History YMMV / Knightmare

** Gundrada the Swordmistress from series 4. Quite a fun character and helpful to the teams but her ridiculous (and very annoying) voice earned her plenty of hate from the viewers.

* SeasonalRot: Series 4-7 are generally regarded as a step down from, at the very least, Series 3. Series 8 is much more divisive, as some fans appreciated the return to the format of Series 3, though many feel that it was poorly executed and suffered from decisions such as allowing the last two teams to skip straight from Level 1 to Level 3.

* SpiritualLicensee: Though an official American adaptation never got off the ground (see the Trivia tab), two shows did kinda follow in its' footsteps: ''Series/NickArcade'', which mixed the game-playing action of ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' with a bonus round like this show; and ''Masters of the Maze'', a short-lived [[Creator/ABCFamily Family Channel]] series (produced by [[Series/BreakTheBank1985 Richard]] [[Series/StrikeItLucky S.]] [[Series/WinLoseOrDraw Kline]], and hosted by [[Seres/FunHouse JD Roth]] or [[Series/SavedByTheBell Mario Lopez]], depending on the season) where it was a mix between this show and ''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'', there was more CGI and physical props, less chroma key, and more of an educational bent.

* The Causeways count, too. Sure, you would need to know the combination to get past, but then the thing would start falling apart to place false pressure upon you.

** The Causeways come in a close second.

* SpiritualLicensee: Though an official American adaptation never got off the ground (see the Trivia tab), two shows did kinda follow in its' footsteps: ''Series/NickArcade'', which mixed the game-playing action of ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' with a bonus round like this show; and ''Masters of the Maze'', a short-lived [[Creator/ABCFamily Family Channel]] series (produced by [[Series/BreakTheBank1985 Richard]] [[Series/StrikeItLucky S.]] [[Series/WinLoseOrDraw Kline]], and hosted by [[Seres/FunHouse JD Roth]] or [[Series/SavedByTheBell Mario Lopez]], depending on the season) where there was more CGI and physical props, less chroma key, and more of an educational bent.

* SeasonalRot: Series 4-7 are generally regarded as a step down from, at the very least, Series 3. Series 8 is something of a BaseBreaker, as some fans appreciated the return to the format of Series 3, though many feel that it was poorly executed and suffered from decisions such as allowing the last two teams to skip straight from Level 1 to Level 3.

** If you happen to be arachnophobic, [[GiantSpider Ariadne, the Mother of All Spiders]] will keep you awake for days. It's a standard tarantula obviously [[ChromaKey chroma-keyed in]] ([[SpecialEffectsFailure you can even see an outline surrounding it]]), but knowing this (especially as said tarantula is massively scaled up) will not help you ''at all.''

** If you happen to be arachnophobic, [[GiantSpider Ariadne, the Mother of All Spiders]] will keep you awake for days. It's a standard tarantula [[SpecialEffectFailure obviously chroma-keyed in]], but knowing this (especially as said tarantula is massively scaled up) will not help you ''at all.''

* NightmareFuel: The life force meter. It took the form of a knight's helmeted head for the first 5 seasons. As the Dungeoneer gradually lost health, pieces of the knight's helmet broke off and flew away. Okay, not so bad. But then when the helmet was completely gone, the skin of the knight's head began ''peeling away'' to reveal a skull underneath, as the face goes through a series of suitably shocked and horrified expressions until it no longer has lips to emote with. And after ''that'', the skull itself cracked and fell apart, the remaining chunk of it ''flying towards the camera'' to leave just the eyes which then rolled out of the screen one by one. '''''[[ForDoomTheBellTolls BONG!]]'''''

* TheScrappy: Gundrada the Swordmistress from series 4. Quite a fun character and helpful to the teams but her ridiculous (and very annoying) voice earned her plenty of hate from the viewers.
* SeasonalRot: It's widely accepted among fans that despite its insane difficulty in comparison to what came later, Series 3 was by far the best of the show's run.

* NightmareFuel: The life force meter.
** In more detail: The life meter took the form of a knight's helmeted head for the first 5 seasons. As the Dungeoneer gradually lost health, pieces of the knight's helmet broke off and flew away. Okay, not so bad. But then when the helmet was completely gone, the skin of the knight's head began ''peeling away'' to reveal a skull underneath. As the face goes through a series of suitably shocked and horrified expressions until it no longer has lips to emote with. And after ''that'', the skull itself cracked and fell apart, the remaining chunk of it ''flying towards the camera'' to leave just the eyes which then rolled out of the screen one by one. '''''[[ForDoomTheBellTolls BONG!]]'''''
* SeasonalRot: It's widely accepted among fans that despite its insane difficulty in comparison to what came later, Series 3 was by far the best of the show's run.
* WhatAnIdiot: A team was once told to not wake up the dragon and to use a spell first, and an advisor then insisted they wake the dragon up first.

* RuinedFOREVER:
** Several felt this way when the entirely studio-bound setup in Series 1-3 was dropped, and location filming and the Eye Shield came into use.
** This claim was also made when a team was allowed to use a shortcut to bypass Level 2 in the final series, and went onto record what would be the show's last-ever victory.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: The life force meter.

* FetishFuel: Velda and Gundrada both got tied/chained up more than once.

** This claim was also made when a team were allowed to use a shortcut to bypass Level 2 in the final series.

* NightmareFuel: The life force meter.

* FetishFuel: Velda and Gundrada both got tied/chained up more than once.
* NightmareFuel: The life force meter.
* RuinedFOREVER: A few people felt this way when the entirely studio-bound setup in the first three seasons was dropped, and location filming and the Eye Shield came into use.
** This claim was also made when a team were allowed to use a shortcut to bypass Level 2 in the final series .
* SeasonalRot: It's widely accepted among fans that despite its insane difficulty in comparison to what came later, Series 3 was by far the best of the show's run.
* WhatAnIdiot: A team was once told to not wake up the dragon and to use a spell first, and an advisor then insisted they wake the dragon up first.

* RuinedFOREVER: A few people felt this way when the entirely studio-bound setup in the first three seasons was dropped, and location filming and the Eye Shield came into use. Then some people [[UnpleasableFanbase said the exact same thing]] when the show reverted to its studio-bound form in the final series.
** This claim was also made when a team were allowed to use a shortcut to bypass Level 2 in the final series ([[YourMileageMayVary debate continues]] as to whether this was fair). Of course, since this happened in the third-to-last episode of the show's run, "forever" ended up being quite short in this context.
* SeasonalRot: It's widely accepted among fans that despite its insane difficulty in comparison to what came later, Series 3 was by far the best of the show's run. The degree of rot afterwards is a case of YourMileageMayVary -- some consider the subsequent seasons to be very good but not quite in the same league as Series 3, while others consider the Eye Shield to have ruined the show.

** [[TheSpoonyExperiment The Spoony One]] argued that this trope was part of the show's appeal: the teams were so stupid that they made you, the viewer, feel smart.

* WallBanger: If they ran out of time in the final episode of the season, the team automatically lost.
** "Out of time" meaning they'd recorded enough footage for that season's worth of episodes, even if the current team was doing well.
** This only happened in Series 2, 3, 4 and 8. In Series 1, the final team condemned themselves to defeat by failing to pick up several key items, making it easy for the production team to end the season with the loss that team would have experienced anyway. The next three seasons just had the final quest stopping when the season ended. Starting with Series 5, however, the final team's quest objective would be dropped at some point, and they instead took part in an "endgame" storyline that would see the bad guys temporarily defeated. The 8th and final series was meant to have such a storyline as well, but the creators got ScrewedByTheNetwork and were left without enough episodes to carry it out properly. As a result, the endgame storyline was quite clearly set up in the last two episodes, but then bizarrely dropped without resolution and replaced by a shouting match between Treguard and Lord Fear.