YMMV / Ace Lightning

• Awesome Music: "There's A Hero" by Four Square. An awesome and heartwarming track about being a hero and doing the right thing no matter how scary or tough it can be.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Rotgut is very popular for being such a downright hilarious Laughably Evil Minion with an F in Evil.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Lady Illusion has acquired the fan nicknames (or rather, fan first names) of Elspeth and Li (made out of her initials).
  • A fan theory hangs about that Sparx is secretly a princess who's "real" name is Amandine. Fans presumably chose this name specifically because they know it would embarrass the hell out of her were it true).
• He Really Can Act: Unidentified Flying Superhero was Mark's moment. Before that, some fans were convinced that Tom Wansey knew what he was doing.
• Narm Charm: Mostly because Ace is such a blatant parody of superhero stereotypes and yet so utterly believes in them. The human characters acting also bounces around this category a lot. Especially Mark. You really do either love or hate it.
  • Lady Illusion's death hops into this category for many fans, especially when you think about it a bit and realize she's not just pulling a bog-standard HeroicSacrifice; she's also finally breaking entirely from the programming constraints that have been messing with her for the last three seasons. Excluding Kilobyte (who never cared in the first place and wasn't programmed with the exact same limits) she is the only character out of all the CGI to actually definitely do this. Everyone else either made the same choices they would've made anyway, or are still in the dark.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: The show's US run suffered from this when the FCC complained about the show being too violent to be considered educational. It was later pulled from the DIC Kids Network block during the next season, being replaced by reruns of Archie's Weird Mysteries.
• Squick: Oh boy...
  • Kilobyte's tentacles. Utilized for power drainage. This is usually a bit... graphic.
  • Lady Illusion and Lord Fear are a couple for most of the first series (and yes they behave that way), right? He's a sentient skeleton. Ew.
  • Pigface's, er... snot attack. Poor Heather gets a faceful of it, once.
• The Woobie: Mostly Ace, though Mark has his moments.
  • As does Chuck
  • And Random Virus. Seriously.

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