History YMMV / WhateleyUniverse

* {{Squick}}: Several examples. Almost all the main characters are {{Transgender}}ed in some way shape or form and there are rather frank discussions of gender issues in the early chapters -- for example, Ayla is mostly female except for... certain elements of his body, Jade uses her powers to "tuck" herself in and this is described rather frankly -- did we mention that Jade is physically 12 years old? Sara essentially vomits out her entire set of internal organs when she "awakens". For the most part however, the series is a fairly standard slice-of-life high-school drama, except with super-powers. If you're squicked by trans-gender stuff, [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike why are you reading Whateley stories?]]

* CompleteMonster: The Don, Hekate and Freya. [[spoiler: The Don and Hekate worked together to put two of their enemies under mind control and raped and abused them horribly for a year. Freya not only didn't give a damn, she let her friends abuse other members of her social circle with no moral problems whatsoever.]]
** Deathlist.

*** Keep in mind that 1, the person who instituted the cover-up is in her seventies and did so decades ago when such attitudes were more respectable. 2, people aren't asked to remain in the closet, they are free to come out. 3, Poe's purpose is to give the LGBT students a place to be themselves without fear of oppression (well, OK, excepting people like Sharisha and Hippolyta, but thankfully they're the minority), and 4, if Poe was known as the cottage for LGBT people, everyone in there would be outed. At least with the cover-up, they can decide whether or not they want to be out, as opposed to having that choice taken away from them. 5, all of the cottages are populated by specific groups- Whitman and Twain by GSD students, Emerson and Dickinson by non-GSD students, Melville by students of high-profile (i.e. Alphas, a lot of Bad Seeds and Capes), Hawthorne by students with issues controlling their powers- everyone in Poe is clearly there for a reason, so how many explanations are there for why those specific students were there.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Naturally part of the mutant factor, however, the vast majority of people have started puberty by 14 (and in fact many girls are actually just about done with it by that time), yet all the characters shown have only recently come into their puberty and powers. It's plausible that the mutant gene causes later puberty
** It's (jokingly) suggested that there is an increasing number of MTF mutants because the mutant gene is trying to outbreed the baseline genes. Even a cursory knowledge of genetics makes this patently ridiculous as genes aren't intelligent. [[hottip:*: And also begs the question why there would be homosexual mutants at all, given that it defeats said purpose]].
*** It's also been suggested that, while the genes themselves aren't intelligent (duh), there are intelligent forces manipulating the situation both for and against the mutants, which is not entirely implausible in a universe where gods, FairFolk, and CthulhuMythos entities are not only real, but awake, aware, and active.
** A fact occasionally tossed out is that the trans mutants have baseline hormone levels of members of the opposite gender and this somehow explains them developing secondary sex characteristics of that gender incredibly quick. For example Fey goes from male to having to pass as female within the span of a month due to have moderate sized breasts. In real life of course, secondary sex characteristics take years to develop. Justified to an extent however in that speed of change is apparently incredibly variable depending on the individual, and for some it is agonizingly slow while for others it is almost instantaneous.
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The description Whateley gives for the Tao doesn't match up with the real-life Taoism. At all. To be fair, the Whateley universe also features a large variety of very real-in-setting mystical ''entities'' that real life (as far as we know) doesn't. In a world like that, that such religions as exist even have familiar ''names'' is already a case of LikeRealityUnlessNoted. (For another example, real-life Christians' notion of God isn't exactly "some less-than-all-powerful being once and possibly still named [[http://crystalhall.wikia.com/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos Nodens]] that's busy staging a carefully stalemated mock-war with 'Satan' so that the EldritchAbominations that really run the show won't come in and wipe them ''both'' out", either.)

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The description Whateley gives for the Tao doesn't match up with the real-life Taosim. At all. To be fair, the Whateley universe also features a large variety of very real-in-setting mystical ''entities'' that real life (as far as we know) doesn't. In a world like that, that such religions as exist even have familiar ''names'' is already a case of LikeRealityUnlessNoted. (For another example, real-life Christians' notion of God isn't exactly "some less-than-all-powerful being once and possibly still named [[http://crystalhall.wikia.com/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos Nodens]] that's busy staging a carefully stalemated mock-war with 'Satan' so that the EldritchAbominations that really run the show won't come in and wipe them ''both'' out", either.)

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The description Whateley gives for the Tao doesn't match up with the real-life Taosim. At all. To be fair, the Whateley universe also features a large variety of very real-in-setting mystical ''entities'' that real life (as far as we know) doesn't. In a world like that, that such religions as exist even have familiar ''names'' is already a case of LikeRealityUnlessNoted. (For another example, real-life Christians' notion of God isn't exactly "some less-than-all-powerful being that's busy staging a carefully stalemated mock-war with 'Satan' so that the EldritchAbominations that really run the show won't come in and wipe them ''both'' out", either.)

* CrazyAwesome: A few secondary characters. For example, imagine if the neighborhood daredevil developed a healing factor. What does he do? Go into business as a paid guinea pig/test pilot for the [[GadgeteerGenius mad scientist students']] more iffy experiments at the school.
** And he lets Phase rip off his dick in the cafeteria. At lunch. In front of the entire school.

** Phase.

** Jobe Wilkins: A CompleteMonster, or a well meaning if JerkAss MadScientist who genuinely can't understand that his attempts to help are worse than the original problem? On the forums even the canon authors have disagreed on this point, but the author of the Book Of Jobe goes for the second viewpoint.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The description Whateley gives for the Tao doesn't match up with the real-life Taosim. At all.
** To be fair, the Whateley universe also features a large variety of very real-in-setting mystical ''entities'' that real life (as far as we know) doesn't. In a world like that, that such religions as exist even have familiar ''names'' is already a case of LikeRealityUnlessNoted. (For another example, real-life Christians' notion of God isn't exactly "some less-than-all-powerful being that's busy staging a carefully stalemated mock-war with 'Satan' so that the EldritchAbominations that really run the show won't come in and wipe them ''both'' out", either.)

** To be fair, the Whateley universe also features a large variety of very real-in-setting mystical ''entities'' that real life (as far as we know) doesn't. In a world like that, that such religions as exist even have familiar ''names'' is already a case of LikeRealityUnlessNoted. (For another example, real-life Christians's notion of God isn't exactly "some less-than-all-powerful being that's busy staging a carefully stalemated mock-war with 'Satan' so that the EldritchAbominations that really run the show won't come in and wipe them ''both'' out", either.)

* TheWoobie: Jade

** Team Kimba: Powerful, but made up of compassionate and heroic individuals, or an [[AffablyEvil Affably Evil]] subversion of TrueCompanions whose members have almost no sense of restraint or mercy, care more about each other then the rest of the world, and are each a danger to the rest of humanity [[CorruptCorporateExecutive for]] [[TheFairFolk one]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes reason]] or [[IDidWhatIHadToDo another?]]

** Team Kimba: Powerful, but made up of compassionate and heroic individuals, or an [[AffablyEvil Affably Evil]] subversion of TrueCompanions whose members have almost no sense of restraint or mercy, care more about each other then the rest of the world, and are each a danger to the rest of humanity [[CorruptCorporateExecutive for]] [[TheFairFolk one]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes reason]] [[CosmicHorror or]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo another?]]

** Team Kimba: Powerful, but made up of compassionate and heroic individuals, or an [[AffablyEvil Affably Evil]] subversion of a {{Nakama}} whose members have almost no sense of restraint or mercy, care more about each other then the rest of the world, and are each a danger to the rest of humanity [[CorruptCorporateExecutive for]] [[TheFairFolk one]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes reason]] [[CosmicHorror or]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo another?]]

* MarySue: The biggest source of YourMileageMayVary and BrokenBase in the series; just about every character (and Team Kimba in particular) has fans and anti-fans who consider them sue-riffic. However, the school is a SuperheroSchool, so some [[CommonMarySueTraits common Sue warning signs]] are, well, really common. For example, one of the {{Most Common Superpower}}s in the setting is a passive power that makes you [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting slowly shapeshift]] into your ideal physical shape, usually something [[MostCommonSuperpower unbelievably]] [[TopHeavyGuy attractive]] (or at least a very HeroicBuild). Not that this is always a good thing, see the InvoluntaryShapeshifting entry above.

* {{Squick}}: Several examples [[YourMileageMayVary depending on reader.]] Almost all the main characters are {{Transgender}}ed in some way shape or form and there are rather frank discussions of gender issues in the early chapters -- for example, Ayla is mostly female except for... certain elements of his body, Jade uses her powers to "tuck" herself in and this is described rather frankly -- did we mention that Jade is physically 12 years old? Sara essentially vomits out her entire set of internal organs when she "awakens". For the most part however, the series is a fairly standard slice-of-life high-school drama, except with super-powers. If you're squicked by trans-gender stuff, [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike why are you reading Whateley stories?]]

** The biggest one might be the fact that all the LGBT students are '''segregated''' from the rest of the school and asked to remain in the closet. The school attempts to justify this by saying that anti-queer bias is so deeply ingrained into Western society that homophobic bullying would be inevitable and apocalyptic in proportion, and all it would take is one incredibly angry homophobe for a tragedy. YourMileageMayVary on whether or not the justification is sufficient.

* DudeNotFunny: Some fans felt this way about the RapeAsComedy scenes in ''The Book of Jobe''.

** Jade as written by Babs Yerunkle is a mature young woman struggling to overcome physical limitations and the dangers presented by the world with the help of her friends. Jade as written by Diane Castle is a CrazyAwesome PsychopathicManchild who is a continual source of crazy, entertaining things. YMMV on which version is better.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The description Whateley gives for the Tao doesn't match up with the actual beliefs/practices of real-life Taosim. At all.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: "Sara's Little Purple Book," a guide to mutant sexuality, varies between CrowningMomentOfFunny and this.
** Two words: ''Dark Generator''. [[spoiler: In the sim, her first attack (apart from Shroud going rogue too) is to animate part of Melville Cottage, turn it into a 30-ft golem and send it to attack. That is, not only part of the building, but ''everything in it'', including furniture, possessions and people.]]

** Appending mentions of the Canon Cabal with "(There is no Canon Cabal)", or (TISCC) for short.

** Two words: ''Dark Generator''.