History YMMV / House

* RonTheDeathEater:
** Tritter is a DisproportionateRetribution asshole in canon, but there's plenty of fanfic where he rapes and tortures either House, Wilson, or Chase. While Tritter is an InspectorJavert, he never goes to the extent of actually breaking the law or commiting crimes of his own as part of his vendetta against House.
** House, Wilson, and very occasionally Cuddy after what House did to her in season 7, will get made rapey too, although that's more for "kinky" purposes than dislike.

* SoBadItsGood: The porno in Season 6's "Private Lives".

*** Adding to this, in "Three Stories", was House's leg infarction actually caused by the golfing incident, or was it because House violently stuck a needle into his thigh? After all, during his lecture, House never ''disputes'' that "Patient C" was a drug addict, and we know that House'a addiction has a lot more to do with his personality than his leg. It is possible that House was simply in a bad mood, and wanted to numb his emotional pain with drugs. House also points out that getting drugs from a hospital is fairly easy, which may explain why he went there in the first place. Therefore, it may be that House lied about the leg pain at first, but then ended up causing an infarction with the self-injection, which makes the four days of his doctors delaying serious action a result of TheBoyWhoCriedWolf.

* {{Woolseyism}}: French Dub used with great talent the french specificity of characters having to be more personal with each other between the pronouns "Tu" (relax, friendly) et "Vous" (professionnal, formal). House and Cuddy adress each other with the formal "Vous" for the whole show except at the start of Season 7, were they are in a relationship and used the pronoun "Tu" to adress each other (as two persons in couple and not as a doctor and its superior), making the whole situation much more tricky and complicated notably in the episode "Family Practice" were the whole conflict of interest take a whole new dimension just because of this.

* WTHCastingAgency: Misanthropic American doctor being played by British comedian Creator/HughLaurie (though Creator/BryanSinger was genuinely fooled by his accent in the audition)? This later led to SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct.

** Kutner was one of the more inventive doctors and had good dynamics with House but didn't get anywhere near as much character development as he could have done, thanks to a combination of Season 4 being cut short by a writers' strike, and then his actor quitting the show to take up a role in the White House halfway the following season.

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** In "Mirror Mirror", Kutner and Amber are debating which of the two the patient is mimicking. Suddenly a new symptom sets in, and Kutner says, "It looks like he's mimicking whichever one of us is dying." Both doctors end up dying within the next year or so.
** When he's trying to figure out why Wilson is dating Amber, House asks "she's not dying, is she?" Then came the season 4 finale. She dies.

** House learns in Season 5 that Wilson sent a password-protected file to Gonzalez at New York-Mercy, leading House to infer that Wilson was sending his medical records. Gonzalez's specialty is oncology, with a recent article on managing suicidal thoughts in terminal cancer patients]. 3 seasons later, Wilson gives up on chemo for his terminal cancer.

** In a Season 3 episode, Wilson is asked by Cuddy why he's late, and he loudly snaps, "The buses suck!" after his car is impounded by Detective Tritter. His girlfriend Amber is killed in a later episode because of a bus crash.
** In Season 4, a patient is seeing dead people everywhere, Amber makes a comment about seeing ghosts. For the rest of the series, after she dies, she becomes one to House.

* FanPreferredCouple: While the canon WillTheyOrWontThey, House/Cuddy, is quite popular, an even larger group of fans ship House with his best friend Wilson. This is mainly due to the chemistry and HoYay between them, along with the fact that they were designed to mimic the dynamic of Holmes/Watson (a popular ship in its own right) from ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes''. Even the final scene reveals that House faked his death in order to spend as much time as possible with Wilson, who has cancer, before Wilson dies. On [=AO3=], for example, House/Wilson easily outranks every other pairing.

* FandomSpecificPlot: A ''lot'' of fanfictions focus on House and Wilson's road trip after the series finale and how they spend Wilson's final five months of life. To get even more specific, many of these fics specifically focus on the day Wilson actually dies, what his last moments are like and what his last words and thoughts are, and how House takes his passing. (Most authors go with "[[DespairEventHorizon not]] [[DrivenToSuicide well]].") A good portion of these are shipping fics, with House and Wilson [[RelationshipUpgrade officially getting together]] during the road trip.

* AwardSnub: Creator/HughLaurie never won an UsefulNotes/EmmyAward for Lead Actor in a Drama, despite earning 6 nominations. The show itself never won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama series for any of the four nominations it earned.

* DracoInLeatherPants: House. It is a little disturbing the number of fans who defend some of the character's most objectionable actions.

*** Adding to this, in "Three Stories", was House's leg infarction actually caused by the golfing incident, or was it because House violently stuck a needle into his thigh? After all, during his lecture, House never ''disputes'' that "Patient C" was a drug addict, and we know that House'a addiction has a lot more to do with his personality than his leg. It is possible that House was simply in a bad mood, and wanted to numb his emotional pain with drugs. House also points out that getting drugs from a hospital is fairly easy, which may explain why he went there in the first place. Therefore, it may be that House lied about the leg pain at first, but then ended up causing an infarction with the self-injection, which makes the four days of his doctors delaying serious action a result of BoyWhoCriedWolf.

** It's arguable whether a network would sign off on it even today, but given how strong [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians House and Wilson]] was played with, it can be seen as a shame the writers didn't actually make them a gay relationship. Arguably they may count as a [[IncompatibleOrientation sexless romantic relationship]] as of the series finale.

** In "A Pox on Our House", Creator/DylanBaker guest stars as a CDC official who is forced to quarantine House when House willingly exposes himself to a virus. Half a decade later, the roles would be reversed on Series/TheAmericans, with Dylan Baker willingly exposing himself to a pathogen and Creator/PeterJacobson being forced to quarantine ''him''.

* RonTheDeathEater: Tritter is a DisproportionateRetribution asshole in canon, but there's plenty of fanfic where he rapes and tortures either House, Wilson, or Chase. House, Wilson, and very occasionally Cuddy after what House did to her in season 7, will get made rapey too, although that's more for "kinky" purposes than dislike.

** Elle Fanning as a patient's daughter in Season 2.

** Jeremy Renner as a Patient of the Week in Season 4.
** Lin-Manuel Miranda in the Season 6 episode "Baggage".

** A potential one for Stacy and Cuddy is when they removed House's muscle from his leg. They schemed, in advance, what they would do once he was in an induced coma, knowing full well it wasn't what he wanted. Stacy was House's medical proxy, but the idea behind that is a comatose patient can't make decisions, and he'd already made the decision. She actually told him she was sorry as he lost consciousness.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Season 1's "Role Model" has the patient of the week, an African-American United States senator, running for president. The episode both directly and indirectly pillories as unrealistic his odds of winning the White House. Fast forward four years and [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama an African-American US senator being elected president]] suddenly doesn't seem so unrealistic anymore.

** Is House a soulless {{Jerkass}} misanthrope who's only in the medical profession for the puzzle/challenge, or a JerkWithAHeartOfGold doctor profoundly committed to saving his patients regardless of the law, traditional medical ethics, or common sense? He argues that the non-compassionate approach is more successful as shown by this quote: "What would you prefer - a doctor who holds your hand while you die or one who ignores you while you get better?".