History YMMV / StargateUniverse

* GatewaySeries: Some of the show's most vocal proponents are people who never watched the first two ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'' series or weren't big fans of them. IGN's Ramsley Isler is one such individual, [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/9/29/ as is Tycho]] of ''Webcomic/PennyArcade''. Some of them, true to this trope, have even decided to start watching the old series just to see what all the fuss was/is about.

** Coupled with the fact that the [[SuperPersistentPredator Nakai]] have reached the galaxy as well in their hunt for ''Destiny'' and may stick around why they try to figure how they lost its trail post-"Gauntlet". And then there's the Sentient Fungus from "Cloverdale" that possibly may have spread to other worlds. Chances are good that even if the people of Novus do reach their new settlement and meet up with the colonists that the crew rescued, they're pretty much screwed in the long run.

** The Nakai. Considering how obsessed they are with capturing ''Destiny'', it's possible that their extreme malice towards Humans is because they see the crew as "stealing" the vessel away from them. Since they did not know of it being constructed by the Ancients (or its true mission), after finding out the former information from Chloe and Rush via their mind-probe, they may see their human's claim of inheritance as less valid than their long-standing claim of salvage.

* CrossoverShip: "Rushbelle," the pairing of Nicholas Rush with Belle from ''Series/OnceUponATime,'' is popular in the fandom.

* TaintedByThePreview: Several fans on the Syfy forum were put off by the casting calls for the main cast, with things like Chloe's describing her as a "party girl" and Lt Scott's calling him "every teenage girl's fantasy" giving the impression that this series would be more shallow and teen-oriented.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Greer in the main cast, Riley in the supporting players. [[spoiler:Well, 'till his death in "Aftermath".]]

** Vanessa James has thus far mainly been FanService, if occasionally self-aware FanService. Her fan nicknames tend towards things like "2nd Lt. Tits [=McGee=]".

* EightDeadlyWords: With an entire main cast of characters being thoroughly unlikable, with no "heroes" or even seemingly anyone with any morality to be found, the series quickly fell into this trap. When the series ended with the fates of all the characters being unresolved, many fans were perfectly content never knowing what would happen to them.

** TJ after "Epilogue". Really [[CrapsackWorld everybody is one]].
* WhatAnIdiot:
** Morrison, who attempts to dial the Stargate even though he is aware that the Drones are able to sense them when they're active. James punches him out for this.
** Chloe, when an alien race attacks the ship and cuts a hole in the hull, do not stand in front of it like a deer in headlights. ''Run!''

* FanPreferredCouple: While Nicholas Rush holds a candle for his dead wife and Everett Young has his affair with TJ, most fanfiction instead pairs them with each other, due to their intense rivalry and the real-life friendship between their actors. In fact, almost Rush has been shipped with alsmost every other character. In particular, Eli and Chloe are mostly shipped with Rush over their canon love interests Scott and Ginn.

* FanPreferredCouple: While Nicholas Rush holds a candle for his dead wife and Everett Young has his affair with T.J., most fanfiction instead pairs them with each other, due to their intense rivalry and the real-life friendship between their actors. In fact, almost Rush has been shipped with alsmost every other character. In particular, Eli and Chloe are mostly shipped with Rush over their canon love interests Scott and Ginn.

* FanPreferredCouple: While Nicholas Rush holds a candle for his dead wife and Everette Young has his affair with T.J., most fanfiction instead pairs them with each other, due to their intense rivalry and the real-life friendship between their actors. In fact, almost Rush has been shipped with alsmost every other character. In particular, Eli and Chloe are mostly shipped with Rush over their canon love interests Scott and Ginn.

* FanPreferredPairing: If you go by fanfiction sites, it's [[HoYay Rush/Elliott]] and Rush/Chloe - fitting, as both Rush and Chloe are [[LauncherOfAThousandShips launchers of a thousand ships]].

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Taking down Simeon by triggering a stampede and getting him crushed under it at the culmination of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge against him in ''Malice'', and killing him point-blank afterwards.]] Nicholas Rush, you've officially [[TookALevelInBadass taken a level in badass.]]
** Amanda telling everyone to [[UnwantedAssistance shut up and let her fly the ship]].
** In "Blockade", Eli ''manually'' piloting Destiny through a Blue Giant, whilst performing on the fly adjustments to the shield.

* NightmareFuel:
** The galaxy is a truly terrifying place, and it only gets worse with each episode. Chestbursters, giant spiders, and killer bugs, [[Film/TheWizardOfOz oh my!]]
** Never more apparent than in "Pain" when ticks causing very vivid hallucinations latch onto the ''Destiny's'' crew -- James hallucinates herself killing Scott, Volker hallucinates being trapped in a coffin, Greer and Rush go AxCrazy in an attempt to rid the ship of mutinous civilians and invading aliens respectively, and one Marine ''tears open his own arm because he thought there were snakes under his skin.''
** ''Cloverdale''... Sentient plant/fungus that's looks incredibly resilient, aggressive as hell and apparently reproduces by stinging a nearby creature and [[BodyHorror slowly growing spores]] inside of it, while turning the host half mad.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: "Aftermath"]].
** [[spoiler: Future Rush accidentally killing Telford]] in "Twin Destinies". His reaction is just heartbreaking.
** [[spoiler: The death of TJ's]] temporal duplicate from Lou Gehrig's disease in Epilogue
** The ending of "Gauntlet", made all the worse by the likely possibility that this is the last we'll ever see.
** Park being blinded, apparently permanently.
** [[spoiler: Riley's death]] has a major impact, especially how he goes out. And everyone in the crew is hit pretty hard; his death gets mentioned in the next episode, to boot. Furthermore, [[spoiler: due to being the one forced to MercyKill him, Young suffers a HeroicBSOD and develops a drinking problem that persists for several episodes, before he finally comes to term with what happened]].
** The deaths of [[spoiler:Ginn and Amanda Perry. And then again when Perry and Rush's selfishness necessitate Perry and Ginn's consciousnesses being locked away in different programming, denying them access to the crew any more.]]

* CrackPairing: "Rushbelle," the pairing of Nicholas Rush with Belle from ''Series/OnceUponATime,'' is popular in the fandom.

* ParanoiaFuel: The communication stones. They allow their user to take control of another body over any distance. Of course, it only works if that body has a communication stone of its own, but the potential for abuse is there. [[spoiler:Especially if they get hijacked by aliens.]]

* ParanoiaFuel: The communication stones. They allow their user to take control of another body over any distance. Of course, it only works if that body has a communication stone of its own, of course, but the potential for abuse is there. [[spoiler:Especially if they get hijacked by aliens.]]