YMMV / PJ Masks

• Adaptation Displacement: Would you have known about the picture books that inspired the TV-series if it wasn't for the description on the main page? Even some French natives are unaware of the books.
• Awesome Art: The characters, backgrounds in both day and night, and the vehicles are streaking with bright, cool, and striking vibrant colors.
• Fanfic Fuel: How did the PJ Masks become superheroes and first meet the Night Time Villains? This question has already spawned several fanfics.
  • For that same matter, how did the Night Time Villains become the way they are?
  • And since "Meet An Yu" there's the question of how and when she was originally sealed in the Dragon Gong.
• Foe Yay Shipping:
  • Catboy and Luna Girl get paired together because of their unique interactions when fighting against each other.
  • Gekko and Luna Girl are a pretty popular pairing among fans, in no small part due to the episode "Gekko Saves Christmas".
  • There's also Owlette and Luna Girl in some episodes such as "Owlette's Luna Trouble".
  • Night Ninja and Romeo get shipped with each other sometimes.
  • As well as Armadylan and Rip, despite the two barely ever interacting.
  • An Yu and Night Ninja have also become rather popular among fans.
  • Gekko and Octobella also seems to be getting popular, considering the amount of fanart on DeviantArt.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Originally made for France's Channel 5, this show has made it big in the United States, and is one of the top-selling brands for preschoolers. It also gets higher ratings than all in-house Disney Junior shows but two of them. There's also the benefit of full episodes being available for free on Youtube with millions of views each.^note Justified since most of their target audience nowadays tend to prefer platforms like Youtube and Netflix over traditional television channels.
  • Much like with its two rivals, the show is very popular in Italy, where it's subtitled "Super Pigiamini" ("Super Jammies"), Leolandia even has a themed area based on the show as justification that Italians love the franchise.
  • The show, where it's subtitled "Héroes en Pijamas", is also very popular in Mexico, mainly due to PJ Masks merchandising being really big there and Canal 5 would give the show regular airings, matching the same huge popularity levels as their more popular contemporaries, and in the USA.^note It also helps that the show's Latin American Spanish dub is done primarily in that country, save for Luna Girl, who's voiced by an Argentinian. Hasbro (which took over the IP from Entertainment One when they absorb eOne's Family Brands division into Hasbro's main unit) took notice and has an attraction area called PJ Masks Adventure Zone for their in house theme park, Hasbro City, in Naucalpan de Juárez, Mexico City, even Disney’s Latin American division took notice, and broadcast the Power Heroes episodes on the Mexican feed of Disney Junior Latin America earlier after their broadcast premiere in France, even before the episodes broadcast in the United States,^note  it goes a step further when some episodes like “The Christmas Ninjalinos” premiered first in Mexico well before they aired in France. as a response to PJ Masks being hugely popular, and beloved in Mexico.
  • Latin America is a similar case, and also got the Power Heroes episodes ahead of France, thus PJ Masks became very popular in Latin American countries like in Mexico, and matching the popularity of their two bigger rivals in both Latino and Brazilian territories.
• Growing the Beard: Season 4 fleshes out the series' lore more, with more serious, moderately darker and detailed plots on the episodes compared to its lighter, childish plots in the first three seasons which originally involved the heroes often stopping the villains from stealing stuff and wrecking the city's park. It also helps that the series is trying to stay faithful with the picture book series by starting to add more characters that originate from the books. This also remains true for Season 5, while Season 6/Power Heroes mostly dial back the darker tone but reserves it for the two-part, and four-part episodes in favor of it's new PAW Patrol-esque structure, although they still add new characters and ones from the books.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The episode, PJ Robot Takes Control, the cartridge for the program, Robot Party, that PJ Robot is holding for a couple of seconds is in the mold of the NES cartridge, a year after this episode aired, the PJ Masks would find themselves on the Nintendo Switch, when their first video game tie-in, PJ Masks: Heroes of the Night, would be released on that console, which has several NES games on the NSO service.
• Lost in Medias Res: At the start of the series, the PJ Masks already have their powers, vehicles, and HQ and are already familiar with Romeo, Night Ninja, and Luna Girl (who likewise already have their powers and tools). So far, no Origins Episode for either the heroes or villains has been shown.
  • Averted with the book series, which gave their book counterparts, Les Pyjamasques, Roméo Mécano and Sorceline, their origin stories in "La Légende des Pyjamasques", "Les Pyjamasques et Roméo Mécano" and "Les Pyjamasques et le cadeau de Sorceline".
• Moral Event Horizon: In "Ninja Moths" the Ninjalinos and Moths crossed it by trying to kill Luna Girl and Night Ninja by shooting them away on a rocket. Both Gekko and the latter point out they went too far.
  • Roméo Mécano crosses it in "Les Pyjamasques et le robot-blizzard" where he proclaims he will use a machine to "shrivel" Les Pyjamasques.
  • Sorceline crosses it either in "La Legende des Pyjamasques" where she tries to capture Les Pyjamasques with her magical bag that can make them disappear to oblivion, or later in the story where she threatens to "crush" Les Pyjamasques with her magnet's lightning powers.
  • Luna Girl crosses it either in "Moonstruck Race to the Moon" where she tries to kill the Masks outright telling her Luna Wand to "destroy them" or in "Moon Madness" where she attempts to leave Catboy stranded in space where he would have died for sure.
  • A more subtle example but Romeo crosses it "Romeo's Disguise". While it's a less obvious attempt at homicide, he attempts to send the Masks, Night Ninja and his Ninjalinos and Luna Girl and her moths to the moon. While it's possible he didn't think about this and did seem to intend for them to stay on the moon presumably alive, the fact that the Masks, Ninjas and Moths would have died is not pointed out (Luna would have been fine thanks to her magnet).
• Periphery Demographic: While it's not quite on the same level as other shows from Entertainment One, PJ Masks is starting to gain a following among people older than the target audience.
• Spiritual Adaptation: After Hasbro bought the rights to the television series, the series' direction as of the fifth season onwards slowly started taking cues from the Power Rangers such as episodes being categorized (e.g. Pirate Power, Animal Power etc.) and story arcs extended for more than one episode. This is now more noticeable when the series' sixth season has been rebranded as PJ Masks: Power Heroes, though this season more pulls more from both Justice League^note  Like how the PJ Masks' new HQ, Power Q, is similar to the Justice League Watchtower, and ironically, the PJ Masks' biggest rival franchise.^note Two or more members of the Power Heroes go on missions in each episode, with the occasional backup team member to help in some episodes, similar to how PAW Patrol does it with it's structure, two or more pups go on missions with another pup serving as a backup responder.
• Tear Jerker: In one episode, Luna Girl said that she was always alone on Christmas Eve. Even the PJ Masks quickly sympathize with her.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Firefly, the unused villain of the show.
  • The original books are full of interesting characters that could easily become supporting characters, or at the very least one-shot characters, but which have yet to be seen. Some examples are Lilifée (a fairy-like girl who has a passion for stars and snow, though the PJ Masks Power Heroes reveal trailer first featured cartoon counterparts of her and Bastet (an Egyptian heroine from part 2 of "Les Pyjamasques et la momie d’Apophis"), with the former now being known as Lilyfay in the official Disney Junior YouTube channel, Les Mascrapules (three kids with superpowers based on a rat, fly and worm), and Energuman (an adult superhero similar to Thor).
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • The nighttime villains have presumably their own mundane lives by day just like the PJ Masks, but we never get to see them. We don't even know how Luna Girl and Night Ninja look without their masks (and wig, in her case). Same goes for the Wolfy Kids, who (as also noted in the WMG) have the potential to become Jekyll & Hyde like villains, but also only appear during the night. Hence, it is unknown what they look like as humans.
  • The same goes for Armadylan. You'd think that, with him being their ally, Greg, Connor and Amaya would hang out with him during the day, or at least try to find out his real identity, but so far he's never been seen out of costume or during the daytime.
  • This is averted for Roméo Mecano in the books, as he is the only nighttime villain with a daytime identity.
• Toy Ship: It was inevitable that fans would start shipping the heroes and sometimes even their villains with each other at some point. Catboy/Owlette and Gekko/Luna Girl are by far the most popular.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Owlette in "Owlette's Terrible Pterodactyl Trouble". Being upset with Connor for scaring her at the museum is one thing. But she takes her resentment way too far, refusing to partake in the mission until Connor apologizes to her (even after he did) and even saying they can't be friends anymore after what he did.
  • Also, in "Owlette's Two Wrongs," Owlette learns that two wrongs don't make a right after ruining Night Ninja's statue just to get back at him for ruining her Flossy Flash sculpture. Then, she said to Catboy and Gekko in "Romeo's Disguise" that they shouldn't get back at Romeo because they would be no better than him as they are heroes and not villains. But then in "Glowy Moths," she decided to get back at Romeo for breaking her Owl Glider and making fun of her flying- with Luna Girl and her glowy moths' help, of course.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: While there's no doubt that the show is intended for a kid audience, there are parents that believe the show does not belong on Disney Junior due to the occasional acts of physical violence and the characters often calling their enemies' names (both of which are rarely seen in preschool cartoons), which they believe shouldn't be copied by the target audience.