History YMMV / HaruhiSuzumiya

%%* CreepyAwesome: Kuyo Suo.

** [[spoiler:Attempted {{deicide}}]] pushed Fujiwara over the line at the climax of ''Surprise Vol. 2''.

** Still suffering from Shoushitsu Syndrome?[[note]][[AwesomenessWithdrawal The feeling of emptiness]] after watching ''The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya'' and realizing there is no more (canon) Haruhi anime, the third season is nowhere on the horizon, and the novel series itself has been [[SeriesHiatus on hiatus]] since 2011.[[/note]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Good Lord. It would be faster to list characters who ''don't'' have followings with widely varied opinions. Not even ThoseTwoGuys are immune. Has its [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation/HaruhiSuzumiya own subpage]]. Deliberately fueled by the author himself. Itsuki hints that both he and Mikuru are merely putting up acts in order to fit the personalities that Haruhi expects them to have. However, neither the show nor the novels have actually ''shown'' this to be true.

%%* CrazyAwesome: Haruhi.

** [[WouldHitAGirl Kyon's reaction]] skirts dangerously close to the MEH as well, and as Koizumi pointed out, he WOULD have crossed it if [[spoiler:he hit her]]. While Haruhi [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold is]] [[DepravedBisexual a]] [[{{Tsundere}} lot]] [[ManipulativeBastard of]] [[RealityWarper things]], the nature of her being inherently makes attacking her a really bad idea. It didn't help that he was only stopped by Mikuru begging him not do do it (keep in mind that she's the one he was doing it for in the first place). It makes things worse in the short term, as it's implied it was one of the causes for [[RealityWarper Haruhi's subsequent unraveling of reality]] in the making of the movie. Though, in the grand scheme of things, the two move past it, and his reaction may have actually led to some positive development on Haruhi's part.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Though planned before the [[BrokenBase base-breaking]] "Endless Eight" and character re-visualization in the anime, both producers and fans hoped the ''Disappearance'' movie would be this. Whether it succeeded or not is up to debate; while it did very well both financially and critically, it ultimately didn't save the franchise from [[FranchiseKiller dying out]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Though planned before [[BrokenBase base-breaking]] "Endless Eight" and character re-visualization in the anime, both producers and fans hoped the movie would be this. Whether it succeeded or not is up to debate; while it seems to have fixed part of the fanbase's rage, it certainly didn't save the franchise from [[FranchiseKiller ultimately dying]].

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: A popular fan theory is that the events portrayed are nothing more than an [[LifeEmbellished embellished]] retelling of author Nagaru Tanigawa's actual high-school experience, with all the supernatural happenings just added so that the series is distinguishable from all the other SliceOfLife light novels and anime series out there. Of course, there is no evidence in the novels or anime whatsoever that this speculation is correct; it was probably inspired by the facts that Tanigawa refuses to reveal the real name of his FirstPersonNarrator, that the unnamed city in which the events take place is described in just enough detail as to unmistakably be his hometown, and that he was, in fact, in a literature club back in high school.

** Good Lord. It would be faster to list characters who ''don't'' have followings with widely varied opinions. Not even ThoseTwoGuys are immune. Has its [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation/HaruhiSuzumiya own subpage]].
** Deliberately fueled by the author himself. Itsuki hints that both he and Mikuru are merely putting up acts in order to fit the personalities that Haruhi expects them to have. However, neither the show nor the novels have actually ''shown'' this to be true.

** Kyon, at times. "It was all....a **dream**" (beat). "That was it." A few of his AuthorFilibuster tangents can also be this, especially when he lets his guard down and gets genuinely excited about speculative physics or astronomy.

* ArcFatigue: The "Endless Eight" arc in the anime. Eight episodes (almost three hours) of the exact same events with minor variations, adapted out of a single short story. The visual style of each iteration came to reflect, and subsequently reinforce in viewers, the fatigue experienced by Nagato. While it makes sense from a narrative point of view, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools that doesn't stop some people from thinking it's still a huge pain to sit through]].

* {{Fanon}}:
** Haruhi is God. Most fans of the anime took Koizumi's speech in the 3rd chronological episode at face value, but other scenes in the novels and the anime (especially the 2009 version) [[JigsawPuzzlePlot cast doubt on it]]:

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Kyon doesn't reach Haruhi's level, but he's either the most original and generally awesome LemonyNarrator or a pedant who really needs to shut the hell up.
%%** Haruhi... to the fanbase of a series where she's the titular character!

** Either Kuyo's [[spoiler:attempt on Kyon's life]] in ''Vol. 1'', or [[spoiler:crucifying Haruhi in mid-air on Fujiwara's orders]] in ''Vol. 2'' pushed her over, but it's quite obvious she crossed it somewhere in ''Surprise'' if she hadn't already by [[spoiler:debilitating Yuki]] in ''Dissociation''.

* ArcFatigue: The "Endless Eight" arc. Eight episodes (almost three hours) of the exact same events with minor variations, adapted out of a single short story. The visual style of each iteration came to reflect, and subsequently reinforce in viewers, the fatigue experienced by Nagato.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Though planned before [[BrokenBase base-breaking]] "Endless Eight" and character re-visualization in the anime, both producers and fans hoped the movie would be this. Whether it succeeded or not is up to debate, but at least it seems to have fixed part of the fanbase's rage.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: If someone is really dangerous when angry, then you should do your best to appease them even if it means ignoring their already bad behavior[[note]]i.e. Haruhi's blackmail of the Computer Club[[/note]].

* BetterOnDVD: ''Endless Eight'', assuming you're an American fan who can buy a boxset instead of having to pay the ludicrous prices for multiple [=DVDs=] of the same damn thing. Downing the whole thing straight may take four hours of your life, but it actually does hold up as an experiment. Knowing beforehand that the arc would end in eight episodes is also a morale boost in comparison to the horror of waiting one week for a new episode only to find an old one remade and having no idea how long this nightmare would last.

* EndingFatigue:
** The episode that wouldn't die, "Endless Eight". The visual style of each iteration came to reflect, and subsequently reinforce in viewers, the fatigue experienced by Nagato.
** The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya for some people, it goes on even after the resolution and it's almost ''three hours long''. Though the fact that the epilogue contains one of Kyon's biggest [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Moments of Awesome]] in the series helps offset this.

%%** [[spoiler:Do your homework.]]

* BaseBreakingCharacter:
** Haruhi... to the fanbase of a series where she's the titular character!
** Kyon doesn't reach Haruhi's level, but he's either the most original and generally awesome LemonyNarrator or a pedant who really needs to shut the hell up.

** The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya for some people, it goes on even after the resolution and it's almost ''three hours long''. Though the fact that the epilogue contains one of Kyon's biggest [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome CMOAs]] in the series helps offset this.

** Also, Ryoko Asakura and every member of the "Anti-SOS Brigade".
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: If someone is really dangerous when angry, then you should do your best to appease them even if it means ignoring their already bad behavior [[note]] I.E. Haruhi's black mail of the Computer Club [[/note]].

* FoeYay: Yuki and Asakura. [[spoiler:Turns into LesYay in ''Disappearance''.]]

* EarWorm:
** Hare Hare Yukai.
** Some of the other songs (like God Knows, and the character songs) may qualify for this as well.
** In-universe example in the Drama CD "Sound Around", which later manifests as an actual worm-like monster. The end of "Sound Around" implies that ''Hare Hare Yukai'' is so popular because Haruhi composed it with this trope in mind.

** Hare Hare Yukai is an ok song.