YMMV / Highlander: The Animated Series

• Complete Monster: Lord Kortan, refusing to take the pledge the other Immortals took After the End, declared himself the de facto winner of the Game, and decreed that he was now entitled to all of the world's knowledge and power. After killing Connor MacLeod—the only Immortal willing to break the oath to challenge him—Kortan conquered and enslaved most of the planet, ruling unopposed for 700 years. When Quentin MacLeod's immortality activated after Kortan's slavers murdered him and his mother, Kortan set out to slay this new Highlander through any means necessary. Kortan's worst acts included firing an atomic bomb at Quentin's homeland; feeding dissidents to mutant ants; lobotomizing people to make disposable "human keys" to his armory; regularly executing his own followers for failure and outliving their usefulness; deploying them as suicide bombers against a city; and inciting hatred of Quentin by founding a cult in his name, one that enslaved kidnapped children after staging their sacrifice. In the final episode, Kortan destroyed whole towns with salvaged missiles, and threatened further bombardments unless Quentin confronted him at midnight. Even though the deadline was met, Kortan ordered that more rockets be launched anyway, laughing, "Why stop at MacLeod when we can crush them all?"
• Moment of Awesome: After one immortal broke his oath, Ramirez took back his sword and sternly threatened Kortan not to interfere with his business. This was enough for the Big Bad to act shit-scared and recall an encounter seven centuries earlier that nearly resulted in Ramirez's victory.
• Narm:
  • Kortan's "Nooooo!" in the first episode.
  • While the actor voicing Connor in the first episode does a reasonable impression of Christopher Lambert, he reads his lines in a very awkward, halting manner that just ends up sounding bizarre.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: Highlander: Last of the MacLeods for the infamous Atari Jaguar CD. A loose adaptation of the first episode, Quentin spends the entire game fighting Kortan's thugs, and no one else. The graphics are sub-par, the controls are clumsy, with a lot of Hitbox Dissonance during fights, there's a large amount of Camera Screw, and the exploration parts of the game basically amount to Moon Logic Puzzles with a large amount of inconsistency. And like the series itself, it has No Ending, with Kortan being The Unfought.
• The Scrappy: Both Quentin MacLeod and his sister.
• So Okay, It's Average: While very few Highlander fans will admit to actually liking this series, most will grudgingly admit that it's nowhere near the bottom of the barrel for the Highlander franchise as a whole.
• Vanilla Protagonist: Quentin MacLeod is not a particularly likable or engaging protagonist. While he's clearly meant to be shown as a novice to being an Immortal, he lacks the charm of Connor and Duncan, and his lack of skill (and animation budget) makes him nowhere near as fun to watch fight as Colin. Hell, you'll spend most of the show being more interested in Ramirez than him (which probably means that Rule of Sean Connery works to an extent even if all the Sean Connery you have is a cartoon rendering of his character).