YMMV / Atomic Betty

• Adorkable: Betty is definitely this, usually when she's around her friends or crush. She's also something of a geek for comic books and science-fiction. She's very adorable.
  • Noah definitely counts as well.
• Ass Pull: The unexplained reasons for Paloma hiding her secret from Betty. It's highly unlikely their friendship would have been damaged given the common ground they share and that Betty could help her better, but the show doesn't really give a reason for Paloma to not tell Betty (she does try to give one, but she's abducted before it can be delivered).
• Awesome Music:
  • The first intro theme.
  • Anything on the album, really.
• Broken Base: Mission Earth's retool of the series formula to move the action to Earth and make the show a lot more comedic proved a divisive choice, as some fans liked the new direction and others hated it.
• Cargo Ship: Betty's mom with a chair in "Love Bites".
• Cult Classic: Atomic Betty never developed a big fandom during its time thanks to being Screwed by the Network in America (among other reasons), but it certainly gained enough of a following to become one of Teletoon's most iconic original series and even give rise to considerations for a revival in the 2010s.
• Fanon: Though Betty's parents were never named on the show, the fandom has named them Quincy and Tanya.
• Fanon Discontinuity: When the Mission Earth episodes came on the air, some of the fans had this reaction to the season.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This wouldn't be the last cartoon with a villian named The Chameleon.
  • One of the episodes is titled Bee Movie.
  • This wouldn't be the last Canadian cartoon where Tajja Isen voiced a red-headed heroine.
• Ho Yay:
  • Sparky and X-5's relationship often veers into this territory. One episode had Sparky dress like a blonde cheerleader, and he dragged an unwilling X-5 and introduced him as a boyfriend. Another episode had this exchange:
  Sparky (talking about Betty rescuing Noah): "'He's not her boyfriend.' Yeah, right!" (turns to X-5) "Would you kick that much booty if that were me dangling up there?"
  X-5: Not particularly.
  • Minimus and Maximus sometimes engage in a one-sided version of this. Hell, Minimus even once called Maximus his Valentine!
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Penelope in "The Market". Her cat died and she only abducted that Jerkass raccoon to fill the void.
  • Maximus seems to be this as well when it comes to how he was raised by his father.
• Moe:
  • Betty herself is very adorable. She looks absolutely darling in her civilian outfit, and those moments where she's in love or blushing around Chaz or Dylan are just so cute.
  • Noah can be quite adorable as well, given his shy personality, crush on Betty, and frequent misfortunes.
• Nightmare Fuel: Maximus I.Q. when he temporarily becomes his One-Winged Angel form in "Amulet of Shangri-La-De-Da"
• Retroactive Recognition: Betty's voice actress Tajja Isen is Princess Pea and Nessa.
• The Scrappy: A lot of people dislike (and even flat-out despise) Penelope for a good reason. Her attitude half the time and especially on season three is the reason many nearly stopped watching Atomic Betty.
• Seasonal Rot: As mentioned a couple times already, some fans feel this way about the third season Mission Earth due to its increased focus on comedy (exemplified by the inclusion of short silly skits at the end of many episodes), doing away with Paloma after her key role in Season 2, Betty taking a slight level in jerkass, and the change to Earth-centered adventures seeming to come out of nowhere for some.
• Squick:
  • Betty's dad attempting to do goodness knows what with Purrsy while under the effects of a love spell, as well the suggestive stuff he says while chasing him. One word: EW!
  • In the same episode, we have Maximus trying to make Betty, a 12-year-old girl, fall in love with him. Even Minimus thinks its creepy. And frankly, it's not much better when Betty ends up falling in Minimus instead and expressing the desire to marry him.
  • "Beach Blanket Betty" has a scene where Sparky pulls a banana out of his shorts and eats it.
  • "Who's The Baby Now?" has the baby-turned characters defeat Infantor by throwing their dirty diapers at him.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Some of the fan reaction to Mission Earth was based in this.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Paloma. Despite having a major role throughout Season 2 and being subject to a major reveal at the end of the season, she was Put on a Bus at the beginning of Season 3 when she could have stayed on the show and served as an auxiliary ally for Betty on the Galactic Guardians as well as continuing to be her friend in her civilian life.
  • Noah. He's easily the most likeable character in Betty's ordinary life, and his crush on her is quite endearing. Despite finding out Betty's secret in Season 3, he's sidelined for most of the plot.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • They never really did much with the fact that Betty, her mom and Beatrixo all have alien DNA due to Beatrixo's father being an alien. Only Beatrixo's sister Auntie Matter displays alien powers.
  • The same can be said for the whole Paloma plot and the reason why she never informs Betty.
  • Noah found out Betty's secret and joined the Galactic Guardians, but the show never really did much with him in that role except the same old jokes he was already the butt of.
  • In a similar vein, Noah’s unrequited crush on Betty is only used to further show his Butt-Monkey status, despite the two having a lot more chemistry than her other love interests.
• Toy Ship: With all the Ship Tease between Betty and various boys, especially Noah, there was bound to be a lot of them.
• The Woobie: Noah. Even though he's a really sweet and shy kid, he gets put through constant misfortune and abuse from the world and the other characters. Even after he becomes a Galactic Guardian, it seems that not even his friends still take him that seriously.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Penelope, of all characters, gets this in "The Market" Yes, taking a raccoon from the wild and keeping it as a pet is wrong (and she learns this lesson the hard way when it destroys her things and attacks her) but at the same time, she had just lost her cat and was grief-stricken. It's hard to blame her for wanting another animal to fill that void.

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