History YMMV / Bone

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. Given how similar the Bone cousins and the Eds are in both personality and appearance, Fone Bone and Edd both being the OnlySaneMan, Smiley Bone and Ed both being the {{Ditz}} (though Smiley is more of a GeniusDitz) and Phoney Bone and Eddy both being the greedy JerkWithAHeartOFGold with a FreudianExcuse (Phoney being a orphan who stole to support himself and his cousins to survive and Eddy having been mercilessly bullied by his JerkAss older brother), crossover fan art made by fans of both franchises, while rare, can be found.

** This came out in the midst of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks - despite having some mature themes (see WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids) it basically ''defied'' the tropes common to the dark age of comic books. It also happened to be ''very'' popular amongst [[PeripheryDemographic school-aged children from those learning how to read all the way to high school]] and thus found its way in libraries ''and'' schools all throughout North America and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff outside]], and it still remains in libraries and bookstores to this day. A modern reader might not appreciate just how important it was, since comics as a medium were banned on sight in most academic settings, in part due to their image of being [[RatedMForMoney exploitation shlock]].

* AdaptationDisplacement: It's sometimes easy to forget that ''Bone'' is actually the ''second'' incarnation of the story of the Bone cousins. The ''original'' version was the comic strip ''Thorn'', which ran from 1982-1986 in the student paper ''The Lantern.'' Though ''Thorn'' never saw an actual conclusion, most of the major characters appear, and especially in earlier issues entire sequences are taken wholesale from the strip -- just put into a different context. You also see many of the story beats and plot details are repeated in ''Bone'' (including the revelation of The Hooded One's identity). Reading the strip is much like reading a less refined, less structured version of ''Bone'' with plenty of odd digression and a lot of EarlyInstalmentWeirdness,

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny:

** Some of the art in ''Rose''[[note]]Done by guest artist Charles Vess[[/note]] can get a little wonky at times. Sometimes Rose's eyes are creepily huge, but special attention goes to Young Lucius. His facial features look too small for his face most of the time.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: While ''Out from Boneville'' was met with average to mixed reception upon release, ''The Great Cow Race'' [[EvenBetterSequel fared better with more positive reception than the first game]].

* AdaptationDisplacement: It's sometimes easy to forget that ''Bone'' is actually the ''second'' incarnation of the story of the Bone cousins. The ''original'' version was the comic strip ''Thorn'', which ran from 1982-1986 in the student paper ''The Lantern.'' Though ''Thorn'' never saw an actual conclusion, most of the major characters appear, and especially in earlier issues entire sequences are taken wholesale from the strip -- just put into a different context. You also see many of the story beats and plot details are repeated in ''Bone'' (including the revelation that [[spoiler:The Hooded One is Gran'ma Ben's sister]]. Reading the strip is much like reading a less refined, less structured version of ''Bone'' with plenty of odd digression and a lot of EarlyInstalmentWeirdness,

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. Given how similar the Bone cousins and the Eds are in both personality and appearance, Fone Bone and Edd aka Double D both being the OnlySaneMan, Smiley Bone and Ed both being the {{Ditz}} (though Smiley is much smarter than Ed) and Phoney Bone and Eddy both being the greedy JerkWithAHeartOFGold with a FreudianExcuse (Phoney being a orphan who stole to support himself and his cousins to survive and Eddy having been mercilessly bullied by his JerkAss older brother), crossover fan art made by fans of both franchises can be found.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This came out in the midst of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks - despite having some mature themes (see WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids) it basically ''defied'' the tropes common to the dark age of comic books. It also happened to be ''very'' popular amongst [[PeripheryDemographic school-aged children from those learning how to read all the way to high school]] and thus found its way in libraries ''and'' schools all throughout North America and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff outside]], and it still remains in libraries and bookstores to this day. A modern reader might not appreciate just how important it was, since comics as a medium were banned on sight in most academic settings, in part due to their image of being [[RatedMForMoney exploitation shlock]].

** The entire Rat Creature race counts. [[spoiler:According to the Two Stupid Rat Creatures, they were happy to just live peacefully in the mountains and honor the treaty and didn't start acting evil until the Hooded One showed up and started manipulating and controlling them (Kingdok in particular; the [[TheWikiRule Bone wiki]] even describes him as a slave puppet) into going to war. As Smiley points out, the Hooded One basically corrupted a fairly peaceful race into a warlike insect cult.]]

* HoYay: Not uncommon in the Bone fandom. Usually it's either with Smiley and Phoney, or Fone Bone and Phoney. Where's Smiley and Fone Bone, then? A far less common one is between the Two Stupid Rat Creatures, but it is more joked about.

* AccidentalInnuendo: "OH MY GOD! They've already MILKED you, haven't they?!!" And on page [[LOL69 69]], no less.

* NarmCharm: The aformentioned scene of Briar dancing, while certainly funny, can also be bizarrely disturbing when you consider its context [[spoiler:(a vision of the Lord of the Locusts being released from its prison)]], which makes it an (arguably intended) example of MoodDissonance.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Usually slotted under the "young readers" section in bookstores, which often ignores the rampant themes of genocide and the often-bloody FamilyUnfriendlyViolence rampant in the series, particularly when the Hooded One or any of her servitors come into the fray. That it's an illustrated graphic novel instead of an all-text book makes the on-the-nose violence even more bizarre.

** [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination The Lord of the Locusts]] was an [[AncientEvil ancient spirit]] of the Dreaming who desired physical form and the waking world for himself. [[DemonicPossession Possessing]] the queen of dragons, Mim, the Locust almost destroyed the world before being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]]. Remaining dormant and hidden, the Locust steadily converted others to its cause, including [[TheCorrupter the corruption]] of the evil Briar Harvestar, with whom the Locust attempted to annihilate the ancient orders and royal lines of the valley. Failing to sway Rose Harvestar to its side, the Locust spitefully aged Briar into a withered crone for her failure, later participating in inspiring the uprising of Rat Creatures to massacre the Royal Family, save for Rose and her granddaughter Thorn. Pushing for Briar to liberate it and all the deaths it causes, the Locust is willing to destroy the world and condemn everything that lives there to a nightmarish, tormented existence upon its freedom so it may rule the world with a physical form.]]