YMMV / Heroman

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Due to Joey's very feminine features, some fans jokingly theorize that Joey really is a girl.
• Awesome Music: The opening and ending, as well as the BGM for when Minami first appears.
  • Heck, the Giant Spheres have their own awesome theme music. That's probably why they're unstoppable.
  • Let's not forget the music that plays during the trailer for Heroman, which is reused during the final battle with Kogorr and after Heroman defeats Minami.
  • The second opening, it's just good.
  • The Latin American opening is also worth of mention. There was people who only watched the show for the opening.
• Cliché Storm: The most common criticism toward the show.
• Complete Monster: Lord Kogorr is the leader of the Skrugg race, who takes Professor Denton's peaceful attempt at first contact as an invitation to invade Earth by attacking Center City with his army. The Skrugg's advanced weaponry wipes out countless cops, soldiers, and civilians alike, while he has teenagers Will and Nick experimented on to serve as mind-controlled mutant warriors. When Will manages to break free from the traumatic process, Kogorr kills the scientist in charge for failure, then after being defeated by Joey and Heroman, Kogorr sets his base to explode with his own troops still inside. Upon being revived by his followers much later, Kogorr consumes them all to empower himself, seemingly slays Heroman, and begins drilling into Earth's core to destroy the planet, taunting Joey with a fate he has apparently inflicted on many worlds before.
• Crack Pairing: Joey-Heroman fanart has become rather popular, especially after episode nine, and helped not at all by how confusing Joey can be and that his mom and dad look just like him and Heroman, respectively.
• Crazy Is Cool: Half the stuff Denton comes up with simply could not have been conceived by a sane, rational mind. Doesn't limit its effectiveness, though.
  • Then there's Holly. Investigating serial kidnapping in Central City? Forcing Joey and Psy to dress like stereotypical detectives? In attempt to lurk into hospital forcing them all to Recursive Crossdressing? Drinking so strong coffee with so much sugar that her head would explode?
• Epileptic Trees: Heroman is kinda looking like Joey's dad, hmm...
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Ms. Collins, the hot red haired homeroom teacher, was featured in way more fanart than the few seconds of showtime in the first eleven episodes would indicate. She has become part of the comedic plot in episode 12, and was involved in Episodes 18 and 19, mostly concerning Fanservice.
• Harsher in Hindsight: An anime set in America, made by one of the most prolific comic creators ever... and the U.S never got a dub of it because of distribution disagreements. The joys of irony eh?
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Will, the resident Expy of Flash Thompson, ended up becoming an Expy of Venom. in Spider-Man comics released around the period the Heroman anime was, Flash Thompson became Venom.
• Ho Yay: Quite a bit between Joey and Psy.
  • Psy smacks Joey's ass in 18...
  • ... and refers to his friend as 'my hero' in episode 22.
  • Don't forget that time when Denton thought Psy was going on a date with Joey.
    • Theres also a bit between Hughes and his subordinate Howard, who seems to idolize his boss a little too much.
    • Seems to be a little between Hughes and Joey, in the way that Hughes cares for him quite a lot, even though they haven't gotten to know each other much yet.
• I Knew It!: Viewers correctly guessed that Will was the one in the overcoat and hat.
• Memetic Mutation: One day after the first episode aired and Stan Lee asking Joey for his coffee has achieved this status.
  • Shopping Joey's head on some things is also a meme.
• Nightmare Retardant: Some of Minami's other expressions, meanwhile, are... less than scary. Probably intentional.
• One-Scene Wonder: Stan.
• Once Original, Now Common: This was the first anime of the 2010's do feature American superhero tropes, before series like Tiger & Bunny and, of course, My Hero Academia did the same. Unlike the latter, Heroman did not see any mainstream success despite being Stan Lee's passion project, nor did it get a sequel like the former, likely due to Lee's passing.
• Ugly Cute: The MR-1. Just look at that mouth and try not to smile.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Despite material clearly stating that Joey is male, Joey's appearance in both the anime and manga, his voice, and his keet attitude, had many viewers thinking he was a girl.
• The Woobie: Lina's progress in her relationship with Joey tends to get dampened by her separation from her brother Will and by constantly getting Locked Out of the Loop by Joey and the others. The latter doesn't sit too well with Lina in episode 23 when she discovers Joey kept it a secret that he previously encountered Will.

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