The Wild Thornberrys/YMMV

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  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: In the movie, Eliza is willing to give up her superpower (talking to animals) forever to save her sister.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Nigel Thornberry.
  • Hollywood Homely: Eliza is actually really cute for a pig tailed, glasses wearing nerd. Especially in the later seasons where she lets her hair down and starts wearing more feminine clothing.
    • Granted, according to the book Not Just Cartoons: Nicktoons, this was more a case of Executive Meddling.
  • Memetic Mutation: Hellooooooo. I'm Nigel Thoooooorrrrnnnnbeeeerrrryyyyy.
    • And a more recent one, also concerning a Nigel Thornberry: combining his unintelligible gibberish from a random episode with a well-known song and then photoshopping his face onto the single/album cover. Blaaaaaarghghghgh.
  • Nightmare Fuel: A good number of episodes. "Naimina Enkiyio" may be the crowning example, though.
  • The Scrappy: Shane. When you're the Shallow Love Interest of the main character in the last season and you're mentioned only once on the trope page, you are the Scrappy.
  • Wheelchair Woobie: A character of the week was one. The conflict came from Eliza trying very hard not to seem like she's pitying her just because she's in a wheelchair, eventually annoying her.
  • The Woobie: Quite a few one-shot animals characters actually. Like the hyena from "No Laughing Matter", Emily the wombat from "Chew if By Sea", the rabbit from "Show Me The Bunny" or Tano the cheetah cub from "Cheetahs Never Prosper".