YMMV / SheZow

• Audience-Alienating Premise: It's about a twelve-year-old Wholesome Crossdresser superhero. While the series became a minor Cult Classic, this trope is believed to be the reason it never got a second season and faded into semi-obscurity after a very short run.
• Base-Breaking Character: Maz. Either a funny and relatable best friend to Guy, or an annoying selfish prick.
• Crossover Ship:
  • While the show's relative obscurity means it's not very prominent, some fans like to ship Guy with Randy Cunningham.
  • There's a lot of fanart between Guy and Marco Diaz, as the latter is also well-known for having a female alter-ego.
  • Guy is also often shipped with Empowered.
• Cult Classic: Despite the show's limited run, it still has a small fanbase who cling to the hopes of a revival and think it's underrated. Even the creator has been trying to revive it for years.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Coldfinger has only appeared a few times so far, yet he has tons of fanart. Probably because he's the closest thing the show has to an even remotely attractive male villain.
  • Gal/DudePow has become popular among the fans long before her debut.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: It's a Canadian/Australian co-production with a mostly American fanbase.
  • The show is also popular in France, owing to the fact that it was Adored by the Network by Gulli, which aired the show there.
  • SheZow also has a small but notable Japanese fanbase despite having never been aired there.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Many are watching the show just for the crossdressing, as it's rare to see in cartoons (where it's not portrayed as a total joke).
  • Other fans want to see more of DudePow in action.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Even before the show premiered it started getting lots of attention on 4chan.
  • "Sock it to me, broseph!"
  • SHE-LARIOUS
• No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: When the show aired, Moral Guardians decried it for "confusing kids". However, this served to increase it's popularity, and even GLAAD came to it's defence and stated that it was harmless.
• Periphery Demographic: The show seems to have a small but dedicated LGBT Fanbase, evidenced by a lot of the homosexual fanart.
• So Bad, It's Good: The theme song. It's far from a conventionally good song, yet it's a bright, punk-y ear worm that manages to fit the show's lighthearted tone quite well.
• Spiritual Licensee: Guy is basically a western-made Sailor Starlight and Ranma ½, as they are all cisgendered males that have superpowers involving gender-flipping.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: No one ever finds out that Guy is actually SheZow's successor.
• Trans Audience Interpretation: In spite of the creator denying it, Guy is often interpreted as transgender or non-binary.
• Values Resonance: Part of why it's considered a Cult Classic - Guy Hamdon is a male who is gender non-conforming, but instead of being portrayed as a stereotype, he's a badass superhero. The public also celebrate him and are unbothered by his masculine appearance/name. Sometimes he gets grief for it, but he never lets that stop him from being who he is.

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