YMMV / Legends of Chima

• Fandom Rivalry: At first, a pretty rough one began between fans of Ninjago and Legends of Chima, with fans of the former usually considering the latter show to be a Replacement Scrappy for when Ninjago was off the air after its second season. Though over time, this did wear off, mostly because Chima ended in just a span of two years, allowing Ninjago to continue its run.
• Fridge Horror: In "The Hundred Year Moon", the Wolves are shown eating meat, which raises some disturbing questions about where it comes from.
• Growing the Beard: Over time, the episodes became much more coherent, having much less Narm in the voice acting and dialogue, and more improved characterization for the cast and writing for the plot. The third season in particular improves on a lot of shortcomings from the first two seasons.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Fandom Rivalry between fans of this show and Ninjago becomes this with The Reveal in the latter show that Chima and Ninjago's realms are neighboring realities (To the point that Lloyd and Morro ended up briefly appearing in Chima during their fight in the fifth season finale).
• Ho Yay: Between Cragger and Laval in episode 20, to the point that it becomes almost explicit Homoerotic Subtext.
• Iron Woobie: Crooler sort of qualifies. Take one look at her backstory and tell me that she can't be emotionally damaged now. Then observe her actions. Not once does she give up on dethroning her brother.
• Narm: The dialogue and story can be surprisingly clever, but some of the voice acting can be downright painful early on. Then there is the dialogue that isn't clever AND is narmy.
• Nightmare Fuel: Coupled with Body Horror on several of the characters' battle scars.
  • Most noticeable are Winzar and Crug. Winzar appears to had his left eye scratched out, and Crug's entire lower jaw has a metal replacement. He somehow had his entire lower jaw ripped off in battle. What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?
  • The Dark Tribes in general. They are made up of Scorpions, Spiders, and Bats who steal so much CHI from Mount Cavora, the CHI Falls manage to dry up. Since the world of Chima is very dependent on CHI, the fact that it could have all been taken away from them would certainly place them in a dire scenario.
  • The Ice Hunters. An Always Chaotic Evil tribe of undead ice age creatures with the ability to freeze solid every place they show up in. And they've proven to be the biggest challenge for our heroes so far. Their minifigures are littered with gruesome detail; exposed ribs and muscle fibres, trunks that have rotted to the bone, a Vulture whose head has been literally bolted back together, entire body parts replaced by ice, and a character outright named "Mottrot".
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The aesthetic for the heroes in the third year in comparison to the previous two. The first year gave each tribe its own colour scheme, with trans blue or trans dark red as an accent depending on their side. The third year however had to give the trans blue to the Ice Hunters given their nature, so the heroes were imbued with Fire CHI, which contrasted much more harshly with their native colour schemes due to the large number of red and orange pieces that they also used in their builds.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: In tandem with It's Short, So It Sucks!, due to Season 2 having only six episodes to work on its plot, it doesn't get nearly as much time to set things up before the story ends.

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