History YMMV / Lexx

* SeasonalRot: Season 4 has its episode count extended to the longest episode count of 24, but it was criticised by a subset of fans for being a drag, all set on Earth and a lot of the extential, otherworldy concepts took a backseat in favour of satire, and pop culture parody of earth culture.

* WhatAnIdiot: Stan repeatedly puts himself and the others in danger through his belief that the beautiful young women who hit on him just can't resist his charms, rather than that they're working some angle. Among other misadventures, he loses the Key twice to women who had, until they found out about the sex loophole, shown outright disgust for him. [[spoiler: Or, more precisely, to one woman and one shapeshifter ''posing'' as a woman who had shown outright disgust for him.]] Through four seasons of this, he ''never learns.'' One SciFi Channel advertisement even described him as the series' "idiot."

* WeirdAlEffect: Porn star Xev Bellringer is far, far more popular than the show she took her name from.

* {{Mondegreen}}: The chorus singing the Brunnen-G fight song embellishes certain syllables in odd ways, it's in a made-up language, and no official lyrics have really been released for it, so dozens of written versions are around the internet. However, the last episode is entitled "Yo Way Yo," which is the first line, and the track on the Brigadoom soundtrack is entitled "Jerhume Brunnen-G," the last line. Since the translation is known (Fighters fight the Fight / For their home and their heart / We fighters will win or die / Forever we are Brunnen-G) the third line must be based on the first, so it's likely "Yo Way Ra(h)." The second line is still a mystery and up to the listener's ear to decide.

-> ''"Lexx takes politically correct ''Franchise/StarTrek''-style sci-fi, murders its conventions, and then urinates on their graves."''
-->-- Website/StarDestroyerDotNet's '''Darth Wong''' on ''Lexx''

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Stan in spades. Is he a dirty coward who will occasionally do the right thing when he thinks he has nothing else to lose? Or a hero whose resolve is weakened by self-hate?

* HarsherInHindsight: Pretty much everything, your second time through the show, due to the constant ApocalypseHow.

* HoYay [[JustForPun Oh, Hoom Va Ray...]]

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: 790 comes close in ''Haley's Comet,'' but he finally crosses the line between unhealthy obsession and outright evil when he takes advantage of the Lexx's senility to trick it into blowing up the Earth, to prevent anyone on the planet from ever making eyes at Kai.]]

* NarmCharm: This show is quite possibly the living embodiment of NarmCharm. It's not "good" in any classical sense; its entertainment value comes exclusively from how much you enjoy its winking-at-the-audience brand of sleezy, cheesy, ridiculous sci-fi schlock.

* SpecialEffectFailure: 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.

* 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 [[LateArrivalSpoiler 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.

* {{Narm}}: Sometimes when the German actors and actresses get emotional, their thick accents make them sound less like they're impassioned and more like they're recovering from a stroke. This leads to plenty of slurred line deliveries and AccentUponTheWrongSyllable during ostensibly dramatic scenes. Xenia Seeberg had the lion's share of these moments (since she was a regular, obviously). However, she was surprisingly outdone by Dieter Laser, who made every single Mantrid line sound like Dolph Lundgren on ketamine chewing rocks and finding a strange fascination in puckering his lips repeatedly.

** [[spoiler:The Dark Lady]] in "Woz".

* RetroactiveRecognition: The credits list Colin Cunningham as a digital animator for the original miniseries. Two decades later, he would become internet famous as frequent WebVideo/RedLetterMedia collaborator "Colin From Canada".

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: "The Woz" carries the moral that plastic surgery gives 'ugly' women a big boost in self-esteem and their decision to change their appearance into a more classically attractive one shouldn't ever be questioned. It's not necessarily incorrect, but it's a far cry from the "love yourself no matter what you look like" moral so prevalent in television.
* 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.
** Season 4 is also hated for the fact that it brought Earth into the formula. Part of the lure of the series had been, before season 4, that it never addressed Earth as a thing that existed, setting it apart from a lot of other Sci-Fi. They clearly botched this in season 4.

* MostAnnoyingSound: "Bug Bomb, Malfunction!"
** This wasn't present on the original UK broadcast on Channel 5 and is thus, EVEN MORE ANNOYING.

* EarWorm: The Brunnen-G's fight song, so much so that it was made into the opening credits track for the audience's sake.
** It even becomes a big hit in Newfoundland.

* [[HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: Xenia Seeberg in "The Key". Your first time through the episode, she seems oddly stiff and lifeless, without any of Xev's natural spark or warmth. [[spoiler: Your second time though, when you know it's really Prince masquerading as Xev, marvel at how Seeberg subtly nails Nigel Bennett's cold, haughty aloofness and his catlike sense of amusement as he toys with his prey, without making the big reveal obvious at all.]]

** Bunny. Her season 2 incarnation, while nowhere near as evil as the show's villains, comes across as an [[TeensAreMonsters irresponsible, petulant, and a borderline bully]]. Season 3 presents her as a saint who loves ''everyone she meets'' enough to sacrifice her life for them. In season 4, she flips sides, joining Priest as a minion of Prince. Does she have an independent moral compass, or does she just submit to the dominant views of whatever society she's been born into?

** Xev and Bunny.

* HollywoodPudgy: A research assistant who is smitten with [[MrFanservice 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.

** Another one-sided, but much more twisted, example occurs between Mantrid and [[TheIgor his deranged assistant]], Viggo.
--> '''Viggo:''' Mantrid, I cannot live without you.

--> '''Viggo:''' Mantrid, ''please!''

* NoYay: Stan's early attempts to seduce Zev are pretty stalker-y: Spying on her in the shower, following her into her bedroom without an invitation, and trying to exploit her grief at Kai's funeral (when they mistakenly believe that Kai is "dead dead").

* HollywoodPudgy: A research assistant who is smitten with [[MrFanservice 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.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Stan in spades. Is he a dirty coward who will occasionally do the right thing when he thinks he has nothing else to lose? Or a hero whose resolve is weakened by self-hate? Also, is his sexism a personal flaw, or simply the result of him being raised in a society without any recognition of the importance of compassion?

* {{Squick}}: Whatever is not FetishFuel for you ends up here.

** At the beginning of "Supernova", the episode spends several minutes dwelling on a cryopod containing a cosmic drifter, complete with voiceover explaining that he froze himself and launched himself into the vast reaches of space to save his dying civilization. In an average episode of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', this would kick off the plot. However, since this is emphatically '''not''' ''Star Trek'', he awakens from cryosleep long enough to be eaten by the Lexx. It has nothing to do with the rest of the episode, other than establish the show is an irreverent parody of ''Star Trek''.

* {{Narm}}: Sometimes when the German actors and actresses get emotional, their thick accents make them sound less like they're impassioned and more like they're recovering from a stroke. This leads to plenty of slurred line deliveries and AccentUponTheWrongSyllable during ostensibly dramatic scenes. Xenia Seeberg had the lion's share of these moments (since she was a regular, obviously). However, she was surprisingly outdone by Dieter Laser, who made every single Mantrid line sound like Dolph Lundgren on ketamine chewing rocks while speaking and finding a strange fascination in puckering his lips repeatedly.

* {{Narm}}: Sometimes when the German actors and actresses get emotional, their thick accents make them sound less like they're impassioned and more like they're recovering from a stroke. This leads to plenty of slurred line deliveries and AccentUponTheWrongSyllable during ostensibly dramatic scenes. Xenia Seeberg had the lion's share of these moments (since she was a regular, obviously), but was surprisingly outdone by Dieter Laser, who made every single Mantrid line sound like Dolph Lundgren on ketamine chewing rocks and finding fascination in puckering his lips repeatedly.