YMMV / Soy Luna

• Accidental Aesop:
  • Luna is paired up with Matteo by Juliana at one point for a skating routine, but she outright refuses to do it due to relationship drama between them but Juliana tells Luna she doesn't care and that if there's any trouble, it must be addressed outside of the rink. Ámbar even sides with Juliana because Luna making a whim out of this is wasting everybody else's time. So, the lesson is "Never mix business with personal matters".
  • Ramiro chastises Luna for passing up the opportunity to join the Red Sharks team, even though she and the others try to convince him otherwise that they don't skate mostly to win or gain some attention whatsoever. It's good to skate for fun, but a professional skater should also require strict discipline and commitment to the sport if they ever want to succeed in life.
• Adorkable: Jazmin's poor yet awkward attempts to make romantic advances toward Simon whom she develops a crush on are quite endearing of her to see.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Luna was liked by a lot of fans for being nice to the other characters and having empathy over their respective flaws. However, seasons 2 and 3 ended up screwing her real bad, becoming a selfish self-righteous person on such occassions, mainly being partly at fault for Matteo's accident when he tried to explain himself about the out-of-context video with Emilia, due to her refusing to trust him, or even lashing out at Simón because he knew that Ámbar changed the contact of Felipe Mendevilla and believed that he was covering for her, when in actuality Simón wanted to give her a chance to be honest with Luna.
  • Jazmín is beloved for her hilarious personality but she often gets hatred and is found annoying for being a busybody around her friends, even recording them without their consent. It doesn't really help that everytime she goes Brutal Honesty mode mixed with Innocently Insensitive, the other characters give her dirty looks.
• Cash-Cow Franchise: Just like the show before it, merchandise flooded store shelves in many of the countries that aired the show. The season two finale brought in 31 million viewers throughout all of Latin America according to Disney. Naturally, because of its success, the cast went on well-selling concert tours throughout Latin America and Europe.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: The viewers figured out that Luna is Sharon’s Niece Sol Benson right at the beginning of the show. But it was treated as a shocking and unexpected twist, when Sharon found out the truth through an DNA test.
• Catharsis Factor: Simón breaking up with Daniela when he sees her walking without the crutches and calling her out for manipulating him into distrusting Luna, who stands up for herself even after Daniela threatened her.
  • Sharon losing her fortune and walking away defeated after Luna finds out she's Sol Benson is immensely satisfying after everything she put her and her father through.
• Crack Pairing: To name some of them:
  • Ambar/Nina despite their minor interactions, have following helped by the kind of cattiness between them and the closeness between the actresses.
  • Luna/Gaston as well.
• Cry for the Devil: Not only did Sharon not deserve to die inside the burning mansion, but fans also were really sad when she went permanently blind from the fire. It didn't help that Ambar was desperately crying for her godmother to be rescued.
• Designated Villain:
  • Ramiro is supposed to suddenly become an antagonist in season 3 after joining the Red Sharks. But he actually does nothing wrong (unless you count the video he recorded to sell his friends out to Gary) other than following his dream of being a professional skater, but his friends (except Matteo and Luna), especially his ex-girlfriend Yam who is the worst, keep bitching about the fact that Ramiro "abandoned" them for their rival team when they needed him most. Not to mention he didn't care enough for Emilia, Benicio and Ambar's meanness, even helping Matteo get the proof video of him rejecting Emilia's kiss to clear his name to Luna, visiting him at the hospital when he got injured and disapproved of his teammates' schemes against them. And yes, while he knew about the falsified contact of Felipe Mendevilla and said nothing about it, he just couldn't bring himself to go against the jerkasses he had for teammates overnight that easily as Matteo pointed out, despite Yam saying that she would've done the same thing if she were in his situation. This makes their hatred towards Ramiro as nothing but petty. It isn't clear what could they expect from Ramiro, not follow the vocation he's most passionate about or join the Red Sharks just because there was no hope for Jam&Roller to be saved.
  • Even though she's supposed to be the main antagonist of the show, Ámbar also gets exactly the same treatment throughout the second part of season 3. She is appointed as the new manager of Jam & Roller in Gary's absence, and proves to be absolutely competent enough in the job. It's clear that this experience helped her mature as a person and accelerate her Heel–Face Turn. However, the Roller gang doesn't entirely trust her after everything she's done to them, except for Simón, who knows that deep down she's a good person and is only being influenced by Benicio and Emilia's bad behavior. Simón always defended Ámbar to everybody (even Luna of all people) who warned him not to trust her, but because of a misunderstanding purposefully started by Benicio, he thought they were right after all. It took clearly a video recorded by Delfi for Simón to realize she wasn't lying. The way Ámbar complained to Simón about how distrustful he was of her word when he came to apologize didn't help matters. This made him treat her just like everybody else did, and they didn't even give a damn about her wellbeing, especially ignoring the situation with her adoptive mother Sharon. Not even allowing them to use the rink after Gary left or throwing the Day of the Dead RollerJam party was enough to change their minds. So yes, you're allowed to side with Ámbar on how unfair everybody was to her.
• Die for Our Ship: Fernanda and Michel got this very bad from Lutteo fans.
  • Xabi, Matteo's cousin Flor, and even Eric, for Gastina fans.
  • Daniela as well (and with good reason), got hate from Lumon fans.
• Draco in Leather Pants:
  • For all of the bad things she's done, Ámbar is found really attractive by a lot of male fans thanks to the good looks of her actress Valentina Zenere.
  • Emilia and Benicio are also beloved by fans in spite of their cruel behavior and actions.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Tino & Cato, two of the adult characters, basically steal the show with most of their antics. Too bad they did not return for season 3.
  • Tamara is also well-liked for being a strict but reasonable coach to the Roller kids, especially Luna, with whom she shares a special mother-daughter bond. Fans were disappointed when Tamara announced at the beginning of season 2 that she was leaving.
• Evil Is Cool: Most fans found Ámbar's personality as the main villain very interesting, in stark contrast with Ludmila from Violetta. Sharon is also known for being an Evil Aunt to Luna and genuinely terrifying when her dark side starts manifesting.
• Fandom Rivalry: Let's just say that there have been clashes between this show's fandom, that of Violetta's, and that of BIA's.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Gastina which is far more popular than Nerik (Nina/Erik) who are together at the show finale.
• Informed Wrongness:
  • Matteo won a contest in which VIDIA offered him to produce an album of his own. The subplot revolves around Luna disapproving of his questionable actions when the fame goes to his head, especially his clashing with Simón, resulting in numerous arguments between them and eventually breaking up. Later, when Gary has his album unceremoniously cancelled by pulling some strings on VIDIA, Matteo has a hard time processing the fact that his dreams are over and lashes out at Luna and the others, wishing they'd lose the final skating competition as he doesn't care about it anymore. We're supposed to side with Luna as she was hurt by his harsh words, but if you have grown up years after the first time you ever watched this show, you'll understand that Matteo's frustrations are not entirely inexplicable. While it doesn't condone Matteo's behavior, let's remember he had been raised by a stern unsupportive father, whom he wanted to make proud of his own achievements, as shown in past episodes. Matteo even calls Luna out for always trying to change him, taking him for granted and paying more attention to her best friend, almost treating him as if he didn't exist and disregarding all the things he did for her, and is clearly sick of being second-bested by Simon. No matter what he does to make her happy, it's never enough to Luna, who is unable to see how far he is from still being the same arrogant guy who mistreats her poorly.
  • Ramiro is also as self-centered as Matteo. But in season 3, his decision to switch from the Roller to the Red Sharks team isn't actually out of malice, but to build his future as a professional skater. It's been proved several times he was hesistant to follow through the dirty schemes of Ambar, Emilia and Benicio to take the other team down and openly disapproved of their jerkass behavior. He was even disgusted to learn about Emilia's strategic move to set Matteo up and paint him as an unremorseful womanizer to Luna, to the point of help him clear his name by sending him the full video of Emilia kissing Matteo, and then visiting him at the hospital after his accident. However, all of his friends misinterpret this mature decision as an unforgivable betrayal.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • No one really understood Ámbar's behaviour up until the second season, in which a softer side of her is shown when her birth mother had to give her up for adoption as she was too young to raise a child on her own. Sharon, her "godmother" (as everyone is made to believe), took Ámbar in, but she constantly neglected her and she (Ámbar) thought that by imitating Sharon's personality, then she would love her back.
  • Matteo can also count as one due to his parents and him moving from country to country, something that makes him unable to get a proper fresh start and make new friends of his own, which explains why he is always jealous of Simón given the fact that and he and Luna have been best friends since they were kids.
• Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: Ambar, Emilia, Benicio, Sharon and Rey are praised by audiences alike for taking their villain roles seriously. The annoying ones are Luna post-season 1, for going from a distracted yet good-natured girl to a mean entitled selfish one, Matteo in season 2 when his fledging music career inflates his ego and distances him from his friends, Delfi and Jazmin for their bullying of Nina, Jim for her issues with Nico in season 1 and to a lesser extent in season 2, and Yam in season 3 for her poor treatment of Ramiro after he joins the Red Sharks but keeps encouraging herself to bully him further even after he's forgiven. Daniela and Fernanda for being a HUGE Die for Our Ship to Lumón and Lutteo shippers. Gary also counts as the most despicable jerk of the entire show as he's greatly loathed over his petty grudge against the Roller gang and tormenting them with ZERO remorse. Bruno too for the dirty tactics he gives Matteo to boost his career (i.e. lying about being single, faking a secret romance with Camila Fernandez and setting up an interview to humiliate Simon which Matteo willingly agreed on), which Luna visibly disapproves of.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Obviously Luna. Being the All-Loving Heroine protagonist of the show fans ship her with practically at least any main teen character of the show. Her prominent ones are with Matteo, Simon, Ambar and Nina.Shipping her with Gaston or Nico is noticeable as well.
  • There is Nice Guy Simon being also a Chick Magnet. He's paired with Luna,Ambar, Pedro and Nico (seperately or at the same time), Matteo, Nina, Ramiro and Emma.
  • Ironically Nina as well. Despite being (initially) the resident Shrinking Violet, she's paired with Luna, Gaston, Simon, Pedro, Ambar, Xavi, Erik, Jim and Yam at same time often and in the same way with Delfi and Jazmin (though it's less prominent).
  • And as one of the longest vilains Ambar too. Shipped with Luna, Matteo, Simon, Delfi and Jazmin (at the same time or separately), Nina, Ramiro, Emilia and Benicio.
• Narm: The reactions of Jim, Yam, Jazmín, Pedro and Nico when Ramiro reveals himself as the masked skater auditioning for the Red Sharks. For something considered as a "betrayal", they're more amusing than dramatic.
• Never Live It Down:
  • No matter how many times they tell her it's not her fault (well, except Emilia for that matter), Luna will forever be remembered for causing Matteo's accident because she didn't trust or listen to him about the proof video in which he rejected Emilia. And finding someone actually defending her is a waste of time.
  • Fans also refuse to forgive the Roller clique for not supporting Ramiro's decision of joining the Red Sharks when their rink was far from being saved for the time being. Do they not know that betraying someone and pursuing a vocation are not the same thing?
• Nightmare Fuel: Everything related to the fire at the Benson Mansion.

  Roberto: Flames... screaming... I can never forget that crying.

• One True Threesome: To name a few:
  • The Roller Band Pedro/Simon/Nico called Simedrico being a music group of three Nice Guy
  • The Girl Posse Jazmin/Ambar/Delfi as they start as an antagonistic version of Blonde, Brunette, Redhead (though eventually abandonned more later)
  • Especially in Season 3, Jim/Nina/Yam being also a Blonde, Brunette, Redhead example and three friends of Luna as well Lutteo shippers. Helped by the amount of time they have together in the same season.
  • Noticeable as well, Simon/Luna/Nina mostly in Season 2. As Nina and Simon being Luna's best friends and because they had their own Sol Benson storyline as a Power Trio.
• Pop-Culture Isolation: Like Violetta, the show was a huge hit in Latin America and Europe. Unlike Violetta, there was a larger push to get it into the United States. The soundtracks were released digitally in the United States (and many other countries) on the same day as in Latin America, Karol Sevilla went on a press tour to promote her show to Hispanic audiences, and the Soy Luna Live concert tour even nearly had a stop in Dallas, Texas. While it did manage to get a small cult following in the States, it still otherwise seems to be as obscure as the show before it.
• Replacement Scrappy: Eric got hit with this pretty hard. Once Gastón left the show, many felt it was unnecessary to give Nina another love interest, and some believe it would've been better if she ended up with no one in the end. Not to mention the fact that Eric has been criticized for having very little personality outside of being Nina's love interest. This could also be a case of Die for Our Ship, as much of Eric's hate comes from Gastina fans.
• Retroactive Recognition: One of the employees at the nursing home where Roberto lived his last years is Paula Gutierrez.
• Ron the Death Eater: The Jam & Roller gang's reaction to Ramiro joining the Red Sharks is supposed to be portrayed as understandable and a betrayal, but much of the fans agree that they're overreacting and not being fair to Ramiro (see Unintentionally Unsympathetic below), whose vocation is to become a skater.
• Rooting for the Empire: Much of the fandom argues that the Red Sharks didn't deserve to have their festival cancelled on account of the Jam&Roller team, who are supposed to be the good guys, whose actions the series tries to portray as unintentional (and the fact that the Red Sharks' failure was entirely their own fault), but still are seen as a bunch of hypocrites who only cared about the spotlight. Also, they felt sorry for Ramiro and Emilia after Gary announced that the Red Sharks were over for good.
• The Scrappy:
  • Daniela for almost ruining Luna and Simon's friendship by making it look like Luna was the one bullying her out of entitled jealousy for their relationship in an attempt to throw her under the bus, when it was the other way around as Daniela practically threatened Luna into staying away from him.
  • Try and find any fan rooting for Tamara's ex-boyfriend, Mariano, when all he clearly wanted was to destroy her skating team out of pure pettiness over her dumping him. The fact that he manipulates Jim and Ramiro into turning against her makes him all that hateful.
  • You'd find it difficult to root for Fernanda when all she clearly wants is to take Matteo away from Luna.
  • Bruno, Matteo and Simon's music career manager, is also hated by fans for his controlling attitude toward the duo and making them do things his way. While Simon clearly wants to get off of his game, Matteo is too desperate to make his father proud and with his already inflated ego he accepts without any hesitation. The fact that he also threatened Luna to not interfere in Matteo's career only intensified the hate further.
  • Michel also got hate from fans in season 3 for getting in between them as well, despite being nice to everyone and sharing a lot of Luna's characteristic traits.
• Ship Mates: Luna/Matteo and Gaston/Nina are this among shippers because Luna/Nina and Matteo/Gaston being respectively best friends even until to be ship them all together by some of them.
  • Also Luna/Matteo and Simon/Ambar as its clearly resolve the love square and being the most important ships at the end of the show.
• Strawman Has a Point: Ramiro's decision to switch to the Red Sharks team and his pre-parting speech about this being a great opportunity for him and if you listen closely, he actually makes very valid points. Because now Gary has taken over the place and there's nothing to do about it, Ramiro has no choice but to join because skating is his true passion and shows no interest in deifying Gary's success and the self-centered attitudes of his teammates Ámbar, Emilia and Benicio. However, his friends are quick to take this as a betrayal and view him as selfish for the cheap price of choosing what he really loves over them. Even Ramiro telling on the Roller to Gary for using the rink without his permission, which was an actual betrayal, just gives them further proof of who's side he is really on and initially refuse to believe that he's really changed when he asks to be allowed back to the team.
• Take That, Scrappy!:
  • Luna bravely telling Daniela she's not afraid of her and making it clear that she leave Simon alone, after he found out she faked her injuries.
  • Mariano and his skating team Power&Speed lose the Intercontinetal Competition in the season 1 finale.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: The initial reaction of the Violetta fandom when news of this show leaked was to call it a rip-off. Such accusations died down as time went on.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Nina and Gaston's designated excuse for leaving Luna and Matteo alone is going to the library. Said library is never shown. It could have been a good setup for them to bond and form the Beta Couple.
  • Seeing as both Luna and Nina and Matteo and Gaston are best friends, it's a bit strange that Lutteo and Gastina never had a Double Date.
• Why Would Anyone Take Her Back?: People had this reaction to Luna in the third season concerning Matteo, wondering why would he show any sympathy to someone like Luna after how, not only did she treat him poorly, but also almost got him killed. She didn't want to listen to his explanations about Emilia setting him up to turn her against him. Even though she immediately shows genuine remorse after Matteo accidentally falls off the mansion's gates and later apologizes to him, this still doesn't really cut it. Even Matteo himself and the others show sympathy and never call Luna out on her actions, choosing to only blame Emilia for uploading the pic of the kiss in the first place, stating that there was no way for Luna to know about the scheme earlier on. Of course, the only who calls her out is Emilia, the person who caused all of this debacle.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • Ámbar, whose sad backstory makes her a Jerkass Woobie. In season 3, she gains a lot of defenders agreeing that Luna is overreacting for the way she's treating her and lashing out at Simon for supposedly covering up the fake contact scheme when in truth he was trying to give Ambar a chance to be honest to Luna.
  • Matteo becomes this in season 2 when his relationship with Luna starts faltering because of his involvement with VIDIA to produce his album. Yes, he lied about not having a girlfriend, mocked Simon in an interview to create a rivalry between the two as a PR stunt and took it too far by taking his fury out on Luna, his friends, and even Juliana, when his dreams of being a singer were over and stated out loud that he didn't care about the skating competition anymore, but we can't really blame him when he straightfully points out to Luna that she's always taking him for granted, trying to change him, and often favoring Simon over him. Also, let's not forget that he wanted to make his father proud of him, as he never supported any of his true passions and pressured him to study a career he didn't like. So, Matteo's frustrations with Luna are completely reasonable, but she still views him as the same arrogant guy who did nothing but break her heart.
  • Okay, Ramiro. He started off as arrogant and conceited the first time he was introduced, even intimidating Jim and Yam whenever they rehearsed. However, as the series progressed, he became a better person. In season 3, when Jam&Roller was beyond saving after Gary took over and renamed it as Red Sharks, he switches to said team. You'd expect him to just leave his friends behind? No. The true reason why Ramiro joins the Red Sharks is because skating is his true passion and wants to fully commit to the sport in order to become a professional, showing absolutely no interest in exalting Gary's ego nor his teammates' selfish attitudes. Yet the rest of his friends, especially his ex-girlfriend Yam, are quick to view him as a traitor because of that.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • Luna has been heavily hit with this. In spite of all the crap she goes through, she qualifies as this trope due to her self-righteous attitude and tendency to blame others for things that either aren't their fault or had little control of have made a lot of fans quit feeling sorry for her. Whenever Matteo disappoints her in their relationship, she doesn't want anything to do with him and avoids him, and every time he tried to talk to her, she begins to demonize him, she refuses to listen to any explanations. When a pic of a kiss between Matteo and Emilia was leaked on a concert he and Luna were holding, she swears to never wanting anything to do with him again. And while he is looking for evidence that Emilia was the one who force-kissed him and then blackmailed him with it, and not the other way around, even if he has to form a temporary truce with Emilia to get it, what is Luna doing? Going both to school and the roller vowing to not even think about Emilia or Matteo, not even trying to figure out or asking questions why said kiss and blackmail happened, even ignoring evidence of the whole thing when Matteo finally found it. Luna demonstrates this once again when she finds out that Simón didn't tell her that Ámbar changed Felipe Mendenvilla's contact, just because he choose her over the Red Sharks, and is quick to jump to the conclusion that Simón covered for her due to his feelings for her, when in reality Simón tried to give Ámbar a chance to tell Luna herself. This is a clear example that Luna only thinks about herself and never wants or even tries to put herself in other people's shoes.
  • The entire Roller gang was severely hit with this in season 3 for not respecting Ramiro's wishes to become a professional skater by joining the Red Sharks, who are their main opponents. As friends, they're supposed to be on each other's side and support what they want to do in the future, but they had no problem saying Ramiro was a bad friend who "betrayed" the Jam & Roller team. However, they do not act mean to Yam when she has to do an audition that clashes with a skating filming they signed up for. Who are the bad friends here, huh?
  • Yam got this very bad in season 3 from the fans. While hurt that Ramiro left the RollerTeam for the Red Sharks is completely understandable, however, her ways of rejecting him after he's accepted back and trying to help her out with her upcoming auditions, were completely over the top, almost bordering on unfair abuse and cruelty. Of course, Jim is the one who calls her out on that.

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