- Accidental Innuendo: One episode is titled "Leslie Makes It Big" (as in Leslie pulls off her own Mr. Big-like mind control scheme while he's in prison). In the same episode, while WordGirl is demonstrating to Mr. Big what people might be saying under Leslie's control, she says, "Leslie is bigger than Mr. Big."
- Adorkable:
- Becky/WordGirl fits the bill thanks to her love of vocabulary and unicorns.
- Villainous it may be, but Tobey's crush on WordGirl can be downright endearing at times, especially when he's trying (and failing) to act cool or charming in front of her.
- Victoria is this on her nicer days. Her attachment to her trophies and how she reacts to them are very endearing.
- The Energy Monster (or rather, Maria) is this in "Dinner or Consequences", where she temporarily gains the ability to talk and it's revealed that she has the personality of a hyperactive fangirl.
- Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy is a shy nerdy Affably Evil Basement Dweller who has a genuine passion for sandwiches and his own mother.
- Mr. Botsford gets very enthusiastic about his family and new activities, and his joy can pull you in just as much as it pulls in the rest of his family.
- Alternative Character Interpretation:
- Is Tobey faking his British accent, or is it genuine? Granted, Word of God confirms the latter is true
. - Is Claire just justifiably angry over Tobey's actions, or is she abusive to him? The former seems more common than the latter, though.
- Does Tobey just genuinely dislike Becky, or does he have a repressed crush on her the same he does WordGirl, and just hides it better? The only time he expressed attraction to Becky was in the context of realizing she's WordGirl and comparing the two, but that alone establishes he sees the same attractive features in them both, and his behavior towards WordGirl already shows how his competitive side and flirtatious side can interact.
- Is Tobey faking his British accent, or is it genuine? Granted, Word of God confirms the latter is true
- Angst? What Angst?:
- You'd think WordGirl would express more sadness over a good friend of hers who wrote the book that taught her what she knows about being a superhero (Dr. Boxleitner) turning into her arch-enemy than she does. As is, it only comes up in one or two episodes.
- It's a bit strange that Becky and Bob have never considered the thought of returning to Lexicon as unlike its inspiration Krypton, it's presumably not destroyed. While it makes sense that Becky would show little interest in meeting her biological family, as she's perfectly content with her adopted one, Bob is revealed to have an older brother that he misses and has a good relationship with.
- Archive Panic: While nowhere as extreme as certain other examples, the series has 130 episodes that are all about 26 minutes long in a Two Shorts format, meaning it would take you over two days to watch the entire show in one go with no breaks. It'll take longer if you include the 30 original shorts that aired during Maya & Miguel (though thankfully, with them being shorts, they're a breeze to binge-watch) and the comic books.
- Base-Breaking Character:
- Tobey. About half of the fandom thinks he's cute and well-intentioned, while the other half thinks he's a creep and a stalker to WordGirl.
- Violet. An annoying Shrinking Violet who gets rewarded for everything she does without trying, or a sweet and positive friend towards Becky and Scoops, especially the latter with her Ship Tease with him.
- Cargo Ship: Lady Redundant Woman and her prized copy machine, though considering she calls it her baby in a few episodes, she probably has more maternal than romantic feelings towards it.
- Character Perception Evolution: Violet was a popular character during the show's runtime thanks to her kind and artistic Shrinking Violet characterization, but after the series faded out and came back later with more people talking about it, they started to see flaws in Violet, such as how she handled Becky's secret in the finale. While she didn't become hated, she's now a highly divisive and controversial character.
- Crack Pairing: Plasmarope: the ship between Miss Power and Amazing Rope Guy. Surprisingly helped by the fact that they never interact.
- Diagnosed by the Audience:
- Many fans read Tobey as potentially autistic due to his savant skills in technology, lack of social skills, tendency to melt down, and his hyperfixation on robotics (to the point he tries to fit all his schoolwork into the context of robotics).
- Despite technically being a Human Alien, Becky herself is sometimes interpreted as autistic, as her obsession with vocabulary can get in the way of her social skills (i.e. interrupting people and being unintentionally arrogant).
- Draco in Leather Pants: Tobey tends to be whitewashed a bit for the sake of shipping him with Becky/WordGirl. Fans will narrow in on the more adorkable aspects of his devotion to WordGirl, but brush off his more egocentric, mean-spirited behavior (or wave it off with a Freudian Excuse), including towards Becky, and the many times he put the city and even WordGirl herself in danger. The times his crush gets possessive tend to get ignored in favor of the more innocent schoolboy crush scenes. Some of it gets justified with him still being a child, with the argument that he could mature and enter a healthy relationship with her as a teenager or adult.
- Ensemble Dark Horse:
- Reginald- in a world that can get a bit too sweet, a snarky guy like him is a refreshing change of pace for many viewers.
- Exposition Guy is this for being a funny Large Ham character whose antics actually advance the plot.
- Despite being a relatively minor villain, Invisibill became a fan-favorite for his cute, nerdy appearance, energetic, cheerful personality, and close relationship with Big Left Hand Guy.
- Victoria Best is a tertiary villain, not starring enough to be a main or secondary foe, but not a one-shot character either. But her concept as another Enfant Terrible and her surprisingly tragic motivation made her one of the most popular villains in the fandom. It also helps that Kristen Schaal voices her.
- Evil Is Cool:
- Dr. Two-Brains is a mad scientist who quite literally has two brains. He also has a fascinating backstory that earned him a lot of fans.
- Granny May embodies Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!, plus she is equipped with weapons such as knitting needles that shoot out nearly unbreakable yarn, perfume strong enough to render someone helpless, and blinding stale purse mints.
- Miss Power can defeat opponents with nothing but cruel words, and has a snake eye underneath her bangs.
- Tobey is a Child Prodigy who is only in fifth grade but can create elaborate robots that can destroy the city.
- Fanfic Fuel: What's Lexicon like? What did the characters do after the show ended?
- Fandom Rivalry: The WordGirl and Ready Jet Go! fandoms have butted heads with each other, as fans of the former show think that it got cancelled for the latter show. This sentiment has since died down, though.
- Fanon:
- It's not uncommon for fanart to portray Dr. Two Brains with more rodent-like features; such as buck teeth, a tail, and mouse-like ears.
- Rhyme is often considered a Lexoconian or at least some sort of alien, which would explain her superpowers.
- Johnson is often considered Violet's brother due to their similar appearances and both being the best friends to the Botsford children, despite producer Liz Breen denying that it's canon and their lack of interactions.
- Re-designs of teenage/adult WordGirl almost always give her some sort of mask or visor (usually yellow/orange to bring out the accents in her color scheme), likely to make her Clark Kenting more believable.
- Fanon Discontinuity:
- "Victoria is the Best... WordGirl?" for some since it has to lower the intelligence of the characters for the plot to work.
- "Go, Gadget, Go" sometimes gets this, particularly from the Tobecky fandom, due to many feeling as though Tobey was acting Out of Character and that his actions of trapping WordGirl in a super suit rigged to control her every movement were too far, even for him.
- Friendly Fandoms:
- Sometimes with Super Why! (another superhero literacy series) and WordWorld, as they are all literacy-based and premiered on the exact same day.
- In its heyday, WordGirl fans often overlapped with the rest of the PBS Kids Go! lineup, most notably Wild Kratts, The Electric Company, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and Martha Speaks.
- With the Odd Squad fandom, given that they have tons of lore and can get pretty serious. The WordGirl fandom, particularly on Tumblr, jumped ship to Odd Squad when their show ended.
- Hilariously, this has also formed with the Invincible fandom during the show's resurgence in popularity in 2022.
- Foe Yay Shipping:
- Tobey and WordGirl/Becky, despite being enemies in canon, and Becky showing clear disinterest in the former's advances, has become one of, if not the most popular ship in the entire community, eclipsing that of pairings that have more canon backing such as Scoops/Becky and Scoops/Violet.
- A less popular but still notable one is between Seymour Smooth and Beau Handsome.
- Fan-Preferred Couple: Tobey/Becky, or Tobecky, is the most popular ship in the WordGirl fandom despite Becky canonically having a crush on Scoops and making her disinterest in Tobey very clear throughout the series. Doesn't stop fans from depicting them as a couple in Fan Works.
- Harsher in Hindsight: In "Violet Superhero", after Violet thinks she's been turned into a superhero, she confides her secret in Becky soon after. Later, in the series finale "Rhyme and Reason", Violet discovers Becky has been WordGirl the whole time and feels hurt and betrayed that she never told her.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- It won't be the last time Tom Kenny voices a crazed-out Card-Carrying Villain who was originally a well-meaning man of science until his mind got corrupted.
- TJ and Tim Botsford were shown to be outright obsessive male fans of "The Pretty Princess and Magical Pony Power Hour" several years before My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic aired.
- This wouldn't be the last time an animated show featured a newspaper writer named "Scoops".
- WordGirl and an evil copy created by Lady Redundant Woman point at each other as the real imposters. Where have we seen this before?
- Victoria Best is a blonde-haired, prepubescent Alpha Bitch with rich Abusive Parents who constantly push her to be better than anyone else. Sounds a bit like Pacifica Northwest, huh? For bonus points, she's voiced by Kristen Schaal, who also voices Mabel—Pacifica's main rival.
- In "The Rise of Miss Power", Miss Power takes WordGirl down into a subway during their fight, much like a certain scene in Invincible. Luckily Miss Power pulls WordGirl back out of the subway before the scene can play out the same way. However, this was very likely a reference to the Invincible comics, which came out way before WordGirl.
- "Tobey's Masterpiece" has Tobey order his robot to paint for him, and when his classmates call him out for not actually painting, he defends his right to take credit since he designed the robot that made the art — a scene which works as a retroactive satire of A.I.-Generated Artwork.
- Idiosyncratic Ship Naming: Especially common for villain ships.
- Mr. Big x Dr. Two Brains: Expensive Cheese
- Dr. Two Brains x Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy: Grilled Cheese
- Dr. Two Brains x Lady Redundant Woman: Provoclone
- Lady Redundant Woman x Miss Question: Multiple Choice Question
- Miss Power x Amazing Rope Guy: Plasma Rope
- Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy x The Whammer: PB and Wham
- Iron Woobie: Becky Botsford/WordGirl often falls into this. Her life is a constant juggling act of saving the citizens of Fair City while keeping up the facade of a normal schoolgirl to not make anyone suspicious. She is almost always expected to give up whatever she is doing at the moment just so she can stop whatever villain has decided to cause havoc that week, so much so to the point that she ends up missing her own birthday party because of it. She also seems to hold herself to a very high standard due to the town's reliance on her powers, as evidenced by the insecure panic she enters in "WordGirl Makes a Mistake." That is without even mentioning how the gullible nature of Fair City's citizens means that they will often end up turning against her based on even the flimsiest evidence, as well as the times they do it without any of the villains' influence. Yet despite how much she is constantly screwed over by the narrative, and the clear frustrations she has towards constantly having to give up her day-to-day life, Becky still finds it in herself to remain optimistic and will always strive to do the right thing even if it's at the detriment of her own personal time.
- Jerkass Woobie:
- Victoria Best, who is mainly motivated by the desire to make her Abusive Parents proud.
- It's hard not to feel bad for Tobey. He has poor social skills, is terrified of his Fantasy-Forbidding Mother, and is primarily motivated by his hopeless crush on WordGirl. Plus, he seems to be one of the few characters to realize he's Surrounded by Idiots, which is why his only friends are robots. Although most agree that Claire painfully pulling her son by the ear when dragging him away to his punishment is more than deserved, it's not easy to watch.
- Doctor Two-Brains was once a well-meaning scientist named Steven Boxleitner who, after having his brain fused with that of an evil mouse, gained an insatiable need for consuming cheese. With episodes such as "Dr. WordGirl-Brains" showing that, once freed from the mouse's influence, he's actually a pretty decent person, combined with the fact that he used to be a close friend of WordGirl before the mouse brain fusion, it makes it pretty hard to not feel bad for the guy considering that his villainy was sprung onto him without his free will. It's no surprise that many fans wished there was an episode where he was able to free himself from the mouse brain's influence and become a good guy again.
- Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy is a petulant and destructive man-child, but he's also incredibly meek, awkward, and sensitive, so it's easy to feel bad for him. Especially in episodes where he tries to do good but goes back on his villainous ways after being pushed to his limits, notably in "Chuck the Nice Pencil Selling Guy" where he quits his office job and holds his boss hostage because he dislikes sandwiches. Only when he is arrested that he finds out it was All for Nothing because his boss liked grilled cheese without knowing they were sandwiches.
- Really, any villain heckled by Miss Power, as despite their many crimes committed before and after her arrival to Earth, it's very upsetting seeing them crack under Miss Power's bullying. Butcher, Chuck, and Tobey are all left despondent after Miss Power and/or Wordgirl prey on their insecurities. Butcher is particularly heartbreaking as he is repeatedly shown to be a Gentle Giant deep down, and begins to cower away when Miss Power mocks him after he breaks out of jail. Although Dr. Two Brains is a bit more sarcastic, he begins sobbing and begging after Miss Power threatens to forbid him from eating cheese ever again.
- Launcher of a Thousand Ships:
- WordGirl is incessantly paired up with almost all the male characters and quite a few female ones. She is basically the center point for all shipping in the show. Don't forget about the monkey!
- Browsing through DeviantArt, Dr. Two-Brains, possibly the fan-favorite villain, can be seen shipped (both jokingly and seriously) with WordGirl/Becky, Mr. Big, Leslie, Lady Redundant Woman, Steve McClean, Glen Furlblam, Chuck, and The Butcher. Many of these ships even include Dr. Two-Brains's previous identity, Professor Steven Boxleitner.
- LGBT+ Periphery Demographic: The show is very popular amongst the LGBT community, in large part due to the homoerotic subtexts with some of the villains (namely Invisibill and Big Left-Handed Guy). Dr. Two Brains, in particular, is popular with bisexual fans, due to him acting coy and flirtatious with male villains, but also asking Lady Redundant Woman on a date in "When Chuck's Mom Is Away".
- Memetic Badass: WordGirl herself due to being an incredibly powerful heroine, who also happens to be a young girl. Some even joke that she could defeat Homelander and Omni Man.
- Memetic Mutation: "My favorite word is cracker."note
- Moe: WordGirl herself is very cute indeed. Her sparkly eyes and the way she plays with her Pretty Princess toys are just too cute to stand. The flashback to her as a sleepy toddler in "WordGirl Makes a Mistake" amps it up even more.
- Moral Event Horizon: Miss Power crosses the line in her debut movie The Rise of Miss Power. She severely curb-stomps the villains, and severely taunts them. She then teaches WordGirl to say mean words. She mocks the man who couldn't find the police station to the point where he cries, she manipulates the entire town into bullying each other, she gives WordGirl a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown when her plan for rule the Earth was discovered, and then gives her “The Reason You Suck” Speech. She even removes her star insignia. She throws Becky's mother into jail due to a disagreement that they had, and she tries to murder Dr. Two-Brains. Fortunately, WordGirl arrives just in time and causes Miss Power to lose her power by not using mean words. She then has a Villainous Breakdown and leaves Earth.
- More Popular Spin-Off: Originating as a segment attached to the end of Maya & Miguel, WordGirl ran for twice as long as the latter show and had a more sizable fandom even after its cancellation.
- Nausea Fuel: Any time Dr. Two-Brains touches, pokes, or strokes his exposed brain, which throbs and glows in response to how hungry he is.
- Never Live It Down: One common criticism against Violet when accusing her of being a bad friend to Becky are her forcing Becky to abide by her strange house rules in "Too Loud Crew." Except Violet did apologize once Becky explained her discomfort more clearly, and other episodes have Violet try to compromise with Becky, as air-headed and childish as she can be about it. Yet Violet's detractors focus on the argument in that episode rather than the eventual resolution to point to Violet as a toxic friend.
- Nightmare Fuel: Right here.
- No Yay: Squickily enough, it's hard to escape the impression that TJ has a full-blown crush on WordGirl. While she's Happily Adopted, which makes it Not Blood Siblings, Becky doesn't find that any better.
- Periphery Demographic: It's a vocabulary-based Edutainment Show on PBS targeting six-year-olds. Plus, it's on the PBS Kids Go! block, which by default targets older children (meaning instead of six-year-olds, nine-year-olds watch it). Also, Word of God has stated that attracting a periphery demographic was entirely intentional. Its decently big adult fanbase is still a rather impressive feat.
- Popularity Polynomial: When it was airing, it was among the more popular cartoons produced by PBS, with a massive fanbase including both young children and grown adults, but after it ended in 2015, the fanbase kinda just faded into the background of the internet, still loved but not discussed much. Then suddenly in 2022, an increasing number of YouTube channels started popping up with the express purpose of posting clips from the show, which revitalized the fandom and got people discussing it again.
- Portmanteau Ship Name:
- Becky x Tobey: Tobecky
- Becky x Victoria: Becktoria
- Mr. Big x Leslie: Bigslie
- Scoops x Violet: Sciolet
- Big Left Hand Guy x Invisibill: Big Left Hand Bill
- Realism-Induced Horror: While plenty of the show's villains are delightfully cartoony, the same cannot be said for Miss Power. Her gaslighting, subtle manipulations, and verbal abuse are all presented uncomfortably realistically, and the fact that she always sees herself in the right and everyone else as an enemy just makes it worse. When she takes over the city and enforces her petty rules onto everyone, she becomes very reminiscent of corrupt politicians who abuse their authority and twist it into whatever self-serving standard they want.
- Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: "Invasion of the Bunny Lovers" made those who hated Scoops warm up to him as Scoops learns about Becky being WordGirl and finally deciding to stop exposing who she really is, showing that he is a true friend who will not risk Becky being bothered just to get a report.
- Ron the Death Eater:
- While Mr. and Mrs. Best are already blatantly neglectful and cold towards Victoria is she doesn't meet their expectations, fanworks often crank up the abuse for extra angst.
- Mrs. McCallister's strictness sometimes gets interpreted as (or exaggerated into) abuse to justify why Tobey is so terrified of her, despite the show not showing more than her being stern and pulling him away by the ear in a cartoonish manner — which is usually after he's caused a lot of trouble.
- Shipping: There's a lot of shipping (romantic or familial) amongst the fans of the show (mainly due to the wide range of characters).
- Self-Fanservice:
- A few-minute tour of the WordGirl fanart on DeviantArt is enough to notice that some artists portray her as drastically enhanced.
- Dr. Two-Brains gets drawn as Bishounen levels of sexy.
- Tobey often gets aged-up into a Bishounen Megane in shipping art.
- Ship Mates: If a fan ships WordGirl and Tobey, it might just as well be required that they also conveniently ship Scoops/Violet. Inversely, the shippers of WordGirl and anyone else are just as likely to ship Violet and Tobey.
- Ships That Pass in the Night: The superhero Amazo Guy and Dr. Steven Boxleitner. Bizarrely, the former character has never technically appeared in canon — he only appears in Boxleitner's book in a section providing a barbecue recipe. Nevertheless, there's an entire fandom for Boxleitner and Amazo Guy having had some sort of relationship before Boxleitner turned into Dr. Two Brains.
- Spiritual Successor: The premise is similar to The Electric Company's short "Letterman" segments, and the Electric Company comics had yet another hero named WonderWord.
- Suspiciously Similar Song:
- One of the recurring pieces of background music, typically used in montages where villains are on a crime spree, is very similar to the riff from Pink Floyd's "Money".
- Another piece, used for training and competition montages, is similar to the riff from Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger".
- Strawman Has a Point:
- Tobey in the episode "Tobey Goes Good". While his reaction was overblown, his rage towards the fact his highly advanced robot which was able to casually colonize Mars lost to what was essentially a glorified egg slicer is pretty understandable all things considered. Made even worse by the fact that this was one of the few times where he genuinely (albeit for largely self-serving reasons) tried to become a good guy, so the fact that his attempts went completely unnoticed in exchange for a basic kitchen item only makes his anger towards his loss more justified.
- In "Meat-Life Crisis," the Butcher turns back to evil because he's frustrated at being underpaid for his training day as a vendor (with the original plan being not to pay him at all), despite using his meat powers to go above and beyond and make excellent money for the stadium. Even if stealing all the money was overblown, the frustration is understandable, especially for those who have ever worked in similar low-paying industries.
- While it's clear that the eponymous antagonist of "The Rise of Miss Power" only puts down villains as part of her scheme to take over the planet, her initial argument does make sense — talking the villains down puts their destructive behavior to an end before it even begins. Given that the villains often threaten to destroy the entire city, poking fun at their insecurities doesn't sound too unfair, and likely wouldn't be as big of an issue if the show (being a PBS show) didn't have strict rules about heroes never insulting characters. The issue is when Miss Power encourages this behavior against those who have done nothing wrong, making it clear she's only in it for the power trip.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
- Because of the very large rogues gallery, it's inevitable that some feel this way towards a couple of villains: whether it be one-offs like Steve McClean, Timmy-Tim Bo, and Glen Furlblam, or reoccurring but very minor villains like the Coach, Captain Tangent, the Learnerer, etc.
- Kid Math only stars in a two-part special in Season 7 (the second-to-last season) and makes only 3 cameo appearances afterward. It's disappointing that a plot where two superheroes protecting Fair City was never shown again.
- Victor Best, Victoria's younger brother, debuts properly in "The Best of the Bests" after a cameo in Victoria's debut episode, revealing a friendship with TJ and an intense Sibling Rivalry between the two Best children, as some pretty startling technical know-how as he briefly steals WordGirl's powers. Unfortunately "The Best of the Bests" is one of the last episodes of the series, so this is the only time Victor shows up, leaving much more to imagine about his dynamic with Victoria or TJ.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
- The show in general has made it clear that the titular hero is an alien from the planet Lexicon, but aside from her origins being briefly explained in "WordGirl Makes A Mistake", the show rarely if ever, seems to bring this up. As far as we know, WordGirl's home planet was never blown up or destroyed and she never said she was the Last of Her Kind, meaning storylines could have been done relating to Lexicon, and some of the planet's residents. Maybe she'd briefly visit her planet for a reunion, or maybe some Lexiconians would come to Earth. Why the show never tries this is beyond anyone's guess.
- Despite Dr. Two-Brains being WordGirl's former mentor who turned evil due to a Freak Lab Accident involving a megalomaniacal mouse, WordGirl rarely tries to view him as her ex-mentor and usually treats him like just another villain. (Angst? What Angst? covers this) You'd think there would be a storyline about her trying to find or even create a cure for his split personality. Even if it fails due to Status Quo Is God, it would showcase that WordGirl didn't forget about Boxleitner.
- Several teaser battles only appear at the end of an episode or in the background, leaving many fans wishing for a whole episode featuring them. Such as Tobey and Victoria allying at the end of "Kid Math", and the original 5 villains from the shortsnote controlling a 5-headed robot at the end of "Rhyme and Reason"/the series finale.
- "Word Makes A Mistake" has Becky/Word Girl explain her origins about being an alien from Lexicon and her adoption to her (adoptive) father and TJ... but the two of them just chalk it off as her having a serious imagination, neither of them takes her story seriously, and the moment is never brought up again. It would have been incredible to bring Tim and TJ Botsford into the loop and have them (and possibly even Sally) be Secret Keepers. Then WordGirl would finally be able to stop lying and hiding secrets from her adoptive family all the time. But alas, Status Quo Is God.
- Scoops learns Becky's secret identity in "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers," which actually does get several episodes featuring exploring the consequences, but Violet only learns it in "Rhyme and Reason." How does this affect those two's dynamic long-term? Since the latter was the final episode and we never see them interacting, we'll never know.
- In "The Best of the Bests", Victor Best manages to steal WordGirl's superpowers... for about a minute before Victoria tricks him and gives them back to her.
- Eileen's mother has been brought up several times in the series and is pretty much responsible for her behavior (mainly making her think every day is her birthday), but she's never actually seen in the show. It would've been great for WordGirl to officially meet her and have her stop her daughter's reckless behavior and spoiled attitude once and for all. Alas, this never came to be.
- Ugly Cute: The Energy Monster. She's a jagged humanoid creature made of electricity. Who, when not acting like an animal looking for food, acts like a teenage girl. There's also her cute, powerless form.
- Unintentionally Sympathetic: Tobey in the episode "Tobey Goes Good". While it's clear that his ultimate outburst at the end of the episode was meant to be seen as yet another instance of Tobey throwing a hissy fit over not getting his way, many fans felt that his reaction was actually somewhat justified given the context. He programmed an incredibly impressive, technologically advanced machine capable of colonizing Mars as well as performing other menial tasks, yet it wound up losing to Becky and Violet's invention, which was quite literally two kitchen appliances smashed together (even Becky admits that calling it an invention is a stretch). Couple that with the fact that Tobey's breakdown is perhaps the most vulnerable we've ever seen the character (to the point where he is outright shown tearing up for a moment) and one can't help but feel bad for the kid, even if his reaction was... a tad overblown.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
- Chuck has moments of being this trope.
- In "Big and Brent," while he was right about Mr. Big trying to take control of Brent, he himself is no better. He gets butthurt and jealous about Brent hanging out with Mr. Big when he himself doesn't want anything to do with his brother. Him constantly interrupting the two and ruining their activities doesn't help matters.
- Violet is a well-meaning person, but others feel as though she is a toxic friend to Becky with how she gets mad at her for not liking the stressful nature of her house, or the most egregious example, "Rhyme and Reason" where she ends their friendship after finding out that Becky was WordGirl and going as far as to claim that real friends tell each other everything, including their deepest secrets despite this clearly being a harmful mindset. This certainly isn't helped by the fact that the episode never addresses this behavior, instead painting Violet as being entirely in the right in this situation, the blame instead being placed on Becky for keeping her identity a secret despite having a very good reason for doing so.
- Chuck has moments of being this trope.
- The Woobie:
- Amazing Rope Guy. He's the least successful villain in the entire series and is almost always in jail. Even the other villains, a few of which fail at their crimes, think he's incompetent.
- Becky becomes this one in the series finale after Violet ends their friendship after finding out about her secret identity. Thankfully, they do get together back in the end.
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