Kevin & Kell/YMMV

These things about Kevin & Kell are subjective - not everybody will agree with all of them.

Anvilicious: Comic about the equivalent of an interracial couple. So, yeah, it's gonna happen.
Archive Binge/Archive Panic: Going back to 1995, this is one of the longest-running web comics, with 28 years of daily strips.... You don't need to read the full archive to understand the newer strips but you have to read them if you want to get the full story.
Ass Pull: the 2011 "Kevin getting a recall election," storyline, starting here. The whole thing is built up so that all rabbits are divided on how the ears are portrayed; ears up is one side, and ears down is the other. Both sides hate each other with the same vitriol as opposing political viewpoints. Kevin has one ear up and one ear down. So Bill Holbrook has the option of either going into a storyline that delves into politics and Kevin struggling to find compromise and balance in the system... or he could have every rabbit in the world suddenly have ears like Kevin with absolutely no explanation, getting him re-elected and preserving the Status Quo. Guess which one Holbrook went with.
Boring Invincible Hero: One review suggests that the main characters have become this, not in fighting style but that they will always succeed at whatever they do somehow. It surmises that this is because Holbrook has fallen in love with the characters and cannot bear to make them unhappy... which would seem to be supported by his extreme focus on the strip, even over his more profitable comics and endeavors.
Genius Bonus:
- In this comic, Coney is losing marks for not sharing her meals by regurgitating them. Most people would find this funny due to the idea of the rabbit being greedy, but the thing is, rabbits are physically unable to vomit, meaning that she literally cannot share her meals by regurgitating them.
- Also the mole scientist named Avagadro: in chemistry, Avagadro's Number is the number of molecules in a mole.
Harsher in Hindsight:
- This strip falls under this trope when it's realized that, as a former human, any children Lindesfarne bears would probably be human -- which makes it unlikely her great-grandchildren would be hedgehogs.
  - Except that we know Turvy isn't human, she's a "flying hedgehog".
- Related to this, any references to diapering flying hedgehogs.
Internet Backdraft: The entire Danielle saga caused massive flame wars on the Kevin and Kell mailing list. Even Danielle making a one shot appearance will send them into a furor. This fan reaction is credited for the strip abandoning the long-running, complicated serial plots it had relied on for much of its existence.
Jumped the Shark: It seemed like the comic decreased in quality when humans were introduced into the story.
Misaimed Fandom: Surprisingly, the comic really does make some fans appreciate the world we live in a lot more. (Mostly because Real Life could be a hell of a lot worse.)
MST3K Mantra:
- Kind of required, or else half of everyone in the comic would look like a homicidal sociopath. Would be easier to maintain if not for the below-noted Protagonist-Centered Morality.
- Suggested in the "unofficial" FAQ in a question about the existence of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Also invokes Rule of Funny.
- Plus, apparently it's illegal to kill someone unless you eat them afterwards.
Protagonist-Centered Morality: Pretty much a rule of the comic. Kell and Rudy killing and eating sentient creatures is played for laughs. When someone threatens the family or one of their friends, they're evil.
Strangled by the Red String: Rhonda dumps Edgar, a character she had been dating exclusively for much of her history in the strip, for Quinn, a character the readers have just met, has had no build-up at all, and its supposed to be "true love". Even more distressing is that this is also Rhonda's final storyline, as the marriage served to put her on a bus.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Lindesfarne and Fenton's wedding, which was the culmination of roughly a decade of the strip's history, should have been an occasion to show off the entire diverse cast over the years and highlight the much-anticipated union of two characters who had been dating since the strip's earliest years. Instead, the entire thing was derailed to introduce and glorify Fenton's mother, Desdemona, a brand-new character, and the entire plot was hijacked to focus on the bigotry she faced as a vampire bat. Not shockingly, this was also the first time vampire bats or bigotry against them was revealed. While a handful of long-unseen characters poked their heads in once or twice, the majority of the plot was focused on Desdemona and nothing else (not even how her son might take the news that his mother had essentially lied to him his entire life).

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