History YMMV / CrimeAndPunishment

* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: Rodya is a college dropout with mental issues, who thinks saving his sister from sexual abuse gives him an excuse to kill someone. Yes, this just described 50% of all ''Series/ColdCase'' episodes, to say nothing about crime stories in general.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Raskolnikov's dream about a poor old mare getting beaten to death. Which is also very {{Squick}}y.
* TheWoobie: Sonya already lost her mother and became a prostitute to support her family before the novel's start. Then [[spoiler:her father and step-mother die, she's separated from her step-siblings, and Raskolnikov goes to Siberia for his eight-year atonement. Sure, her step-siblings will be cared for at orphanages and she's [[IWillWaitForYou happy to follow him]], but that's a lot of pain for a girl who's not even twenty by the end of the novel.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Raskolnikov a KnightTemplar, or a more self-conscious type of VillainProtagonist who uses sophistry to justify murder?

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Rodya is a college dropout with mental issues, who thinks saving his sister from sexual abuse gives him an excuse to kill someone. Yes, this just described 50% of all ''Series/ColdCase'' episodes.

** FridgeBrilliance: The driving force behind the entire plot had been Svidrigailov all the time, even for those characters who did not know him. Had Svidrigailov not married Marfa Petrovna, Dunya was not going to be employed by her, therefore he was not going to hit on Dunya, there would have been no interest into pressuring her to marry Luzhin, and from that point Raskolnikov was not going to be driven to murder and robbery to save her from the marriage he imagined to be a FateWorseThanDeath.

** The whole book is an examination of Raskolnikov's belief that someone can justifiably cross the line for the greater good. And he crosses it when he [[spoiler:murders not only the old woman but also her sister for catching him at the scene of the crime.]] He spends the rest of the story suffering from his inability to accept what he did.

* HilariousInHindsight: A brilliant {{Ubermensch}} student decides to improve the world by killing the unworthy, [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow plays mind games]] with a [[BunnyEarsLawyer quirky]] HeroAntagonist, [[MurderMakesYouCrazy goes crazy]]. Is this describing ''Crime and Punishment'' or ''Anime/DeathNote''?

* JerkassWoobie: Raskolnikov. He's murderous in the beginning and he displays far too much {{Pride}} in his ability to commit murder without being affected by it, but over time, [[MurderMakesYouCrazy his mental health deteriorates]] [[spoiler:to the point where he starts to show [[OutDamnedSpot signs of breaking]] as he works up the courage to confess his crimes.]]