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• Ass Pull: As awesome as it otherwise is, absolutely nothing ever implied that the PAW Patrol could get new powers by having two pups high-five each other.
• Base Breaker: Chase. While he's popular with a good amount of fans, some feel that he hogs the spotlight too much and leaves less-often used pups like Zuma and Rocky Out of Focus.
• Broken Base: The newer seasons are Denser and Wackier compared to the older seasons. Some fans dislike this and wish that the show would just stick to more realistic rescues. Others find the new direction to be just as fun, if not moreso, than the earlier seasons, and sometimes point out that the earlier seasons were never really all that realistic to begin with.
• Continuity Lock Out: It's not as bad as other examples, as this show is pretty episodic, but it can still happen a bit if you don't watch the show regularly:
  • Whenever a new character is introduced, it can potentially confuse those who randomly watch a pre-character debut episode and a post-character debut episode back-to-back (Example: New viewers might be confused watching a pre-The New Pup episode and a post-The New Pup episode back-to-back, because The New Pup was the episode that introduced Everest, potentially leading to new viewers wondering where she came from).
    • A similar scenario happens whenever new gadgets or vehicles are introduced as well.
  • If you haven't seen the hour-long Season 5 special Mighty Pups, you'll be confused with the Mighty Pups, Super PAWs arc of Season 6. Specifically, you'll be left wondering why the PAW Patrol suddenly has a glowing, golden meteor and why the pups have superpowers given to them by the meteor that they somehow already know how to use.
• Ensemble Darkhorse:
  • Ever since her debut, Everest has proven to be popular among fans. She was even given a bigger role from Season 3 onwards.
    • Tracker too, except he started appearing more often in Season 4 rather than Season 3.
  • Sweetie, the Princess of Barkingburg's puppy from the Mission PAW specials; mainly due to the fans finding her motives cool.
• Fan Dumb:
  • There are some fans who believe that everything made after Season 1 is automatically inferior, which is disturbingly similar to the way Genwunners think.
  • When Everest was introduced, a small but vocal group of fans accused the writers of ripping-off their OCs. Never mind that every episode is made many months in advance, and that if anything, any similarities were completely unintentional.
    • A similar accusation was made when the Kitten Catastrophe Crew was introduced.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Not a big one, but fans commonly prefer to ignore the pups' canon ages.
  • The biggest one is the implication that Zuma is the youngest pup, despite that Rubble was clearly shown to be younger than Zuma was in Pups Get a Rubble, which shows how Rubble joined the PAW Patrol.
• Faux Symbolism: At the end of Sea Patrol: Pups Save a Soggy Farm, after the PAW Patrol drains all the water that flooded Farmer Al's farm, a rainbow can be seen.
• Franchise Original Sin: A common complaint from one portion of the show's fanbase is how the show's rescues and plots have become increasingly bizzare as time went on. However, the earliest instance of something unrealistic happening in the show can be traced all the way back to the Season 1 Halloween special, Pups and the Ghost Pirate. Just as everyone gets off the ship they were riding for the Halloween party, the ghost that was supposedly haunting the ship (actually just Cali, Chickaletta, and Wally fiddling around with said ship) is hinted to be Real After All, as ghostly moaning can be heard just before everyone decides to celebrate their party at the Lookout instead. And just before the episode ends, the same ship is seen flying in front of the full moon.
• Gannon Banned: It's NOT Paw Patrol, it's PAW Patrol. All the letters in "PAW" are capitalized.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show is made in Canada, but it's arguably more popular in the United States than it is there.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: This happened to the show in June 2020 after the protests against police brutality began that month following the death of George Floyd in the hands of police officers. The show was criticised for promoting "copaganda" through its positive portrayal of Chase, the police pup, and as such criticism further intensified when the show's Twitter announced that they would go dark in memory of Floyd. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed the show was cancelled due to "cancel culture", but the show denied any such cancellation. This led to "Chase's Ultimate Rescue" episodes temporarily being pulled, and the Nick Jr. website changing an icon of Chase (used to represent PAW Patrol) to an icon of Marshall, the fire pup. And that is all we will say on that subject.
• Periphery Demographic: As mentioned on the show's main page, it's as hugely popular among teens and adults as it is among the targeted preschool audience. It's almost as big as the Periphery Demographic for My Little Pony.
• Relationship Writing Fumble: Neither Chase nor Skye have any kind of feelings for each other in any direction outside of a sibling-like relationship. Hasn't stopped a majority of the fandom from misinterpreting their interactions with each other as Ship Tease, though.
• Ruined FOREVER: In June 2016, it was announced that Season 4 would introduce the Kingdom of Barkingburg. This announcement did NOT fly with a lot of fans, who assumed that Barkingburg was gonna be some kind of magical kingdom where the pups originated from, which, to them, would be completely against the premise of the show and, in turn, would lead to the show's demise.
• They Just Didn't Care: This British dub is essentially this, with many of the child characters sounding way too old because the people who voice them stick around far after they have started puberty, and they don't even try to sound a bit younger.
• Tough Act to Follow: Although Spin Master later made other preschool series such as Little Charmers, Shimmer and Shine, Rusty Rivets and Abby Hatcher, and they have seen moderate success, none of them were nearly as successful as PAW Patrol.
• Vindicated by History: When Drew Davis was originally cast as Marshall, the fandom cringed at how he didn't even remotely sound like Marshall's original VA, Gage Munroe. Nowadays, his performance as Marshall is better received, and the fandom was sad to see him go when Season 5 ended.
• What Do You Mean It's for Preschoolers?: The show is preschooler-friendly overall, but there have been countless times where the characters who need rescuing could have died if the PAW Patrol had not rescued them in time.
• What the Hell Casting Agency?:
  • Justin Paul Kelly, Chase's voice actor since Season 5, has gotten this reaction from fans, saying that he doesn't sound a bit like Chase's first 2 voice actors, Tristan Samuel (Chase's VA from Season 1) and Max Calinescu (Chase's VA from Season 2-Season 4, and in Mighty Pups).
  • Ace Sorenson's Season 3 VA, Megan Fahlenbock, was criticized for making Ace sound a bit too old.
  • There's also the disastrous British dub (see They Just Didn't Care above).

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