YMMV / Henry Danger

• Anvilicious: In the "Trouble With Frittles" episode that took place right near the Presidential election, the town was fighting over which Frittles were better, Blue or Red. There was even a vote to decide which ones were the best. A thinly-veiled Aesop dealt with blue and red fans getting along.
• Designated Hero:
  • Discussed and Defied in the pilot, when Henry contemplates going to Jasper's (his friend) birthday party, while there is a supervillian threatening the city. Captain Man gives Henry a stealth What the Hell, Hero? speech before Henry decides to help. However, later seasons have him (together with Captain Man, discussed below) do rather amoral things that aren't always called out by the story, such as wiping people's memory to fix a problem that he caused.
  • Captain Man, with his status as one constantly played for laughs. In the Season 2 finale, Captain Man wants Henry to wipe Jasper's mind, leaving no trace whatsoever. Henry decides not to, but happily wipes a stranger's mind with the same ray! Captain Man suggests killing Charlotte when she finds out his identity, even if this is played to be comedic. He refuses to tell Henry about his legally mandated vacation days and actively helps villains on occasion.
  • In "Substitute Teacher," Charlotte, Henry, and Ray play this trope straight. Charlotte and Henry suspect that Ortho is the son of Drill Finger just because of his hair, and though he did act a little strange, Ortho did not have any evil motives. Although Ray tries to tell them that Ortho's just a normal person, he eventually joins in with them and even gives their teacher chicken pox just to fill in as a substitute teacher in order to stalk and spy on a student, which is very illegal and criminal. After capturing Ortho and his dad and realizing that they're not evil, the trio proceed to zap them into unconsciousness, leave them in an alley, and to top it off, memory erase them just because they were gonna report them to the police for their unwarranted and creepy actions. Our heroes, everyone!
• Fridge Brilliance: The Spoiler's crime of spoiling movies and TV Shows seems more annoying than worthy of jail time (until he tried to break Kid Danger's arm), but think about how he had to get that information. While there are legal ways to get spoilers, it's most likely the guy is a hacker, which is worthy of being arrested.
• Fridge Logic: If The Adventures of Kid Danger is supposed to be a Show Within a Show , won't the other characters such as Piper and her parents wonder why Henry and Ray are the names of main characters and happen to look like the Henry and Ray they know?
  • Their looks aren't that uncommon, nor are their names. Given how little the characters notice in general, they probably brush it off as a coincidence.
• Genius Bonus: In the pilot, during Ray's superhero origin about being zapped by an experimental beam, his father exclaims "Thank Jeepers!" when Ray turns out to be fine. The term Jeepers Creepers is a Gosh Darnit To Heck way of saying Jesus Christ.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Piper calls Kid Danger hot in "Tears of a Jolly Beetle", with Charlotte telling her not to say that. Yeah, you don't want to be saying that five years later because she finally becomes a Secret-Keeper to Henry and Ray once she learns Henry is Kid Danger and Ray is Captain Man in "Sister Twister".
  • If one goes by production order and not by airing order, Van Del's plan of burying Captain Man and Kid Danger in the Grave Canyon becomes downright evil, if not very horrible to hear, because Captain Man and Kid Danger both get buried alive by Invisible Brad two episodes later in "Grave Danger".
  • Any instance of Henry not wanting to quit his job or being told to by Invisible Brad becomes a lot less funnier to watch because he ends up quitting after being humiliated on the news because of Drex spanking him after their first encounter at Schneider's Bakery; it becomes even more sadder when Henry quits being Kid Danger for real in "The Beginning of the End" over not being able to graduate from high school after he didn't attend school for at least a year by fighting crime with Ray.
  • The Zom-bees attack from "A Fiñata Full Of Death Bugs" becomes this five years later, when Schwoz creates a hybrid with hornets and termites that eventually wreaks havoc in SW.A.G. in the Danger Force episode, "New School Who Dis".
  • Depending on your sense of humor, it can be either less or more funnier than normal. Charlotte spends most of "Super Volcano" eating junk food in case the world ends before her 10k run, ranging from eating gallons of ice cream, chilli cheeseburgers and butter with sprinkles. Three seasons and two years later, she can be seen reading a book called "Fatter Faster" while trapped in the tube in "Sick & Wired".
  • In "Secret Room", Henry blows up the fifth Man Cave (his hand was the first to come into contact with the button amongst Charlotte, Ray, Jasper and Schwoz) by pressing the self-destruct button. One year later, the rest of the Man Caves all get blown up after Jake takes the iridium crystals from the left tube pad in the tenth Man Cave.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • After Jasper learns Henry and Ray's secret of being Captain Man and Kid Danger in "I Know Your Secret", he tells them how he wants to help fight criminals and villains with Henry and Ray, though they are completely against it due to the former's antics. However, three years later in Season 5 he finally gets his wish when he learns how to fight while he sleeps and also speaks Spanish by using his knowledge to fend off Drex's cavemen in the Man Cave.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Henry temporarily becomes indestructible in "Indestructible Henry" for two days, though at the cost of getting a side-effect: fire breathing after laughing. He later gets a new power months later, known as Hyper-Motility (later referred to as Super Fast Reflexes) for two seasons, until he gave them up in the three-part saga in Season 5 by touching the antivirus. In "The Fate of Danger", he gets a new permanent power that allows him to produce a forcefield, repelling everything in his path. Talk about gaining powers and losing them!
  • The premise of Captain Man disguising himself as a substitute teacher in the first season episode “Substitute Teacher” becomes what the unscripted Nickelodeon hidden camera series The Substitute is about. And Jace Norman was the first celebrity to partake. Cooper Barnes himself is the celebrity for the eleventh episode.
  • In "Ox Pox", the elderly version of Ray says "Schwoz, you’re a man again", implying that Schwoz's future self is a transgender woman, which becomes either this or Heartwarming in Hindsight, when you consider that Schwoz's actor Michael D. Cohen came out as a transgender man in a 2019 interview with TIME Magazine, along with confirming that he transitioned twenty years prior in addition to the fact that Julie Rei Goldstein, the actress who played his android girlfriend Gerta, is a transgender woman herself.
• Hollywood Homely: When Captain Man uses pictures of his cousin Elliot to show the effects of the machine to make people manlier, Charlotte thinks that he looks ugly in the picture displaying him from before he became a beast (even mistaking it as the one showing the bad side effects), but he looked half decent with an awkward smile as his only real issue.
• Ho Yay: Henry and Ray have shown signs of adoration a few times in the series. A couple of fans even created a fan shipping name for them called HenRay.
  • A sign of this is shown in Indestructible Henry. When Ray accidently hit Henry with a cannon and he thought he was dead. He showed serious regret for what he did, and actually cried over Henry at one point. It's one of the few times he's ever shown his soft side. Don't worry, Henry was okay.
  • Also in the same episode, when Henry cues Ray to punch him one last time "in case it was the last time. But, Ray misunderstands and kisses Henry on the cheek instead. It's meant to be Played for Laughs but still it's a sign Ray could really be into Henry, and not just as a friend.
    • Their relationship continues like this in the sequel series except now they are basically married. Henry visits Ray (because he needs a place to hide out) but he isn’t worried as he sees this as an excuse to visit and goof off with Ray and basically acting like he’s finally reunited with his boyfriend. He ignores calls from his friends to and has no issue with other kid super heroes doing all the work because Henry wants Ray to himself, which the latter is cool with. Ray for his part has them do bro couple’s stuff and have a romantic dance for their video game with Henry lifting Ray up for the final move. They also end up hugging at the end of the episode (naturally) with Ray even wanting Henry to stay with him.
  • Jasper and Henry anyone. In the later seasons they act like two boys in a casual relationship and the actors friendship in real life is adorable, which just adds to the ship.
  • Sidney and Oliver and almost never shown separately on the show, plus they've shown several attractive moments with each other.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Despite her over the top brattiness, you can't help but feel sorry for Piper in "Spoiler Alert". She really wants to join the Captain Man Club due to her love of Kid Danger, but the club president won't let her even after Piper passes the initiation ritual by eating hair soup and even demands that she take a selfie with Captain Man, despite the odds of that being possible. The club president is a huge Jerkass; even if Piper so much as says hi to her, to the point where even Henry, Charlotte, and Ray are disgusted by this. What makes it worse is that it's one of the few times we see Piper being sad and vulnerable instead of her typical shrill and mean demeanor.
  • The same applies for "JAM Session" when Piper finds out her friends ditched her for a big ski trip because of her over the top temper, and despite making a serious effort to change throughout the episode, Ray and Jasper repeatedly crush her dreams just to win a bet against Henry and Charlotte.
  • Ray Manchester/Captain Man qualifies as well. When he got his powers, his father took him out of school, and trained him to be a superhero, causing Ray to miss on regular childhood fun, as revealed in "Caved In". Pretty tragic, right?
• Like You Would Really Do It: The Secret Gets Out: There's no way Henry was actually going to stay fired from his job- especially in the first few episodes. To no one's surprise, Henry got rehired and Charlotte was allow to work with him.
• Magnificent Bastard: Rick Twitler is the founder of TwitFlash who eventually came to dislike how people were addicted to their screens and regretted creating the company. Hacking the Man Cave to gain access to the heroes' personal information, he sets up a series of events, which includes faking his kidnapping to trap the heroes and steal their powers, succeeding in taking Kid Danger's fast reflexes and turning himself into a computer virus that nearly spreads to the heroes. Anticipating that he may fail, Twitler had set up a video ahead of time giving Drex the blueprints to a superweapon. Returning in Danger Force, it is revealed that Twitler had yet another backup plan, having put his soul inside a computer years prior that inserted itself inside a video game. Twitler possesses Mika and later Helper Monkey into building a cyborg that he uses as a vessel to return from the dead. Holding the news station hostage, he uses a satellite to activate what's left of his computer virus and nearly infects everyone. When Volt manages to stop it, Twitler absorbs Henry's forcefield, as well as a combination of his cybernetics and the Indium Crystals to create enough power to destroy the internet.
• Moment of Awesome: In The Time Jerker when Henry gets sent back to the past, he predicts the hornets fly out of the nest, and fly at him. So what does he do? He shoots each and every one of them with his Wiz-Watch.
  • Captain Man/Ray Manchester doesn't know how to spell, so he has to figure out how to spell on his own. Luckily in the final round, he managed get get the most of the letters right without cheating. Then, he thought about Charlotte's 3-year spelling bee winning streak and how much it meant to her. So he, intentionally spelled the last letter of the word incorrectly, so Charlotte could keep her streak alive. She deserved to win more the Ray, he knew he would lose the bet, but he did it anyway. Now that was heroic.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • The Toddler from the pilot preforms an experiment on a baby, turning it into a mutant monster (without any implication that the affects of the experiment were or could be REVERSED in any way later on), and was planning to do the same to the whole city. It's kind of understandable that they chose to kill him off. Except, they didn't.
  • The Spoiler from the titular episode was just a jerk who spoiled movies and TV shows for everyone, but he quickly decides to simply break Henry's arm in front of the theatre's audience, simply to ruin the movie for them.
  • Jasper's girlfriend, Courtney attempting to knock a ceiling fan over Charlotte's head. She later chases Charlotte and Henry with what looks to be a miniature chainsaw.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Piper Hart started out as a self-absorbed Spoiled Brat who was often-unpunished, but got her negative traits toned down in later seasons to make her more likable and relatable.
• Retroactive Recognition: In "Let's Make a Steal", the host's son is Barry Eisenberg.
  • The girl who tricked Piper into eating hair soup in "Spoiler Alert" would later go on to be a mute, orphaned child who would tag alongside a group of evolved apes.
• Rooting for the Empire: The characters can be so amoral that some would rather want the villains to actually succeed, especially whenever the so-called "heroes" come off as no better than them.
• The Scrappy:
  • Mr. and Mrs. Hart are this for being afraid of their own daughter and forcing Henry to do unnecessary chores.
  • You'll be hard pressed to find anyone who likes Vice Mayor Willard. In "Budget Cuts", he cut 90% of the heroes' budget just so he could have a monorail, which would take 40 years to build. He's also shown to be a Dirty Coward when dropped off an atomic bomb to the Man Cave just to save his on skin.
  • And then there's Otto from "Grand Theft Otto".
• Squick:
  • Piper has a crush on Kid Danger, unaware that he is her brother. Lampshaded by Charlotte.
    "Yeah, you don't wanna be saying that."
  • Piper eating hair soup in "Spoiler Alert".
• Take That, Scrappy!:
  • Every time Piper gets some form of comeuppance, it is bound to be satisfactory. Examples include "The Secret Gets Out" and "The Space Rock".
  • Some episodes have Henry call out both his parents on their bad parenting skills.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Despite, Charlotte and Jasper being some of the main characters for the series just as much as Henry and Ray are, were barely get to see Jasper's home life, and we don't get to see Charlotte's at all. We don't even get to see her parents! This would possibly make her a bit more complex and sympathetic as we'd likely get to see some of her own personal struggles, and showcase that under her guise of being the group's Only Sane Woman, she's broken down by something in her life. But alas, no such luck.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: As well as Dan Schneider's other later projects, this is a show full of amoral and/or stupid protagonists that are near impossible to root for. Sometimes, the audience just doesn't care whether they fall victim to the villains because of this.

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