YMMV / Martin Mystery

• Adaptation Displacement: Outside of Italy, it's better known than the original comic book.
• Awesome Music: The opening theme really sets the mood for the show's supernatural elements.
• Awesome Art: The backgrounds are stunningly detailed. The character animation has both naturalistic detail and expressive faces; with inventive use made of the anime-influenced style.
• Complete Monster: "They Came from the Gateway" two-parter: In a series filled with supernatural beings and monsters that have some semblance of redeeming traits, the ghostly Gatekeeper is wholly bereft of them. Keeper of the gateway to the underworld and longing to take over the human world, the Gatekeeper violently turns the head of the Center, M.O.M., into his slave and proxy while sending out monsters to kill her young agent. Hungering to “feast on the bones” of anyone who opposes him, the Gatekeeper's ultimate goal is to swarm the entire world with monsters from the underworld and rein in the bloody slaughter of mankind, even managing to unleash his monsters on several populated cities throughout the planet to wreak wanton havoc before he's ultimately stopped.
• Crossover Ship: There are some people who like to ship Martin and M.O.M. with Alex and Jerry respectively from Totally Spies! due to the crossover episode with their shows.
• Estrogen Brigade: Martin and Martin alone may have been the main reason why many girls, and gay men watched this show.
• Fanfic Fuel:
  • The other cases the trio (and Marvin) have tackled for the Center is full of story ideas.
  • The Center tackling other supernatural/alien threats.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Martin/Diana has quite the number of fans especially that in the comics they're actually married.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: During one episode Martin is slowly waking up and called M.O.M. mom. As in his actual mother. Funny enough on its own, but what makes it this trope is that Word of God confirmed that M.O.M. is actually Olivia Lombard, Diana's mother and Martin's actual stepmother. This also applies to the crossover since Sam asked if his boss was his mother but he corrects her despite his boss really is his (step)mother.
• Ho Yay: In one episode Martin and Java share a sleazy out of the way motel room together, sleeping in the same bed, both only wearing their underwear.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • While Martin may be immature and not very bright, it's not hard to feel bad for him as almost nothing goes his way and always get a bad ending in almost every episode like when a girl rejects him for reasons etc.
  • Diana gets as much flak as her step-brother Martin, but she doesn't deserve it that often despite how overbearing she can be.
  • Philus Blackwater in "Haunting of the Blackwater". Yes, he is an evil spirit that caused all sorts of hell to protect his hostel, but as Billy revealed, he had it very rough in life. His business partners betrayed him and the bank foreclosed on his mortgage. Even after the heat was shut off he refused to leave and died there, frozen stiff with his spirit trapped in a photograph.
• Tough Act to Follow: This show isn't as popular or as well-known as Marathon Media's predecessor series Totally Spies!. That being said, those who have seen it see it as equal or even superior to said predecessor.

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