YMMV / Violetta

• Accidental Aesop: The nineteenth episode of season 3 has Andrés, Ludmila and Violetta's other friends accusing Alex (whose real name is Clement) of theft when their personal belongings start disappearing just because of his alleged poor background. Later, Andrés, the main accuser, is forced to live the experience by own flesh when the belongings fall out of his locker. Even if they apologize to both of them and realize that the true culprit is Diego's kleptomaniac cousin, Antonio has them learn not to judge anyone by their appearances.
• Americans Hate Tingle: Part of the reason why Violetta hasn't exactly been a hit with UK audiences is because most are bothered by the Lip Lock, whether or not they know it's a dub. The dubbed singing made it worse. Interestingly, the hate isn't as strong in Scandinavia and South Africa, where it's even one of the most watched Disney shows.
• Archive Panic: The show has 240 episodes, all of which are an hour long. That's 240 hours, or 10 days to view the entire show in one sitting with absolutely no breaks.
• Awesome Music: The show gives us En Mi Mundo, Voy Por Ti, Juntos Somos Mas, Dile Que Sí, Veo Veo, Ven Y Canta, and Ser Mejor in the first season alone.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • León, who takes over Tomás's Nice Guy role since Season 2 (while Diego fills in his "bad boy" title), is found very divisive for his exaggerated Crazy Jealous Guy tendencies, which border on masculine toxicity.
  • Some found Francesca to be really nice and funny. However, others find her irrational, unsympathetic and very childish because of her No Listening Skills towards all of her crushes.
  • Is Germán a Well-Intentioned Extremist and overprotective father who insists that he only wants to take care of Violetta with many an tender moment between them, or just an annoying abusive parent whose lying and No Listening Skills bring out the worst in him and make him treat his daughter like garbage?
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The funeral scene for Andres stuffed animal in episode 52. It pretty much comes out of nowhere, has no real connection to the story, and is never mentioned again until the series finale's epilogue.
• Broken Base:
  • Diego's behavior towards Vilu earlier in season 2. While some found in endearing, others found it pushy and very creepy, bordering on harassment. Their first kiss in episode 20 didn't help much
  • Having Leon quit motorcross in season 3 to focus on his boy band. Some found it contradictory to his storyline in season 2, which was explicitly about balancing two passions without having to give up one for the other.
  • Ludmila and Stefano's relationship in The Movie (see Strangled by the Red String below).
    • The Movie itself can be seen as this, as it retconned and ignored a lot of storylines from the original show.
• Cant Unhear It: There is a major overlap between voice actors in the English localizations of both Violetta and Danganronpa, and many of the VAs don't do much different of a performance, much to the amusement of fans of the two.
• Cash-Cow Franchise: Even if the show hasn't been successful in the US, it's still a good source of money for Disney. The merchandising it's gotten in Europe is comparable to Hannah Montana's in the US. Albums have gone platinum in multiple countries. The 2015 Violetta Live international tour even managed to be the third highest grossing female act of that year, behind Taylor Swift and Madonna.
• Catharsis Factor: After a lot of episodes from the first season with Ludmila comitting atrocities and getting away with it, such as painting Violetta as the 'bad guy' to her fans and getting her disqualified from the reality show, and intentionally sliding a skateboard to get Naty injured, seeing her being booed by her former fans, pranked by Camila with a bucket of cold water and getting caught on her lie by Antonio and Pablo who consequently ban her from the final show proves to be really satisfying and worthy of applauses for those who couldn't stand her attitude.
• Die for Our Ship: Post season 1: Lara, Gery, and Alex/Clement got this very bad. Diego was spared of it, surprisingly. Melanie and Caio from The Movie aren't so lucky.
  • Esmeralda and Priscila for Germangie fans. Arguably, Jade does not become a target of this.
  • For obvious reasons, Ana is this to Marco/Francesca shippers.
  • Mathilda, the Polish girl, for Maxi/Naty fans.
• Draco in Leather Pants:
  • Ludmila, largely because of the effort put into by Mercedes Lambre to portray her as the Studio's Alpha Bitch. Completely ignoring how she had been attempting to sabotage Violetta since day one, there are those who argue that Ludmila was just trying to get everyone to like her, but didn't know how, and who could possibly blame her when she was only following her mom's highly questionable yet misguided teachings, all so she could achieve her dreams and ambitions just for the sake of it.
  • Gregorio is hated for his poor treatment of the students, jealousy of Pablo (whom they look up to over him) and petty hatred of new guy Tomás. But there are some who think he's just frustrated because he's actually not being taken seriously as a teacher, and his concerns about the Studio's financial future being at risk are entirely accurate, so much that his own methods, although highly questionable and causing some of the students to either fight or turn against each other, were just to save the place from closing down, rather than pure malice.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Federico in the first and second seasons. He was so popular among fans that he became a main character in season 3.
  • Tomas's cousin, Agustina, was also well-liked by fans in season 1 for being Wise Beyond Their Years, actively encouraging him to date Violetta, even when she found out that she won't talk to him because of a misunderstanding. She was also clever enough to see through Ludmila's mean behaviour and tell her off.
  • Naty's little sister, Lena, for her Little Sister Instinct tendencies and bravely facing Ludmila when she feels threatened by her talent. Also, she's nice to Violetta, nice enough as to promise Angie not to tell her she's her aunt until the timing is right when she found the papers Jade accidentally left behind at the Studio.
• Fandom Rivalry: There wasn't exactly a good relationship with the Grachi fandom. Fans of Martina Stoessel also don't see eye to eye with Lali Esposito's fandom. Let's not even begin with the initial reaction of the Soy Luna rumors...
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Leonetta has been extremely popular since the end of season 1. Germangie got a fair amount of shippers as well.
  • While they're canon to the show, Federico and Ludmila are this in the movie (where Ludmila instead gets together with a brand new character — see Strangled by the Red String).
  • Ludmila/Maxi in season 1 due to their good chemistry when they are paired up for a duet.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Due to fans throwing hate at German for being largely an Aesop Amnesia in season 2 and reverting back to an overprotective parent, and one time in season 3 in which he accuses Violetta of attempting to break him and Priscila up and briefly grounding her for it (when it was actually Ludmila, and he did apologize after finding out the truth from Maxi), they would rather skip all those scenes of German treating Violetta poorly or pretend like they didn't even exist. Same goes for The Movie, because of Melanie and Caio's interference with Leonetta, and the rest of the original characters not appearing at all. The viewers who disliked this aspect firmly agree that the series ended in season 3.
• Funny Moments:
  • This exchange between Jade, Matias and Angie when the two kidnap her and start comically bickering about what to do with her.
  Matias: Where are we going now?
  Jade: I don't know!
  Angie: To infinity and beyond!
  Both: SHUT UP!
  • Francesca's remark about Ludmila to León through her Blunt Metaphors Trauma. This is after León finds out that she and Tomás kissed.
  Francesca: Appearances can be creeping.
  Leon: Deceiving.
  Francesca: Just like your girlfriend, Ludmila.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: It's gotten quite the following in Italy. Other European countries like France, Poland, and Germany itself have strong fanbases too.
• It Was His Sled: As season 2 started airing in Latin America, it pretty much became common knowledge that Tomas gets Put on a Bus. All the couples, especially Leonetta, were hard to get away from during its original airings too. It probably wasn't fun for the countries that got the show over a year late.
• Jerkass Woobie: With the introduction of her mischievous mother in season 3, Ludmila ends up becoming one. It becomes clear where she gets her selfishness from, and she's forced into undesirable situations due to her mom's pressure.
  • Jade also counts as one. She does cruel things but she is just desperate for love.
• Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: Leon, Francesca, to a lesser extent Pablo, Camila and Broduey. Sometimes, German, Diego and Gregorio too.
• Like You Would Really Do It:
  • Violetta, the titular protagonist, leaving Buenos Aires for Qatar at the end of the first season. Well... sorry German, but we can't make Violetta leave the Studio. If she leaves, we have no story. And if we have no story, Violetta couldn't disappoint Leon again by getting herself involved in yet another love triangle.
  • Like Angie was really going to move away from Buenos Aires... they'll surely come back soon... wait, what?
  • Whenever Francesca faces the threat of having to leave to Italy for various reasons, despite her actress pursing a solo career on the side without Disney's help.
• Love to Hate: Most of the show's villains, Ludmila, Diego, Jade, Matias and Gregorio whose personalities make them very entertaining to watch.
  • Ludmila is greatly loathed for her awful behavior as the Alpha Bitch, while her iconic melodramatic meltdowns managed to win fans over.
  • Diego, an overconfident yet affable and charming gentleman, whose good looks melt the hearts of female fans.
  • Jade, Matias Gregorio are despicable people, but they stand out as the most memorable antagonists due to their respective roles as the Menchildren, especially when they're actively scheming against Violetta (in Jade's case) and the Studio's students (in Gregorio's case).
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Gregorio crossed it in the mid-finale of season 1 by tricking Pablo into leaving the midterm show's stage unattended so he would sabotage it himself and make Pablo the guilty party, all so he could give Antonio an excuse to give him the Studio director position and rule it with an iron fist. Pablo even quits when he falls for it.
  • If blackmailing her and having Angie fired, revealing she's Violetta's aunt, wasn't bad enough, Jade definitely crosses the line when she deliberately gives Violetta away to German by giving him a hint about her attending the Studio, then she cruelly mocks Violetta when her father yells at her and threatens to have her shipped off to a boarding school if she keeps "misbehaving".
  • Jade and Matias in the season 1 finale when they drug and kidnap Angie as revenge for German disrupting her wedding. Fortunalety, they are caught by German and Pablo, and promptly arrested by the police before they can decide what to do with her.
  • Ludmila's mother, Priscila, in Season 3. After Violetta realizes all the bad things she has done, she intends to tell everything to her father. However, before she can do so, Priscila shuts her up by pushing her down a flight of stairs and even frames her own daughter for the deed, knowing that Violetta will outright accuse her just because Ludmila made her life impossible since day one. It's not until a person she hires cuts off the brakes of Angie's car that she finally regrets everything she did after nearly endangering her daughter's life.
• Narm: Well, it is a telenovela.
  • The phrase "Cantar es lo que soy". Especially when Bridgit Mendler says a variant of it in English...
  Bridgit Mendler: Singing is what you are.
  • The rapping, oh God, the rapping. The English version of Are You Ready for the Ride? is pure narm fuel.
  • The Italian singing was dubbed over with the English singing cast during the first season, with very narmy results.
• Never Live It Down: While she did apologize to her, Violetta still wrongfully accused Ludmila of pushing her down the stairs when it was her own mother who comitted the atrocity, and the fans won't ever forgive her for that, let alone knowing that this was an obstacle to her redemption arc.
• Pop-Culture Isolation: The show is very popular in other countries, but despite the success it has had overseas, it's virtually unheard of outside them. It took until months after the end of the show's original run for the English dub to make it in the US, and even then it's still on the more obscure side.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Malena Ratner (Delfi) and Micaela Diaz (Daisy) appeared as extras at the Studio before becoming prominent characters in the series' spiritual successors.
  • Eloisa (Georgina Amorós) from The Movie enrolled as a scholarship student in Las Encinas, shortly after her time as photographer while helping Violetta out, to try and mingle with the rich students, scam people...and even protect a murderer.
  • Also, Stefano (Pasquale Di Nuzzo) leaves his country behind and moves to Buenos Aires, dumping Ludmila to pursue the much more attractive Ámbar and stop his old foe Simón, who's also in love with her. He even gets to take over a hotel with his sister through their connections.
• Ron the Death Eater: German has some detractors of his own who are clearly put off by his constant overprotectiveness and emotional abuse towards Violetta, not letting her go out of the house for once to make some friends her own age or even attend the Studio, so he is painted as a possessive parent who is easy to anger at the most trivial thing his daughter does or thinks. The same applies for how he also treats Angie as poorly and also undermines her for no reason at all, even though she's Violetta's aunt, and is almost viewed as a misogynist because of it. And while Jade is no saint either, German did dump her during their wedding after realizing he still harbors feelings for Angie. Her understandable anger at this doesn't help matters.
• The Scrappy:
  • You'd be hard-pressed to find a Gery fan, as she's near universally loathed in fandom. Compare to Lara who, while she gets a fair bit of Die for Our Ship, has some fans and is a Base-Breaking Character at worst.
  • In season 2, Ana, Marco's ex-girlfriend, who's been met with hatred from the fandom for trying to break him and Francesca up just so she can have him back to herself.
  • The Italian producer who deceived Francesca with the promise of helping the Studio out as long as she agreed to go on tour. And it's not the first time she was ever faced with going back to her country.
• Special Effect Failure: Any time they cut to a shot of a big crowd during a concert, you can easily tell the people were just pasted in. It was really bad in the En mi mundo dream, and got worse in the season 2 finale.
• Squick: Angie and German's romance could be this to some, knowing they're siblings in law. A writer explained that Angie is Maria's half-sister to try and calm things down.
• Strangled by the Red String: In The Movie, Ludmila ends up having a small thing with Stefano, one of the movie's antagonists. Fans were not happy with this sudden development and how it ignored one of the most well-received couples of the show. It may be one of the biggest reasons why they tend to treat is as Fanon Discontinuity.
• Take That, Scrappy!:
  • Marotti in season 1, for his mean behavior and very obvious Lack of Empathy. He is admonished by Luca for making up a false rumour about Francesca in his reality show (to gain more views) and Olga fiercely defends Violetta from him after she got unfairy disqualified from U-MIX, which was Ludmila's fault.
  • Federico, before he became a nice person, getting subtly roasted by Ramallo, Olga, Angie and Leon for giving Violetta a hard time and trying to rat her out to her father about attending the Studio.
  • Those who disliked German, Angie gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech over his lack of trust on Violetta and inability to accept that his daughter is growing up and has to let her go. This was after finding out he disguised himself as Jeremiah to spy on her.
  • Milton being fired from the Studio by Gregorio, after how he treated the students as if they were nothing.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The students and faculty singing Algo se enciende to Angie before she leaves to France.
  • Antonio's death.
  • Crecimos Juntos, and Violetta's parting words after the end.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Violetta going to Madrid at the end of season 2 would have been the perfect opportunity for her to reunite with Tomás, but this ultimately never happens.
  • The Movie rehashing the same love drama with Violetta and León. There were also some fans that were disappointed that we didn't see more of the dynamic between the married Angie and Germán as a couple.
  • Season 2 ends with most of the cast still not entirely trusting of Diego after his and Ludmila's plans to expel Violetta gets out, and seeing him eventually win back their trust could have been great for exploring his relationship with the other characters. Season 3 starts with everyone (with a few exceptions) immediately trusting him. Even León treats him as a close friend after a year of fighting.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Ludmila was received more positively by fans in season 3, and even felt bad for her because of her abusive mother. If that wasn't worse enough, she also got wrongly accused by almost everyone (except for German and Naty) of pushing Violetta down a flight of stairs, especially if you remember that she was becoming a better person.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: German became a harsh target of this, as fans became fed up with his negative thoughts about Violetta's passion and clingy attitude, even to the point of demonizing her and Angie. No matter how inoffensive her actions are, German always tends to blow them out of proportion, making him a whiny entitled parent almost impossible to root for. He would just become even more divisive in season 2.
• Values Dissonance: In season 2, Matias dresses up in blackface to attend Germán and Esmerelda's wedding without getting recognized. It's censored on Disney+ and fans tend to pretend it never happened, but it's still weird to see considering it aired in 2013.
  • The treatment of Andrés could arguably be this. Though the details of his likely mental disorder are... ambiguous, it can still be rather uncomfortable to see multiple characters treat him harshly, or not take him seriously due to the conditions of his possible disorder, especially to watchers on the spectrum.
• The Woobie: Violetta in the first season. With her mom dying when she was very young, to her father isolating her and lying to her about her family, it's hard not to feel bad for her.