History YMMV / Evolution

* ThatOneBoss: [[spoiler:Yurka can be a really surprising brief DifficultySpike when first fought. He has blinding attacks that affect 2X3 squares, has an entire party hit skill, and his normal attacks can possibly deplete half health or more. The only attack that doesn't work too much is his health absorption. Making things worse is that, by this point, Linear is no longer in the party, meaning that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck if you didn't find Pepper's Recovery Blast parts or didn't power them up...]]]]]

* ThatOneBoss: [[spoiler:Yurka can be a really surprising brief DifficultySpike when first fought. He has blinding attacks that affect 2X3 squares, has an entire party hit skill, and his normal attacks can possibly deplete half health or more. The only attack that doesn't work too much is his health absorption.]]
** [[spoiler: Even though he's not longer eternally five levels higher, Eugune can be this depending on what party you take. Attacks that do high damage, a party wide attack, there are not many opportunities to grind during the first half alongwith the other problems (see Porting Disaster) and your healer is kidnapped meaning you'll primarily be relying on items.]]

* CultClassic

* GeniusBonus: Two examples in the scenes in prehistoric Catal Huyuk. The ruler of the city is called the "Potus", which sounds like both a plausible root for the word "potent" (i.e. "powerful") and [[FunWithAcronyms a common acronym]] for [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidents "President Of The United States"]]. Plus, [[FatBastard the physical description of the Potus]] matches that of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seated_Woman_of_Çatalhöyük Seated Woman of Catal Huyuk]] (currently believed to be a fertility goddess).

* AssPull: Harry is suddenly shown to have taken up smoking at the precise moment the story needed someone to unintentionally light up the alien fluid in the petri dish in order for the heroes to learn about heat/fire being the evolution catalyst for the aliens.

* AssPull: Harry is suddenly shown to have taken up smoking at the precise moment they needed someone to unintentionally light up the alien fluid in the petri dish in order for the heroes to learn about heat/fire being the evolution catalyst for the aliens.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretationForgotten: Did Woodman callously abandoned Lieutenant Cryer, simply assume that he was already dead, or [[ProperlyParanoid view a possible rescue as a trap]] in light of the alien!primates deceiving them into thinking that they were going to be attacking from the elevator?

* FridgeHorror: After the space monkeys got napalmed, they [[FusionDance all integrated into one giant cell]] that wasted no time beginning to divide, meaning that the napalm caused the evolutionary process to start all over, but on a MUCH bigger scale. If the single post-napalm alien cell was as big as it was, imagine what the end result would've been. Can you say "space monkeys the size of Russia"?

* CreatorBacklash: Don Jakoby's original script was far more serious than the finished product, thanks to credited co-writers David Diamond and David Weissman. He wasn't happy about it.

* BadassDecay: Against The Shield as a whole. Evolution themselves have never been able to handle them in straight brawls, constantly outmaneuvered by them, and tends to rely on having several people help them or jump The Shield first before doing anything. And even that sometimes doesn't work. Throughout the entire storyline, despite what their new creed is, they've failed to actually live up to it…until Hunter launched Plan B and had Wrestling/SethRollins turn against his brothers.
** FridgeBrilliance: Said new creed was "Adapt or perish," which Wrestling/TripleH really had no grounds to claim if he was actually expecting that he could take out three of the hungriest, freshest, hottest (in more ways than one), most talented young stars in WWE by rehashing an old alliance with a stale Wrestling/RandyOrton and a rusty Wrestling/{{Batista}}. But then consider what his Plan B was: convincing TheHeart of the Shield to betray his brothers and rejoin Wrestling/TheAuthority. Wait, this makes absolutely no sense either. Except if you consider ''this'': throughout his years as the WWF/E's premier active arch-villain, he genuinely cared for his buddies in both DX and Evolution to an extent but was perfectly willing to step on any and all of them if he had to to stay on top. Having the eye for talent that he does, and having described Rollins as a guy he sees being key to the company's future, it's most likely that he saw this same darkness in Rollins before anyone else even thought of the possibility. Thus, it only stands to reason he was using Evolution as a sort of final test for the Shield and especially Rollins, who'd been asserting his leadership in the Shield through directing their targets and tactics, and once they'd achieved the heights of their success as a stable by beating one of the most dominant stables in recent memory into implosion, Rollins' [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious dark side]] would be in prime position to reveal itself. A secret phone call between shows later, cue the end of the Shield.

* WTHCastingAgency

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally pitched as a serious drama to Columbia and [=DreamWorks=]; but when Ivan Reitman came on board, he had different ideas.
** According to some design sketches, the final form of the alien's evolution would've been a much more humanoid form. However, seeing how difficult it how to make this a realistic threat, instead they went with the giant cell.

* GeniusBonus: Two examples in the scenes in prehistoric Catal Huyuk. The ruler of the city is called the "Potus", which sounds like both a plausible root for the word "potent" (i.e. "powerful") and [[FunWithAcronyms a common acronym]] for [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidents "President Of The United States"]]. Plus, [[FatBastard the physical description of the Potus]] matches that of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seated_Woman_of_%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk Seated Woman of Catal Huyuk]] (currently believed to be a fertility goddess).

* HeyItsThatGuy
** [[Series/{{Southland}} Sal]] [[Series/DayBreak Buchalter]] is Wayne's fire chief.
** [[Series/TwentyFour President Logan]] is Wayne's JerkAss boss.
** [[Series/ModernFamily Phil Dunphy]] is in there somewhere.
** Would you believe [[MyNameIsEarl Randy Hickey]] got an A in high school eventually?
** [[Series/{{Monk}} Leland Stottlemeyer]] aka [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Jame Gumb / Buffalo Bill]] is now a general?

!!Film.{{Evolution}}

!!Literature.{{Evolution}}

!!VideoGames.{{Evolution}}

!!Wrestling.{{Evolution}}

* RetroactiveRecognition

* GeniusBonus: Two examples in the scenes in prehistoric Catal Huyuk. The ruler of the city is called the "Potus", which sounds like both a plausible root for the word "potent" (i.e. "powerful") and [[FunWithAcronym a common acronym]] for [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidents "President Of The United States"]]. Plus, [[FatBastard the physical description of the Potus]] matches that of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seated_Woman_of_%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk Seated Woman of Catal Huyuk]] (currently believed to be a fertility goddess).