History YMMV / JaneTheVirgin

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Season 4 sees the show suddenly adding in a whole bunch of very casual, low-key gay characters, plus giving Petra a bisexual awakening, in what's likely a response to the much-criticized UnfortunateImplications of its only gay couple in the first three seasons being extremely dysfunctional and even criminal.

** Some fans turned on Luisa with a vengeance in Season 3, claiming that [[spoiler:she apparently doesn't care at all that Rose ''murdered Michael'', and is still perfectly happy to be in a relationship with her while duping everyone about her identity]]. However, reactions in the rest of the fandom vary. See her entry on BaseBreakingCharacter and RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The identity of Rafael's real parents. [[spoiler:"Chapter Ninety-Eight" made a point of Michael telling Jane that Rose was actually [[PlayingGertrude 51 years old]], which set of the theory that Rose was actually Raf's real mother. However the series finale revealed that his parents were simply a pair of Italian bakers that perished in a car accident.]]
* WhatAnIdiot: While a lot of Luisa's terrible decision-making can be explained by her [[JerkassWoobie parental issues, mental health problems, alcoholism, and being trapped in an abusive relationship with a criminal mastermind]], believing [[spoiler:Aneska's claim that Rafael was the one who hired an actor to gaslight her]] comes down to stupidity. Why? Because [[spoiler:the only person who looked at the actor and claimed they couldn't see him was ''Aneska'', something Luisa really should have remembered.]]

* AcclaimedFlop: Critics love the show, and Gina Rodriguez and the show won Golden Globe Awards, but it's one of the lowest rated shows on the CW. But much like fellow low-rating critical darling ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'', it managed to last just as long as the crew intended to tell their story.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Rafael's concern about Michael's dangerous work is mostly jealousy...until you rewatch after he gets shot in the line of duty. [[spoiler: Even worse after Michael dies from complications after that shooting.]]

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped:
** When it seems like the comatose Alba will be deported, the subtitles inform us that stuff like this really does happen, and urges us to Tweet #immigrationreform.
** Anvils about female bodily autonomy are frequently dropped. Xo has an abortion because it's her body and her choice, and insists that Rogelio follow Darci's demands for the birth because it's her body as well.
** How Jane moves past being defined by her sexual activity (or lack thereof), after all [[WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows "a woman is more than her body"]].
** Catalina calls Jane out for suspecting her, saying that she was going to help their desperately poor family in Venezuela. The chyrons point out that the situation there is very bad.

** The deaths on this show tend to be more gory than you'd expect for such a show--when Zaz is killed on the marlin ice-statue, for example, and when Disgusting Bob gets a corkscrew in the neck.

* HollywoodHomely: Petra is apparently hideous, but looks just like her "beautiful" sister's actress Yael Grobglas in a poor-quality wig.

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''Series/OneDayAtATime2017'', another liberal female-centric show about a Latino MultigenerationalHousehold. ''Jane'' guest actors Justina Machado (Darci) and Creator/RitaMoreno (Liliana) have main roles, and Ivonne Coll (Alba) and Judy Reyes (Dina) have also appeared on that show.

** Anezka, [[spoiler:Petra's long-lost twin sister. Many fans aren't impressed with Yael Grobglas' dual performance, saying it pales in comparison to her work as Petra, her having NoSocialSkills often makes it hard to tell just how sympathetic we're supposed to be to her, and it's uncomfortable how her accent and difficulties with English are constantly played for laughs. Ultimately, she receives the ultimate TakeThatScrappy when she receives a DisneyVillainDeath.]]

* BrokenAesop: Very, very YMMV, as the enthusiasm and vehemence of both Villadero and Jafael shippers are [[ShipToShipCombat intense]]. But by Season 2, the Jane/Michael/Petra/Rafael dynamic had settled comfortably in a wonderful, unconventional co-parenting square that's remarkable for showing how family can come in more forms than just romantic love and the standard NuclearFamily. Then, Michael dies, but the dynamic lives on via Jane/Petra/Rafael. And then the show just pushes Jane and Rafael together anyway, affirming Alba's old-fashioned belief that the biological parents of a child should be together.

* {{Anvilicious}}: This show has addressed the subject of illegal immigration in a one-sided manner, but it is especially obvious in Chapter 61, which dedicates another Alba subplot to the issue, finally culminating in Mateo asking "why some people don't want peace" in America.
* AssPull: [[spoiler:Michael’s return]]. The show mostly does a decent job playing fair with how it could be possible with everything we saw before, but there’s still one major unexplained hole with [[spoiler:who or what they actually buried]].

* AngstWhatAngst:
** Consciously averted with [[spoiler:Michael's death. The crew was very aware that there was no way in hell they could believably go back to the show's typical light and fluffy tone for ''years'' after pulling the trigger on that one, so they went so far as to do a three year TimeSkip so everyone's feelings had enough time to process and get back to something approaching normal.]]
** Before that, both Petra and Rafael were both showing the effects of the terrible things that had happened to them over the last few years, [[spoiler: like Petra's forced paralysis resulting in her being paranoid and unable to connect with her daughters, and Rafael's BigScrewedUpFamily leaving him exhausted with trying to fix it.]]
** Although aside from some initial shakes [[spoiler: Petra never seems to show any trauma from being kidnapped by Roman, forced to have sex with him, getting chased through the woods and then accidentally killing him with a harpoon.]]

* AwesomeEgo: Rogelio de la Vega. The guy's so damn ''earnest'' about how great he is that you can't help but love him.
** And contrasted nicely with his rival actor Esteban Santiago, who has just as big an ego but is much more of a jerk about it ("I'd like to thank God--for making me in His image…").

** SubvertedTrope with Sin Rostro, whose sympathy points decrease whenever the backstory and motivation surrounding the crimes are revealed and with Petra's mother, Magda, who fakes the woobiness.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: After the reveal of Sin Rostro's identity, [[spoiler:the show milks a ton of tension from her getting plastic surgery, so she could be any new female character. And then it turns out she didn't get it. And then she dies.]]
** [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted in that while Rose herself doesn't get plastic surgery, she has someone else get it to look like her so she can continue pretending to be Michael's partner Susanna and get back together with Luisa while ruining the police investigation of her]]
** An interesting inversion/case of having your cake and eat it too, in regards to Michael's shooting. [[spoiler: Initial plans were to kill off Michael in the season 3 premiere, before the writers decided to keep him alive. The show then dove into Michael's recovery and his first few months of marriage before killing him off again. By delaying his death, the writers got to enjoy ''multiple'' plots with Michael while they could.]]
** The identity of Rafael's real parents. [[spoiler:"Chapter Ninety-Eight" made a point of Michael telling Jane that Rose was actually [[PlayingGertrude 51 years old]], which set of the theory that Rose was actually Raf's real mother. However the series finale revealed that his parents were simply a pair of Italian bakers that perished in a car accident.]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Season 4 sees the show suddenly adding in a whole bunch of very low key gay characters, plus giving Petra a bisexual awakening, in what's likely a response to the much-criticized UnfortunateImplications of its only gay couple in the first three seasons being extremely dysfunctional and even criminal.

* CriticalResearchFailure: On the existence of white Hispanics and Latinos. The visibly very white Michael has the surname Cordero, which is Spanish, implying the writers know. But then other times, when making what's meant to be a sharp TakeThat at white actors like Creator/EmmaStone playing people of color (as was in the case of the much-maligned Film/{{Aloha}}, where she played a white-passing mixed Asian woman), European Spaniards like Creator/PenelopeCruz are offhandedly included in a checklist of "famous POC of the Latino race." There is no such thing as a Latino race, for starters. Latino is a nationality; Latinos are typically indigenous, white, black, or most commonly some combination of these. There are even significant numbers of Latinos with Asian roots. European Hispanics like Cruz are actually widely ''criticized'' by Latinos as much as white actresses of no discernible Hispanic/Latino background when they play Latinos, given that Spain is in an entirely different continent and xenophobia towards Latinos is worse than xenophobia towards European Spaniards, even against white Latinos.[[labelnote: just in case you don't know]]Latino and Hispanic are not mutually exclusive terms. Latino, however, specifically refers to people from the regions in America collectively known as Latin America. Hispanic should be applied to people from the Spanish-speaking regions and cultures. A country like Brazil is Latino, but they speak Portuguese and the cultures are more heavily informed by Portuguese colonialism, so Brazilians tend not to identify as Hispanic but do identify with the term Latino.[[/labelnote]]

%%* ValuesDissonance: The increased scrutiny on police since the show was made, especially after the murder of George Floyd, can make it very uncomfortable to see Michael's cavalier attitude toward following the rules of his job, including the flashbacks of him using his job to stalk Jane shortly after they met.

* ValuesDissonance: The increased scrutiny on police since the show was made, especially after the murder of George Floyd, can make it very uncomfortable to see Michael's cavalier attitude toward following the rules of his job, including the flashbacks of him using his job to stalk Jane shortly after they met.

* BrokenAesop: Very, very YMMV, as the passion of both Villadero and Jafael shippers are [[ShipToShipCombat intense]]. But by Season 2, the Jane/Michael/Petra/Rafael dynamic had settled comfortably in a wonderful, unconventional co-parenting square that's remarkable for showing how family can come in more forms than just romantic love and the standard NuclearFamily. Then, Michael dies, but the dynamic lives on via Jane/Petra/Rafael. And then the show just pushes Jane and Rafael together anyway, affirming Alba's old-fashioned belief that the biological parents of a child should be together.

* CriticalResearchFailure: On the existence of white Hispanics and Latinos. The visibly very white Michael has the surname Cordero, which is Spanish, implying the writers know. But then other times, when making what's meant to be a sharp TakeThat at white actors like Creator/EmmaStone playing people of color (as was in the case of the much-maligned Film/{{Aloha}}, where she played a white-passing mixed Asian woman), European Spaniards like Creator/PenelopeCruz are offhandedly included in a checklist of "famous POC of the Latino race." There is no such thing as a Latino race, for starters. Latino is a nationality; Latinos are typically indigenous, white, black, or most commonly some combination of these. There are even significant numbers of Latinos with Asian roots. European Hispanics like Cruz are actually widely ''criticized'' by Latinos as much as white actresses of no discernible Hispanic/Latino background when they play Latinos, given that Spain is in an entirely different continent and xenophobia towards Latinos is worse than xenophobia towards European Spaniards, even against white Latinos.[[labelnote: just in case you don't know]]Latino and Hispanic are not mutually exclusive terms. Latino, however, specifically refers to people from the regions in America collectively known as Latin America. Hispanic should be applied to people from the Spanish-speaking regions and cultures. A country like Brazil is Latino, but they speak Portuguese and the cultures are more heavily influenced by Portuguese colonialism, so Brazilians tend not to identify as Hispanic but do identify with the term Latino.[[/labelnote]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: On the existence of white Hispanics and Latinos. The visibly very white Michael has the surname Cordero, which is Spanish, implying the writers know. But then other times, when making what's meant to be a sharp TakeThat at white actors like Creator/EmmaStone playing people of color (as was in the case of the much-maligned Film/{{Aloha}}, where she played a white-passing mixed Asian woman), European Spaniards like Creator/PenelopeCruz are offhandedly included in a checklist of "famous POC of the Latino race." There is no such thing as a Latino race, for starters. Latino is a nationality; Latinos are typically indigenous, white, black, or most commonly some combination of these. There are even significant numbers of Latinos with Asian roots. White Hispanics like Cruz are actually widely ''criticized'' by Latinos as much as white actresses of no discernible Hispanic/Latino background when they play Latinos, given that Spain is in an entirely different continent and xenophobia for Latinos is worse even against white Latinos.

* CriticalResearchFailure: On the existence of white Hispanics and Latinos. The visibly very white Michael has the surname Cordero, which is Spanish, implying the writers know. But then other times, when making what's meant to be a sharp TakeThat at white actors like Creator/EmmaStone playing people of color (as was in the case of the much-maligned Film/Aloha, where she played a white-passing mixed Asian woman), European Spaniards like Creator/PenelopeCruz are blithely classified as POC of the Latino race. There is no such thing as a Latino race, for starters....