There's one thing I never quite understood about Captain N aside from everything else.
So you have Mother Brain as the main villain of the series... and you don't have Ridley and Kraid working as the typical duo of incompetent henchmen that do her biddings, one being smart but clumsy (Ridley) and the other being stupid but lovable (Kraid), and have them constantly trying to take down the main heroes in almost every episode but always fail spectacularly, ending the episode with the villain beating them up as punishment?
I never understood why they wasted the chance of doing that.