Your Mileage May Vary



Your Mileage May Vary, most commonly seen on the wiki as YMMV (because we love FLLA's), is a way of saying that the trope inherently involves some kind of judgement call. Not everyone agrees that Happy Days got worse with the Fonz Jumped the Shark -- some loved the whole show, and some never liked it. One troper's Fridge Logic was already another troper's I Knew It.

So if you see these tropes on a page, don't freak out because  (Do, however, feel free to get upset at a YMMV trope used as a Zero Context Example.)  These tropes belong on the "/YMMV" subpage of a work.

In general, YMMV tropes fall into two different categories:

The article might call for a value judgement and your judgement call could be different from another Troper's.


 * Example -- The article claims that a character is completely lacking in redeeming features. Your idea of "irredeemable" and another's idea of it might (almost certainly will) differ. Each of you is making a judgment call. Great! Have fun with that. It just doesn't go on the work's main page. We want the tropes listed there to be one hundred percent present in the work without coming down to personal opinion.

The article might be about differences of opinion or Audience Reactions.


 * Example -- Everybody who doesn't like the work have gotten together, formed a Hatedom and as such share a certain view of the work. As sure as the Sun will rise tomorrow, there will also be a Fandom and there will be wars and rumors of wars. These wars are stories of a sort, they are constructed from tropes like Revenge Fics, Fan Fics, trolling ... the list is pretty long.


 * Evidently the fans and the haters enjoy these battles. Okay. Best of luck to them. The point is that there is no accounting for taste. Entries about this kind of story, though, don't go in a work's page; that is a place for storytelling tropes. Audience Reactions are a part of the conflict, not the story the conflict is about.

See YMMV Index for a list of works that have a YMMV page.

In general, these shouldn't be added to the main page for a work. The exception is if it's an In Universe example, where the characters of the show itself invoke the trope to get a reaction from other characters.

We're working on a way to display these slightly differently -- probably with different colored links.

Please note that instead of adding or removing pages from this index directly, you should post to the the forum, and gather consensus for your addition or removal.

See also What Goes Where On the Wiki, Trivia Trope.

Subcategories:
 * Audience Reactions
 * YMMV Redirects


 * Abandon Shipping
 * Acceptable Ethnic Targets
 * Acceptable Hard Luck Targets
 * Acceptable Hobby Targets
 * Acceptable Inevitable Targets
 * Acceptable Lifestyle Targets
 * Acceptable Political Targets
 * Acceptable Professional Targets
 * Acceptable Religious Targets
 * Acceptable Targets
 * Accidental Aesop
 * Accidental Innuendo
 * Alas Poor Scrappy
 * Americans Hate Tingle
 * Angst Dissonance
 * Angst What Angst
 * Anticlimax Boss
 * Anti Sue
 * Anvilicious
 * Ass Pull
 * Author's Saving Throw
 * Awesome Ego
 * Awesome Music
 * Badass Decay
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment
 * Breather Boss
 * Breather Level
 * Browser Narcotic
 * Black Hole Sue
 * Cargo Ship
 * Catharsis Factor
 * Chaotic Evil
 * Chaotic Good
 * Chaotic Neutral
 * Character Derailment
 * Character Rerailment
 * Character Tiers
 * Cliché Storm
 * Complete Monster
 * Consolation Award
 * Copy Cat Sue
 * Couple Bomb
 * Crack is Cheaper
 * Crack Pairing
 * Crazy Awesome
 * Creator's Pet
 * Creepy Awesome
 * Critical Research Failure
 * Crosses the Line Twice
 * Crossover Ship
 * Damsel Scrappy
 * Dead Horse Genre
 * Death of the Author
 * Demonic Spiders
 * Designated Evil
 * Designated Hero
 * Designated Villain
 * Dry Docked Ship
 * Dry Docking
 * Dude, Not Funny
 * Ear Worm
 * Eight Deadly Words
 * Einstein Sue
 * Elimination Houdini
 * Engaging Chevrons
 * Ensemble Darkhorse
 * Epic Riff
 * Escapist Character
 * Esoteric Happy Ending
 * Estrogen Brigade
 * Ethnic Scrappy
 * Evil Is Cool
 * Evil Is Sexy
 * Face of the Band
 * Family-Unfriendly Aesop
 * Fan Wank
 * Fair for Its Day
 * Discontinuity
 * Fashion Victim Villain
 * Faux Symbolism
 * Fen
 * Fetish Retardant
 * Ficdom
 * First and Foremost
 * Fixer Sue
 * Foe Yay
 * Follow Up Failure
 * Fridge Brilliance -- Please note that Fridge Brilliance entries should go on an article's Fridge subpage.
 * Fridge Logic -- Please note that Fridge Logic entries should go on an article's Fridge subpage.
 * Fridge Horror -- Please note that Fridge Horror entries should go on an article's Fridge subpage.
 * Fridge Sorrow -- Please note that Fridge Sorrow entries should go on an article's Fridge subpage.
 * Funny Moments
 * Game Breaker
 * Gameplay Derailment
 * Genius Bonus
 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff
 * Glurge
 * Goddamned Bats
 * Goddamned Boss
 * God Mode Sue
 * Good Bad Bugs
 * Grand Theft Auto Effect
 * Growing the Beard
 * Ham and Cheese
 * Heartwarming Moments
 * Hell Is That Noise
 * Hollywood Homely
 * Hollywood Pudgy
 * Hypocritical Fandom
 * I Am Not Shazam
 * Iconic Character Forgotten Title
 * Idiosyncratic Ship Naming
 * Idiot Plot
 * Informed Wrongness
 * Iron Woobie
 * Jerkass Woobie
 * Jerk Sue
 * Junk Rare
 * Launcher of a Thousand Ships
 * Lawful Evil
 * Lawful Good
 * Lawful Neutral
 * Lemon Stu
 * Lost in Medias Res
 * Macekre
 * Magazine Decay
 * Magic Franchise Word
 * Magnificent Bastard
 * Magnum Opus
 * Magnum Opus Dissonance
 * Marty Stu
 * Mary Sue
 * Mary Suetopia
 * Mary Tzu
 * Mind Game Ship
 * Moe
 * Moment of Awesome
 * Moral Event Horizon
 * More Popular Spinoff
 * Most Annoying Sound
 * Most Wonderful Sound
 * Narm Charm
 * Nausea Fuel
 * Neutral Evil
 * Neutral Good
 * Neutrality Sue
 * No Yay
 * Once Acceptable Targets
 * One True Threesome
 * Only the Creator Does It Right
 * Outgrow the Trope
 * Padding
 * Painful Rhyme
 * Paranoia Fuel
 * Player Preferred Pattern
 * Player Punch
 * Play the Game Skip The Story
 * Poison Oak Epileptic Trees
 * Polished Port
 * Porting Disaster
 * Possession Sue
 * Praising Shows You Don't Watch
 * Protagonist Title Fallacy
 * Protection From Editors
 * Purity Sue
 * Relationship Sue
 * Relationship Writing Fumble
 * Replacement Scrappy
 * Rescued From the Scrappy Heap
 * Robo Ship
 * Romantic Plot Tumor
 * Rule Abiding Rebel
 * Sampled Up
 * Scrappy Mechanic
 * Scrappy Weapon
 * Selfish Good Selfish Evil
 * Sending Stuff to Save The Show
 * Sequelitis
 * Serial Numbers Filed Off
 * Shallow Parody
 * Ship Mates
 * Shipping Goggles
 * The Ships Motor
 * Ships That Pass in The Night
 * Ship to Ship Combat
 * The Ship Yard
 * Shocking Swerve
 * Signature Scene
 * Sister Ship
 * So Cool It's Awesome
 * So Okay It's Average
 * Spokes Sue
 * Star Boarding
 * Stock Footage Failure
 * Stoic Woobie
 * Strangled By the Red String
 * Stuck in Their Shadow
 * Suetiful All Along
 * Super Couple
 * Superfluous Solo
 * Surprise Difficulty
 * Sympathetic Sue
 * Take That Scrappy
 * Tear Jerker
 * Testosterone Brigade
 * That One Achievement
 * That One Attack
 * That One Boss
 * That One Disadvantage
 * That One Level
 * That One Puzzle
 * That One Sidequest
 * Theme Pairing
 * They Just Didn't Care
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Line Art
 * Thirty Sue Pileup
 * Tier Induced Scrappy
 * Too Cool to Live
 * Took the Bad Film Seriously
 * Toy Ship
 * Trailer Joke Decay
 * Trapped By Mountain Lions
 * True Neutral
 * Ugly Cute
 * Unacceptable Targets
 * Unfortunate Implications
 * Unnecessary Makeover
 * Unwinnable By Insanity
 * The Untwist
 * Values Resonance
 * Viewer Myopia
 * Villain Sue
 * Visual Effects of Awesome
 * Wangst
 * War Ship
 * What Do You Mean It's for Kids?
 * What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?
 * What Do You Mean It's Not for Little Girls?
 * What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?
 * What Measure Is a Non Badass
 * Wheelchair Woobie
 * Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?
 * Win Back the Crowd
 * The Woobie
 * Woobie Species
 * World of Woobie
 * Writer Cop Out
 * WTH Casting Agency
 * WTH Costuming Department
 * YMMV Trope (or variations of this) - In fact, this should never be listed as an example, considering the huge list of sub items.
 * Yoko Oh No