History YMMV / AgentCarter

** Samberly, the [[InsufferableGenius obnoxious]], but overly [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold kind hearted]] scientist, who saves the day more than once, but just [[DudeWhereIsMyRespect doesn't get the recognition he craves.]]

** Inversely, Daniel Sousa started out very well liked by fans and was the expected choice for Peggy's eventual husband, but his popularity took a nosedive after "SNAFU", when [[spoiler:he accused Peggy of being seduced by Howard Stark as why she was working against the SSR]]. Some fans see his actions as heat-of-the-moment, and that his willingness afterward to believe Peggy's testimony and stand up for her achievements redeems him. Others say he's only shown himself to be just as sexist as his coworkers and needs more to go through to be redeemed. Come Season 2, though, and most have forgiven him. [[spoiler:However, Sousa would not be truly RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap until his [[TheBusComesBack reappearance]] in the seventh and final season of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' when he joins Agent Coulson's team and has much better ShipTease with Daisy Johnson.]]

* RonTheDeathEater: Some fans reacted excessively to Violet's reaction when she picks up on the feelings between Sousa and Peggy. If they were to be believed, she screamed all sorts of abuse at him for no good reason - and she's apparently a ClingyJealousGirl. Instead, she calmly asked Sousa if he has feelings for Peggy, and reacted perfectly reasonably for a woman who discovered that her fiancé had been lying to her. Let it be noted that Violet also kept calm in front of Peggy and waited until she was gone before discussing it with Sousa.

* ShipToShipCombat: Initially, there seemed to be three major ship options involving Peggy: perky waitress and friend [[LesYay Angie Martinelli]], NiceGuy maybe-love-interest Daniel Sousa, or snarky butler Edwin Jarvis... who's also married. Since then, two more ships have joined the ships wars: controversial {{Jerkass}} agent Jack Thompson and [[spoiler:Leviathan assassin Dottie Underwood, who kissed Peggy while wearing the [[KissOfDeath "Sweet Dreams" lipstick]] to knock her out.]]

** Inversely, Daniel Sousa started out very well liked by fans and was the expected choice for Peggy's eventual husband, but his popularity took a nosedive after "SNAFU", when [[spoiler:he accused Peggy of being seduced by Howard Stark as why she was working against the SSR]]. Some fans see his actions as heat-of-the-moment, and that his willingness afterward to believe Peggy's testimony and stand up for her achievements redeems him. Others say he's only shown himself to be just as sexist as his coworkers and needs more to go through to be redeemed. Come Season 2, though, and most have forgiven him. [[spoiler:However, Sousa would not be truly RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap until his [[TheBusComesBack reappearance]] in the seventh and final season of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' when he joins Agent Coulson's team and have a much better ShipTease with Daisy Johnson.]]

* DieForOurShip: A lot of Cartinelli fans don't take particularly well to Sousa and haven't forgiven him for his outburst in Season One after he and Peggy [[spoiler: became an official couple]], with some saying that Angie "deserves" Peggy more than him, or that the two were StrangledByTheRedString so the show could engage in BaitAndSwitchLesbians. [[spoiler:While Angie and Peggy weren't officially shipped, their fans at least got their wish of Sousa not hooking up with Peggy in at least one timeline when Steve Rogers went back in time at the end of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' and married Peggy. Sousa in the meantime would not be truly RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap until the final season of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' via time travel and have better and more natural ShipTease with Daisy Johnson.]]

* RonTheDeathEater: Some fans reacted excessively to Violet's reaction when she picks up on the feelings between Sousa and Peggy. If they were to be believed, she screamed all sorts of abuse at him for no good reason - and she's apparently a ClingyJealousGirl. Instead she calmly asks him if he has feelings for Peggy, and is reacting perfectly reasonably for a woman who discovered that her fiancee had been lying to her. Let it be noted that Violet also kept calm in front of Peggy and waited until she was gone before discussing it with Sousa too.

** After fan outcry at Angie not appearing in Season 2, she was brought back for a cameo during "A Little Song and Dance".

** Thanks to ''Film/AntMan1'' establishing Howard and Peggy would work with the original Ant-Man and Wasp, its also became fairly popular to assume that Peggy and Janet were close friends [[spoiler: before the latter disappeared]].

* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler:Dottie, played by the beautiful real-life StatuesqueStunner Creator/BridgetRegan. Season 2's Whitney Frost counts as well, given her status as a Hollywood leading lady.]]

* HoYay:
** Howard and Steve:
*** Howard Stark tells Peggy: "I knew how much Steve meant to you! Because I know how much he means to me." Basically equating himself with Steve's ''canon love interest.'' Peggy herself has referred to Steve as the love of her life.
*** It's revealed that despite the fact that Howard has developed weapons of mass destruction in the past, he considers his greatest shame to be not finding Steve alive. [[spoiler: When Ivchenko hypnotizes Howard into hallucinating his greatest wish, it is to find Steve alive. Howard is absolutely thrilled at the idea of finding him and bringing him home, desperately trying to convince Peggy that it is real. He is only able to snap out of his hypnosis when Peggy manages to make him fully accept that Steve won't ever come home.]]
----> [[spoiler: '''Peggy:''' I know you loved him. I loved him, too. But this won't bring him back. [...] Steve is gone. We have to move on.]]
** Peggy and Angie:
*** Angie fills a lot of the roles typical for the love interest in many superhero movies. Peggy initially [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies pushes her away out of fear for her safety]], their friendship is hurt by Peggy having to live a double life, and Angie immediately trusts Peggy when the latter is being hunted by the SSR agents, something that could have had huge repercussions on her.
*** Angie is ''very'' insistent about wanting Peggy to move in with her in the same apartment building after Peggy needs a place to stay.
*** After [[spoiler:Ray's death]] Peggy goes to Angie for comfort. It helps that "Someone to Watch Over Me" is playing in the background. [[http://www.lyricsmania.com/someone_to_watch_over_me_lyrics_helen_forrest.html Here are the lyrics]]
*** Angie's answer to Peggy saying she wouldn't belong in Broadway because she can't sing is "It doesn't matter when you got legs like yours".
*** As of the season 1 finale, they are ''living together'' in one of Stark's houses. Bonus for Peggy turning down a date with Sousa to move in with her.
*** In Peggy's season 2 musical dream sequence, she dances with her male love interests, Wilkes and Sousa, but Angie is also there, urging her to make a decision about her love life.
*** Hayley Atwell [[http://cosimageekhaus.tumblr.com/post/108058034422/this-ship-practically-sails-itself certainly isn't discouraging it]].
*** Creator/LyndsyFonseca [[https://twitter.com/LyndsyMFonseca/status/565578888064278528/photo/1 doesn't mind, either]].
** Dottie and Peggy:
*** Dottie actually kisses Peggy, albeit to knock her out with her DruggedLipstick.
*** In the season 2 premier, Dottie has gone so far to dye her hair brown and copy Peggy's red hat and blue jacket look. She's also positively thrilled at the idea of being interrogated (and possibly tortured) by Peggy, reacting to seeing her with girlish glee. The way she talks to Peggy can only be described as flirty, which may be because she knows it's the only way to get under her skin.
*** Dottie is featured in Peggy's musical dream about her love triangle in season 2, teasing her with "I will always be in your head."

* MoralEventHorizon: See [[MoralEventHorizon/MarvelCinematicUniverse here]].

* MoralEventHorizon:
** [[spoiler:Dr. Fennhoff/"Ivchenko"]], first when he [[spoiler:hypnotizes Agent Yauch into [[PsychicAssistedSuicide committing suicide]] just to cover his own tracks]], and then ''blows'' past it when he [[spoiler:hypnotizes Dooley into locking away Peggy and Jarvis, gets him to steal [[ArtifactOfDoom Item 17]] from the SSR's lab, and then finishes Dooley off by forcing him to put an exploding vest on himself in an attempt to wreck the SSR's offices entirely]]. And shortly after this he takes it even further when [[spoiler: he and Dottie use the stolen Item 17 to unleash a HatePlague on a crowded movie theater and locks the door, causing everyone to go into a homicidal rage and kill each other]]. And he was going to do a repeat performance of that last one on ''[[spoiler: everyone in Times Square.]]''
** Whitney Frost has made crossing this line her signature in Season 2. Most of the crossings are explainable as covering her tracks or removing an equally bad person, but the one that is indisputably inexcusable is when she [[spoiler: shoots Ana just to delay Peggy from chasing her, sterilizing her ''permanently'' in the process]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** After the first season attracted a lot of criticism for its conspicuous lack of black characters[[note]]except Andre Royo as Spider Raymond[[/note]] in defiance of how diverse New York's population in the 1940s actually was, Season 2 finally did cast the black Reggie Austin as Jason Wilkes... and [[{{Irony}} moved the setting to Los Angeles]].
** After fan outcry at Angie not appearing in Season 2, she was brought back for a cameo during "A Little Song and Dance".

** [[spoiler:Dr. Fennhoff/"Ivchenko"]], first when he [[spoiler:hypnotizes Agent Yauch into [[PsychicAssistedSuicide committing suicide]] just to cover his own tracks]], and then ''blows'' past it when he [[spoiler:hypnotizes Dooley into locking away Peggy and Jarvis, gets him to steal [[ArtifactOfDoom Item 17]] from the SSR's lab, and then finishes Dooley off by forcing him to put an exploding vest on himself in an attempt to wreck the SSR's offices entirely]]. And shortly after this he takes it even further UpToEleven when [[spoiler: he and Dottie use the stolen Item 17 to unleash a HatePlague on a crowded movie theater and locks the door, causing everyone to go into a homicidal rage and kill each other]]. And he was going to do a repeat performance of that last one on ''[[spoiler: everyone in Times Square.]]''