History YMMV / WallaceAndGromit

** Again from ''TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'': Victor locks Gromit in a cage while he goes after the Were-Rabbit [[spoiler: (Wallace)]]. Gromit desperately tries to get out for a few minutes. Then he slumps, and, even though there's no sound and we can't see his face, it's clear that he's crying.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Wendolene in her poaching sheep to get free yarn. In fact she expresses no suprise as her robot dog is killing sheep en masse to make dog food]].
** [[spoiler: Fluffles is also implied to have been assisting Piella murder at least a dozen bakers. Both examples are shown to be rather remorseful however, unwillingly dragged into the act by the much more callous BigBad, and eventually draw the line after it goes too far.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Wendolene:''' I want no more of this rustling! It wasn't so bad when it was just the wool but, this is ''evil''!]]
** [[spoiler: Wendolene didn't exactly get away without a punishment if you consider the fact that Preston actually tried to kill her and ground her up into dog food when she finally tried to stop him. Meanwhile Fluffles is abused by Piella in an increasingly unsubtle fashion.]]

* GrowingTheBeard: ''A Grand Day Out'' isn't necessarily bad, but it's far more [[SurrealHumor Surreal]] than the later episodes, Wallace's only invention is the rocket, and the bad guy is a... living oven. With ''The Wrong Trousers'', Wallace became far more of a tinkerer, Gromit became the archetypal SilentSnarker and the series received a massive AnimationBump.

** [[spoiler: Wendolene didn't exactly get away without a punishment if you consider the fact that Preston actually tried to kill her and ground her up into dog food when she finally tried to stop him.]]

** Also the part near the beginning of ''A Close Shave'' when Wallace panics about Shaun going through the machine can be pretty alarming & disturbing to kids, especially because of the tense background music.

* [[spoiler: CompleteMonster]]: [[spoiler: Piella bamboozles Wallace into falling in love with her solely so she can then murder him out of an intense hatred towards bakers, [[DisproportionateRetribution whom she blames for her massive weight gain]]. Bear in mind that she's already succeeded ''twelve times over'' when she meets our heroes -- in other words, she's crossed the MoralEventHorizon ''before'' the first scene, in which she murders her latest victim. That's not even mentioning her abuse of poor Fluffles, or how she falsely accuses Gromit of attacking her in order to make Wallace distrust him. In short, she's the darkest villain yet in this series, and she dies without any hint of remorse or redemption.]]
** On the other hand... [[spoiler: Her last scene is her thin self as a ghost waving goodbye to Wallace and ascending to Heaven, implying either that there may have been some level of redemption to grant her access to Heaven, or that Wallace, ever the CloudCuckooLander, is hallucinating.]]

** Also the part near the beginning of ''A Close Shave'' when Wallace panics about Shaun going through the machine can be pretty alarming to kids, especially because of the tense background music.

* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/WallaceAndGromit Here]].

* TearJerker: When Gromit runs away from home in ''Wrong Trousers'' and when [[spoiler: Gromit cries over Wallace's apparently dead body]] in '''Were-Rabbit.''

** [[spoiler: Fluffles is also implied to have been assisting Piella murder at least a dozen bakers. Both examples are shown to be rather remorseful however, unwillingly dragged into the act by the much more callous BigBad, and eventually draw the line after it goes to far.]]
-->[[spoiler: ''Wendolene:''' It wasn't so bad when it was just the wool but, this is ''evil''!]]

* TearJerker: When Gromit runs away from home in ''Wrong Trousers'' and when [[spoiler: Gromit cries over Wallace's apparently dead body]] in ''Were-Rabbit.''

* TheScrappy: Wallace. Good god, has he ever been useful in the long run? Or at least no an idiot or TheLoad?

* NightmareFuel: Show us a person viewing ''A Close Shave'' as a child who didn't have nightmares about [[spoiler:[[RoboticReveal skinless Preston]]]], and we will show you a house of ''lies''.
** Bits of ''Loaf and Death'' as well, especially when Gromit first sneaks into Piella's house.
** The two transformation scenes from ''Were-Rabbit''.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Loaf and Death''. [[spoiler: Piella]] has murdered 12 bakers, Fluffles is visibly terrified of her mistress (which implies abuse) and [[spoiler: Piella herself dies at the end]].

** Good Lord, how on earth have the two transformation scenes from ''Were-Rabbit'' not been mentioned? Both my parents were laughing. I was nine when it first came out and have only been able to watch the whole movie ONE OTHER TIME because of those.

** Let's not forget Wallace at the end of A Close Shave. After everything that they had gone through up to that point to [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn their happy ending]], when Wallace finds out that [[spoiler: Wendolene is allergic to cheese and can't stand it at all]] this Troper still feels like giving Wallace a big hug.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series is quite popular with the French, who enjoy making fun of it.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Loaf and Death''. [[spoiler: Piella]] has murdered 12 bakers, Fluffles is visibly terrified of her mistress (which implies abuse) and [[spoiler: Piella herself dies at the end]].
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Shaun the Sheep from ''A Close Shave'', to the point he [[SpinOff got his own series]] in 2007. ''ShaunTheSheep'' in turn had its own EnsembleDarkhorse in the form of Timmy the lamb, who got his own kiddy series, ''TimmyTime'', in 2009.

** [[spoiler: ''"Oh Gromit, [[{{Tearjerker}} I don't wanna be a giant rabbit!!"]]'']]

** "The Cooker" from ''A Grand Day Out'', the DesignatedVillain that just wanted to get to Earth and ski in it's mountains. Even though [[ThrowTheDogABone he did get the ski run he always wanted]] [[FridgeHorror that loose change likely isn't going to last very long.]]

** Bits of ''Loaf and Death'' as well, especially when Gromit first sneaks into Piella's house.

* NightmareFuel: Show me a person viewing ''A Close Shave'' as a child who didn't have nightmares about [[spoiler:[[RoboticReveal skinless Preston]]]], and I will show you a house of ''lies''.

* NightmareFuel: Show me a person viewing ''A Close Shave'' as a child who didn't have nightmares about [[spoiler:[[RoboticReveal skinless Preston]]]], and I will show you a house of ''lies''.