YMMV / Gormiti

• Designated Hero: The Old Sage in Legends. Rather than the all-knowing Big Good of older iterations, this version of the character is a senile wizard who's openly racist against Volcano Gormiti and keeps calling them "stupid" and "unworthy" for no reason.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • While every character haves fans, Forest People's The Thug got a small cult following due to his borderline absurd simplicity: in a world filled with detailed characters with elaborate names and specific abilities, he goes straight to the point with everything (basically a tree man wearing a leaf as a luchador mask whose combat tactics are just "fall down from a tree on your opponent and punch them over and over"). A line from the official magazine claiming that in his Mythos powerup form he could actually defeat Obscurio ended up amping his Memetic Badass status.
  • The Legends take on Screaming Guardian. For years nothing more than a generic cackling henchman, the mini-series decided to make him a full-on Giggling Villain that acts as a Cuddle Bug to attack his enemies with his full arsenal of spikes and blades.
• Ho Yay: A bit of a given due to the mostly male-coded cast, but especially noticeable between Obscurio and Luminos. Noticeably, when Luminos faints after giving all his energy to stop the Eye of Life from landing and destroying Gorm the first time, Obscurio refuses to let him die after his honorable sacrifice and saves his life from a deadly fall, carrying his unconscious body down to safety bridal-style (which shocks even his allies). Their dynamic returning to The Only One Allowed to Defeat You soon after nearly make Obscurio look like a Tsundere, especially when he helps Luminos a second time to protect the island, under the claim he wants to be the one to destroy it.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • NYEEEH^Explanation In the series 2 short The Great Eclipse, Elios is given a very distinctive laughter that is supposed to mimic a red-tailed hawk screech. The way it's done is considered very humorous by the fans
  • A yell can be heard, it's Gravitus falling^Explanation A song from an unofficial Gormiti-themed CD mentions Gravitus (a Earth Gormiti) yelling while falling down a gorge in the most casual way possible. This created a running gag where unboxings and collection showcases reference the song by having Gravitus figures being dropped down from shelves or playsets
  • MALDITO^Explanation The Spanish dub of the The Great Betrayal short features Kolossus appearing suddenly on the scene after Elios defeats Carrapax, waving his fist and yelling the aforemented line (that can be translated as "Curse you!") in a Large Ham vibe similar to the "SHOCKER!" scene from Spider-Man: The Animated Series
  • Armageddon smoked drugs^Explanation In the second episode of the Final Evolution mini-series, Devilfenix discovers Armageddon got a powerup and comments "Armageddon, you look different! Looks like you're made... of metal?" In an untranslatable pun, "Looks like you're made" in Italian is "Sembri fatto", which can also be intended as "Looks like you're high"
  • Insane Gormiti Instagram memes^Explanation On several Italian meme pages, Gormiti are depicted in engaging in several weird or even illegal acts ranging from flashing and drug dealing all the way to rape and genocide. The main archetypes in these memes depict Gormiti as: drug addicts, insane criminals or even as full-blown fascists or communists
• The Problem with Licensed Games: During the early days of the franchise, the franchise got three different videogame adaptations (The Masters of Gorm Island, Dark Fight and Ambush in the Valley) which were released on the fairly obscure console Digiblast (albeit the third one also had a release as a Plug-and-play game under the title Game Arena). The three games (a Beat 'em Up and two more classic fighting games) all suffer from laggy movement, simplistic gameplay and copypasted content.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Gormiti Legends, the 2022 reboot, got some level of disdain:
  • While most of the redesigns have been appreciated by fans, Tasarau having only two arms instead of the traditional four wasn't appreciated.
  • The plot of the animated mini-series made to promote the collection involves the characters being thrown into a non-violent competition in order to decide who will rule on Gorm. As the franchise has always been associated with fighting, the change is very jarring.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Everyone in the Legends series. When the series came out, a booklet released with the figures contains detailed bios of each character which feature very interesting reinterpretations of the characters (for example, Florus was presented as a mad scientist/alchemist figure who uses his poison-based powers to create both healing potions for his allies and dangerous concoctions to hurt the enemies, while Claw the Horrible is described as a war veteran suffering with PTSD ever since his best friend died in an attack). The promotional shorts ignore most of this bios (with the one big exception being Branchripper, whose introducion takes verbatim from the booklet bio) and presents most of the characters as one-dimensional Small Name Big Egos.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The overall lore of the franchise is filled with events that are very family unfriendly. The entire plot is kickstarted with an evil volcano god committing mass genocide by having his cohorts murder every human being on the island with only one person surviving, with the creatures generated by magic to replace them living in peace for a single year and then getting cursed into fighting eachother in a racial war for millennias until they discover the truth behind their war. Characters have nicknames such as "the throatcutter" or "the devil's brother" and their character cards feature graphical descriptions of how they will kill you on sight.

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