History YMMV / TheFosters

** Stef and Lena's treatment of Jesus angered alot viewers, between unfairly punishing him while Brandon and Callie never face consequences for far worse things, treating him like a burden when he had a head injury, this put alot of people off.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Callie, Robert, Jude and Brandon fall in this.
* DesignatedHero: Callie, Brandon, Jude, Stef and Lena fall into this frequently.

* LesYay: At the prom, Marianna is trying to think of ways to [[OperationJealousy get back at her ex]]...and [[HeterosexualLifePartners Emma]] suggests that she pretend to be Marianna's ex-girlfriend. To which Mariana agrees with no hesitation, followed shortly thereafter by the two of them enthusiastically making out, also with no hesitation. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Stef's face says it all.]]

* LesYay: At the prom, Marianna is trying to think of ways to [[OperationJealousy get back at her ex]]...and [[Heterosexual Emma]] suggests that she pretend to be Marianna's ex-girlfriend. To which Mariana agrees with no hesitation, followed shortly thereafter by the two of them enthusiastically making out, also with no hesitation. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Stef's face says it all.]]

* MoralEventHorizon:
** Liam already started as an unpleasant person to begin with, but finally went to irredeemable [[spoiler: when he raped Callie. ]]
** An unintentional one, but to a fair amount of viewers Stef and Lena. Their treatment of Jesus angered alot viewers, between unfairly punishing him while Brandon and Callie never face consequences for far worse things, treating him like a burden when he had a head injury, this put alot of people off.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: A lot of the main characters can veer into this territory, but the worst offenders are most likely Brandon and Callie

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Callie, Robert, Jude and Brandon fall in this
* ConflictBall: Callie in season 3 episode 2, when Jude wants to invite Donald, his biological father and the man who raised Callie for years, to a Father's Day dinner at their house, and Callie shows instant hatred for both the idea and for Donald, saying that he never cared about them, only signed his parental rights away to get them out of his life, and that he killed their mother. This goes against a previous episode, where Donald tells Callie he cares about them and wants to eventually regain custody, but she begged him to sign the papers to relinquish his rights, and Callie had specifically stated that he didn't kill her mother.
* DesignatedHero: Callie, Brandon, Jude, Stef and Lena fall into this frequently

* JerkAssWoobie: Becka, one of the other girls at Girls United, is the most consistently antagonistic, particularly towards Cole, who she feels is just begging for attention (rather than being trans). However, she like all the other girls has a tragic backstory, and one of the webisodes reveals [[spoiler: she's been cutting herself]]
** [[spoiler: After getting herself together with her mom getting rid of a crappy boyfriend, Becka finds out her mother has another new man. The look of fear on Becka's face says it all. She nearly burns the house down with everyone in it.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Liam already started as an unpleasant person to begin with, but finally went to irredeemable [[spoiler: when he raped Callie. ]]
** An unintentional one ,but to a fair amount of viewers Stef and Lena. Their treatment of Jesus angered alot viewers, between unfairly punishing him while Brandon and Callie never face consequences for far worse things , treating him like a burden when he had a head injury, this put alot of people off

** Callie can get into this, because she always ends up causing all of her own problems. But this is because of her [[FreudianExcuse sad upbringing and she feels her life will end up destroyed anyway]]

** An unintentional one ,but to a fair amount of viewers Stef and Lena. Their treatment of Jesus angered alot viewers, between unfairly punishing him well bradnon and callie never faced consequences for far worse things , treating him like a burden when he had a head injury, this put alot of people off

* IronWoobie: Stef is remarkably strong. She's had a lot of hardship since the show began ([[spoiler:getting shot, thinking Lena was going to break up with her, a double mastectomy when she finds out she has genes for breast cancer]], but she never stays down for long.

* TheCastShowoff: Noah St. John is a real-life slam poet who wrote the piece he recited on the show.
* FakeAmerican: Maia Mitchell's Australian who plays an American girl.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Although it's natural for the viewer to root for Callie's adoption in Season Three, it would be hard to argue that the obstructing social worker's concerns are entirely without merit. Callie and Brandon have had a very unhealthy sibling/romantic dynamic for most of the show, which has negatively affected both of them and the entire family, and they (especially Callie) seem to have almost a compulsion to periodically pursue it even when it is completely against their own best interests. The fact that success relied on multiple people having to lie for them should probably have been a clue to them that all wasn't well, even though the protagonists never seemed to consider the problems pointed out by the social worker as at all legitimate.

* TearJerker: the end of "The Honeymoon," with [[spoiler: Callie intentionally shoplifting food from a convenience store in order to get arrested]]. The utter lack of hope in her eyes as she eats a candy bar while crying is ''devastating''
** Callie and Jude's biological dad [[spoiler: signing away his parental rights so they can be adopted by Stef and Lena, even though he wanted to be able to be their father again, because it was the right thing to do]]
** "Adoption Day" gives us a slightly less TearJerker scene when [[spoiler: it's revealed that Callie's biological father is someone other than she thought, meaning she can't be adopted until it gets sorted out]]. It's mitigated by [[spoiler: a pep talk by Rita to not despair, Stef's assurance to Callie that they're not going to give up on her getting adopted, and Jude getting adopted (even though he said he didn't want to if Callie wasn't)]]
** When Lena [[spoiler: loses her baby. The emotional reaction from her and the rest of the family is just heartbreaking.]]
* WhatAnIdiot: Pretty much everyone in the third episode of the second season, Brandon decides to invite a few people over to hear their band. Mariana decides to invite her dance friends, who she knows will invite other people, but that's [[NeverMyFault not her fault]]. Brandon instead of realizing this could get out of hand, decides "Sure, why not". Even after all the disastrous parties from the last season, nobody sees a problem with this party except Callie. Predictably, things go bad, people are trashing the house and they break the big living room window. Brilliant.
* TheWoobie: Callie and Jude, especially as we learn more about their backstory. Jesus and Mariana to an extent, though they've mostly grown past the stage in their life where they're as vulnerable.
** JerkAssWoobie: Becka, one of the other girls at Girls United, is the most consistently antagonistic, particularly towards Cole, who she feels is just begging for attention (rather than being trans). However, she like all the other girls has a tragic backstory, and one of the webisodes reveals [[spoiler: she's been cutting herself]]

** Gabby, another of the Girls United girls, is also abrasive and liable to make cruel remarks (although she's less transphobic than Becka). She also has an abusive father, a bad past involving being in a gang, and as the webisodes reveal [[spoiler: she's HIV positive]]

** [(spoiler: After getting g herself together with her mom getting rid of a crappy boyfriend, Becka finds out her mother has another new man. The look of fear on Becka's face says it all. She nearly burns the house down with everyone in it.]]

* WhatAnIdiot: Pretty much everyone in the third episode of the second season, Brandon decides to invite a few people over to hear their band. Mariana decides to invite her dance friends, who she knows will invite other people, but that's [[NeverMyFault not her fault]]. Brandon instead of realizing this could get out of hand, decides SureWhyNot. Even after all the disastrous parties from the last season, nobody sees a problem with this party except Callie. Predictably, things go bad, people are trashing the house and they break the big living room window. Brilliant.