Stargate Atlantis/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Sheppard frequently excuses Rodney to people because... "He's Canadian"

** Kavanagh, described by the producers as the most irritating person in 3 galaxies.

'''Hermiod''': Shut... up... please... }}

* [[Accidental Innuendo]]:

** Jack O'Neill assures Dr. Weir that she and her team will remain in Atlantis as, in his words:

** This exchange from 5.15 'Remnants', as Richard Woolsey sees that a women he's been flirting with found his balcony hang-out spot:

'''Woolsey''': ...This is where I come... to be alone with my thoughts. }}

* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: The main cast: [[Big Damn Heroes|big damn heroes adventuring and exploring new worlds while trying to make it in the Pegasus galaxy]], [[Designated Hero|malicious idiots that leave a trail of death, destruction and imminent doom everywhere they go]] or [[Black and Grey Morality|humanity's ruthless defense against a new intergalactic, genocidal threat]]?

* [[Designated Villain]]: Bates, Kavanaugh and Ellis tend to end up in this role. [[Straw Man Has a Point|They usually have legitimate concerns or complaints]], but because these are against the main cast of characters (Bates seeing Teyla as a security risk, Kavanaugh complaining to Weir about Weir degrading him in public, Ellis wanting McKay to cut the exposition and get to the point) the characters are presented as reactionary jerkasses. There is also a trend of portraying Kavanaugh, in his few appearances, as a coward even though every time he is up against a situation in which his fear is perfectly understandable.

* [[Die for Our Ship]]: Keller gets this a lot.

* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Many people express their disapproval on how Michael is treated. All this "Kill almost everybody and turn the rest into unstoppable army of destruction" kinda slips their mind.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]

** Doctors Carson Beckett and Radek Zelenka!

** Todd the Wraith.

* [[Genius Bonus]]: Genii is the plural form the Latin word "Genius" (no pun intended). Not only do the Genii think highly of themselves, it also indicates that they may have had some history with the Ancients.

* [[Ho Yay Shipping]]: Most notably, John Sheppard and Rodney McKay. There are some people who watch the show ''specifically because of this''.

* [[Idiot Plot]]: The whole [[Series Finale]].

* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: The Asurans. The Lanteans tried to wipe them out, and the Atlantis Expedition later tries exactly the same because they're ''dangerous''. Its even noted at one point that the reason they're envious of Humanity is because they see us as the favourite son who recieved all father's attention.

** Of course, the "jerkass" part comes into play because their plan to destroy the Wraith was to wipe out their food source; in other words, ''every single human'' in the Pegasus Galaxy.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: The Wraith "Todd" lives this as a matter of course; manipulating enemies with style is like breathing to him.

** Major Sheppard also gets a moment like this every so often, including and especially at the end of the series, when he's trying to talk "Todd" into helping them fight another Wraith. "Todd" asks Sheppard why he should do it when it would leave "Todd" the prisoner of Atlantis and without any leverage.

Todd: ''Youuuu know how to talk to me'', John Sheppard! (evil laughter) }}

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: McKay's [[Plot Allergy|citrus allergy]].

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: The hallucinations in the season 1 episode "Hot Zone", caused by an {{spoiler|Ancient nano-virus}}.

* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: Keller to a certain extent, partly because of what happened to Beckett.

* [[Shipping]]: A lot of it, with McKay×Keller now canon.

** The shipping fandom generally started with Sheppard/Teyla, who was intended to be the canon alien [[Love Interest]] and Sheppard/Weir. With McKay/Sheppard as the typical sci-fi slash couple. The Sheppard/Teyla ship never really got out past the pilot due to crap writing. Shepard/Weir, despite their actors deliberately playing to that ship, never got recognised by the writing staff and then Weir got hit by bad writing. Barely anyone liked McKay with Keller, the show itself started going downhill, and the shipping in the fandom petered out.

** The writers also [[Ship Tease|Ship Teased]] Ronon/Keller before deciding to go the McKay/Keller route, which the fandom reacted much more positively to (it didn't interfere with shipping McKay/Sheppard, and Ronon was pretty popular so fans liked the idea of him getting to be with someone).

* [[Tear Jerker]]: "The Shrine". The whole episode will make you cry for so many different reasons.

** Especially when the team pressure Woolsey to let them try to save McKay, and Ronon says that he could ''never'' understand. Woolsey then tells them of father's Alzheimer's, where his father didn't recognise him for months, before a moment of clarity where he was his old self... and then he was gone again.

** "Sunday", if you please.

** Not quite on the same level, but a particularly heart-wrenching scenario occurred when Dr. Weir told her fiancé Simon not to wait for her. {{spoiler|He didn't}}.

** Perna's death scene in ''Poisoning the Well''.

* [[Unpopular Popular Character]]: Most of Atlantis treats Zelenka this way.

* [[Villain Decay]]: The Wraith seem to go through this, especially in the last couple of seasons, due to both [[Lowered Monster Difficulty]] and the story changing the emphasis from "the Wraith slowly wiping out all Pegasus humans" to battles against [[Eviler Than Thou]] enemies such as the Replicators and Michael.

* [[The Woobie]]: Poor, poor Michael... at least in his first episode. After a while he's just a [[Jerkass]].

 

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