshed out beyond what was seen.
• Complete Monster:
  • Emperor Belos, the manipulative ruler of the Boiling Isles, started off as nothing more than Philip Wittebane, an orphan-turned-Puritanical Witch Hunter. When his beloved elder brother Caleb Wittebane left to the Demon Realm with a witch, Philip crossed worlds and tracked him down, only to find Caleb in love with the witch. Unable to reconcile his beliefs with his brother's "betrayal", Philip murdered Caleb, then fled into the Boiling Isles and devoted the rest of his life to devising a realm-wide genocide. To do this, Philip tracked down the godlike Collector—tricking, betraying and killing off a slew of witches and demons in the process—and slowly built himself up as the Demon Realm's Dark Messiah. In one instance, Belos wiped out an entire city, then tested a prototype of his Coven sigils—the method with which he seeks to enact his "draining spell" to wipe out all life on the Isles—on the survivors, leaving them for dead when the process left them comatose. As overlord of the Isles, Belos engages in a variety of atrocities, from duping all of his loyal followers into a scheme he knows will kill them all, to consuming the souls of thousands of Palismen and keeping them in writhing torment within him. Even his love for Caleb has become nothing but a twisted abstract; Belos creates "Grimwalker" clones of Caleb he seeks to mold into a servile accessory, murdering them so often that a chasm has been clogged with heaps of their decaying corpses. Belos subjects the current Grimwalker, Hunter, to an agonizing and scarring possession and forces him to kill his own Palisman, Flapjack, out of nothing but cruel spite. In the end, Belos cares for nothing and no one except "his need to be the hero in his own delusion."
  • Odalia Blight, initially seen as a controlling, status-obsessed parent, turns out to be far worse. With little care for her husband Alador or their three children—the former of whom she forces to submit to her will by threatening to have the latter labor in their factories—Odalia arranges a deal with the monstrous Emperor Belos to willingly facilitate his utter genocide of the Boiling Isles so she can elevate the Blights to royalty, and disowns her family when they reject her "generosity".
• Continuity Lockout: The reason why the show is rarely seen in reruns is due to the tight continuity. For example, watching an episode where Lilith is hostile towards the main characters, and then an episode where she's an adorkable historian, can be rather confusing if you don't watch every episode in between.
• Crack Pairing:
  • Emira/Viney has been popular amongst fans from the second Viney's design was shown, even though the two have never actually interacted with each other, let alone appeared in the same episode.
  • Edric/Jerbo is also popular, despite (or perhaps because of) the similar circumstances.
  • In the wake of both the trailers for season 2 and the first two episodes being aired early/leaked, Edric/Golden Guard has gained a small following.
  • There's also a small subset of fans who ship Odalia with Eda or Lilith, usually Lilith, based off of the Fanon that Eda and Lilith were friends with Odalia and Alador during their time at Hexside.
  • After "Yesterday's Lie" revealed the identity of Vee, Luz's shapeshifting doppelgänger, many started shipping her with the blonde-with-pink-stripe haired cheerleader girl from the pilot, who has not reappeared and still has no official name.
  • Hunter/Willow used to be this — this ship started gaining traction a few months after Hunter's debut, when he and Willow hadn't interacted. After "Any Sport in a Storm" had them meet, the ship gained plenty of canon fuel to it.
• Creator Worship: You'd be hard-pressed to find a fan who doesn't call Dana Terrace a "queen", considering her efforts to include unambiguous queer content on the show and her openness in calling Disney out on things she opposes when they are her own employers, who have a lot of clout in the entertainment industry.
• Creepy Awesome:
  • Emperor Belos defines the trope. A terrifying masked figure whose throne room is adorned with a giant beating heart, who delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to everyone who tries to fight him. Where Belos really shows his stripes as a figure of horror, however, is "Hollow Mind"— an episode that reveals that he's an insane, manipulative Witch Hunter driven by an unshaken belief that all humans are good and all witches are evil, and has twisted relationship with his deceased brother, simultaneously both loving and hating him by creating Grimwalkers like Hunter before executing them for failing to live up to his impossible expectations, and all accompanied by a brilliant Soft-Spoken Sadist delivery from Matthew Rhys. The sheer level of genuine horror and Macbeth-like tragedy of his character has gained him tons of praise for just how twisted he and his entire storyline are. Plus, the design of his monstrous form that lies underneath his human-like guise is well-received being genuinely terrifying and yet miserable looking monster.
  • "Jean-Luc". A terrifying, physically disturbing Flesh Golem that almost decimates Luz, Eda and Lilith while avoiding a single scratch.
• Creepy Cute:
  • King. He's a demon with a skull for a face and a vaguely canine body, and is the cutest thing ever.
  • To some, Eda in her Owl Beast form, especially in the YBOS flashback where she transformed for the first time.
  • The Collector in their true form is an adorable, brightly-colored child wearing a onesie and an appropriately playful personality to match. It just so happens that their idea of play can often involve death and mass devastation.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Eda losing her head? Frightening. Eda's head talking and stating how annoyed she is of having it done over and over again? Hilarious.
  • Eda and King discussing eating the Bat Queen's baby at the start of "Lost in Language". Eda dismisses the idea... because witches eating babies has been uncool since the 1600s.
  • Eda's sentient graffiti begging for its life when Principal Bump forces Eda to clean it up in "Something Ventured, Someone Framed".
  • In "Eclipse Lake", Hunter's genuine fear over what will happen to him if he returns to Belos empty-handed is depressing, but him quite literally digging his own grave and cheerfully (and genuinely) offering to dig one for Amity as well pushes it back into funny territory, especially with King's reaction: "This is bumming me out."
  • Lilith acting like King is a god? Unsettling. Lilith willing to commit "dark deeds" like murder in King's name? Horrifying. Lilith having a knife with a hilt made of skeleton hands on her to commit said murders? Hilarious.
• Crossover Ship:
  • Stan Pines x Eda is gaining popularity due to their similar personalities. It's fueled by the Easter Eggs hinting that Eda is the Marilyn with whom Stan was married for six hours before they divorced.
  • Eda would probably be good friends with Alice, since they're both old yet feisty.
  • Amity would probably befriend Catra due to their similar issues and complicated relationships with Adora and Luz, not to mention that the former has a cat palisman and the latter is a Cat Girl. Glimmer and Eda would probably bond due to their respective recklessness and they would likely form a bond similar to what Eda has with Luz. Lilith and Angella would bond over having to deal with relatives like them.
  • Luz and Akko would get along swimmingly as they both desire to become powerful witches while Amity and Diana would get along with the similarities of their heritage of being from powerful families (but actually being nicer after meeting up with Luz/Akko).
  • It's been suggested on social media that Hooty and Duo would make a great couple. Even Dana Terrace and the Duolingo Twitter commented on it, though the former (possibly jokingly) discouraged it, on the grounds that they were "bitter rivals" in the bird industry, but have come to respect each other after teaming up to fight the owls of GaHoole.
  • Anne and Luz are shown to get along quite well for having many similarities.
  • Some think Luz would bond quickly with Marcy, due to being young girls with Ambiguous Disorders that see being trapped in another world as a dream come true. Marcy would love to go to Hexside, given how excited she was to learn about witchcraft from Maddie.
  • Hunter and Marcy already have some fan-art, a fan-vid and even a fanchild. No one knows how it got so popular, but Hunter already being a Launcher of a Thousand Ships may be the cause.
  • Many have joked about the idea of King Andrias and Emperor Belos either teaming up upon realizing how similar they and their goals (or at least Belos' smokescreen for his real plans) are or becoming a couple.
  • Pairing Eda with Isacc Clark is a unique one. It helps that their lives are surprisingly similar.
  • A portion of fans from Latin America ship Amity with the animated El Chavo, although not seriously and only as a meme.
• Cry for the Devil: "For the Future" portrays Emperor Belos at his most miserable, undergoing Sanity Slippage as his body continues to painfully deteriorate while (possibly) hallucinating his brother Caleb looking down on him. In contrast to how confident he normally sounds, all Belos can do is childishly yell at him and deny that his death was his fault, coming across as deeply in denial. His pained moans certainly don't help, sounding like he's crying. Although one may not necessarily feel sorry for him now, it's a reminder that Belos was once just a normal kid named Philip who desperately desired to find his beloved brother and was never the same after his death, leading to the events that would turn him into the monster he is today. Despite everything he's done, it comes across as rather pitiable.
• Diagnosed by the Audience:
  • Luz Noceda isn't very good with social cues, sometimes to the point of disregarding common sense. She tends to live in her own world a bit too much that she doesn't know where to draw the line, that she ends up unduly alarming her classmates and often gets sent to the principal's office, which of course is why her mother had to send her to Reality Check camp. Then in "Once Upon A Swap", Luz attempts to advertise Eda's business, but is told not to because Eda is a wanted criminal, yet doesn't listen and still conjures (while in Eda's body) bright signage pointing to her stand, which gets her caught by the Emperor's guards. In "Enchanting Grom Fright", Luz is told that being Grom Queen isn't something to be excited for, she thinks Willow is treating it as a modest achievement, and then insensitively congratulates Amity when she's named Grom Queen while everyone else is stunned silent about it because of the high stakes it really entails. What's more, in "Wing it Like Witches", despite how blatant Amity's feelings for her are, she doesn't seem to notice.
    • Show creator Dana Terrace confirmed in an interview that Luz does indeed have ADHD. This was apparently unintentional on the staff's part; while Terrace had intended for Luz to be neurodivergent, she had not heard of ADHD beforehand. However, once fans made the connection, Terrace did some research, and decided to just go with it.invoked
    • Season 2, very heavily implies that Luz may suffer from a somewhat situational but rather severe form of Social anxiety disorder, specifically regarding humans and Amity when she wants to ask her out, to the point that even indirect human interaction can cause her to panic as shown when Vee went up to a group of human teenagers who turn out to be her friends.
  • While its abundantly clear that her rough upbringing had taken a toll on Amity Blight's mental health, the possibility of a disorder, if she has one, is in question. It's shown that she did have an Inferiority Superiority Complex, but also demonstrates other unhealthy behaviors, she becomes aggressive, hostile, somewhat violent and emotionally unstable when things don't go her way or how she expects them to go. She was obsessive with status and being the best, blames her peers for her misfortune instead of her superiors, believes that Luz's compassionate nature is really her attempting to annoy Amity, had trouble showing or understanding genuine kindness and having general friendly interactions with others, excessive irritability and mood swings and refused to that acknowledge her own horrible attitude and actions were the problem when interacting with Luz, accusing her of embarrassing Amity or getting her in trouble. This seem to be paralleled to signs of Bipolar disorder. However, overtime her interactions with Luz and her friends had her take the role of a Living Emotional Crutch to Amity as she gradually becomes a kinder and happier person, even to the point of Amity falling in love with Luz.
  • Lilith has some quirks that make her act differently than other people. For example, she might get fixated on certain ideas or interests, have trouble regulating her own emotions, or not pick up on social cues.
  • Hunter also has some quirks, such as being afraid of changes in routine, stimming (repetitive behavior), and having trouble with social cues. Due to this, Hunter and Lilith are widely interpreted as being autistic. Both of them also have some symptoms that are commonly associated with PTSD.
  • Whenever he's not inattentive, Alador is detached and gets easily distracted by small things such as Principal Bump's demon hat, or butterflies. He also seems to suffer from a lack of sleep likely as a result of his endless experiments on abominations. It does explain a few odd quirks his son has.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: A fairly lighthearted example. In "King's Tide," Belos puts on a witch hunter uniform, reflecting his ambitions to become the human world's most famous witch hunter. Luz mocks him for this and the show tries to portray him as outdated and unfashionable— the issue is that, thanks to Belos' fairly handsome appearance (Complete with him healing his Facial Horror while wearing it), it's generally agreed that he absolutely rocks the outfit, and it's become very popular with fans and cosplayers.
• Draco in Leather Pants:
  • Amity gets this treatment in her debut episode ("I Was A Teenage Abomination"). Many paint her as an Unintentionally Sympathetic Designated Villain because Luz helped Willow cheat in her Abomination project, but they forget she was also shown to be a vain bully towards Willow and she went out of her way to try and expose Luz, which is enough to warrant her as an antagonist in that episode. The later Hidden Depths and Alternative Character Interpretation that her subsequent appearances brought up don't help matters.
  • There are also some fans who, after "Covention", were immediately ready to join Team Lilith in regards to The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry between her and Eda due to how utterly charismatic Lilith is, ignoring that we don't have enough information to fully determine who is right or wrong on what counts in this rivalry and that Lilith wanting to force Eda to join a coven is wrongful behavior no matter what the reason may be. Though given that she was revealed to have cursed her sister, and bargained Luz's life to get Eda to come with her, those might have jumped ship. As of "Young Blood, Old Souls," Lilith has attempted to pull a Heel–Face Turn by sharing Eda's curse so the leather pants may no longer apply.
  • The twins have gained a sizable amount of fans who give them a pass for teasing Amity and some of their more dangerous pranks. It helps that they Took a Level in Kindness immediately afterward and haven't been as mean to her as they were in their debut.
  • Boscha is canonically a Jerkass with some small Hidden Depths who's an even bigger Alpha Bitch than Amity used to be. However, many fans, especially ones who ship Boscha with Willow, will often downplay her negative traits and depict her as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, at worst. A lot of this died down after "Wing it Like Witches" showed just how terrible a bully Boscha can be, but at the same time, it also reinforced the trope for some people with how the episode implies that Boscha puts a lot of pressure on herself to succeed and ties most of her self-worth to her grudgby skills.
  • Alador Blight. Before he properly appeared in "Escaping Expulsion", there was nothing to indicate that he wasn't just as bad as his wife, Odalia, but after Dana Terrace said that he was fun to write and that the two of them might not be completely bad, coupled with Odalia often being hit with Ron the Death Eater, some people started downplaying the antagonistic traits he had shown in "Understanding Willow" and started acting as if he was A Lighter Shade of Black, at best. This trope got even stronger when he properly appears in "Escaping Expulsion", as the episode depicts him as a Cloudcuckoolander Henpecked Husband who cares more about his inventions than anything Odalia does, even feeling that there was no need to let his Abomiton kill Luz and acting as a Reasonable Authority Figure by making Odalia keep her word about letting Luz and her friends go back to school. Thanks to that, many people treat him as if he's a kind and goofy dad, even though it doesn't erase his actions from "Understanding Willow", which now has him guilty of inaction at best, and it doesn't change that he didn't object enough to killing Luz to actually stop it from happening, and his reasoning for pushing Odalia to keep her word could easily be him simply acting on his own agenda.
  • A slight case with The Collector, whom a good chunk of the fandom coos over for their childish personality and angst over having been sealed away for well over 400 years all alone as well as their desire to have a real friend, ignoring that they are a major antagonist as of the latter portion of season 2 and season 3 and their conquest of the Boiling Isles, turning the Isles into their personal playground and most of its inhabitants into puppets, and while it's shown that they aren't truly evil so much as heavily amoral and unaware of their actions' relative evil, they're still far from the very simplified perception the fandom can have about them.
  • There are some people who think Belos/Philip is Not Evil, Just Misunderstood, despite all of the horrible things he did. There are a couple of ways this manifests:
    • One is the reading of him as a Tragic Villain who did earnestly regret killing his brother, and who, in his childhood, only turned to witch-hunting in order to fit in with Puritan society since he and Caleb were orphans. This reading became a little less popular after "Watching and Dreaming."
    • Another is the reading of him as a "product of his time" who was simply indoctrinated by the witch-craze of 17th century Puritan New England, and whose attitudes are really just the result of his upbringing. Though his hatred of witches is likely the result of his time, the Puritans also saw fratricide as a sin, and they probably wouldn't have approved of an immortal soul-sucking monster who turns into a dragon. It's really a "nurture or nature" debate, and admittedly it isn't fully clarified in the show itself.

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• Everyone Is Satan in Hell: Because the show features demons and magic, Moral Guardians tried to get it banned because they believe it promotes the idea that Satanism is cool and Hell is a nice place like what they tried to do with Dungeons & Dragons, Pokémon, and Harry Potter, all of which are staples of pop culture that anyone, regardless of faith, can enjoy. They went after it a second time when news broke that Luz was bisexual and had a same-sex Love Interest. Needless to say, all the ridiculous backlash made the show even more popular.
• Evil Is Cool:
  • There's Emperor Belos himself. His design, including his mask, are iconic, and his fight with Luz demonstrates just why he's considered the most powerful witch in the Boiling Isles. After his backstory was revealed, he became even more popular due to his sheer depravity, seeking to commit genocide on the Boiling Isles and having killed his own brother and spent centuries making Expendable Clones of him, then killing them for not meeting his standards.
  • Then there's the Golden Guard. He is given special treatment by the Emperor for his status as the Teen Genius, and he effortlessly mops the floor with Luz and Eda. Also helps that despite being a bad guy, he is an enjoyable one as evidenced by him trolling King when he had him in a bird cage, not to mention his rather laid-back and casual tone of voice.
  • Terra Snapdragon is the psychopathic head of the Plant Coven and one of Belos' most dangerous enforcers. She easily defeats Luz, Amity, and Kikimora using her plants and seemingly brainwashes Raine into working for Belos once more.
  • The Collector is a mad jester-like entity imprisoned in the In-Between Realm capable shapeshifting using their shadow and is delightfully hilarious to watch. Once freed, they quickly establish themself as the most powerful character in the series. They curbstomp Belos, telekinetically move the moon, and then shatter the Titan's skull. Later, they're revealed to have destroyed most of the society of the Boiling Isles, turning most of the population- including the Coven Heads into puppets.
• Fandom-Enraging Misconception: With how frequently it occurs, referring to Raine as either male or female will earn you some scorn from fans who will be quick to tell you that Raine is non-binary. If you want to get technical, Raine is a transmasculine non-binary according to Avi Roque, which is hugely different from identifying as male.
• Fandom Heresy: Do not say that you ship Luz and Amity with anyone other than each other. Adding people to the relationship is sometimes considered okay, but one without the other is a strict no-no. Of particular enragement is shipping Amity in particular with any male character even jokingly. Because of this, the fandom subreddit has had to institute stronger rules against bashing of these controversial ships multiple times, and fanart of them with anyone else can generally expect to receive comments ranging from hostility to mere confusion.
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • A fairly mild, friendly one popped up with Amphibia during that show’s second season. It was mostly due to the two shows airing back to back on the same day, so you would get fans debating who had the better weekly episode or who got the better ratings. This did sometimes lead to heated debates on which show is better overall. It doesn't help that the shows are pretty similar to each other in terms of the premise, but thanks in part to both shows creators encouraging it, the two fandoms have for the most part remained friendly, with most being fans of both.
  • A slightly nastier one developed with fans of Infinity Train, after fans of The Owl House supposedly "co-opted" the latter fandom's tactic of "trending parties" to get the series noticed on Twitter. Infinity Train fans argued that the more popular Owl House is stealing attention from Infinity Train, even though that show has a far greater need to be noticed, since it was cancelled after just two seasons, while The Owl House was a cult hit with three confirmed seasons.^note Infinity Train divided its seasons into half-season long "books", creating the illusion that it had four seasons, when it only had two.
  • A somewhat intense yet mostly one-sided example with Big City Greens. This is attributed to BCG becoming Adored by the Network, receiving almost double the viewership, reruns, and shorts than any other Disney Channel original that was airing at the time, including TOH (and, for that matter, the aforementioned Amphibia). This caused fans to grow jealous of BCG becoming Disney's apparent pet program, especially after TOH ended up getting Screwed by the Network whereas BCG had the honor of being of the few Disney Channel originals to be renewed for a fourth season (alongside a tie-in movie).
    • Same could be said with Jessie, which gets even more airtime despite ending years ago, as well as its spinoff, Bunk'd, which had become so adored it was the first Disney Channel series to get a fifth season.
  • Simply put, The Owl House fans and Harry Potter fans do not get along, especially due to the way the latter has largely become associated with bigotry against the LGBTQ+ community due to J. K. Rowling's strident anti-transgender views (in contrast to The Owl House, which is associated with acceptance of the community, being created by a bisexual woman). Many consider TOH to be "the Anti-Harry Potter", a work that addresses and refutes many of the writing problems with Harry Potter overall (representation of minorities, the way the mentor characters are handled, etc.). Harry Potter fans, meanwhile, deride The Owl House as a blatant ripoff product produced by a corrupt corporation in contrast to Harry Potter, which solely originated from Rowling. Adding to this, the Harry Potter film series is made by Disney's old rivals, Warner Bros.
• Fanon Welding:
  • Most often done with Gravity Falls, due to their Friendly Fandoms and many shared crew members. The most common crossovers are:
    • King being a reincarnated Bill Cipher. This was mostly due to their shared voice actor Alex Hirsch doing a near identical voice for the two, Bill's final words being a bizarre message for rebirth, and the Axolotl from Gravity Falls: Dipper and Mabel and the Curse of the Time Pirates' Treasure! stating the only way Bill can atone for his crimes is to be in "a different form, a different time." They're also both demons with a thirst for tyrannical power, although King's is totally Played for Laughs. Takes on a heartbreaking twist in "King's Tide" when following Bill in Gravity Falls scoffing at the idea of sacrificing everything for one's sibling, King does just that.
    • Eda being Stan's ex-wife. Some supplementary information in Gravity Falls reveals that Stan married a woman in Las Vegas who has a personality very much akin to Eda, as well as a similar physical description. While that woman was known as Marilyn, it is possible that it was a pseudonym, knowing that Eda is short for Edalyn. With the confirmation that Eda did go to Vegas by Dana Terrace herself, this theory gained plenty of steam. It gained even more steam when "Yesterday's Lie" confirmed that Eda did go by the pseudonym Marilyn in the human realm.
    • To add to this, Eda— or at least, a character sharing her design— made a Production Foreshadowing Early Birdcameo on a wanted poster in the first story of Gravity Falls: Lost Legends, where Dipper and Pacifica end up in a supernatural black market, and part of a page in Journal 3 describing the Boiling Isles can be seen at one point.
  • A surge of this for Amphibia has piqued after the season 2 finale "King's Tide," as Anne makes a cameo appearance that directly references the "Frogvasion" and the ongoing discussion of if it was real or not, but nothing is confirmed nor denied. Most believe that The Owl House takes place during the Time Skip between the events of "The Hardest Thing" and the Distant Finale.
• Foe Yay Shipping:
  • Boscha/Willow has its fair share of shippers, despite the fact of the former's bullying of the latter in "Wing It Like Witches".
  • To a lesser extent, there's some shippers (and fanfics) for Gus/Mattholomule. While not as big as the above ships, the pairing still exists.
  • A small portion of the fandom actually ships Luz with Belos, probably the most twisted example of this trope from this fandom.
• Genius Bonus:
  • "I practice the ancient art of fanfiction!" Given that copyright didn't exist before the 17th century, for most of the history of storytelling, what we call "fanfiction" was just "fiction".
  • Eda's house walking on chicken legs in "Hooty's Moving Hassle" is taken from the Slavic myths of the witch Baba Yaga.
  • When Luz and King write together in "Senses and Insensitivity", their idea board references the three-act structure, "Save the Cat" (as "Shave the Cat") and The Hero's Journey.
  • Lilith’s nickname for Hooty, "Hootcifer" might seem random at first, but Bible scholars will tell you in certain versions Lucifer DID in fact lay with a woman by the name of Lilith.
  • King names his stuffed toy "François" and his stone guardian "Jean-Luc". This is presumably a reference to French New Wave duo of filmmakers and theorists François Truffault and Jean-Luc Godard, who were both friends and rivals through their careers.
  • Eda's animal motif is that of an owl while Lilith's is a raven. In real life, owls and ravens are fierce rivals and won't hesitate to come to blows if they see each other; much like how Eda and Lilith have a long-standing rivalry and they're always trying to one-up each other.
  • One of the ingredients for a grimwalker is a "Bone of Ortet". In hogriculture, an Ortet is the original plant from which a piece is taken for grafting. The grimwalkers are clones of Philip Wittebane's dead brothers, implying that the "bone of ortet" is the brother's bones. Belos also states that Hunter looks the most like the person he was cloned from, implying that none of the Grimwalkers were perfect copies. It's actually a myth that clones are exact duplicates of their genetic donors, and instead will differ in some way.
  • Jacob Hopkins is most likely named after the real life Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The series has proven to be popular in Brazil. Searching up any given character's name on Twitter will bring up a lot of Portuguese tweets. It's gotten to the point that the Brazilian fans christened The Collector as 'Enzo Gabriel' immediately after the Season 2 finale.
• Growing the Beard:
  • While the show was very well-received from the start, with praise going towards the characterization, worldbuilding, and LGBT representation, Season 2A pushed all of the positive elements of the first season even further, introducing new already beloved characters (Hunter, Raine, Vee) while fleshing out old characters to make them even more likable or interesting (King, Hooty, Lilith, the Blight twins and Camila), teasing new hints about Belos' true nature and the Day of Unity, and canonizing Lumity before the halfway point of the season.
  • Season 2B received further acclaim for its introduction of the Collector, its new character arcs for King, Luz, and Amity, the further development of Lumity, Hunter's redemption, and the revelation of the truth behind the Day of Unity.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • In the first episode, Eda asks Luz to help her steal a paper crown for King because he's the only family she has and it makes him happy. King returns the favor in the first season finale where he says he's going with Luz to rescue Eda because she's family to him. To take it further, in "Eda's Requiem", King announces he wants to take Eda's last name officially since she raised him and has been a great mother figure while sending a message on social media to his father.
  • Amity starts being friends with Luz when the latter lends her book five of Azura as an apology for accidentally reading her diary. As of "Enchanting Grom Fight" there are hints that this actually started a Rescue Romance when Luz risked her life to save Amity from a corrupted Otabin. Amity also admits that she knows Luz doesn't mean to cause trouble, she just gets in over her head, which is what she loves- no HATES, HATES about the human. Later on, she declares it is her turn to save Luz, when Luz enters a Deal with the Devil with Odalia Blight to help her friends return to Hexside. Amity not only stands up to her mother but also declares that Luz is under her protection, and anyone who has a problem with that can deal with her. And then they become a couple..
  • Luz saves King and Eda in the first episode from the creepy, horny Warden. Later on, in Season 2 when Luz is undergoing a Heroic BSoD and declares it's her fault that Eda lost her powers, Eda snaps her out of it. She starts her You Are Better Than You Think You Are Speech by pointing out that Luz rescued her first, and they're in this mess together as a family.
• He Really Can Act:
  • Sarah Nicole Robles gets this in "Enchanting Grom Fight", "Young Blood, Old Souls" and "Through the Looking Glass Ruins". In the first, she's heartbreaking when Grom takes the form of her mother, even though she says the monster isn't Camila Noceda. You can hear real panic and terror, from the fear of disappointing her mom. In the second, Luz is spending most of the episode in vengeance mode, meaning Robles has to shy away from Luz's Cheerful Child nature. The guttural growl when she confronts Lilith for round two of their fight is truly terrifying. In the last, after Luz and Amity are kicked out the library, Robles perfectly captures Luz's low self-esteem (evident in her assumption that Amity hates her for getting her to lose her job), unrequited (from Luz's perspective) crush on Amity, and her failure to keep to her usual cheerful tones, all in one heartbreaking line: "It's okay, I ... I do stupid things around you too, Amity."
  • Wendie Malick in "Young Blood, Old Souls" and "Eda's Requiem". In the former, there is the scene where a captive Eda tells Luz she needs to get back to Earth and destroy the portal door before Belos finds her. It's emotionally-charged and shows that Malick can portray a Heartbroken Badass facing execution and fear for her apprentice's safety. Eda says that meeting Luz is worth dying for, and she wants her family to be safe, sounding tired, proud, and panicking that Luz came to rescue her. Then she says she loves Luz. In the latter, there is the scene where Eda tries to use her cursed magic to try and take out at least one of the other coven heads, only to relent when Raine asks if she has kids. The sadness in Malick's voice as she has to let Raine go again, this time for good, just as she's grappling with the fact that her children are going to leave her, is shockingly palpable and will choke up even the hardest of viewers.
  • We all know Alex Hirsch is a truly talented voice actor, but he manages to prove his chops via an absolutely gutwrenching performance with King's heartbreaking mental breakdown in the episode "Echoes of the Past" upon discovering the Awful Truth about himself, where he learns that all his supposed memories of being "King of the Demons", were all just warped fantasies indulged by Eda. King breaks down into tears when he realises the mother figure he lived with for years lied to him about who he was and that he let himself believe he was some almighty demon that would one day return to glory. Who has probably ever guessed Bill Cipher could pull in the emotional strings by sounding so emotional and broken?
  • Zeno Robinson's work as Hunter has been praised, particularly in his meltdown in "Eclipse Lake" as he breaks down making his grave as he sounds absolutely broken with that laugh of his. But even more impressively, how Zeno nails Hunter's panic attack at the end of "Hollow Mind" in the most realistic and heartwrenching way possible. It's made even more impressive by the fact that he actually rushed through his audition as he only had about fifteen minutes before he had another to go to.
  • Arin Hanson has received praise for his surprisingly mature sounding voice as The Titan, King's father. Being mostly known as a comedic figure, his delivery in this role sounded profound and powerful for helping Luz out in the In-Between realm and giving her a pep talk about clearing her anxieties.
  • Matthew Rhys deserves to be praised for having a blast voicing Emperor Belos aka Philip Wittebane. For capturing the way he speaks in a Cold Ham while also doing an excellent job at making the villain sound intimidating and terrifying such as in Young Blood, Old Souls where his first encounter with Luz makes him the stronger of the two when battling since they first met, Hollow Mind whenever he starts breaking both Luz and Hunter into tears after discovering the truth about the Day of Unity, and especially Watching and Dreaming given that this is his best performance yet in which he succeeds in possessing the Titan’s Heart and shouts the best Incoming Ham ever to be made. Whoever knew that the darkest Disney villain could actually pull off the most threatening voice ever so amazing?
• Hype Backlash:
  • Lumity's sheer popularity amongst the fanbase has resulted in some people turning against shipping it, with some even accusing the shippers of only watching the show just for all the Lumity scenes, deeming it as a So Okay, It's Average pairing at best and thinking that it's too rushed at worst.
  • The show itself got this during season 1, due to all the hype it's gotten, the show gained a large number of people criticizing it considering the show to just be So Okay, It's Average at best or straight-up bad at worst. Things only worsened when the Youtuber Cartoonshi made a video criticizing the show's first season (Though it is worth pointing out that he has covered seasons 2&3 and sees them as massive improvements over season 1 and is now "a big fan" of the show). That being said, this cooled down once season 2 came out and most of the show's detractors see it and season 3 as improvements over the first season due to fixing the issues some people had with season 1 (Though the show does still have a large number of detractors even after season 2 and 3).
• Informed Wrongness:
  • We're supposed to see Luz as irresponsible and thoughtless for running away and lying to Camila. While Luz does feel guilty about lying to her mom, considering that when Luz was honest in the pilot, Camila showed little to no support for Luz's passion for fantasy, and as far as Luz knew sent her away to become "normal", it's easy to see why Luz is reluctant to be open again. Not to mention at the time Luz knew she had a portal door and could go home at any time, so (until the end of season 1) it was more like staying somewhere else for the summer than running away.
  • It was a trap, and King is understandably annoyed when Eda decides to gamble for the Elixir, but she had a point. Tibbles was charging more for the elixir than she had in her wallet, and the other choice was to go full Owl Beast.
  • In the episode "The First Day", Luz is assigned to the Detention Track, which is designed to keep troublemaking students out of the way so that they can't embarrass the school. Luz complains that she's "better than this place" because she doesn't want to sit around doing nothing all day when she could be learning magic. She then finds out that the other students on the Track feel exactly the same and have found a way to study every class while they're there. When Luz's friends come to break her out so she can appeal to the principal, the other students are offended that she thinks she's better than they are. Luz and the framing of the episode agree with them. Except Luz never badmouthed the students. She badmouthed the Detention Track itself, and she stopped doing so immediately after learning the truth. It was Luz's friends, who didn't know the truth, seeking to get her off the Track at that point, and she only goes along with them because she's offended the other students.
• Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: Plenty of fans treat Boscha, a Jerkass and Barbaric Bully, as more evil than the likes of Kikimora, a fascist and quisling complicit in genocide.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • There are plenty of fans happy to hear Alex Hirsch voicing a character again. Bonus points for the hilarity of it being the exact same voice as an old character re-utilized for a character that's nothing like that.
  • The blooming romance between Luz and Amity has gained a huge following also. Considering the series is the Disney Channel's second show featuring a same-sex romance as a major subplot, the first show being Andi Mack, albeit, a live-action one. Though in terms of animation, The Owl House is the first Disney animated show to have such a plot point, especially with one involving a protagonist.^note While Cyrus was a major character in Andi Mack, he wasn't the protagonist. The titular character was. Luz, on the other hand, is the protagonist of the series. Both still had their own love interests in their respective shows though.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships:
  • Edric and Emira Blight get shipped with pretty much every school-age character in the show, mostly same-sex. If a new teenage character is introduced on Saturday morning, you can bet that by midnight that Saturday one or both twins will be shipped with them.
  • Hunter/The Golden Guard is extremely popular in shipping circles and has a pretty sizable fanbase for every ship he is apart of. Willow is the most popular by far, but he also has popular ships with Luz, Gus, Vee, the Blight Twins, and even Amity.
  • Thanks in part to her Ensemble Dark Horse status, Skara is slowly rising up the ranks for this. She's often shipped with Boscha, Willow and King, but there are a few people who pair her with Viney (due to their time together onscreen in "Any Sport in a Storm" and "Labyrinth Runners"), Bo, and even Luz or Cat.
  • Viney of the Troublemaker trio is another extremely popular Ensemble Dark Horse that is shipped with just about everyone around her own age, though fanart by show creator Dana Terrace showing her wearing a lesbian flag has reduced it down to just every female character her own age with Emira, Skara, and Boscha as the most popular.
• Les Yay:
  • Willow and Luz have a bit of it during their first episode where Willow apologizes for accidentally hurting the latter with thorny plants, and Luz becomes very protective of her new friend. Later on, she insists on inviting Willow and Gus over for a conjuration ceremony on seeing Amity's Girl Posse mocking Willow, though from Lost in Language this disappears in favor of legitimate Ship Tease between Luz and Amity.
  • Boscha's actions in the episode "For the Future" comes across as those of someone trying to get back with their ex, who has moved on. She outright goes down on her knee begging Amity to come back, runs and embraces her from behind saying that she "won't let [Amity] leave again", and is terrified that Amity left.
• LGBT Fanbase: Not that we really need to say much, but with a same-sex relationship blooming between two female main characters and the creator being open about her bisexuality, it's no wonder the show has quite a large following with the LGBTQ+ community online. There are also hints toward other LGBT couples in the show, such as Willow having two fathers and a pair of male students dancing together at Grom. Season 2 also introduces Raine, a prominent character who is nonbinary, uses they/them pronouns and is Eda's ex (possibly making Eda queer as well), and canonizes Luz and Amity as girlfriends.
• Love to Hate:
  • Emperor Belos, despite being a self-righteous, abusive tyrant, has been widely praised for his awesome design and being a genuinely frightening Knight of Cerebus. His Mysterious Past with his brother Caleb, while not a redeeming feature, has also been lauded for giving a sense of complexity to his character.
  • Odalia Blight. While Emperor Belos has some fans due to Evil Is Cool, Odalia is just an all-around horrible person, being a shockingly realistic example of an Abusive Parent. However, many can't help but enjoy whenever she's around due to just how good she is at being a Hate Sink.
  • Kikimora is a petty, smug, cowardly Jerkass, although many don't mind keeping her around just so that they can laugh at her when she gets her well-deserved comeuppance.
  • For those who don't put her in leather pants, Boscha is seen as an entertaining Alpha Bitch who's easy to root against and a good Foil to Amity.

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• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Darius Deamonne is the head of the Abomination coven. Once mentored by one of the many Golden Guards, his mentor's death and his growing suspicion of the 'Day of Unity' led to him secretly turning on Emperor Belos. Discovering that there is another traitor in the Coven Heads, he set up a trap for the other rebel group and 'captures' Raine Whispers; truthfully recruiting them into his own rebellion. Having been inspired by Eda's curse, Darius plots to use it to corrupt Belos's draining spell, with his initial plan being to release flesh eating beetles into a crowd to allow his group to bring Eda to the spell's circle. Even after his plot fails, Darius is later shown working with Alador Blight to create superior technology that helps with getting rid of coven sigils, thereby securing a better, more choice-driven future for all of the Boiling Isles.
  • "Sense and Insensitivity": Piniet is a manipulative publishing agent who promises aspiring witches and demons fame and fortune if they sign up with his publishing house. In truth, Piniet is a shamelessly greedy con artist who ensures his clients pump out one masterpiece after another by trapping them within literal writing blocks, forcing them to write on "crunch time" as the blocks squeeze. Piniet's made millions by the time he convinces King to publish a book with him, and when King can't produce a sequel, Piniet pieces together he's dependent on Luz Noceda and tosses them both into the writing block. Piniet sets himself above other one-shots with his sneaky charm and fun modus operandi, and he cheerfully escapes justice after finding an even better author than King, letting the heroes off with no extra trouble.
• Memetic Badass:
  • Hooty rose to this status throughout the second half of season 1 by tearing through King's rebellious army of stuffed animals, kidnapping Lilith and curb-stomping the Emperor's Coven. After "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" saw Hooty bring about Luz and Amity's Relationship Upgrade, his badass level skyrocketed to a point where Hooty is (half-jokingly) considered a god on the same level as the Titan.
  • Camila started to get some fans viewing her as someone powerful enough to defeat Emperor Belos when Dana Terrace hinted in a tweet that she would beat someone up. This skyrocketed after "Yesterday's Lies" when she trounces Jacob Hopkins using what fans refer to as "La Chancla".
• Memetic Psychopath: Ever since Hooty's carnage at the beginning of "Agony of a Witch", the fandom has been regarding him as something much more dangerous than a Memetic Badass.
• Mis-blamed: When discussing the reasons the show was canceled and Season 3 was shortened to three 44-minute specials, people are usually quick to point to the show's LGBTQ+ representation, particularly due to the former CEO. This ignores the other Disney series with LGBTQ+ representation that were allowed to continue despite it, and creator Dana Terrace stated it was due to being serialized with an older audiences seen as not fitting the "Disney brand"—the Disney Channel brand which focused on episodic comedies for young audiences. While a later post Dana made after the 2022 Florida LGBTQ protests suggested homophobia was a factor, there are others to consider.
  • Due to the unfortunate timing of the episode "Through the Looking Glass Ruins", many assumed Amity kissing Luz was what caused Disney to cancel the show. However, due to Production Lead Time the decision was most likely made well before the episode was even scripted. Dana Terrace herself would even confirm that the kiss had no influence on cancellation of the show.
• Most Wonderful Sound: Hunter's "Bye~!", and most of Hunter's lines are this to the fandom thanks to Zeno Robinson's voice work for him. Fittingly, the Grand Finale signs off with the entire cast saying it together.
• Never Live It Down:
  • Amity's detractors who don't ship her with Luz will never forget their first episode together involving Amity trying to have Luz dissected (which was actually Principal Bump's idea and likely a trick to force Luz to reveal herself however it was never clarified if that was the case or not) or her second episode where she stomped on King's cupcake just to spite Luz, accepted her duel challenge to maim her, and blamed Luz for her misfortunes which she actually caused herself, all while Luz was trying to reconcile (ignoring this was before what would lead to her redeeming developments and clear regret for her past self).
  • Regardless of her reasons for doing so, or how they feel about her choosing to try and make amends, some fans will likely never be able to truly forgive Lilith for cursing her sister despite Eda being very open about similarly cheating.
• No Yay:
  • Many viewers were made uncomfortable by Terra Snapdragon's interactions with Raine. She basically drugs them and is creepily affectionate with them. Made worse by the fact that she met Raine when they were a teenager. Terra takes a special, disturbing interest in them, calling them "sprout" and touching their nose in a way that made them uncomfortable.
  • A good chunk of the fandom is very much opposed to shipping Luz with Hunter on the account of viewing them more like siblings and are very critical towards anyone who does. This died down after the show concluded, as the fandom seems to be much more accepting of the ship now.
  • Much of the fandom has remarked being disturbed by Boscha's interactions with Amity in "For the Future", noting that it comes off similarly to an entitled one-sided lover or aggressive ex-lover trying to force themselves on an ex who has since moved on, between invading Amity's personal space, grabbing her hand without warning, forcibly hugging her from behind and restraining her wrists (and even though the "Amity" she was doing some of these to was actually Mattholomule impersonating her, this doesn't take away/excuse from the creepiness factor since Boscha believed he was the real Amity). Needless to say, the ship lacks popularity.
  • Also, the aforementioned Boschlow ship, despite being popular, also has fans with this mindset towards the ship, who feel that given the obvious distaste Boscha and Willow have towards each other, and how hostile and mean-spirited the former is to the latter, there really should be no romantic chemistry between the two.
  • Shipping Lilith with Hooty has provoked massive levels of disgust with any fanwork depicting such, though a good majority of it is tongue and cheek. That said, shipping Lilith with anyone tends to get this reaction after she was revealed to be an aromantic asexual in a stream with Cissy Jones.
  • Hunter and Willow got this for bit at the beginning of the Ship Tease between them. While the was the usual Ship-to-Ship Combat of those who shipped the two with others, there were quite a few fans who just didn't think Hunter, who had just had a very traumatic experience, was ready for such a relationship. There was also a small but vocal section of the fandom that didn't like the ship because it was heterosexual. There were even some people that said that the ship was pedophilic and predatory just because Hunter was 16 and Willow was 14. For the most part this sentiment died down almost as fast as it flared up.
• Obvious Crossover Method: Crossover stories with Little Witch Academia frequently has Luna Nova be another school on the Boiling Isles.
• One-Scene Wonder: The Titan only shows up personally in one scene before dying, but he's quite memorable for being a warm, fatherly Benevolent Abomination who helps Luz overcome her guilt and self-hatred.
• One True Pairing: Almost everyone in the fandom ships Luz and Amity together, due their adorable interactions as well as being the first officially confirmed gay couple in a Disney cartoon.
• One True Threesome:
  • Quite a few fan writers and artists support the idea of taking the practical OTP of Lumity and adding Willow to the relationship, thanks to Luz's close bond with her first Hexside friend and Willow's own former (and, as of the end of the first season, slowly being rebuilt) friendship with Amity.
  • Eda being in a poly relationship with Raine and Camila is slowly getting popular, especially with some fans that ship both Raeda and Camileda. Though, while Eda and Raine are exes, and still have feelings for each other, Camila being shipped with Eda was very popular back in Season 1.
  • As of "Labyrinth Runners", Willow/Hunter/Gus has started cropping up, due to Hunter both showing an obvious Crush Blush around Willow and doing some serious bonding with Gus.
  • Boscha/Amity/Luz is popular among those who like Boscha/Luz or Amity/Boscha but also enjoy Lumity. The ship gained some popularity after "Any Sport In A Storm", where the three share a scene (albeit one where Luz and Amity comically fail to notice Boscha's annoyance at how they're ignoring her). Her insistence that "You guys are not cute!" is also often read as Suspiciously Specific Denial indicating that she's actually jealous.
• Pandering to the Base: Season 3 shows several scenes fans have been hoping for and depicting in fanart such as Luz coming out to her mother, interaction with Earth's rain, Vee getting her own unique look, the Hexside pupils using their magic to help out Camila, the witches hiding their ears when out in public, and other hijinks in the Human Realm. They were well received and gave viewers some time to breathe in the middle of the intense storyline.
• Paranoia Fuel:
  • Season 2 opens up with Lilith making a scrying potion so the Owl House residents can spy on the Emperor, but it backfires when Belos uses it to spy on the "human" aka Luz. Eight episodes later, Hunter hints to Amity that he knows about her relationship with Luz long before she was nervously babbling about it and that if she doesn't give the portal key to him, he'll go after the Owl House and her family at the same time. Just Amity's Oh, Crap! expression speaks volumes of how creepy it is that the Emperor's Coven knows about Luz being her girlfriend.
  • "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" hints that Belos knew who Luz was the whole time from the time that she appeared in the Boiling Isles and became the Owl Lady's apprentice. They met in the past when Luz time-traveled and she befriended who she thought was a brave explorer, Philip Wittenbane. He returned the favor by leaving her and Lilith to die in favor of stealing an artifact. Philip resents that the "barbaric witches" outsmarted him and disfigured his nose, while not serving his purpose. So for several hundred years he has been plotting against such witches, and seems to have some special plans in mind on how to use Luz's Token Human status for his benefit. And Luz has no idea about this fact.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: A good number of them.
  • Lumity: Luz/Amity.
  • Boschlow: Boscha/Willow
  • Gustholomule: Gus/Mattholomule
  • Vinira: Viney/Emira
  • Jedric: Jerbo/Edric
  • Willumity: Willow/Luz/Amity
  • Sking: Skara/King
  • Skarscha: Skara/Boscha
  • Camileda: Camila/Eda
  • Odalith: Odalia/Lilith
  • Camililith: Camila/Lilith
  • Aladarius: Alador/Darius
  • Lunter: Luz/Hunter
  • Huntric: Hunter/Edric
  • Huntmira: Hunter/Emira
  • Huntlow (alternatively, Winter): Hunter/Willow
  • Raeda: Raine/Eda
  • Skarlow: Skara/Willow
  • Boschluz: Boscha/Luz
  • Lumisha: Luz/Amity/Boscha
  • Skarluz: Skara/Luz
• Realism-Induced Horror:
  • While fans have taken to blowing up their more negative aspects, Odalia and Alador Blight are among the most realistic villains in the series. Amity's parents are among the highest ranked in the Abomination Coven, hold enough power to even expel students at their leisure and barely care for their own daughter as a person (at least in Odalia's case, with Alador being more pragmatic). What makes it worse? Their abuse doesn't simply stop once Amity is out of their sight. Amity's necklace is actually a charm that allows Odalia to speak to her through it, emotionally and verbally abusing her any time she pleases. This is none too dissimilar to parents who stalk their children through technology to control them.
  • While Belos was already feared as an authoritarian dictator his motives of being an anti-witch zealot and his abuse of Hunter make him far more terrifying, due to the abuse real people—especially LGBT people, who are readily accepted in the Boiling Isles, and people with interests their family considers "Satanic", which is potentially everything even alluding to the concept of magic—face under fundamentalist religious households, and the atrocities both historical and modern religious zealots have committed in God's name. His memory portraits show that Belos Used to Be a Sweet Kid, playing games of witch-hunting with his brother while the adults are partaking in a real witch hunt, highlighting that exposure to hate propaganda and lies at a very young age can permanently warp the minds of innocent children, destroying strong bonds with their families as seen with Philip murdering his brother out of rage.
  • Hunter's whole story is incredibly horrible, but what makes it really disturbing is how realistically his abuse is portrayed. Belos employs real tactics frequently used by abusers in real life, such as convincing Hunter he needs to prove himself worthy of love, and isolating the boy from the other people, both of which are ways to prevent victims from leaving. Even after escaping, Hunter exhibits clear signs of trauma, such as panic attacks at reminders of Belos, and also states that part of him still wants to believe the emperor loves him, which is common for abuse victims.
  • Luz's rant in "Thanks to Them" is a clear example of Psychological Projection that shows her self-loathing having reached a point where she thinks it would have been best if she never existed, which is disturbingly indicative of behavior displayed by suicidal people, especially teenagers, young adults, and LGBTQIA+ individuals, who are groups notorious for having slightly higher rates of suicide and suicide attempts around the world. The later scene where she films a video diary and says she "knows what she has to do" before the scene cuts away and Camila's reaction to it is eerily similar to someone leaving behind a suicide note and a loved one finding it.
• Recurring Fanon Character: Many fanworks tend to feature two characters known as Lucia Noceda and Amelia Blight, who are both based off of early concept designs for Luz and Amity, known in the fandom as the Beta versions, from back when they were meant to be older, and are usually portrayed as the two's older sisters in fanworks. Funny enough, there is an canon Amelia in the show, but she is just a random Hexside student whose only relation to Amity is being a member of her initial Girl Posse.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
  • Many fans found Hooty to be an annoying comic relief character who never shuts up but changed their tune as soon as Hooty beat the living daylights out of Lilith and some members of the Emperor's Coven in "Agony Of A Witch", and at the end shows legitimate sadness and concern for Luz as she breaks down in tears. Season 2 continues this by having Hooty form a surprisingly heartwarming Odd Friendship with the newly-reformed Lilith. But perhaps his Crowning Moment of Awesome is in his centric episode "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", where in one night he accels the Character Development and storylines of the main trio (King and his powers, Eda and her curse, Luz and Amity's relationship). Fans can't stop thanking Hooty for everything in that episode.
  • After their first appearance, many fans hated Emira and Edric for bullying Amity and almost (albeit accidentally) getting her and Luz killed. However, their next appearance quickly retooled them into being softer around the edges than we first saw, showing them helping Amity and trying to make up for their previous behavior, which split viewers into those who were willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, and those who suspected they were faking their change of heart. All their subsequent appearances had the twins acting like lovable troublemakers who love their sister, and they haven't pulled anything like the library incident ever again, which has led most fans to forgive them and view them as basically good people who we happened to meet on a bad day. They've since become some of the most beloved side characters.
  • While still somewhat contentious, Lilith is far more well-received than she was when it was first revealed she cursed Eda when they were both teenagers. Her subsequent efforts to do right by her sister, sweet relationship with Hooty, and behavior as Luz's student meant that, when she leaves the titular Owl House to be with her parents, many fans who had previously hated her were distraught.
  • Downplayed with Camila, who was never outright hated, but certainly did get a good amount of Ron the Death Eater treatment (see below) earlier in the show for being a Fantasy-Forbidding Mother who was sending her daughter to a summer camp that Luz didn't want to attend that would seemingly curb her creative personality, and then in "Yesterday's Lie", begged Luz to promise she'd stay with her once she found a way to return from the Boiling Isles. However, Season 3 takes great pains to show how supportive Camila is of Luz's eccentricities and nerdiness, reveals that she herself was a nerd growing up and was also bullied in school for it just like Luz, and that sending her to camp was something Camila was pressured to do by the principal, and only agreed in a Moment of Weakness due to not wanting her daughter to suffer like she did and is something she deeply regrets in hindsight. She also does her best to help Luz when they travel to the Demon Realm and is the one who finally gets through to her that it's okay to make mistakes and she doesn't need to punish herself for it, which causes Luz's palisman to finally hatch. It's safe to say that, after all of this, Camila has become as beloved as many other fan-favorites of the series.
  • In the first season, Abomination Magic was viewed as lesser than other forms of magic due to only having one technique: summoning a slow, slimy monster that plodded around like a zombie, making the distaste for summoning magic in fantasy genres even more unpopular. Come Season 2, however, Abomination magic is used at a higher tier with very creative results: Darius is able to transform himself into an Abomination and create weapons from the substance, while Amity uses abomination magic like a waterbender in a fight against Hunter.
• Ron the Death Eater:
  • The 'reality check camp' is frequently taken for the full extent of Fridge Horror possible and made into more or less a conversion camp. In canon, little about the camp is actually known. The camp is supposed to straighten out the wild personalities of children and help them to learn valuable skills over the summer, like balancing checkbooks. It's later shown in "Yesterday's Lie" that the camp is just unpleasant and ineffective at reforming kids at worst. If anything, from the way Vee/"Creepy Luz" describes their time there, Luz could've befriended the other "weird" people there without changing her behavior.
  • Camila gets a bit of this from some fans. Since she was the one to send her daughter to summer camp, she can and has been depicted as an abusive parent who mistreats her daughter as a result, though to a far lesser degree than the Blight parents and one is as likely, if not more, to find a Camila whose actions are treated as well intentioned but mistaken instead in these scenarios. Thankfully, by Season 2, this type of portrayal is very much dying down after "Yesterday's Lie" shows just how much of a loving and caring mother Camila really is. Of course, the rash promise she made Luz give her after finding out the truth and possibly unknowingly causing extra stress to her daughter didn’t stop a few detractors from viewing it as more "evidence" of her being the contrary.
  • Amity and Bump get this as well in their first episode. It's taken as a given that Amity expected Bump to dissect Luz, when Bump is generally characterized as a witch who resorts to diplomacy before violence, and gave the knife to Willow as a sort of test: if Willow cut Luz open, then she's not alive; if she refuses, then Luz is alive. Considering Amity has attended Hexside for years, she wouldn't have expected Bump to harm someone who was more or less innocent, and thus she is less bloodthirsty than some have portrayed. Afterwards, Bump simply bans Luz from the school.
  • Odalia and Alador Blight get this more than anyone. While it's true that they're Abusive Parents, at least in Odalia's case, they've only ever been shown being emotionally abusive and manipulative, yet their actions will often be conflated to include physical abuse and occasionally homophobia. This died down a bit once it became clear that Odalia has no problem with Amity dating a girl, just not Luz. However, the "physical abuse" theories continue unabated.
  • Mattholomule is often depicted as a being worse bully and jerk than Boscha, who in episodes has shown to have violently sociopathic tendencies. In the show itself, his bullying of Gus doesn't go as far as what Boscha does to Willow and the others. In his next major appearance he surprisingly Took a Level in Kindness by helping save Gus from the Glandus students, even befriending him by the end. The absolute worst he's done since is helping Tibbles' attempts to scam people with the Good Witch Azura books with said scam just being them taking credit for a book they didn't write.
  • As is common with a father who isn't around and isn't specified why, Luz's father was quickly made into a modular being whose absence was usually, but not always, used as a source of angst for Luz. This was primarily in the idea of having him walk out from the family or have been abusive. In truth, Season 2 would reveal not only his name, Manny, but that he's dead and fondly remembered. Fanfiction did a 180 to adapt, with Manny's death portrayed as a tragedy and its effects on Luz explored.
  • While she's clearly established to be a massive jerk since Season 1, Boscha is often called a homophobe by fans and treated like one despite, per Word of God, that not being a thing in the Demon Realm, some dialogue that implies that Boscha herself isn't straight, and the hint that she herself has two moms. This is typically from fans taking her dislike of Luz and Amity, two people she hates individually, and applying it to all couples like them in general demonization.
  • Belos also weirdly gets this, he is in canon a sociopathic mass murderer who views witches and demons as a vile evil to be wiped from existence, but he is also been often depicted by fans as a homophobic, racist and even sexist despite never having shown any of these traits in the show. This seems to be more because of the time and place Belos came from, very early Colonial America, where by modern standards such sentiments were the norm. Some fanfic authors even make Belos sexually abusive towards Hunter.

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• Salvaged Story: After the first season ended, there were many fans who didn't like how Lilith came across as Easily Forgiven for kidnapping Luz and cursing Eda, which ultimately led to Eda losing all of her magic, even if she did try and rectify it by helping Luz break her out of prison and, eventually, splitting the curse with her to return her to her normal form. "Separate Tides", however, makes it clear that this is not the case, as Luz says that they still don't completely trust Lilith and Eda very casually guilt trips her about the curse, showing that she's still upset about everything. Lilith herself admits that she can never make up for what she did, but wants to start by helping Eda with the tasks she can do with no magic, hence why she tells Hooty she has to get the scrying potion ingredients alone. Hooty is the only one who has forgiven Lilith, telling her You Are Not Alone and she doesn't have to let her pride and shame get in the way of common sense.
• Self-Fanservice: Some artists theorize Kikimora to be quite an adorable shortstack underneath her clothes.
• Ship Mates:
  • During season one, fans who ship Luz/Amity, Willow/Boscha and Emira/Viney tend to overlap with each other.
  • During the second season, fans who ship Lumity (Luz/Amity) also tend to ship Raeda (Raine/Eda) and Huntlow (Hunter/Willow).
  • Fans who ship Lunter (Luz/Hunter) tend to ship Amillow (Amity/Willow). Usually done so that Amity and Willow don't feel left out.
• Ship-to-Ship Combat:
  • Willow and Luz shippers tend to dislike Lumity due to Amity's bully like behavior early on and how it continued the trend of seemingly romanticizing abuse and toxic behaviors. It started to die out once Amity went through character development though, eventually becoming the fandom's leading ship. Not to mention actually being more healthy than toxic.
  • Lumity (Luz and Amity) vs Lunter (Luz and Hunter), popped up in the second season. While not blood thirsty, both sides more or less agree Lumity is the canon outcome, there have been more than a few passing barbs. Lumity shippers (among others) see Luz and Hunter's relationship as more Like Brother and Sister and are quick to denounce anyone who sees it otherwise. There are some Lunter shippers that are trolls who just ship to get under Lumity shippers skin because they feel Lumity has completely overshadowed any other aspect of the show. Most of the arguing quickly died after Lumity became fully canon, but Luz having a type of relationship with Hunter is still very popular as Hunter remained a very sympathetic character in a bad situation.
  • Hunter in general is shipped with a lot of people despite never really interacting with anybody but Luz. The most popular ships are with Edric, Emira and Willow though. Willow started to take the lead after "Any Sport In A Storm," in which the two meet, with Willow (and the other Emerald Entrails) helping Hunter with his Heel Realization, alongside some ship tease. "Labyrinth Runners" gave more ship tease for Huntlow, while Edric and Emira finally meet Hunter, but don't exactly get the best first impression.
• Signature Scene:
  • Amity and Luz's dance in "Enchanting Grom Fight", particularly them looking at each other's eyes before the dance starts has become one for Lumity being the OTP of the show.
  • Luz and Amity's Big Damn Kiss in "Clouds On The Horizon", which is pretty much a big moment in a network like Disney Channel.
• Spiritual Adaptation: It's very noticeable how close this is to a Western version of Little Witch Academia. A Muggle girl (specifically, one of color in a predominantly White-coded society and with ADHD), who'd like to be a witch, ventures to a magical place. She enrolls in a magic school and struggles to learn magic but is mentored by an outcast but talented witch. She also forms a trio with two other magic users but starts a rivalry with the seemingly mean most talented green-haired witch at the school that eventually leads to them developing a friendship with hella Les Yay. The biggest difference is that The Owl House is determined for those lesbian vibes to actually play out.
• Strangled by the Red String: The Huntlow ship was met with this reaction by some viewers. Hunter and Willow fall in love in just two episodes and only have an handful of interactions afterwards.
• Strawman Has a Point:
  • In the first episode, the principal and Camila make the point that Luz needs to be more normal and appreciate the difference between fantasy and reality, an idea Luz and the episode reject by declaring it's okay for people to be weird. However, Luz's brand of weirdness isn't harmless with her 'book report' resulting in several people being bitten by snakes and the subsequent episode has Luz put herself in danger because she's too invested in her The Chosen One fantasy to notice several warning signs.
  • Kikimora is a Smug Snake and a lackey for Belos, but she has a right to snicker when Lilith can't even take down an annoying house demon. Heck, Amity was able to beat up Hooty without suffering injury and Luz can punch him in the face. Even Eda says the same thing, mocking Lilith for not being able to beat her at her worst.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The credits theme might bring to mind the opening theme to TUGS (after the narration).
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Boscha might have gotten some kind of redemption or become a serious threat in season 2. Instead she barely showed up. This is especially noticeable in "Labyrinth Runners" where a perfect opportunity to have Boscha join the students defending Hexside and fight with them was missed.
  • At the end of "Echoes of the Past", the gang bring Jean-Luc to the Owl House and he becomes inactive, setting him up as a Chekhov's Gun for later. He was a sort of Magitek automaton that existed to care for and protect King and proved to be very formidable, so one would think that he would have come to life when King was at peak danger and give that threat a good thrashing, or at least turns the tide back into their favor. Unfortunately, Jean-Luc only ever appears immobile in a few background shots after this point and then disappears from the story altogether.
  • "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" introduced Bria and her followers Gavin and Angmar. Especially Bria as a former Romantic False Lead would have been an interesting recurring antagonist to Gus but she never shows up again outside of one of Gus' illusions in "Labyrinth Runners".
  • While Terra Snapdragon and Adrian Graye got some focus during season 2 the same can't be said about the rest of the loyal Coven Heads, Vitimir, Osran, Mason, and Hettie. We don't know much more than their names.
• Toy Ship: Some people ship King with the Collector, who, despite being thousands of years old, has the mind of a child.
• Trans Audience Interpretation:
  • Luz is occasionally interpreted as nonbinary, or at least gender nonconforming, owing to her androgynous design, grom outfit combining a suit and a tutu, and even calling herself "a bad boy" at one point. Dana Terrace has described Luz as gender non-conforming, but it was a comment on her appearance and how she had to fight the censors and executives, who wanted her to look more traditionally feminine, not a confirmation of her gender identity.
    • She is also sometimes interpreted as a transgender woman.
  • Luz' doppelganger Vee is frequently interpreted as a trans person, despite the fact that she is a shapeshifter. She is worried about what her "mother" might think if she revealed her true identity, and has a name she goes by that is different from her preferred name.
  • Eberwolf had his gender unconfirmed for a long time, making it common to headcanon them as nonbinary. However, it was eventually revealed that he used he/him pronouns, leading to this dying out to some extent.
  • Boscha, of all people, was interpreted as trans after artist giggling_stars posted a sketch of her with a trans pride scarf, while jokingly claiming it had been drawn by Dana Terrace on a stream. Even after realizing the part about the stream was a lie, some fans liked the concept, and more fanart soon ensued.
  • Because they are Half-Identical Twins, it's common fanon that either Edric or Emira, usually the latter, are trans.
  • The Golden Guard was interpreted as trans from his very first appearance, usually as a trans boy, mostly based on his appearance being fairly similar to stereotypical trans boys, and his name sounding more like something he'd name himself than something he'd be named by his parents. This idea became a bit less popular after it was revealed that Hunter is a clone of Caleb, Belos' brother, though it never went away completely. Reading him as a trans woman who hasn't come out yet (or doesn't know herself yet) was less popular, but gained in popularity after "Thanks To Them", where him building his identity after becoming free from Belos' influence is a major theme.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • Luz's principal back in her world. We're meant to see him as strict for having Luz in the office about her book report. Said book report also involved Luz using live snakes and fireworks, the former of which attack him. In fact, it's remarkable that he's willing to hear Luz out and talk solutions with her mother. Another principal would've expelled her off the bat for endangering her teachers and classmates; so far, we don't know if Luz was expelled or if her mother managed to talk him down. For all we know, Luz may have been expelled before by a less forgiving principal and had to change schools. Hell, one could even argue that with the fireworks, the principal might have argued for police involvement for bringing explosives into the building.
  • Skara is this as of season one. While she is part of Amity's (and later Boscha's) Girl Posse, she's the Token Good Teammate before Amity's Heel–Face Turn, without needing Luz's bubbly influence. Amity as a little kid described her as "mean" but at her worst she is Innocently Insensitive and genuinely calls Amity and Boscha her best girl friends. Her good actions have outweighed her bad, and we see her polite to every Hexside member.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Vee calling Luz out for running away and lying to her mom Camila in Yesterday's Lie is supposed to be a hard truth that Luz needed to hear, but considering that Vee is also lying to Camila (beyond when it was necessary to stay hidden) but isn't called out on it, hasn't suffered what Luz has due to making friends at camp, and doesn't even try to ask Luz's side of the story, it can come across as disregarding what Luz has gone through because they went through something objectively worse, especially considering Luz was genuinely trying to help them at the time.
• Unnecessary Makeover:
  • For a period of time after it occured, a subsection of the fan base disliked Amity dying her hair a shade of purple and cutting her bangs in "Through The Looking Glass Ruins", as her previous look was considered iconic, and they frequently accused the look of enlarging the profile of her forehead. Nowadays however, Amity's green hair is but a distant memory, with her lilac hair and later her pink hair in Season 3 being seen as her definitive appearance, as it shows her at the peak of her Character Development.
  • Some fans rather dislike Lilith's haircut in For the Future, viewing it as pointless and preferring her hair longer.
  • A good portion of fans disliked Willow's epilogue design, including her short hair, and preferred the concept art designs that were revealed instead.
• Unpopular Popular Character: Anybody who comes to know Odalia Blight for more than five minutes generally end up either keeping their distance from her, or outright despising her for all the despicable things she's done. And yet, there's no shortage of fans of her, primarily because of what a despicable woman she is. Her design also plays a hand in this.
• Viewer Gender Confusion:
  • Luz is very easy to mistake for a boy thanks to having Boyish Short Hair, a somewhat androgynous-sounding voice, and always wearing a hoodie with shorts.
  • The non-binary Raine Whispers is sometimes mistaken for a man due to their masculine voice and hairstyle, though a flashback episode shows their younger self with a more feminine voice and appearance.
  • Before his gender was revealed, many fans mistook Eberwolf to be a female.
• Watched It for the Representation: The fanbase of the show grew almost overnight once it was revealed that main character Luz was not only bisexual, but would also be getting a same sex Love Interest in the form of Amity, a lesbian.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: It's easy to forget, despite the horror-comedy (and sometimes outright horror) premise, themes, and audience generally skewing older, that the show technically has a TV-Y7 rating. Based on Word of God, this may have been why the show was cut short, since Disney Channel generally doesn't cater to older audiences (see Screwed by the Network on the Trivia page).
  • Some of the subject matter and themes the show tackles includes the trauma and effects of parental abuse, allegories for chronic illness, and the consequences and damage of cults, among many others.
  • With that in mind, a lot of characters are also shown with Dark and Troubled Past(s), with some of them actually having full-blown panic attacks onscreen, implying mental health issues as well.
  • The Reveal in "Hollow Mind" that Emperor Belos is a Witch Hunter named Philip Wittbane who murdered his own brother for romancing a witch and that the Day of Unity he's planning is a whole witch genocide, regardless of anyone's ages, as well as the whole episode in general pretty much cements the show as this, especially considering what happens during the rest of Season 2B.
  • "King's Tide" is downright horrifying, as it shows everyone in the Boiling Isles suffering and slowly dying as the Draining Spell kills them, Amity having to abandon her father- not knowing if he will live, King wandering through a cavern filled with the skeletons and masks of previous Golden Guards, Raine being forced to tear off Eda's arm, Belos mutating into a monster after Luz brands him, plus his eerily realistic attempt at manipulating Hunter and gruesome death at The Collector's hands followed by the kids forced to escape through the portal when King pulls a heroic sacrifice and arriving at Camila's injured and traumatized.
  • "Thanks to Them" somehow makes things even darker with the kids arriving in the Human Realm with Luz so guilt ridden that she indirectly caused everyone's suffering that she goes on a rant disturbingly similar to suicidal ideation, with her overall behavior and video diaries being very much reminiscent of depression. Belos is revealed to have isolated Hunter as a child and the boy even has a panic attack and cuts his hair in a frenzy when having long hair reminds him of Belos. The former emperor is also seen possessing animals, which are left as partially melted corpses. He later possesses Hunter, inflicting Body Horror on him, mortally wounding Flapjack and trying to consume the Palisman while still in Hunter's body. Afterwards, Hunter is left Covered in Scars from the Possession Burnout and Flapjack gives up his life to save him.
• Woolseyism: In English, Amity's siblings call her "Mittens" to annoy her, which is a pun on her first name that may not necessarily translate well. In the Japanese dub, their embarrassing nickname for her is changed to "Choco-Mint," referencing how her hair is the same colors as mint chocolate chip ice cream. Since Amity's hair is only dyed green to appease her mother, it gains the extra subtext of Amity's siblings reminding her of her restrictive family obligations.

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