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  • Arc Fatigue: Bloom's missing biological parents. They are first mentioned in episode 13note , but it takes three seasons and one movie before they are finally reunited. It doesn't help that there were other plot threads going on at the same time, with the show only coming back to her missing parents seemingly when it felt like it. And when they are finally reunited, they get very little screen time in the next seasons.
  • Fandom Heresy:
    • Don't claim seasons 7 and 8 are good. Season 7 is hated for its sluggish pacing, notoriously long Butterflix transformation sequences, demoting Roxy immediately after having her Time Stone stolen, and bringing the Trix back (again) despite being sealed in the Legendarium at the end of season 6 and displacing main villains Kalshara and Brafilius; season 8 gets a poor reception because of its new artstyle, worse pacing, continued flandarization, attempting to force in a love triangle between Tecna, Timmy and Orion only for Orion to disappear mid-season, and above all else, bringing back Valtor (despite being killed in season 3) and the Trix again (despite being sealed away again at the end of season 7), and the new backstory given to Icy showing that she and the Trix aren't sisters, but instead friends, with Icy now given a backstory not to dissimilar to that of Bloom.
    • Don't say that Fate: The Winx Saga is good. The fandom has routinely disowned it due to it being a Darker and Edgier teen drama adaptation of a largely light-hearted property.
  • Fandom Rivalry: With W.I.T.C.H., another Italian Magical Girl series starring a Five-Man Band that uses Elemental Powers and debuted in the same year. Though it's not universal among fans, as there are some degree of Friendly Fandoms, it is official in the sense that the Walt Disney Company actually filed a lawsuit (and lost it) against the creator of Winx back in 2004. There used to be an entire meme about this rivalry (see Memetic Mutation below).
  • Franchise Original Sin: The overwhelming focus on Bloom was one of the show's biggest criticism from Season 5 onward. However, the disproportionate focus on Bloom, which is ridiculous even for a main character, has been there since the beginning of the show due to her having the Dragon Flame and the Myth Arc of her biological parents being unresolved until the last (supposed) moment.note  What made this slide to most viewers was that at that time, the other Winx members had their own concurrent subplots to let them shine on their own. However, Season 5 and beyond proceed to demote anyone that isn't Bloom to window dressing while constantly pushing her in the right, making her focus practically impossible to ignore. note 
  • Friendly Fandoms:
    • There's been overlap with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom, especially during 2012-14 when both franchises had just been relaunched by Nickelodeon. Nick's promo events from that time usually revealed new content for both shows, and many fan blogs helped each other out by posting all of the new info about both Winx and TMNT.
    • There are many fans of Miraculous Ladybug and Totally Spies! who tend to get along with Winx fans.
    • Despite the Fandom Rivalry, there are a cross-section of fans of both Winx and W.I.T.C.H. that have no problem crossing over the two franchises in fan works (especially fan art,) helped by the fact the main characters have counterparts with each other that have similar powers or personalities, whether shipping is involved or not.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The Fandom Rivalry with W.I.T.C.H. would become relevant when Fate: The Winx Saga, this franchise's live action adaptation, received complaints of resembling W.I.T.C.H. more than Winx Club.
  • The Problem with Licensed Games:
    • Many mobile games based on Winx Club exist, and while most of them could be considered passable if bland at best, the general consensus is that Alfea Butterflix Adventures by Tsumanga Studios is considered the worst among them all. Released in 2015, it has terrible controls (not helped by the stiff feeling joystick), confusing puzzles, a mountain of visual and game-breaking glitches, and awkward mechanics: for one, certain doors require a specific character to open, and you need to collect gems to unlock them; which you need to do in order to progress. If you do manage to beat the game, you don't even get an ending.
    • Konami held the video game license to the series during the 2000s, and all of the games they released fall into this trope:
      • Winx Club, a retelling of the events of the first season, was released in 2005 for the PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, and PC. The PS2 and PC versions have hideous graphics and most of the cutscenes are still frames while characters talk in voiceover. The GBA version tries to be a Zelda clone and fails due to bad level design and also FMV sequences that result in Loads and Loads of Loading.
      • Quest for the Codex and Mission Enchantix, both developed by Powerhead Games, were retellings of the second and third seasons in the vein of side-scrolling shooters released for the Nintendo DSnote where the main game involves fighting enemies whose sprites were much smaller than the girls themselves, coupled with bad level design and a constantly zooming-out camera, with minigames randomly interspersed between the main game, much of which rip-offs of other games (one of them is a knockoff Dance Dance Revolution). The only thing anyone is willing to defend about these games is the music, which was composed by Jake Kaufman. Yes, that Jake Kaufman.
      • Join the Club for the PlayStation Portable was another retelling of season 2, this time in the form of a Minigame Game. Much of the game consists of simplistic minigames (ranging from a racing mini-game to a memory challenge to a Luxor ripoff), with poorly compressed clips from the show that don't provide any context to the minigames you play. But the nail that seals the coffin are the eternal loading times, sometimes taking 90 seconds to load a minigame you will complete in less than half of the time it takes to load, meaning that you'll mostly spend time stuck in loading screens. The only thing notable about this game is that it is the only official Winx product to include music from both the Cinelume dub and 4Kids dub.
      • DanceDanceRevolution Winx Club, released exclusively in Europe in 2009 for the Wii, features ugly graphics (the girls carry a perpetual smile on their models), a simplification of the DDR mechanics for a younger audience, a soundtrack that barely has any songs from Winx, and a story mode that, with only a single character, can be completed in 12 minutes involving the Winx battling each other for a reward from the Specialists, which ends with the Winx realizing that the events were just the Specialists wanting the Winx to discover the magic of dancing.
  • Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Some of the earlier Winx Club Magazine comics have hideous panels, with an unhealthy side order of Off-Model.

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