History YMMV / QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger

** Ditto the "government bad" theme in the ''Coldest Equations'' arc.
** The genocidal culture that gets nuked in the Kallifrax arc is a pretty obvious {{Expy}} [[StrawmanPolitical of Iran]].

** The Author was very deliberate in making the parody shallow. His very intent was to incense the defenders of WH40k to get past their defenses. [[ShownTheirWork He never mocks ANYTHING while having only a passing knowledge of it]], [[BatmanGambit and the fans that got upset at the portrayal fell right into his trap for going out of their way to defend such a horrible setting and prove him right]]. One verified fan of 40k [[ActuallyPrettyFunny was actually amused]], however, having no hard feelings towards the author and acknowledging the point the author was trying to make, making the ones that got mad at R.H. Junior's mockery look even more [[Fandumb fanatical and unreasonable]], since one of their own actually could take the joke.

** The Author was very deliberate in making the parody shallow. His very intent was to incense the defenders of WH40k to get past their defenses. [[ShownTheirWork He never mocks ANYTHING while having only a passing knowledge of it]], [[BatmanGambit and the fans that got upset at the portrayal fell right into his trap for going out of their way to defend such a horrible setting and prove him right]]. One verified fan of 40k [[ActuallyPrettyFunny was actually amused]], however, having no hard feelings towards the author and acknowledging the point the author was trying to make, making the ones that got mad at R.H. Junior's mockery look even more fanatical and unreasonable, since one of their own actually could take the joke.

** The Author was very deliberate in making the parody shallow. His very intent was to incense the defenders of WH40k to get past their defenses. He never mocks ANYTHING while having only a passing knowledge of it, [[BatmanGambit and the fans that got upset at the portrayal fell right into his trap for going out of their way to defend such a horrible setting and prove him right]]. One verified fan of 40k [[ActuallyPrettyFunny was actually amused]], however, having no hard feelings towards the author and acknowledging the point the author was trying to make, making the ones that got mad at R.H. Junior's mockery look even more fanatical and unreasonable, since one of their own actually could take the joke.

** The Author was very deliberate in making the parody shallow. His very intent was to incense the defenders of WH40k to get past their defenses. He never mocks ANYTHING while having only a passing knowledge of it, [[BatmanGambit and the fans that got upset at the portrayal fell right into his trap for going out of their way to defend such a horrible setting and prove him right]]. One verified fan of 40k [[ActuallyPrettyFunny was actually amused]], however, having NoHardFeelings towards the author and acknowledging the point the author was trying to make.

* BrokenBase: On TakeThat to {{Warhammer 40000}} with one side claiming it as ShallowParody due to the comic's ignorance on the [[TheEmpire Imperium Of Man]] being NecessaryEvil in its xenophobia while other claiming that as TakeThat DarknessInducedAudienceApathy of its portrayal for its ridiculousness along with ignorance on its worse aspects.

* BrokenBase: On TakeThat to {{Warhammer 40000}} with one side claiming it as ShallowParody due to the comic's ignorance on the [[TheEmpire Imperium Of Man]] being NecessaryEvil in its xenophobia while other claiming that DarknessInducedAudienceApathy of its portrayal.

** '''''Much''''' more [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment debatable]] is the economics that form the core of the arc; its detractors scoff that economics theories that have been vindicated for decades on Earth could lead to societal collapse, while its proponents see it as a good summary of the malicious intent behind RidiculousFutureInflation - they find it kind of scary when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-8/ a first-world nation's currency loses 95% of its face value in under a century.]]
* BrokenBase:
** On TakeThat to {{Warhammer 40000}} with one side claiming it as ShallowParody due to the comic's ignorance on the [[TheEmpire Imperium Of Man]] being NecessaryEvil in its xenophobia while other claiming that DarknessInducedAudienceApathy of its portrayal.

*** Though it is more "regulation focusing more on denying personal responsibility than genuine safety" due to ending with the regulation board being reformed and freed of its cronies.

*** '''''Much''''' more [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment debatable]] is the economics that form the core of the arc; its detractors scoff that economics theories that have been vindicated for decades on Earth could lead to societal collapse, while its proponents see it as a good summary of the malicious intent behind RidiculousFutureInflation - they find it kind of scary when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-8/ a first-world nation's currency looses 95% of its face value in under a century.]][[note]]which just happens to be TruthInTelevision; What cost a grand in 1900 would cost ''thirty'' grand in 2016, AKA a thousand modern dollars is the equivalent of '''thirty five''' 1900 dollars![[/note]]

*** '''''Much''''' more [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment debatable]] is the economics that form the core of the arc; its detractors scoff that economics theories that have been vindicated for decades on Earth could lead to societal collapse, while its proponents see it as a good summary of the malicious intent behind RidiculousFutureInflation - they find it kind of scary when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-8/ a first-world nation's currency looses 95% of its face value in under a century.]][[note]]which just happens to be Truth in Television; What cost a grand in 1900 would cost ''thirty'' grand in 2016, AKA a thousand modern dollars is the equivalent of '''thirty five''' 1900 dollars![[/note]]

*** '''''Much''''' more [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment debatable]] is the economics that form the core of the arc; its detractors scoff that economics theories that have been vindicated for decades on Earth could lead to societal collapse, while its proponents see it as a good summary of the malicious intent behind RidiculousFutureInflation - they find it kind of scary when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-8/ a first-world nation looses 95% of its face value in under a century.]][[note]]which just happens to be Truth in Television; What cost a grand in 1900 would cost ''thirty'' grand in 2016, AKA a thousand modern dollars is the equivalent of '''thirty five''' 1900 dollars![[/note]]

*** '''''Much''''' more [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment debatable]] is the economics of the arc; its detractors scoff that economics theories that have been vindicated for decades on Earth could lead to societal collapse, while its proponents see it as a good summary of the malicious intent behind RidiculousFutureInflation - they find it kind of scary when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-8/ a first-world nation looses 95% of its face value in under a century.]][[note]]which just happens to be Truth in Television; What cost a grand in 1900 would cost ''thirty'' grand in 2016, AKA a thousand modern dollars is the equivalent of '''thirty five''' 1900 dollars![[/note]]

** Gets outright ridiculous in the Kallifrax arc - the comic basically assumes that economics theories that have been vindicated for decades on Earth would somehow lead to societal collapse, and the genocidal Kallifrax subculture that gets nuked is a pretty obvious {{Expy}} [[StrawmanPolitical of Iran]].

*** The Fedork Federation isn't Starfleet, it's more akin to a crystallization of every flaws Starfleet has taken to their extremes. It's implied the Fedorks just made a mess of things everywhere they went and didn't take responsibility for their mistakes.

*** As someone that was born in a place that ascribed to the Keynes model, I can tell you that the only reason we haven't had a full societal colapse is because we still have a choice to jump ship elsewhere rather than stay in the sinking ship. The Kalufraxians didn't have that choice. And you think it's an exaggeration? Endless government debt and spending on needless things and no effort at creating industries that produce anything while depending on imports from outside basically has made the situation so bad that the only way out would be for someone else to actually buy out the debt. We are a commonwealth, and our politicians keep the whole thing going by keeping applying for loans that they can't ever pay off. So yeah, the goverment having the potential to be VERY bad is an Anvil that can't be dropped enough.
* CriticalResearchFailure: During the ''Coldest Equations'' arc, "how much does the pilot's chair weigh?" is treated as an ArmorPiercingQuestion. However, even a cursory glance at the source material shows that the pilot had no means of stripping out any unnecessary weight/none of the weight was unnecessary.
** A pilot's chair that can't be detached and removed for even simple maintenance does not make any structural or engineering sense. A ship that can't compensate for errors and has every operational parameter shaved so thin that a sneeze could make it crash makes no sense. A long range transport ship without a co-pilot makes no sense. If anything, the one that failed in their research was the writer of the original short, who created a convoluted situation by writing about a ship that no sane aerospace engineer would let out of the drawing board. Reality Check did read the original story in full, so he can't be accused of not showing his work.

** As someone that was born in a place that ascribed to the Keynes model, I can tell you that the only reason we haven't had a full societal colapse is because we still have a choice to jump ship elsewhere rather than stay in the sinking ship. The Kalufraxians didn't have that choice. And you think it's an exaggeration? Endless government debt and spending on needless things and no effort at creating industries that produce anything while depending on imports from outside basically has made the situation so bad that the only way out would be for someone else to actually buy out the debt. We are a commonwealth, and our politicians keep the whole thing going by keeping applying for loans that they can't ever pay off.

** The Fedork Federation isn't Starfleet, it's more akin to a crystallization of every flaws Starfleet has taken to their extremes. It's implied the Fedorks just made a mess of things everywhere they went and didn't take responsibility for their mistakes.

* MartyStu: The main character. He's nearly unbeatable; smarter and saner than almost anyone else; and never, ever wrong, no matter what. Of course, unlike his ancestor, Quentyn had to go through a rigorous training program to become a ranger. It's stated in the opening that rangers are essentially considered elite professionals: best trained, best equipped, the cream of the crop of all the forces of the empire. They have to be in order to operate pretty much independently for extended periods in potentially hostile environments. It helps if you consider the main character as the sci-fi equivalent of a Green Beret, a Navy Seal, or a Spetsnaz.

** [[http://www.spacewesterns.com/articles/105/ The original story]] specifically calls it a chair rather than a seat. This would indicate that it is movable and removable. That's before you consider the closet door, which is on hinges. [[spoiler: This was likely a quiet protest by the original author. Tom Godwin knew engineering, and did ''not'' like the ExecutiveMeddling that turned his story into a tragedy.]]

** Well, other than the blaster, their clothes, the pad of paper attached to the control board (and the pencil), the box (but not the serum), and the fact that the storage closet would presumably have some purpose other than holding a single box and giving the stowaway a hiding place. Not to mention, the EDS in the source material cannot land from 1,000 feet up without power -- for comparison, a jet airliner has successfully landed from 33,000 feet without power because it ran out of fuel. So, yeah, the ExecutiveMeddling involved in the source material makes it unreliable at best.

** Subverted, as well; not only does he get clocked by the Fedorks (only Omnibus prevents him from then being run through the "disintegrating photocopier" version of a transporter), it's later mentioned that Rangers are selected to be abrasive discipline problems, at least partially because if anything goes wrong, their very nature gives the ESS plausible deniability.

** Of course, it's also noted that Rangers tend to [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0051/ lose years of time in transit]], and are selected to be [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0046/ abrasive discipline problems]]. Not to mention, as the next comic after that link points out, they are (in the most family-friendly vernacular) "oops boys". Everything goes well, start the celebration. Something goes wrong...
--> '''Omnibus''': Our crispy subatomic particles get swept under the rug?

*** Vindicated? IRL, A historical survey of over seven hundred(!) fiat currencies was conducted, with the currencies chosen alphabetically. (They started in the "A"s and quit when they were only halfway through the "B"s. Nothing so repetitive as human stupidity.) '' Every single one of them collapsed.'' Hyperinflation, sweeping poverty, complete implosion of the economy.. what happened to pre WWII Germany. The average lifespan of a fiat currency is five MONTHS, and that's only because of rare outliers. The british pound has lasted for 300 years as a fiat currency-- but has lost 98% of its value. The American Dollar, by way of comparison, has been fiat for about 45, and has already lost 95%. Fiat currency generates great prosperity in the same way that giving a teenager an unlimited credit card for the weekend generates a bitchin' party.

*** A strawman ''is an INCORRECT portrayal of something.'' Murderous, xenocidal, fanatical, barbaric, wages war with terrorist attacks, spend any charity aid on bullets and bombs... the story pretty much has most of the Middle East pegged right to the wall.

*** Or at least a CompositeCharacter of the various Middle Eastern hotbeds. There are so blasted many...

*** Vindicated? IRL, A historical survey of over seven hundred(!) fiat currencies was conducted. Alphabetically. (They started in the "A"s and quit when they were only halfway through the "B"s. Nothing so repetitive as human stupidity.) '' Every single one of them collapsed.'' Hyperinflation, sweeping poverty, complete implosion of the economy.. what happened to pre WWII Germany.
The average lifespan of a fiat currency is five MONTHS, and that's only because of rare outliers. The british pound has lasted for 300 years as a fiat currency-- but has lost 98% of its value (or rather had 98% of its value funneled into the hands of bankers and politicians.) The American Dollar, by way of comparison, has been fiat for about 45, and has already lost 95%. Fiat currency generates great prosperity in the same way that giving a teenager an unlimited credit card for the weekend generates a bitchin' party. Keynes was an assclown.

*** And a strawman ''is an INCORRECT portrayal of something.'' Murderous, xenocidal, fanatical, barbaric, wages war with terrorist attacks, spend any charity aid on bullets and bombs... the story pretty much has most of the Middle East pegged right to the wall.