History YMMV / RatQueens

* SalvagedStory: After the third arc went so bleak that the entire series faced cancellation, Kurtis Wiebe came back with a fourth arc that ignored the most-hated elements and restored some fan goodwill, and then the fifth arc revealed it was all an AlternateTimeline. Oh, and the hideously unpopular murder of Orc Dave was actually a doppelganger given away by Violet's knowledge of Dave's genitals.

** Wisely, Wiebe put the series on hold for a year to retool. The 2017 reboot introduced new artist Owen Gieni and reset to undo much of the third arc and incorporate fan favorite Braga into the team.
* WhatAnIdiot: ''Shut the fuck up, Gary.'' [[spoiler:An invading horde of orcs begin a siege because Gary told an enormous female troll that the Rat Queens killed her boyfriend.]]
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* BrokenBase: The third arc. While some people love it merely for it being Rat Queens, others have been very vocal about the sudden turn in the story.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The series starts becoming bleak with the third arc and it just gets worse.[[spoiler: By the end of it, they failed to save Hannah's dad, Dee's brother gets killed with no one the wiser, Hannah [[FaceHeelTurn goes full evil]] and the party splits.]]
** And the start of the fourth arc kills whatever shred of goodwill you had left by [[spoiler: having Violet kill Orc Dave, one part of a fan-favorite couple, with the reasoning not yet being revealed.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The series starts becoming bleak with the third arc and it just gets worse.[[spoiler: By the end of it, they failed to save Hannah's dad, Dee's brother gets killed with no one the wiser, Hannah [[FaceHeelTurn goes full evil]] and the party splits.]]
** And the start of the fourth arc kills whatever shred of goodwill you had left by [[spoiler: having Violet kill Orc Dave, one part of a fan-favorite couple, with the reasoning not yet being revealed.]]
** Wisely, Wiebe put the series on hold for a year to retool. The 2017 reboot introduced new artist Owen Gieni and reset to undo much of the third arc and incorporate fan favorite Braga into the team.

* CompleteMonster: [[MadScientist Voon]] is the [[CainAndAbel brother]] of Braga. Before Braga's transition, Voon attempted to murder her and killed Braga's lover. Later becoming a "[[BodyHorror flesher]]" orc who can reshape the bodies of others, Voon forms an orc warband and leads them to massacre innocents all throughout the forests, while having innocents abducted to horrifically experiment on them, killing most and breaking the minds of others with torture, even [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. Attempting to hunt down Braga, Voon attempts to torture and murder the Rat Queens, [[ColdBloodedTorture tortuously reshaping their flesh]] while intending on sparking a war to salve his wounded ego.

* WhatAnIdiot: ''Shut the fuck up, Gary.''[[spoiler:An invading horde of orcs begin a siege because Gary told an enormous female troll that the Rat Queens killed her boyfriend.]]

* JustForFun/XMeetsY:
** "Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}} meets ComicBook/TankGirl in a ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the Rings]]'' world on crack!"
** Or ''Literature/FafhrdAndTheGrayMouser'' meets ''ComicBook/TankGirl''.
** Or ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' meets {{Website/Tumblr}}.
** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' but with ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''-style humor.

** Dungeons and Dragons but with Discworld style humor.

** And the start of the fourth arc kills whatever shred of goodwill you had left by [[spoiler: having Violet kill Orc Dave, one part of a fan-favorite couple, for no apparent reason.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The third arc. [[spoiler: They failed to save Hannah's dad, Dee's brother gets killed with no one the wiser, Hannah [[FaceHeelTurn goes full evil]] and the party splits.]]
** And the start of the fourth arc kills whatever shred of goodwill you had left by [[spoiler: having Violet kill Orc Dave, one part of a fan-favorite couple, for no apparent reason.]]

** And the start of the fourth arc kills whatever shred of goodwill you had left by [[spoiler: having Violet kill Orc Dave, one part of a {{fan-favorite couple}}, for no apparent reason.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The third arc. [[spoiler: They failed to save Hanna's dad, Dee's brother gets killed with no one the wiser, Hanna goes full evil and the party splits.]]
** And the start of the fourth arc kills whatever shred of goodwill you had left by [[spoiler: having Violet kill Orc Dave, a fan-favorite couple, for no apparent reason.]]

** Tess Fowler, the artist for the third arc, has also been getting flak. While most people praised her Braga special, others have criticized her style as stiff to sustain an ongoing, specially after Stjepan Sejic and Roc Upchurch's departure.
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The third arc. [[spoiler: They failed to save Anna's dad, Dee's brother gets killed with no one the wiser, Anna goes full evil and the party splits.]]

* WhatAnIdiot: ''Shut the fuck up, Gary.''[[spoiler:An invading horde of orcs begin a siege because Gary told an enormous female troll that the Rat Queens killed her boyfriend.]]

* {{Squick}}: Whatever Gerrig did to Bernadette resulted in her losing her eyes.

* WhatAnIdiot: ''Shut the fuck up, Gary.''[[spoiler:An invading horde of orcs begin a siege because Gary told the orcs that the Rat Queens killed a female orc's boyfriend]]

* WhatAnIdiot: ''Shut the fuck up, Gary.''
** To clarify: [[spoiler: an invading horde of orcs begin a siege because Gary told the orcs that the Rat Queens killed a female orc's boyfriend]]

* WhatAnIdiot ''Shut the fuck up, Gary.''