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  • Adaptation Displacement: The TV show is more popular than the original web cartoon, even if it has significantly less episodes.
  • Adorkable: Charlotte. She's cheerful, naive and endearing, despite being pretty ditzy and oblivious about the things around her.
  • Alternate Character Interpretation:
    • Fans are torn on how oblivious Charlotte really is. Is she a Stepford Smiler? Does she realize Vendetta hates her but doesn't care? Is she desperately trying to befriend Vendetta because she has no friends, or in the hope of changing her? Does she ignore Vendetta's open hatred for her, because she has an attraction to her she doesn't quite understand yet? Is she really just that dumb and innocent? Or, D), All of the above. "Marvin the Middle Manager" implies that she might have some awareness that Vendetta wants to kill her and even went along with it but ain't readily clear.
    • Skim through the comments section on any given episode uploaded to YouTube and you're guaranteed to find at least one comment claiming Charlotte's actually a Troll playing dumb to mess with Vendetta, either as a form punishment for her cruel rule of the town, to drive her out/insane for the sake of the town, or just For the Lulz.
    • There is also a subset that think Charlotte really is "super evil", as Vendetta was lead to believe in the episode of the same name and the naive and dimwitted Nice Girl she presents herself as, is really just a cover she uses while she covertly torments people. Usually Vendetta.
    • There is also, of course, the fans who think Charlotte's a Yandere for Vendetta. Considering Charlotte regularly breaks into Vendetta's house despite her doing everything in her power to make it clear she doesn't want Charlotte near her, it's not hard to see where they're coming from.
      • In a similar vein, there is portraying Charlotte as something of a Love Martyr. The fact that even after all the numerous attempts on her life Charlotte never ceases to try befriending Vendetta does not help.
  • Angst? What Angst?: Charlotte has repeatedly and narrowly avoided death at the hands of Vendetta, barring one incident which happened several hundred times in the same episode, and yet she still has no hard feelings towards her? In the words of Maggie, "Charlotte's dumb."
  • Awesome Music: Pick a song. Any song. It'll either be hilarious or make your heart melt with cuteness.
  • Beauty Is Bad: Possibly Vendetta in-universe. At least Charlotte has referred to her as "pretty" multiple times.
  • Cult Classic: The TV series had under ten episodes, but it remains one of Nickelodeon's most popular shows from the mid-to-late 2000s. This is made even more surprising by how it never even aired on their main channel.
  • Draco in Leather Pants: Vendetta seems to have attracted a disturbingly large fan base, despite having ruined an entire town, possibly killing many innocents in the process, and trying to murder Charlotte at least once every episode. This is because of two reasons: One, she's the protagonist. Two, just about everyone has somebody in their lives whom they find as annoying as Charlotte, so they can relate to her irritation. A possible third reason: who doesn't want to rule something, even if it's just one city?
  • Fanon:
    • Fans don't doubt that Charlotte's parents are dead. It's implied in the show but never confirmed.
    • "Vendetta" being a nickname.
    • Vendetta is always an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette in fan-art. Charlotte is usually a Dumb Blonde with Innocent Blue Eyes, although being a redhead isn't unknown either.
  • Foe Yay Shipping: In one episode, we find Vendetta hiding in a closet, traumatized over Charlotte.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: "Mama Vendetta" revolves around Charlotte (and Vendetta, in a way) taking care of ball-shaped, exploding birds.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Vendetta in the TV episode "Mama Vendetta". Also, Vendetta in the last episode of the webseries. Charlotte stole her fiend dip and used it as paint, which eventually comes to life covering itself all over the buildings and destroying the town. She fired both her assistant fiends, and now she's totally helpless and panicking. She actually appreciates Grudge when he comes back to help her. When she thinks she's going to die, she laments that there is so much more evil and fiends she could have made, and tells Grudge to tell Charlotte that she hates her.
  • Les Yay:
    • Charlotte is rather... interested in Vendetta sometimes, and more than she usually is with other people. She insists that her and Vendetta are going to be the "best of friends", and is probably the only person who tries to be nice to Vendetta (mostly because everyone else fears her). It wouldn't be too out there to see Charlotte as a Love Martyr who's interested in Vendetta despite the latter's terrible personality. In "Mama Vendetta", Charlotte even claims herself to be the "dad" of Vendetta's fiends, so make of that what you will.
    • Vendetta's side of it isn't exactly nonexistent, either. While Vendetta does hate Charlotte, it seems to border on obsession, as Vendetta is a little bit too invested in Charlotte's life on occasion. During a parent-teacher conference in "Parents", Vendetta's parents off-handedly mention that she talks about Charlotte constantly, which means she's thinking about Charlotte even when she has no real reason to. Quite a few fans interpret this as Vendetta secretly having feelings for Charlotte but refusing to admit for fear of looking weak to the townsfolk.
  • Ron the Death Eater: Some fans like to make Charlotte out to be some evil being who pretends to be friendly and naive, to justify her constant stalking of Vendetta. In reality, Vendetta indirectly endangers herself with her fiends and her schemes whilst Charlotte mostly turns the situation around in her favour with her blind luck.
  • Rooting for the Empire: It’s not surprising that, with the fans she has, some people wish for Vendetta and her Fiends to actually kill Charlotte.
  • Too Good to Last: Despite being well-received, the TV series had 6 episodes.
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls?: It is actually a relatively dark cartoon about attempting murder with demons, and the colors are anything but bright, pastel or pink. But the two main characters are young girls. The original web animation was for a neutral demographic, but the daughter of a Nickelodeon producer loved it, and so Nick made a deal with Amy Winfrey to turn it into a cartoon. If you look at any of the message boards for Making Fiends, you'll see that male fans are extremely rare, though the show has gotten positive reviews from many male critics. Considering Nickelodeon only aired six episodes of the show back in 2008, it could just be that people in general, male and female, haven't had a chance to see it.
  • The Woobie:
    • Marion.
    • Mr. Milk also has some Woobie moments, especially during the TV episode "Toupee".

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