YMMV / Every Witch Way

• Creator's Pet: Francisco Alonso, Emma's father, gets a large amount of screen time and finds himself in the middle of different plot points, despite his lack of relevance to any of the main storylines. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the Running Joke with this guy (being his dislike of Daniel, and Ursula's unreciprocated crush on him) quickly gets old and unfunny. On top of that, his constant Parental Obliviousness to his daughter being a witch and what's really going on in her life, makes his irrelevance really stick out. The fact he constantly pulls the Jerkass card in seasons two and three and never gets any sort of calling out or comeuppance, doesn't exactly make him the most endearing character.
• Designated Hero: Jax Novoa, in a way that also mixes into his Draco in Leather Pants status. He started out intruding on Emma and Daniel's relationship, as well as constantly pulling pranks on Daniel or framing him for said pranks to make him look bad. He was open about his intentions to Take Over the World, was willing to destroy the Magic Realm over Emma breaking up with him, and admits to not caring if his friends or family could die. He initially had a number of Freudian Excuses regarding his parents, but these were made irrelevant do to revelations about them in season 4. Even his Heel–Face Turn and subsequent altruism was done to get back in Emma's good graces, and we are supposed to sympathize with him when he's punished or resented, despite never owning up to what he did and acts entitled to others forgiveness. When Emma gets back together with Jax, he acts jealous when Emma tries to reach out to Daniel. Also the universe altering itself to have Jax replace Daniel in their friends lives is supposed to be seen as a good thing.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Jax, full stop. To the point where the fandom clearly (and literally) voted in their preference to make Jemma the show's official couple.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Daniel and Mia's story ends with them living happily in the Everglades together; why was is necessary for their memories of their friends and old life being erased as well as their friends memories, save for Emma and Andi, it pretty much amounts their development over the series moot.
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • The Legend of Korra "lost" to Every Witch Way when it got yanked from Nickelodeon's schedule. Every Witch Way is more representative of the typical Nickelodeon Kid Com than Korra which is aimed more squarely at adults, but despite this Every Witch Way was aired right before season three Korra episodes. The fact that the show aimed at the younger demographic with the simpler premise thrived whereas the more adult show was banished to online screening only, upset a few people.
  • And before that, a lot of House of Anubis fans weren't pleased to see another foreign remake broadcast in telenovela format in place of a season 4. Didn't really help that the protagonist here is called The Chosen One too.
• Mis-blamed: For getting Korra banished to online-only.
• Moral Event Horizon: Maddie crosses it in the second episode when she locked Emma in the bathroom with a potentially poison smoke flowing through the room. All because she suspected Emma of being sweet on Daniel.
  • The Principal crosses it when it's revealed that she turns students who annoy her into frogs and keeps them in an aquarium. It's even mentions she turns their families into frogs to keep them from asking where the kids are.
• Retroactive Recognition: When he went to Silicon Valley to try to meet his "developers," Phillip must've gotten lost along the way, stayed in Miami and magically became the cousin to the head chef at Fuchinell's and Talia's love interest.
• Ron the Death Eater: Daniel gets this treatment on par with Jax's Draco in Leather Pants, being made out to be a jerk for breaking up with Emma (for keeping the fact she her magic back a secret), and for cheating on her with Mia, despite that Mia had him under a spell. As such, Daniel is made the designated Butt-Monkey.
• The Scrappy: Ursula, who pretty much planned on mooching off of Maddie's magic. In season 2 she uses Maddie's powers behind her back after Maddie looses them and puts Emma's father under a love spell. She does have something of a following if only for the novelty of being played by the same actress from the original show.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • We are still not sure what happened to Julio.
  • To a lesser extent, Ramona. Once again, the show never really clarified what happened to her.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Along with They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Season three ends with Emma taking Mia under her protection from the Witches Council and accepting her among her friends group. This arc could have continued into the fourth season to see how Mia and her relationships with the main cast could be explored. However season four revolves around the Continuum Break which rewrites Emma, Jax, Daniel and Mia's histories; as with many things from this arc, the Break pushes Mia and her storyline aside in favour of Emma and Jax's relationship, with Mia simply living out the Everglades with Daniel. What makes it especially jarring is that Principal Torres is briefly brought Back from the Dead in the fourth season, and never interacts with Mia, despite Torres being the one who killed her parents. And on top of all of that, season four straight up forgets that Mia is a Kanay.
  • As mentioned in Creator's Pet, for all the time Francisco shows up, he never learns about the existence of magic, or that his daughter is, as well as his deceased wife, a witch. This could have given Emma and Francisco a bit of character development as father and daughter, but because this never happens, it really makes Francisco feel irrelevant despite constantly getting involved at different plot points.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Deigo's glowing tattoo when he uses his newfound powers to thaw Mac out of a block of ice.