History YMMV / Revolution

** Miles and Tom Neville seem to have something like this going on. Miles tried getting information out of Neville, and Neville responded that he's not just going to spread his legs for him and tell him everything. Perhaps Miles inspires a EvenTheGuysWantHim reaction.

* CompleteMonster: Will Strausser is an utter [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who the Militia recruited from a room with padded cells. Strausser loves to talk about hurting others, particularly with knives. Strausser also absolutely adores torture: when Rachel falls into his hands, he spends a nice time participating in ColdBloodedTorture while sarcastically informing his victims [[FauxAffablyEvil "I apologize in advance."]] He later attempts to rape Rachel and it is insinuated he may have done so previously. When one of his soldiers fails a task, Strausser simply [[YouHaveFailedMe stabs him to death.]] Strausser freely admits the only reason he's even in the Militia is to kill with impunity and does so whenever he can.

* CompleteMonster: Strausser. He is confirmed to be TheSociopath and was in a padded room when the militia recruited him. He gives off creepy vibes like perfume and gives fatherly speeches to stable boys about slicing open people and animals with a knife. He tortures Rachel, saying "I apologize in advance," making him FauxAffablyEvil. Everyone, including {{Badass}} Miles is scared of this guy. [[spoiler: There's an implication in episode 10 that he raped Rachel as part of torturing her. Indeed, he tries to rape her at the first opportunity. He also threatened to rape Charlie to Rachel's face. When Rachel kills him off with a sharp instrument, he dies and makes sounds like he has an orgasm]]. Even by militia standards, this guy is depraved and monstrous!
** Strausser probably did [[spoiler:rape Rachel at some point. She's uncomfortable with men getting too close, as evidenced by her telling Miles to "back off" in Episode 11.]] Rachel did the world a huge favor!

** As of Season 2, Dr. Horn could be considered this.

** And then there's this line from Neville toward Monroe later in Season 2:
--> '''Neville''': Are you that blinded by your man-love for that son of a bitch?
** [[spoiler: "Dreamcatchers" has Miles and Bass living together in a cheap hotel room. Either Aaron's been shipping them in-universe, or the Nanites are aware of the vibe between them as well.]]

** Eventually Neville tells Bass right to his face that he has "a borderline erotic fixation" on Miles. Plus, their separation has some serious bad break-up undertones, one which neither of them really got over.
-->[[spoiler: "Dreamcatchers" has Miles and Bass living together in a cheap hotel room. Either Aaron's been shipping them in-universe, or the Nanites are aware of the vibe between them as well.]]

** A subtle nod to the global warming thing might be the North America satellite map in the Tower: the snow cover is extremely advanced over large parts of Canada and the US in something like either March or October (''especially'' October). (See [[http://imgur.com/e8OFizG here]] and [[http://imgur.com/sNxBowP here]] for some still shots.

** A subtle nod to the global warming thing might be the North America satellite map in the Tower: the snow cover is extremely advanced over large parts of Canada and the US in something like either March or October (''especially'' October). (See [[http://imgur.com/e8OFizG here]] and [[http://imgur.com/sNxBowP here]].

** A subtle nod to the global warming thing might be the North America satellite map in the Tower: the snow cover is extremely advanced over large parts of Canada and the US in something like either March or October. (See [[http://imgur.com/e8OFizG here]] and [[http://imgur.com/sNxBowP here]].

** A subtle nod to the global warming thing might be the North America satellite map in the Tower: the snow cover is extremely advanced over large parts of Canada in something like either March or October.

* AuthorTract: As of the end of the first season, it's clear the writers have a thing against "Patriots", using [[StrawmanCharacter the NSA goon]] who started the whole nanite weapons program as a convenient DeusExNukina in the first season finale, and [[{{Anvilicious}} repeating the idea that technology is bad]] in every other episode. The only thing that seems to be missing so far is a HannibalLecture about how Global Warming will now go away, and one of the gun grabbing militias being called the Tea Party.

* AuthorTract: As of the end of the first season, it's clear the writers have a thing against "Patriots", using [[StrawmanCharacter the NSA goon]] who started the whole nanite weapons program as a convenient DeuxExNukina in the first season finale, and [[{{Anvilicious}} repeating the idea that technology is bad]] in every other episode. The only thing that seems to be missing so far is a HannibalLecture about how Global Warming will now go away, and one of the gun grabbing militias being called the Tea Party.

* IdiotBall: When the amplifier is first finished and activated, Miles is right there for a moment with all the badguys in the room dead. And neither he nor Rachel thinks to grab the pendant? The whole unpleasantness with the helecopters in episode 12 could have been completely avoided!

* AlasPoorScrappy: [[spoiler:Danny. What makes it especially jarring is that he dies ''mere seconds'' after an epic AwesomeMoment that got him RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap]].

** Lets face it, Miles is the ''real'' protagonist.

* MagnificentBastard: Neville. Being played by [[BreakingBad Giancarlo Esposito]] helps.

** [[spoiler:Nora, who ''also'' had a sudden and random death despite being liked.]]\

** [[spoiler:Nora, who ''also'' had a sudden and random death despite being liked.]]

* Squick: Titus, revealing himself to be a former Headmaster at a private high school, reveals that he had been about to be arrested the night of the Blackout: