History YMMV / Stargirl2020

** Jordan Mahkent is introduced to "[[https://youtu.be/0BS5lRJfJgQ The Man]]" by Music/TheKillers, an AwesomeEgo song that both makes him sound awesome while also encapsulating his delusions that he's the hero.

* FanPreferredCouple: Courtney/Yolanda is probably the biggest ship currently, definitely moreso than Courtney/Cameron, the current "canon" ship. It helps that Courtney's canon love interest in the comics is [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Billy Batson]], who is almost definitely going to be AdaptedOut due to ''Film/Shazam2019'', while her alternative love interest Al Rothstein/Atom Smasher has also been adapted out due to appearing in ''Black Adam (2021)'', and in the comics Cameron is both a villain and paired with Artemis Crock. Additionally, given that Cameron only appeared in five out of the first thirteen episodes, he and Courtney haven't shared nearly the amount of screentime or emotional connection that Courtney and Yolanda have (though this is somewhat rectified by the third season).

** Jay Garrick's costume when he actually appears in-person, though it can only partially be blamed on the show. They reuse the costume John Wesley Shipp wore to play the character in ''Series/TheFlash2014'', despite it being unclear if this is meant to be the same character or not, which itself is a case of this in that show itself. It stands out mostly because ''Stargirl'' and ''The Flash'' have ''very'' different costume aesthetics (Stargirl dressing the characters primarily in comic-accurate fabric tights, whereas ''The Flash'' tended towards leather jackets and pants suits). This is despite every photo or image of Jay before this showed him wearing his comic-accurate costume, inferring that they ''have'' that costume on-hand and yet chose not to use it, even though it makes Jay look rather odd compared to the rest of the JSA and particularly impractical for his powers (which was a big reason why the HellBentForLeather aspect of the CW Flash suits were so derided in the first place).

** Sylvester's actions toward Pat come off as condescending compassion at times, but given how he was raised by rich parents who he implies were emotionally abusive or at the very least cold and distant, it may be that he is genuinely trying to connect with his friend and doesn't really know how to ''not'' treat him as an inferior. [[spoiler:While he was alive, anyway...]]

** [[spoiler:Sylvester Pemberton, aka Starman. Or at least, the real one. On top of losing his sister and his teammates to the ISA, he's brought back to life against his will by the Ultra Humanite, the Dragon King, and Icicle to stick the former's brain inside of Sylvester's body, allowing him to act as Jordan's mouthpiece while he turns the JSA against each other and eventually builds up a big enough of a reputation to become President of the United States. All of this while Sylvester's real brain is stuck inside a jar, forced to hear his final words begging to know what happened to Pat playback over and over again for ''nine months''. The final scenes do indicate the JSA was able to rescue him and restore him to his old self, but God knows how he took the whole thing.]]

** Though she doesn't appear, "Brainwave Jr" establishes that Henry's late mother was Merry, Girl of a Thousand Gimmicks, a ''particularly'' goofy Golden Age character. Though there's some solid justification as Merry is Merry ''Pemberton'', Starman/Sylvester Pemberton's sister and ergo, gives a familial link between Henry and the Dugan-Whitmores, it's still surprising to see her even involved.

** Pat's relationship with Merri Pemberton is rarely if ever discussed, even though he worked for her parents when she was younger, and worked alongside her brother when both Merri and Sylvester were superheroes.

** Though there's the aforementioned FandomRivalry in place, there's a decent number of ''Arrowverse'' fans who welcome the show, thanks to CW also airing the show (and taking over sole production for Season 2). While set in a different world from the Arrowverse, ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'' established ''Stargirl'' as being part of the same multiverse (specifically Earth-2), and though there are fans of Stargirl who dislike Arrowverse's many changes from the comics, being comic-accurate doesn't exactly put off fans who aren't comic fans so there's little reason for some Arrowverse fans to dislike the show. Many Arrowverse fans also appreciate the lack of plot-mandated friendship failures that they felt characterized other shows such as Arrow and the Flash.

* FanPreferredCouple: Courtney/Yolanda is probably the biggest ship currently, definitely moreso than Courtney/Cameron, the current "canon" ship. It helps that Courtney's canon love interest in the comics is [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Billy Batson]], whom is almost definitely going to be AdaptedOut due to ''Film/Shazam2019'', while her alternative love interest Al Rothstein/Atom Smasher has also been adapted out due to appearing in ''Black Adam (2021)''. Additionally, given that Cameron only appeared in five out of the first thirteen episodes, he and Courtney haven't shared nearly the amount of screentime or emotional connection that Courtney and Yolanda have (though this is somewhat rectified by the third season).

* AudienceAwarenessAdvantage: Some have expressed a lack of sympathy towards Yolanda for her hostility towards Henry for the "selfie incident", to the point of insisting he is completely irredeemable, and going so far as to threaten to kill him. However, what fans seem to forget is Yolanda is both unaware that Henry genuinely feels remorse for the incident (not helped by him harassing her after), or that he ''wasn't'' the one who shared it publicly (that was Cindy, who no one is aware of being the one behind it). To the viewer, she's kicking a vulnerable kid while he's down and potentially pushing him into villainy, over an incident he wasn't entirely at fault for and has regretted, but to her, as far as she knows, she's standing up to the guy who committed a sex crime that ruined her life.
** This is not helped by Henry never telling her that he didn't give out copies of the picture intentionally, and treating himself as the sole culprit when they are talking about it. While it's understandable he feels that ItsAllMyFault, the fact that Henry didn't mass email the picture to the school is never brought up by either one of them, making the whole thing look like a clumsy mid-season Retcon.

** [[spoiler:The mystery surrounding the murder of the Gambler and who's behind the surveillance cameras throughout Blue Valley in Season 3. The audience patiently waited till the "Infinity Inc" two-parter in the middle because the Season 2 stinger lead them to believe Mister Bones was the culprit, but it was [[MidSeasonTwist all a mislead.]]]]

** [[spoiler:The mystery surrounding the murder of the Gambler and whose behind the surveillance cameras throughout Blue Valley in Season 3. The audience patiently waited till the "Infinity Inc" two-parter in the middle because the Season 2 stinger lead them to believe Mister Bones was the culprit, but it was [[MidSeasonTwist all a mislead.]]]]

** The Gambler's words about his [[spoiler: daughter]] in "Frenemies Part One" affect Courtney very strongly. While it's later established that [[spoiler: he's telling the truth,]] it's possible that he was also deliberately choosing his words to appeal to Courtney, who understands exactly what it feels like to be [[spoiler: abandoned by your father.]]

** Sylvester's actions toward Pat come off as condescending compassion at times, but given how he was raised by parents who he implies were emotionally abusive, it may be that he is genuinely trying to connect with his friend and doesn't really know how to ''not'' treat him as an inferior. [[spoiler: While he was alive, anyway...]]

%% * {{Narm}}: The added tiger sound effect when Tigress was fighting Starman.

* JerkassWoobie: Artemis Crock is a bad-tempered JerkJock who's prone to physically assaulting people, but after her parents are arrested and she's put into a foster home that is clearly FosteringForProfit, it's hard not to feel bad for her. [[spoiler: It only gets worse when Cindy and Eclipso cause her to think her parents' lives are in danger, leading to a violent freak out that costs her her future as an athlete.]]

** While the style and tone of his departure from the show received some praise if nothing else, the ''timing'' of Henry being killed could have been better given how subsequent episodes could have had him spend more time dealing with the knowledge that his father killed his mother, help Courtney through her discovery that Starman isn't her father and they aren't cousins and meet his uncle once it turns out Starman is still alive.

** Ted Grant/Wildcat losing his ResurrectiveImmortality to instead be a man wearing a ''Film/BlackPanther''-inspired ClothesMakeTheSuperman suit, though it doesn't factor into much other than exposition, annoyed some fans who were hoping his Nine Lives could be used to bring him back in the future.

* MagnificentBastard: [[AffablyEvil Jordan Mahkent]] is the supervillain [[AnIcePerson Icicle]], who vowed to eliminate all the "injustices" of the world [[CrusadingWidow after the death of his wife]]. Forming the [[LegionOfDoom Injustice Society of America]] with the promise of a brighter future for their children, Jordan planned to use Brainwave's telepathic abilities to spread the doctrine of his "New Constitution", killing 25% of those affected but forcing every adult in the Midwest into [[WellIntentionedExtremist accepting renewable energy and social equality]]. Coming into conflict with the Justice Society, Jordan led a successful attack that decimated their membership, before leaving the ISA to finish preparing for their plan in Blue Valley while he continued to hunt down those responsible for his wife's death. A genuinely compassionate man who comes to care for Barbara Whitmore and her family, Jordan ultimately never let anything stand in the way of his mission, fighting to his last breath against what he saw as injustice.

** Cameron Mahkent and Artemis Crock, though only minor figures so far, are getting a lot of fan love, due to the former being a NiceGuy and MoralityPet for his father, Icicle, while the latter is a fun JerkJock and recipient of her parents' smothering. It helps that in the comics, they followed their parents and became an UnholyMatrimony BattleCouple themselves who were already Ensemble Darkhorses for comic fans, and that Artemis was a major character in the widely beloved ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''.