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* [[Broken Base]]: Sometimes there's some minor head-butting between Annotators. In the past there were a few debates over whether they should strictly stick to video game adaptions/series related to video games or work with other things. Though for now the compromise has been: regular stuff=video games, intermissions: anything goes.

* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: Bouchedags was mercilessly ripped apart for its racial stereotyping, misogyny and making light of various mental and physical handicaps.

** A few were like this when Santa started to cry in Christmas Comes To Pacland.

** A lot had trouble with the more serious parts of Tricky People what with child molestation hitting a little too close for home

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: There's almost always ONE character that the annotators actually like.

** BISON!!! *flames* from Street Fighter

** Raiden from Defenders of the Realm. Night Wolf too perhaps due to him taking a level in bad ass in the then recent Mortal Kombat 9, so people were easier on him. And for being genuinely amicable, when everyone seemed to bicker every five seconds, and rarely being useless when he got to head out into the field. Jax and Sonya got just a little less hate near the end when they started to show a little character development.

* [[Evil Is Cool]]: Ganon was complimented among his very first scene in ''The Legend of Zelda: The Annotated Series''.

* [[Fanon]]: Michael in Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue was made out to be Mike from an early episode Captain N: The Game Master. [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Despite now being enemies, he and his friends were sincerely distraught by Kevin's disappearance and turned to drugs to cope with the loss.]]

* [[Fridge Horror]]: Typically pointed out in episodes but a more out of universe one was for the Armor of Light folks. It was a Christian special that talked all about victory and defeating enemies...Not a single word about forgiveness (for 96 percent of the special), loving your enemies or just freaking letting God sort out who goes to heaven and who goes to Hell like he is supposed to. The fact they weren't trying to hide the 'sheep' mentality was found a tad horrifying.

** Some time after the [[Heroic BSOD|Heroic BSODs]] expressed throughout Bouchedags, one Annotator admitted the reason he made it all the way through it himself was because he thought Sam was kinda cute.

* [[Hype Backlash]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]]. Game Boy from Captain N was hyped up to be basically the most annoying character of all time... but aside from a couple jokes in the first two episodes of Season Two, several annotators ended up ''liking'' him (especially compared to Megaman and Kid Icarus).

* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: There is no name for the actual group of people that do this, though they are often referred to as [[The Annotat Xperiment]] due to the [[YouTube]] account name. Similarly, CurtDogg is CurtDogg and not beeupyou; that's just a phonetic pun of the B^U emoticon.

** One part this and one part running gag for Captain N for two. First there's Eggplant Wizard's non sequitur 'Radio Controlled Sweet Potato' and then there's Lana asking 'what about the peace treaty?' whenever Mother Brain departs from her.

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Some of the annotations note how creepy Mother Brain is.

** The "Surf Music" counts, too. The annotators hated it in ''[[SMB 3]]'', but have warmed up to it since ''Captain N''.

** Jeffrey Scott, the writer of season 1 for Captain N. He wrote some pretty bad episodes (Simon's amnesia being a particularly hated one) but he also wrote the Mike episode and seemed to maintain some very minor consistency. Some even worse episodes of season 2 have some people wishing he came back, though he isn't the only one to write some noteworthy episodes.

** Characters the audience is supposed to hate tend to get the most sympathy.

** Seems to be averted in ''Captain N'', as of current.

** Super Mario World had Oogtar, Yoshi and Kootie Pie. Any appearance by the latter brought in a running gag of her tolerance meter showing up on screen. It was always quick to max out, and the very last time it literally went off the scale, let out an [[Atomic F-Bomb]] and exploded.

*** While Oogtar and Yoshi were frequently compared to Mario 3's Toad, they went quite easy on him once they annotated that series. Maybe they realised he could've been much worse.

*** Come Super Mario Bros. 3 they got quite sick of Big-Mouth and Bully Koopa too.

** Stryker seemed to get the most hate out of the heroes of Mortal Kombat.

** Everyone in Bouchedags.

 

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