YMMV / Deliver Us from Eva

• Designated Villain: Eva is indeed a bitch of untold caliber, but hiring someone to make her leave her sisters behind, and going so far as to fake his death just so she'll leave is a bridge too far for someone who just happens to have a nasty attitude. The men could have either stood up to her or simply gone to date girls who don't have a super domineering eldest sister controlling them.
• Jerkass Woobie: Eva definitely counts. She's mean due to having to be the parental figure among her sisters, so she's overprotective, but only because she wants the best for them and feels none of their boyfriends make the cut. And given their Jerkass behavior, she's not wrong.
• Moral Event Horizon: Depends on the viewer. The boyfriends hiring someone to destroy their girlfriend's family just because she's a bitch could count, but the undisputed moment is of course when they kidnap Ray and fake his death so Eva will take the job in Chicago and leave them alone. That. Is. A. Felony. And one of them is a cop, no less! Most people that have criticized the movie cite this reason why—that the boyfriends not only pull this on Ray, Eva, and the sisters, but that one of them is a cop who should have known better. Their status as Karma Houdinis also isn't fair or endearing, either.
• One-Scene Wonder: The sassy gay stylist who drops a hilariously mean line on the other stylist.
  Female Stylist: (looking at Ray from a distance) He's so fine! I can't keep my legs together!
  Gay Stylist: (in perfect deadpan) The sun comes up and you can't keep your legs together.
• The Scrappy: All three boyfriends. They constantly whine and won't stand up to Eva, instead forcing Ray to do it for them, and go to great lengths to break apart a tight family unit just because Eva's meanness is annoying them. Worst of all, they receive zero punishment, and Eva even apologizes to them.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Overlapping with The Scrappy, the boyfriends' plight is far more likely to make the audience angry than sympathetic. Eva is indeed an intolerant bitch, but hiring someone to break her heart and subsequently break up their family is way too harsh payback. They could easily just not date these three women, even if they're in love (and that's pretty debatable, seeing how toxic they are), or they could stop being doormats and stand up to Eva. Their frustration is understandable, but not their proposed "solution" to the issue.
  • To a lesser extent, one could argue that Eva counts too. While it is understandable that people process trauma and loss differently, being outright evil to pretty much everyone but her sisters is no way to cope with losing her parents. The boyfriends are irritating, but verbally abusing them every single chance she gets is not helping, and neither are her sisters, who enable her behavior by agreeing with pretty much everything she says and making no attempts to stop her from being so mean to their boyfriends.
  • The sisters, too, may count. They are all grown, but they depend on Eva for almost everything, to the point she feels she has to be this overprotective with them. They also enable all of her verbal abuse, which is not cool, even if their boyfriends deserve some of it.
• Values Dissonance: As said before, most women would have immediately dumped the trio and never spoken to them again after finding out they hired someone to take their sister away from them, especially since they lost their parents at a young age and had an incredibly hard childhood, where Eva had to find a way to provide for all of them. Modern audiences watching may immediately consider the boyfriends to be Hate Sink characters.
  • Some modern viewers may take issue with the possible consent problems presented by the boyfriends hiring Ray to seduce Eva. After all, technically speaking, they formed a romantic relationship under false pretenses on Ray's part, so it may count as coercion since Eva had no idea someone hired him to go out with her, and while he does try to be Above the Influence, Ray does still sleep with Eva in the end. If nothing else, it just makes the relationship stand on shaky ground when it comes to proper consent. It's for this very reason that other adaptations of Taming of the Shrew usually don't have the couple sleep together so the guilty party has not technically committed an act of coercion on their intended target (ex. 10 Things I Hate About You where Patrick and Kat had only ever kissed, but never slept together before she finds out the truth.)
• Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?: There is no reason that the three sisters accept their boyfriends back after finding out they hired a man to seduce their sister, then either leave her devastated or convince her to move away with him, and after they kidnapped him when the scheme seemed like it fell apart. Even with Eva being a royal cunt, it’s not acceptable that they were forgiven and got to get back with their girlfriends/spouses. It’s especially insulting given that these are four intelligent and motivated black women, as black women often value the solidarity between sisters over every other relationship in their lives. It's especially baffling they accepted them back since the men also knew that their parents died and Eva had to give up everything and work her ass off to support their tiny family without any parents or relatives assisting them.