History YMMV / Lexx

* NarmCharm: The special effects.

* HellIsThatNoise: Throughout season 2, the Mantrid Drones' creepy, angry mechanical whining, and they swarm in the quintillions.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Season 4 was very, very poorly recieved by most fans, who see the overemphasis on crude comedy, lack of effort put into the writing, {{Flanderization}}, and treatment of Americans a massive letdown compared to the previous seasons. Season 3 is also disliked by some for its focus on a single planet, being mostly fantasy instead of SpaceOpera, and for [[Retcon retconning]] a lot of the worldbuilding regarding the Time Prophet and the fate of souls in the first two seasons.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Season 4 was very, very poorly recieved by most fans, who see the overemphasis on crude comedy, lack of effort put into the writing, {{Flanderization}}, and treatment of Americans a massive letdown compared to the previous seasons. Season 3 is also disliked by some for its focus on a single planet, being mostly fantasy instead of SpaceOpera, and for {{retconning}} a lot of the worldbuilding regarding the Time Prophet and the fate of souls in the first two seasons.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[ForeverKnight Lucian Lacroix]] is Prince of Fire.

* SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome: A bit subjective perhaps, but few who actually watched the show on a serious basis would deny that it was one of the great underrated and unnoticed SpaceOpera television series of all time. It is however, so into FetishFuel that some people have difficulties dealing with it.

* UnfortunateImplications: In "Girl Town", apparently all tortured prisoners in the titular LadyLand are CampGay sterotypes. Since Fire is supposed to be Hell... On the one hand, Fifi demonstrated that sometimes there were mix-ups in who goes where, on the other, the number that were there seems to indicate a disproportionate number getting sent there.

* UnfortunateImplications: In "Girl Town", apparently all tortured prisoners in the titular LadyLand are CampGay sterotypes. Since Fire is supposed to be Hell...

--> Website/StarDestroyerDotNet's '''Darth Wong''' on ''Lexx''

* FridgeLogic: It makes complete sense that the Love Slave programming would make the slave obsessive to its mate, but 90% of what makes up 790's character makes no sense. There's no benefit of a Love Slave that actively hates and wants to kill everyone but its mate.

* FanNickname: "Supreme Beans," or just "the Beans," for the people behind the show, after a fan misspelled "beings" on a forum when referring to them.
* FetishFuel: Everything, ''and we do mean everything and the show knows it and taunts you with it.''
** Love slaves, leather/latex clothes on the leads, vampires, penis-shaped shower heads/water faucets, crossdressers, single-gender planets, lusty cannibals, biological toilets that have tongues ...
*** At one point, Stanley gets the bright idea to squeeze and pump the non-functional food dispensers in the hopes of getting some food out. The food dispensers being even more phallic than the shower heads, you can [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything guess what this looks like]].
** When ''Lexx'' had just started, the creators mentioned ''{{Baywatch}}'''s bipolar attitude to its JiggleShow status in an interview ("there's big silicone-injected jugs, but little Bobby has lost his dog"). "We'd say, 'Boobs -- just go with it.'" It's intentional.
* FightSceneFailure: Happens when Kai takes out the [[{{Mook}} mooks]] on the gondola in "May".

* HollywoodPudgy: A research assistant who is smitten with [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Kai]] in Season 4, the disciples of "Woz", others. Tended to meet bad ends of the innocent victim variety, whereas anybody with supermodel proportions meets a bad end due to bad choices.
* HoYay [[IncrediblyLamePun Oh, Hoom Va Ray...]]

* LesYay: Xev and Bunny.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Most of the CG and blue screen effects in the first season are not convincing, and the same effects from the later seasons have not aged well (not to mention an extremely bad ChromaKey sequence when the crew are escaping from Mantrid's prison in the second season opener). As mentioned above, however, some see it as NarmCharm.
** The interior of the Lexx was originally this trope, until Season 2, in which the show got a higher budget, resulting in [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome a complete overhaul of the sets]]. This is even [[LampshadeHanging explained in-universe]], as the Lexx was still growing during Season 1, but has fully matured by Season 2.
* SoCoolItsAwesome: A bit subjective perhaps, but few who actually watched the show on a serious basis would deny that it was one of the great underrated and unnoticed SpaceOpera television series of all time. It is however, so into FetishFuel that some people have difficulties dealing with it.

* TheWoobie: Zev/Xev. For starters, her parents sell her to the Wife Bank as an infant, resulting in her spending her life being raised "in a box" by a hologram instructing her on how to be a submissive but sexually aggressive wife. When she is released, she is purchased by the parents of a SpoiledBrat to be his wife, but after hearing his insults directed at her appearance, Zev lost it and punched him in the face. She was then arrested and put on trial for "failing her wifely duties" and sentenced to be transformed into a love slave, and [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready we all know how that turned out]]. To top it all off, the only man she's ever loved is incapable of returning her affections, both physically and mentally.

* CompleteMonster: His Shadow.
** Mantrid
** Prince is TheDevil and Death all in one!
** The sub-ends

* TooGoodToLast: Averted; the show was in danger of being canceled, but fan outcry got it back for its fourth season. Despite the open ending of the final episode, the fourth season was always intended to be the last.

* FridgeHorror: What, exactly, is Xev using to shower with in her bathroom on the Lexx?
*** Water, extracted from all the stuff Lexx consumes?
** Forget that, what the Hell are she and Stanley ''eating''?!
*** The products of Lexx's vital activity? Like, you know, we consume milk or honey?

* FridgeLogic: It makes complete sense that the LoveSlave programming would make the slave obsessive to its mate, but 90% of what makes up 790's character makes no sense. There's no benefit of a Loveslave that actively hates and wants to kill everyone but its mate.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Part of the love slave transformation for female prisoners is for her brain to be reprogrammed so that she falls madly in love with and is fanatically devoted to the first person she sees after the reprogramming is complete, which would be whoever her owner would be. At Zev's trial, it is explained that the owner can treat his love slave any way he pleases and discard her when he gets tired of her. So basically he could abuse her to his heart's content and she would continue to worship the ground he walks on no matter how horrible he was to her. This programming would hold even if he got tired of her, which would cause untold anguish for her when he abandoned her. This is hammered home when after she is sentenced, Zev begs the judge to send her to the protein bank instead.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Quite a few of the villains are done in like this.
** His Divine Shadow: Tries to grow a genetically engineered planet-killing insect to destroy human planets with, only for it to be stolen by humans who use it to defeat him.
** Mantrid: Turns the mass of the entire universe into his drones, saving the Lexx and crew for last...but inadvertently causes a big crunch by moving all that mass towards them at once.
** Gigerotta: In ''Supernova,'' Gigerotta flies around Brunnis in a moth she periodically ''takes bites out of'' when she needs a snack. When the moth squeaks in protest, Gigerotta tells the "flying meat" to shut up. When Gigerotta lands for a moment and gets out, the moth ''takes off and leaves her behind'' to die in the supernova, waving goodbye as it does so.

* CompleteMonster: His Shadow. Also, most of his priests and bio-viziers.

** Prince. Hell Prince is TheDevil and Death all in one!

*** In fact, an alarmingly large number of the people the crew meet.

* FetishFuel: Everything, ''and we do mean everything and the show knows it and taunts you with it.''

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Kai's living reincarnation in season four is an actor/performance artist whose own interpretation of [[WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] Henry V has to be seen to be believed, falling somewhere between preciously pretentious and "holy shit, did he really just do that?"