YMMV / Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.

• Adorkable: As literally the most child-like and naive of the Hulks due to his alien origins and youth, Skaar can be surprisingly dorky when confronted with Earth culture, which in turn makes him surprisingly admirable.
• Angst? What Angst?: When Rick becomes A-Bomb he's eager and excited while Hulk wonders why he isn't freaking out at his transformation.
• Ass Pull: Devil Dinosaur being brought back to normal by stopping the gamma bomb inside him in "Spidey, I Blew up the Dinosaur". If gamma-caused mutations were that easy to reverse, Bruce Banner would have stopped being Hulk a while ago.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In "Abomination", Red is searching the facility for Abomination. He comes across a floating figurine of a man in a yellow dog suit. It turns out to be a bomb, but Red never questions the figurine.
• Broken Base:
  • It's either a fun show with a great cast, or a good cast being put to waste in one of Marvel's worst shows.
  • She-Hulk being mentioned to have a law degree in "The Big Green Mile" is either seen as a much-needed Author's Saving Throw, or a pure Ass Pull done solely to make the fans shut up.
• Complete Monster:
  • Emil Blonsky, the Abomination, is Hulk's most personal, despicable Arch-Enemy he faces in the series, defined by his vicious love of hurting others and tormenting Hulk. Having undergone Gamma treatments that turned him into a monster just to kill Hulk, Abomination escapes prison in his introductory episode and wastes no time in trying to kickstart a reactor meltdown to wipe out half of North America so he can frame the Hulk and his team for it. Returning later having somehow secured his position in the military once more, Abomination takes over Hulk's hometown of Vista Verde and threatens the citizens with gunfire before trying to murder the populace with a Kill Sat just to torment Hulk. Going on to try to initiate World War III and nuke millions of people for the sake of more power, Abomination eventually returns to his hometown and enslaves the population to bask in what little power he has left, even using his final moments in the series after being captured to blame all of his crimes on Red Hulk and get the hero executed.
  • "Doorway to Destruction" two-part series premiere: Annihilus is the lord of the Negative Zone, with a lust for expanding his rule of destruction until all universes are under his thrall. Opening a gateway to Hulk's hometown of Vista Verde, Annihilus begins sending brainwashed soldiers and his hordes of bugs to exterminate all life they see, and gets into a duel with Hulk during which he tortures the hero with electricity to force him into succumbing to his rage. Annihilus plans to parade Hulk around as a failure to humankind before wiping out every person on Earth, planning to continue his "Annihilation Wave" until all life on world after world is wiped out, leaving the planets to be gutted of their resources by Annihilus's hordes.
• Continuity Lockout:
  • As noted in the Avengers Assemble and Ultimate Spider-Man pages the show has this due to shared continuity. However, it probably runs into this the least out of the three. The only thing you might find yourself questioning is how Spidey and Hulk became friends and that's a pretty easy fix, as you only need to watch Hulk's first two or three appearances in Ultimate Spider-Man. Even then you might not even need that if you can just accept that they're pals, and are OK with not seeing it shown on screen.
  • That being said, it may also be confusing hearing a Hulk speaking full sentences, with the reason being Mesmero's Mind Rape of him in the same show.
  • This show actually causes this for the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, as that show's Season 3 finale can be made difficult to understand unless you've watched Spidey's first appearance here in "The Collector."
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • The show's version of Abomination is widely noted to be one of the best things about the series.
  • Even those who don't like the show will admit that Red Hulk is the best character, partially because he actually does get some genuine, subtle Character Development over the course of the show. It is telling that he became a recurring character on Avengers Assemble not long after this show ended. She Hulk is considered a close second to Red Hulk mainly because of her voice actress.
• Evil Is Cool: Abomination, for being a Genius Bruiser and a convincing Knight of Cerebus with a great design.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The official statement that Hulk is stuck as Hulk permanently, considering how the 90s Incredible Hulk series ended. General Thunderbolt Ross makes peace with Bruce Banner, after he is cured. Although even here, Ross is also apparently stuck as Red Hulk, and is still willing to team up with him and the other Hulks.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In "Planet Monster", Ronan attempted to destroy Ego The Living Planet by strapping an explosive device on his cranial unit. In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, this was exactly how Ego got destroyed in the end.
• Les Yay: She Hulk and Titania in "The Big Green Mile" with a good dash of Foe Yay Shipping at first as they became cell-mates in the Vault Prison. But over the course of the episode Titania befriends She-Hulk and started to feel a bit uncertain about the Absorbing Man and the Wrecking Crew's tactics. In which at the end of the episode Titania does go back to her cell but seems to be openly interested in the idea of trying to be good thanks to She-Hulk.
• Narm:
  • In a hilariously cheesy scene in "Galactus Goes Green", the Hulk is trying to convince a brainwashed She-Hulk to snap out of Galactus' control. This leads to a very awkward line from She-Hulk.
  She-Hulk: He's no monster! He's. My. FAMILY! *echo*
  • It can be hard to take even the darker and more serious scenes, well, seriously when there are non-stop jump-cuts and screen whooshing all over the place. It's meant to make things feel more dynamic and like you're flipping between comic panels, but even casual conversations will rapidly cut back and forth between each and every sentence or character speaking, which just starts feeling like it was made for people with a short attention span.
• Older Than They Think: Having a fairly intelligent Hulk who never reverts into Bruce Banner is something that the comics did as far back as the 1990s when Banner created the "Merged Hulk" (also known as the Professor Hulk) persona. The cleverness exhibited by this version of Hulk also resembles the cunning "Green Scar".
• Special Effects Failure: Annihilus' insectoid alien swarms in the first two pilot episodes are often just non-animated drawings zooming in at the screen. Then the episode "All About the Ego" brings us Ego the Living Planet, a horrific, badly rendered, CG cell rendered abomination.
• The Scrappy: A-Bomb was supposedly intended to be the Breakout Character, but a lot of people find him annoying for the most part. It doesn't help that Red Hulk seems to have taken his intended position and is considerably funnier.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Mainly due to the creative liberties taken by the show, some more creative than others. This includes, but is not limited to:
  • Just like the two previous Marvel shows, Hulk stays Hulk all the time with almost no mention of Banner whatsoever.
  • She-Hulk was changed from a strong, confident lawyer into a stuntwoman with a chip on her shoulder.
  • Devil Dinosaur, a lesser-known Jack Kirby creation, was reduced to the Team Pet they picked up in the Savage Land. Many fans didn't appreciate seeing a fan-favourite character being reduced to the status of pet who acts like a big friendly dog.
  • Doc Samson is being portrayed as a snooty, unpleasant generic psychiatrist used for comedy rather than a Gentle Giant Genius Bruiser.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • All the characters have interesting elements or story arcs in the comics that made them work in the first place^note such as Skaar being Hulk's son, She-Hulk's personality and unique status as a superhero lawyer, or Red Hulk's past feud with the Hulk as well as his redemption story arc . With the apparent exception of Skaar, all those elements are either ignored, overlooked, or unexploited.
  • The episode "Stranger in a Strange Land" had a Mirror Morality Machine create a good/non-evil version of Dormammu. Sadly the character never speaks, nor does he appear again after the one episode. Thing is, he would've been a Story-Breaker Power.
  • Bruce Banner himself can be seen as this in "Banner Day" as Hulk becomes Bruce again in which he gets to rekindle his relationship with Betty and even proves that even when he is Bruce he can still be effective against the forces of evil. However the episode became an example of Status Quo Is God and Bruce became the Hulk again to save the Earth from Ronan the Accuser. However it can come off as a bit of a Senseless Sacrifice as well as the reason why Bruce became the Hulk again was to make a deal with Ronan that if Bruce becomes the Hulk again than Ronan would call off his attack on earth. But even though Bruce did change back into the Hulk, Ronan had no intention on honoring his end of the bargain and commenced his attack on earth anyway. So while the Hulks did of course take Ronan down but Bruce is now stuck as Hulk again over a plan that didn't even work. Thankfully, he's seen more in Avengers Assemble.
  • Besides appearances from the Thing, this was the only current Marvel show to feature the Fantastic Four, and their only appearance had been in a Batman Cold Open largely unrelated to the rest of the episode in question.
• Ugly Cute: The Goom babies from "The Hunted" are just 4 little adorably ugly critters.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The level of detail on a small girl's face (coupled with her obviously-adult voice) gives the character a slightly unnatural appearance.
• The Woobie:
  • The Hulks. Hated by the world for their destructive power and imposing image.
  • Solidified further in "Monsters No More" they're tricked into destroying Vista Verde, whose population are among the few who genuinely care for the Hulks.

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