Jackie Chan Adventures/YMMV

"Uncle (in front of phone): *casts Tohru wistful look* "For you...my apprentice.""
 * Ass Pull: 'Heat-Beam Eye-Blast'?! Either they couldn't think of a better power for the pig than a Combustion clone or they wanted more than one power to be a ranged-attack (planning for future J-Team escapades, maybe?)
 * Base Breaker: Is Jade secretly The Hero to Jackie's Decoy Protagonist, a pretty good The Lancer, a forgettable Kid Appeal Character, a regrettable The Scrappy, or Creator's Pet who takes the entire show from good to painful? You decide!
 * Crazy Awesome: The Monkey King. He's a trickster, what do you expect?
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: See here.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: See here.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: See here.
 * Die for Our Ship: Paco is often the victim of this by fans who want to pair Jade up with someone other than him (despite the fact that it's implied that at most he has an unrequited crush on her).
 * Draco in Leather Pants: See Foe Yay. Again, given the alternative it's hardly surprising shippers go this route.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: The Demon Sorcerors are very popular antagonists. It helps that despite having only a few episodes each (save Shendu, they all have distinct personalities and decent characterisation. Several are generally more popular than others, but they all seem to have some kind of individual fanbase.
 * Ethnic Scrappy: Paco.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: In an early Season 1 episode Tohru, while clearly disgusted by Carl Nevore's plans, does nothing to stop him from eating the turtle.
 * Fanon: Ask the fandom for this series, and Jade and Hsi-Wu is the series enduring love story, when it was only (and barely) teased in at least two of the series episodes. Nevertheless, the amount of Fanfic for this couple is quite high, even by today's standards.
 * Fashion Victim Villain: Valmont is forced to wear a sorcerer's robe by Shendu, which he calls a dress.
 * Foe Yay: Hsi Wu. It doesn't help that the only other closest thing poor Jade has to a love interest is Paco.
 * Jackie/Valmont fic is probably second in popularity after that couple. Followed by Jackie/Viper, Jackie/Finn, Valmont/Finn, and Valmont/Jade (with either child Valmont or adult Jade).
 * Ho Yay: Uncle beats himself up over letting Tohru be taken by shadow khan and is willing to let himself be engulfed by dark magic to save him, as well as (in another episode) swallow his pride and call a psychic for help when he can't find the ingredient that will wake Tohru up.

"Ratso: "After you quit, we told Valmont he'd better give us raises, or we quit too!"
 * Likewise, Tohru is very protective of Uncle and hates to see Uncle upset. And when Uncle returns to the team in "Samurai Ratso", he's positively elated and cries touched tears. Besides, in the same scene, tell me Uncle having their blowfish kiss to share the magic wasn't symbolic...
 * Finn, Ratso and Chow have a very close three-way dynamic. They're never apart, never show any interest in anyone outside their trio, always look out for each other...heck, when Finn decides to quit The Dark Hand and start his own crime syndicate, Ratso and Chow immediately quit too so they can keep working with him.

Finn (thrilled): "And now you guys wanna work for me? That is so c-I mean, that's cool.""


 * Paco's starry-eyed devotion to El Toro seems a bit over-the-top. The fact that he seems to not have any parents and even travels with him doesn't help. On the other end, El Toro also does not help by referring to Paco so affectionately all the time. "Mi Pacito", indeed.
 * Jackie sees red and loses his cool only when Captain Black has been injured by the bad guys. Then he recklessly goes out for revenge.
 * Idiot Ball: Happens to Jackie and Jade the most. Jackie tends to attack problems with an almost reckless lack of planning which tends to come back to bite him in the ass. Jade however tends to plan ahead more and is generally the only character who bothers to grab the talismans or some other useful item before running off to fight the enemy however that doesn't stop her from screwing up a lot.
 * To emphasize the importance of using the Idiot Ball, consider that Jade's actions in the Season 1 finale lead directly to Season 2, Jackie's actions in the Season 3 premier lead to Season 3 itself, and both Jackie and Future! Jade help to institute Season 5 via keeping Drago after J2. In the same vein Daloan Wong's actions in the Season 4 premier lead to Season 4 itself happening. Using the Idiot Ball continues the show.
 * Jerkass Woobie: Valmont and Shendu both become more sympathetic by season 2.
 * Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Pick a character - ANY character. Chances are that Jade's been paired up with him/her in the fandom at some point or another.
 * The most common being either Hsi Wu or Drago.
 * Magnificent Bastard: Valmont before Badass Decay set in.
 * Tarakudo is a bit of one as well.
 * Ron the Death Eater: Jade but not by haters. Rather she has a lot of fans who really liked her evil Queen of the Shadowkhan stint. There's a lot of fanworks that have her change back.
 * The Scrappy: Jade got this at first, but familiarity helped to dull it making her either a Breakout Character or Creator's Pet depending on the viewer. At the least, any trouble-making caused by her interference she either fixed herself or managed to make her mistake into something useful, so she was rarely The Load. There were other times when she also played the Big Damn Hero whenever the other characters would go off on their own though haters simply see this as shoehorning. She also tended to be the most wily hero coming up with clever solutions the others never considered. Ethnic Scrappy Paco however is hated far more.
 * Unfortunate Implications: In the episode where they discover the Monkey Talisman, Ratso is turned into a ...rat. Finn picks him up by the tail and says "Whoa," staring wide-eyed at him. Problem is, it looks like he's staring at the rat's....goods.
 * Villain Decay: Valmont and his mooks are the bad guys in the first season, and a Shendu-possessed Valmont is the Big Bad for the second, but it sets in with a vengeance during the third season, thanks to the first two seasons draining all of Valmont's capital. Valmont's goons split after that, and Valmont became a washed-up has-been dreaming of former glory. In his last major appearance, he was nothing more than a gag villain who was accidentally mailed to Mexico. In the end of series episode, he's reduced to being a bus driver.
 * Notably, Valmont had been able to hold his own against even Jackie in hand-to-hand combat during their first confrontation. He has never displayed anything close to that level of combat since then.
 * The Villain Decay might have been hinted at the moment Valmont was no longer voiced by Julian Sands.
 * The actual seeds of his decay were sown at the time travel episode, where Valmont as a child was utterly pwned. It can be implied that this retroactively sucked away most of his initial badass.
 * The Dark Hand as a whole was introduced as a Nebulous Evil Organization worthy of the attention of the super-spy agency Section 13, and originally had many members and a wide range of resources and connections. By the end of the season its down to 4 men, Hak Foo making five the next, and eventually just becomes Finn, Ratso and Chow
 * The Shadowkhan and Dark Chi warriors suffer tremendously from this, to the point where they can hardly be regarded as much more than an inconvenient annoyance.
 * The Shadowkhan play with this a bit; they become a global menace in the 4th season as the ancient evil army of a demon Evil Overlord, and there are now several different tribes of them with unique abilities. On the downside, this makes the classic ninja-Khan seem Overshadowed By Awesome.
 * Hak Foo, too.
 * The Woobie: Jackie.