Have You Ever Wondered How The Spanish Dub Of The Bad Guys Changes The Names In Spanish?

 

• The Bad Guys (2022) and The Bad Guys 2:
  • Diane Foxington to Diane Zorrento (Latin America only, Spain keeps her English name, a pun between "zorro" {fox} with the surname "Sorento"). Her nickname "The Scarlet Paw", became "La Garra Escarlata" (The Scarlet Claw) in Latin America, and "La Zarpa Escarlata" (literal translation) in Spain
  • Chief Luggins to Comandante Gruñez (Latin America, a portmanteau of "gruñir" {Growl) and the surname "Nuñez"). Spain keeps her English name.
  • Tiffany Fluffit to Tristina Chismera (book series; US English); Tiffany Chismera (Latin America, a portmanteau of "chisme" {Gossip} and the surname "Rivera") and Tiffany Peluchi (Spain, a a portmanteau of "peluche" {stuffed toy} with the Italian surname "Bellucci")
  • Pigtail to Jabalinda, (Latin America, a portmanteau of "jabali" {Warhog} and "linda" {cute girl}) and Jabalina (Spain, a pun between the already mentioned "Jabali" with "javalina" {javeline})
  • Doom to Sombra (Latin American and Spain, translated as "shadow")

We Are Going To Asuka's College Tomorrow, Before This, I Will Be Taking You On A Tour On What Is This College Like At Saylor-Ackerman University, Complete With Facts!

 Hey Guys, Tomorrow, Me, My Mom, My Siblings And Asuka Are Going To The College That My Mom Is Making Asuka Go (Because After Mom And Dad's Intense Debate About Sending Asuka To Another School In New Jersey, My Mom Changed Her Mind And Looked For A School To Send Asuka Close To Home) So, Mom Found A College Called "Saylor-Ackerman University" It's A College In Bexley In East Mound Street! (Ironically, It Shares Space With Another University, Capital University, So It's 2 Colleges In The Same Property!)

Anyways, This Is The Logo Of Saylor-Ackerman University, According To The Logo, It Depects The Colors Of Purple And Yellow, And The Symbols Are A Sun And A Star, It Was Founded In 1955, And The Quote Uses The Sun, Stars And It's Colors To Create A Unique Phrase.

So, First Is The Main College Campus Of Saylor-Ackerman University Is Basically Big, It's A Giant Building With Dorms And A School In It (The Dorms And Classrooms Are In The Same Building, That Makes It Weird)

Also, Lohman Complex, Is Where Several Other Classrooms Are Located

Battelle Hall Where The Lunch Area, Library And Study Rooms Are Held

The Ruff Memoral Learning Center Is A Building Where A Stage Is Housed, And Various Classrooms And A Few Dorms Are Housed (Ironically, It's Located Next To The Main Capital University Office Building (With The Sign)

Also, The Captial University Sign (Kinda Weird That They Put The Sign Into The Main Saylor-Ackerman University Campus, It Feels Like That Capital University Owns This Small College/Property) But They Decided To Put The Sign So It's Still Owned By Capital University, LOL

Anyways, Update, The Saylor-Ackerman University Campus Is Revealed To Be Owned By Capital University, It's Basically A Small, Community College-Like University, where the same college opportunities are accepted Like The Main Campus, Basically, In Context, Saylor-Ackerman University Is Like A Spin-Off Of The Main Capital University Campus, But With Affordable Plans, So The Reason They Put The Capital University Sign Into The Main Saylor-Ackerman University Entrance Is Because It's Owned By The Captial University Team, After They Built It... 

Anyways, I Made This Map To Showcase The Comparison Of Capital University And Saylor-Ackerman University, Basically, The Captial University Property (In Orange) Is Big, And Saylor-Ackerman University Property (In Pink) Is The Smallest University.

Basically, It Also Has A Gallery, Called The Schumacher Gallery, A Library Called The Blackmore Library, The Only Hall In The University Called The Battelle Hall, The Only Learning Center Called The Ruff Learning Center, The School's Only Courtyard, The Courtyard, And A Cafe Called The Capital Grounds (That Also Houses The Main Office And Resources) A Stage Called Huntington Recital Hall And A Stadium Called The Capital Center!

Basically This University Has The Best Areas, And It's Near Capital University And The Famed Religious College, Trinity Lutheran College (That Capital University Also Owns) 

Anyways, That Concludes Our End Of The Tour Of The College, Anyways, I Hope Tomorrow I Get To See It In Real Life, And Also I Hope Asuka Will Like It After We Sign The Papers! - R.T

What Country Loves The Bad Guys?

So, United States Is Not The Only Country Who Loves The Bad Guys, There's A Handful Of Other Countries That Do Love The Bad Guys Films And It's Franchise!

 The Most Popular Country That Loves The Bad Guys Is Latin America, Currently, It's Sequel, Known As "Los tipos malos 2" Has Became A Huge Hit In Latin America, Ever Since It Was Released In Theaters Across The South American Region Back In 2025, It Has Been Become Popular Among Fans, To The Point That It Has Even Aired On TV (The Film Airs Sometimes Once A Week Or Month Depending On The Scheduling, The Most Common Channel That The Bad Guys' Sequel Airs Is On The HBO Channels, Basically The Latin American HBO Channels)

(An Example Of An Airing Of The Bad Guys, Airing On HBO Family In Latin America, Since I Don't Watch Latin American TV Channels, This Is Just A Brief Explanation) Also, It's On FREAKING HBO Max (COME ON, IT'S A DREAMWORKS MOVIE, NOT A WARNER BROS MOVIE, Now That Gives A Meaning That All Animation Is DreamWorks)

Also, You Know What Other Countries Love The Bad Guys, Well, According To Worldwide Search Trends, The Most Popular Country That Loves The Bad Guys Films Is Iran, Apparently 100 People In Iran Love The Bad Guys!

(Comparison Of The Top 5 Countries Who Love The Bad Guys, Beating Latin America To A Punch!)

Apparently, The Bad Guys Fad In Latin America Just Won't Go Away, With The Popularity Of It's Sequel Airing On TV In Latin America Is Popular With Viewers, And It Won't Go Away, I CAN'T BELIEVE LATIN AMERICA IS GOING NUTS WITH THE BAD GUYS SEQUEL, Ever Since The Hype And Popularity For The First Movie Just Died Down, And The Sequel Is Going Around In Latin America In An Alarming Rate! 

Well, It Makes Me So Glad That Latin America And United States Are The 2 Most Popular Countries That Love The Bad Guys, And Also Iran As Well, As A Famed United States Fan Of The Bad Guys, I'm Really Glad That I Discovered The Fandom In My Own Country, Not Latin America Or Iran! - R.T

The Post Credit Scenes In The Bad Guys And The Bad Guys 2!

The Bad Guys 1 (2022)

In a mid-credits scene set a year later, the gang is released from prison early in light of their good behavior and leaves with Foxington, ready to begin their new crime-fighting careers.

At the end of the credits, a photo of the Bad Guys pauses on-screen and the group is heard laughing. 

The Bad Guys 2 (2025)

Marmalade, still in space, turns his car into a spaceship as he blasts off home, stating that his plan has apparently come together.

A clip from earlier in the movie re-plays as Snake waves bye.

I Agree With Misty Luggins In Her Character Development... But I Don't Get How Did She Developed In The 2 Bad Guys Movies (An Explanation)

 

Based on the Bad Guys sequel (2025) and related media, Misty Luggins is promoted from Police Chief to Commissioner as part of the storyline's evolution. She is a dedicated, hot-tempered law enforcer who continues her, at times chaotic, battle against crime while interacting with the redeemed Bad Guys. 

Promotion & Role: In the sequel, she acts as Commissioner, tracking new villains like the "Phantom Bandit" and interacting with Wolf and his crew.

Character Evolution: She evolves from a furious, antagonistic chief trying to catch the team to becoming a closer, albeit still fiery, ally who helps them with new, covert missions.

Relationship with Bad Guys: She keeps a tense, humorous relationship with the team, leading to moments where she works with them but still gets caught in the crossfire of their chaotic adventures.

Basically, I Agree With Misty Luggins And Her Character Development, But After Reading The Explaination, I Agree With The 2 Movies That Aced Her Development, I Have Seen The Movies And They Explain Very Well About Miss Luggins And Her Career Changes...

This Video Gives Us A Good Explanation About Luggins And Her Character Development... - R.T 

The Bad Guys Facts For Die-Hard Fans

 

• The Bad Guys (2022): Piranha keeps mistaking the heart meteor for a butt as a running gag, enough that it bothers Professor Marmalade.
• The Bad Guys (2022):
• The Bad Guys' second plan to steal the Golden Dolphin award includes switching it out for a duplicate statue.
• In the climax it turns out that the meteorite the gang stole was actually a lamp and Mr. Snake set the real one to overload, thus massive explosion that destroyed Marmalade's mansion.

• The Bad Guys (2022):
• In an unusual variation, the titular "Bad Guys" allow themselves to be arrested, and the movie ends with them in the back of a police car. They do this because they feel the need to make up for their past crimes. However, they have already made Heel Face Turns at that point, and since the governor is aware of their good deeds, it's very likely that their sentence won't be too harsh. The final scene of the film shows them leaving the prison, having gotten out early for good behaviour.
• Professor Marmalade, the true villain, is arrested at the end of the film when he is accused of being the infamous thief, the Crimson Paw. He did commit a number of crimes and definitely deserves to be arrested, but interestingly, he is being accused of the wrong crimes. Once Governor Diane Foxington is exposed as the real Crimson Paw in the sequel, Marmalade gets acquitted and released from prison.
• Diane Foxington in The Bad Guys (2022) breaks into the S.U.C.M. prison and single-handedly takes down all the guards in order to free the innocent Bad Guys, whilst in her Crimson Paw outfit.
• The Bad Guys uses a 3D style with outlines drawn on top, as well as flat effects such as motion lines hand-drawn into scenes.
• In The Bad Guys (2022), just before initiating the heist for the Golden Dolphin, Mr. Wolf (disguised as "Oliver Poodleton") meets Governor Diane Foxington outside the museum. He complements her for fighting back against the dastardly Bad Guys, although unsuccessfully and comments on how they are bound to go down in criminal history. This ends up backfiring; Diane thinks he's joking and starts laughing, followed by her very detailed criticisms of their previous heist and correctly predicting they would make things personal, which would lead to their demise. Mr. Wolf is visibly rattled.
• The Bad Guys (2022) opens as an homage to Pulp Fiction with Mr. Wolf and Mr. Snake talking to each other before they rob a bank. This is done as one continuous shot with no cuts lasting two minutes, 25 seconds and seven frames. The longest one-shot in DreamWorks Animation history.
• The Bad Guys (2022): Mr. Wolf, a master pickpocket, does this to steal an ID card from the police chief for the Golden Dolphin heist.

Dubbing Facts

No Dub for You: No media for the Umamusume franchise has an English Dub of any kind... with the exception of a very obscure Thai dub of the first season of the anime, featuring only eight voice actors.

No Export for You: Primos was confirmed to receive Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese dubs, but they were cancelled after the first few episodes were dubbed, and they never made it to air This makes Primos one of the few animated Disney-made productions which was deliberately not brought to Latin America by Disney. However, it is available in Spain and Portugal with local dubs and the characters from the show did made to the Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese dubs of Chibiverse.

Useless Facts About Valentines Day!

 Here's Some Useless Facts About Valentine's Day! - R.T

• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War:
• The movie is set during the lead up to Christmas. While the original Japanese release was during December, it briefly aired in theaters internationally on the following Valentine's Day (though it admittedly still fits thematically given that it is a romance story).
• The manga tends to do this in general due to sticking to an internal timeline rather than whatever time of year it happens to be in the real word at the time of publishing. The aforementioned Christmas arc came out in spring, New Year's Day in September, and Valentine's Day was during July.
• The Loud House: The Valentines Day Episodes "Singled Out; Brave the Last Dance" were supposed to premiere on February 8, 2020, but Nickelodeon moved the premiere to February 15, 2020 which premiered that same weekend, causing the episode to air the day after Valentine's Day.
• Aoi from Ai Yori Aoshi was born on the day of tanabata, which celebrates the once-a-year meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair) across the Milky Way. It's the Japanese equivalent to Valentine's Day.
• In Lucky Star, Akira Kogami: Valentine's day, but not much is made of it.
• My Hero Academia: La Brava, Gentle Criminal's sidekick whose Quirk is literally The Power of Love, was born on February 14 - Valentine's Day.
• Ojamajo Doremi: Hazuki Fujiwara's birthday is on Valentine's Day.
• BlazBlue: Jin's birthday is Feb 14 (Valentine's Day), coupled with Tsubaki being born on March 14 (White Day); the same is true for their alter-egos, Hakumen and Izayoi respectively.
• The final chapter of the Rom Com manga My Monster Secret was published on Valentine's Day 2017.

Some things never stood a chance, Then, The Audience-Alienating Premise Kicks In...

 Some shows never stood a chance. Not necessarily because they're bad, but because the very concept scared people away. They say that one shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but sometimes, that's easier said than done. This is the Audience-Alienating Premise: an idea that could be cool and could even make a fantastic show, book, movie, video game or comic, and may very well have, but which instead dooms the work from the very start due to the mere concept being a difficult sell. Sadly, due to how it "sounds", many people won't try it out.

Here Are Some Examples: 

• Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024): The movie is a pseudo-sequel adaptation to a children's picture book series from the 1950s-60s targeted at toddlers, the only other adaptation of which was a short-lived cartoon that aired more than twenty years prior. This alone isn't too weird, but the choice to make the movie a live-action, action-packed, and Meta Sequel Human-Focused Adaptation set in the "real world" with Harold being played by a very much adult Zachary Levi left many scratching their heads. Unsurprisingly, it was a major Box-Office Bomb and critically thrashed, with many left wondering, who was this movie for?
• M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender is a Live-Action Adaptation of a popular cartoon series of the same name. Unlike other films of its kind, however, the original series wasn’t that old, which made it feel unnecessary. The original cartoon is Animesque, with a lot of supernatural elements and abilities that would be hard to translate into live-action (especially in 2010), which is why, compared to the show, the movie’s characters feel much weaker. This made fans of the series dismiss the movie as an unfaithful to its source material. It also completely changed the character’s races. Even people who weren’t familiar with the cartoon would have a hard time watching it, since it tries to retell the entirety of the show’s first season within 90 minutes, making the film’s plot feel, confusing, crowded, and poorly-paced. All these factors led to it being a critical and financial disaster.
• Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is a parody of musician documentaries like (as the title implies) Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. However, the genre it was satirizing hasn't seen a big hit since the aforementioned film five years prior, making the subject matter unrelevant among general audiences. This likely explains why the film did poorly enough to be pulled out of theaters after only three weeks despite positive reviews.
• The American Society of Magical Negroes is a satire on the Magical Negro trope, centered on a secret society of black people whose job is to fulfill the lives of white people. The title alone made people uneasy and spawned memes about white people being unable to ask for tickets to the film, and many who hadn't heard of the trope thought the film was simply a black-centric Harry Potter-esque affair with nothing else going for it. All of this combined with poor reviews citing the film as poorly executed resulted in it bombing and being pulled from theatres after three weeks.
• Disney Channel's The Buzz on Maggie, while generally liked by most of the people that watched it (a select few of which consider it a legit Cult Classic while most of the others merely consider it So Okay, It's Average), is a very stereotypical Slice of Life sitcom aimed at girls that takes place in an overflowing garbage dump infested with sentient anthropomorphic flies and various other types of insects. These reasons lead to the show only lasting one season.
• Good Times: Black Again is a follow-up to the groundbreaking Good Times that takes numerous creative liberties with the original show, including a Denser and Wackier tone and a Setting Update to the 2020s. Fans of the original sitcom weren't interested in a sequel that discarded much of what made it memorable.
• Joshiraku is a hard sell for both sides of the world. The protagonists are Rakugo performers, a very old style of Japanese comedy that you'd be hard pressed to find anyone under 50 watching in its home country. If one can get past that, there's the very Surreal Humor aspect. And for American viewers, it comes with a boatload of Japanese wordplay and puns that will most likely fly over their heads. Not surprisingly, the series didn't fare well in Japan and completely bombed with American viewers.
• PuraOre! ~Pride of Orange~ is an ice hockey, Slice of Life, and Idol Genre mashup. Putting aside that hockey is extremely niche in Japan, the show has much less in the way of actual hockey action than the premise would suggest, there are about five minutes of idol performances total across all twelve episodes, The Blurays flopped by most reports, and the PuraOre! mobile game that the anime was made to kickstart lasted a mere eight months (covering less than half of its intended story) before shutting down.
• Yo-kai Watch, at least in the West. A lot of people were calling it "the next Pokémon" before it released. That's not the only reason, though; Yōkai are a pretty Japanese concept, and not a lot of Westerners would "get it", so to speak, at first. Then, even if you know about yokai and are a Japanese cultural enthusiast — therefore looking forward to seeing something like this — they localize the show and games in many of the typical fashions (like Dub Name Change). It's still got a pretty good Western fanbase going for it, though it's admittedly nowhere near as big as in Japan. The anime not doing so well led to the English dub changing casts on season 3 to accommodate budget issues; and eventually to the show outright being pulled altogether in early 2019 in favor of Inazuma Eleven: Ares.

• This was likely a major reason for Arrested Development becoming an Acclaimed Flop during its original run (though it was Vindicated by History, and eventually Un-Canceled by Netflix)
• Blockbuster is a sitcom on Netflix about the last Blockbuster in existence. While a show revolving around employees of a video store seemed like a good idea on paper, not many people were willing to give it a chance due to the setting being in The New '20s, as they felt it would've worked better had it taken place during The '90s and The 2000s when Blockbuster Video was at the peak of its popularity. Needless to say, it only lasted one season.
• Comedians Unleashed was a very short-lived stand-up comedy show produced by Animal Planet made to capitalize on the rising popularity of stand-up specials, with the theming that all of the jokes revolved around animals. It wasn't a clip show with comedian commentary or something like that, but comedians on stage performing rehearsed sets only about animals. Even by just the pilot episode, it's clear that there's not enough material to make a single quality set, let alone to make an entire series. Comedy fans were turned off by the lack of variety, while animal fans were disinterested in a show that didn't actually have animals. Despite airing the pilot seven times in hopes of finding an audience, it suffered horrible viewership and was eventually quietly cancelled.
• This is why Cop Rock failed in 1990. It's a crime drama... and a musical! Though musicals can be a hard sell, the successful ones try to provide semi-plausible reasons for for characters to burst into song—notably, Fame had ended only a few years prior, was a massive success, and took place in a setting about musical theatre already—or take place in a kind of heightened reality where it doesn't feel off for the characters to do so, like most animated musicals. Rock, on the other hand, just had musical numbers coming out of nowhere and performed by law enforcement, criminals, and victims alike. The results were so jarring that the final episode produced ended with the characters discussing how strange the premise was to begin with.
• Ferris Bueller, the TV show based off Ferris Bueller's Day Off, would have an interesting idea of continuing Ferris's escapades. However, the first episode establishes that the movie is loosely based on TV!Bueller's life and proceeds to destroy a cardboard cutout of Movie!Bueller to denounce it. Fans were insulted that this show tossed out their favorite movie and replaced the cast; non-fans weren't interested in watching a TV show of Ferris's day-to-day life since they haven't experienced the movie. With both types of viewers tuning out, the show got canned after 13 episodes.
• Nick Studio 10 aired in 2013 and never came back after it ended, due to outcry over the idea of random skits and gags interrupting shows like SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents! without any warning.
• Nick Jr. launched an adult-oriented block called NickMom in 2012, focused not on programming for preschoolers and young children, but for moms,  Combined with the fact that Nick Jr. is already a sister channel to another child-oriented channel with its own reliable nighttime block, Nick at Nite, ratings started off poor and went into a free-fall, even after Nick attempted to pivot away from the adult comedy and syndicated shows they had rights to and were already showing at Nick at Nite. After a half-hearted attempt to keep the block running on reruns as a "loss leader", Nick would eventually pull the plug in 2015.
•  Night Sky was a little much for people looking for an escape. The first episode is light on the science fiction and VERY heavy on the drama of two aging, forgetful seniors. This probably hit many elderly viewers and folks who care for their aging parents a little too close to home to bother continuing with the story. The planned second season was canceled due to the poor viewership.
• The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer is a 1998 Period Piece series taking place in the mid-19th Century, following a Black English nobleman who gets kidnapped and sent to America on a ship, involuntarily becoming the valet to Abraham Lincoln... and it's a Sitcom which plays the premise entirely for laughs. The series was blasted on sight for its racially insensitive and simply juvenile premise — the titular Desmond Pfeiffer being played as The Straight Man to a White House, not helped by how it was part of UPN, a network renowned for African-American-centric shows. Following immense protest by African-American activists for the show,, UPN declined to air its pilot (due to supposedly having especially tasteless jokes) and aired only four more episodes before pulling it entirely due to low ratings, with the unseen five episodes (including the pilot) never seeing the light of day and the show never being released on home media or syndication.
• The drama/musical Viva Laughlin (the U.S. adaptation of The BBC series Blackpool) got horrid reviews and was canned after only two episodes, even with a singing, dancing Hugh Jackman. Like Cop Rock above, a musical television series was already a bit of a hard sell (even as a Jukebox Musical as opposed to Rock's original numbers). Compare it to Glee from only a few years later, which performed both contemporary and classic hits to keep the audience excited, and could also use the sales of those covers to make up for any underperforming ratings. Furthermore (and again like Cop Rock), audiences struggled to suspend their disbelief that casino investors, businessmen, and gangsters would regularly break out into song.
• The Will was a reality show pulled after the first episode. A huge advertising push ensured that everyone would be disgusted with the premise of a group of people competing to be the sole heir of their rich benefactor's estate before it even premiered.
• Fight Of Gods wouldn't be so alienating if it didn't include different real-life religions' gods. This is one reason why Steam once got banned in Asia  although Valve had removed the game from Steam four days before the ban. A lot of people aren't into it because of blasphemous implications. Fortunately, the controversy benefitted the game in the West, but the game's sequel, Fight of Animals, went for a Lighter and Softer route by basing its characters on pseudo-muscular animal memes, to a better reception.
• Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X attempts to include a story mode, unlike previous games. However, this has been criticized by fans as being a poor move that turned away many, since a major part of Vocaloid's appeal was they were interpretive Blank Slates that can be used for anything by anyone, which a story mode in an official Hatsune Miku project greatly goes against, on top of getting in the way of what most people play the series for to begin with, that being the challenging rhythm gameplay. Even those who found the story mode to be interesting, however, were turned off by the story being little more than a basic Excuse Plot that fails to properly flesh out the world and characters in any meaningful way, on top of having almost none of the pre-existing Project Diva lore from previous games. The addition of a story mode and its execution is considered by many to have played a large part in X's underperformance in sales and why later Project Diva games would just stick to the rhythm gameplay going forward. Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage! repeated the concept of a Hatsune Miku game with a story mode to much greater success by emphasizing Vocaloid's interpretive nature; the game focuses on an original cast of characters who each have their own personal interpretations of the virtual singers, rather than attempting to assign them canonical stories and personalities. This allowed for deeper story arcs and a more significant amount of Character Development, solving the issues fans had with the previous attempt.
• LEGO Horizon Adventures: The game's high concept immediately attracted confusion from the very start: a LEGO Adaptation Game of Horizon. The game was also less of a traditional LEGO adaptation game by eschewing many elements found with the typical formula, including extensive character customization, instead functioning more as a direct, if heavily simplified and more overtly comedic remake of the action-RPG gameplay already established by Horizon, games that were still "recent" and fairly accessible. The game was ultimately released in November 2024 to mediocre reviews and sales, largely due to the most common question of "Who is this even for?" being unanswered.
• Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA- is a KanColle-esque Card Battle Game featuring a Cast Full of Pretty Boys with wacky personalities, except said pretty boys are religious depictions. It's safe to assume this game doesn't look too good to people outside Japan due to blasphemous implications, and the servers were terminated at the end of August 2020, less than two years after it launched.
• Pooplers involves you being a baby... against 3 other babies... slowly covering the floor... in poop. With obnoxious sound effects all throughout. Unsurprisingly, it flopped hard.
• Spyro: Shadow Legacy: A Spyro RPG with a mostly dark tone (in the same universe as the classic games instead of being a reboot)? Not hard to see why this game has been mostly forgotten and got largely poor reviews and sales.
• Avengers Arena: Taking cult favorite teenage heroes and putting them in a The Hunger Games/Battle Royale scenario played completely straight, so as to prop up Smug Snake gimmick villain Arcade as a legitimate threat (twenty years too late), by having a lot of teenagers die. The amount of vitriol it generated before and during its release is rather amazing. The sequel, by the same writer, had the surviving kids infiltrating the Masters of Evil with the book's premise being that one of them will turn evil. It sold so poorly that it was cancelled after 10 issues (the story was planned for at least 12).
• Awoken is a parody of the Paranormal Romance genre, specifically "Twilight meets the Cthulhu Mythos". When asked if it was an audience-alienating premise, they responded with "That's the joke."
• This is the most likely reason why Lisi Harrison's Monster High book series flopped for young readers but older ones would most likely be turned off by a novel series based on a  girls' toy line. And fans of the franchise disliked that it was In Name Only.