History YMMV / Runaways2017

** On the show, Creator/AriellaBarer is partnered with a dinosaur. They would not be [[Creator/LibeBarer the only Barer sister]] to end up [[WesternAnimation/MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur2023 on a team with a dinosaur]].

* EvilIsSexy:
** Although the level of "evil" varies, the members of PRIDE are all quite pleasing to the eye.
** Morgan le Fay as played by Creator/ElizabethHurley in season 3. Her [[AmazonBrigade entourage of evil witches]] aren't unpleasant to look at either.

* WTHCastingAgency:
** Thanks to getting revamped in many ways, several of the PRIDE members look very little like their comic versions, which can be jarring.
** That Molly doesn't appear to be that much younger than the rest of the cast raised some eyebrows, though this may be a case of RealityIsUnrealistic, as the actress playing her ''is'' 14, which makes her much younger than the rest of the cast, who are all in their late teens or early twenties. When the show actually premiered, people have stopped being baffled by her appearance and more annoyed by her DullSurprise acting for most of her scenes not helped by how the script writes her as a ShrinkingViolet.
** A lot of fans have complained that Marvel chose a relatively skinny actress to play the noticeably heavyset Gert. While the actress has some meat on her bones, she still falls under HollywoodPudgy.

* CompleteMonster: Season 3: * ''Series/Runaways2017'' season 3: [[WickedWitch Morgan le Fay]] is an ancient witch banished to the Darkforce Dimension, a realm of madness and torture that well supplements her own power-hungry cruelty. Once an enemy of the Minoru family who sought to manipulate Tina into stealing the Staff of One to further her dark machinations, Morgan reemerges in the present to bring Tina's daughter Nico to her side, escaping her prison and subjecting countless denizens of the Darkforce to death or insanity in the process of enacting her horrific will. Taking over [[Characters/{{MCUPRIDE}} the PRIDE]]'s resources, Morgan converts millions into her mindless slaves in a ritual to merge Earth with the Darkforce Dimension, intent on [[MindRape trapping humanity in endless nightmares]] as she reshapes the world to her pleasure. Along the way, Morgan delights in all manner of petty sadism, such as spitefully murdering Tina's husband; attempting to sacrifice Molly Hernandez by blasting her with lightning; torturing Alex Wilder for months until he kills a visage of his own mother; and killing Gertrude Yorkes in one BadFuture, thoroughly proving herself beneath all her justifications as a megalomaniacal, [[CardCarryingVillain proudly soulless]] bully.

* CompleteMonster: Season 3: [[WickedWitch Morgan le Fay]] is an ancient witch banished to the Darkforce Dimension, a realm of madness and torture that well supplements her own power-hungry cruelty. Once an enemy of the Minoru family who sought to manipulate Tina into stealing the Staff of One to further her dark machinations, Morgan reemerges in the present to bring Tina's daughter Nico to her side, escaping her prison and [[MindRape subjecting countless denizens of the Darkforce to death or insanity]] in the process of enacting her horrific will. Taking over [[Characters/{{MCUPRIDE}} the PRIDE]]'s resources, Morgan converts millions into her mindless slaves in a ritual to merge Earth with the Darkforce Dimension, intent on trapping humanity in endless nightmares as she reshapes the world to her pleasure. Along the way, Morgan delights in all manner of petty sadism, such as spitefully murdering Tina's husband; attempting to sacrifice Molly Hernandez by blasting her with lightning; torturing Alex Wilder for months until he kills a visage of his own mother; and killing Gertrude Yorkes in one BadFuture, thoroughly proving herself beneath all her justifications as a megalomaniacal, [[CardCarryingVillain proudly soulless]] bully.

* MoralEventHorizon:
** Brandon and Lucas cross it when they [[AttemptedRape try to rape]] an unconscious Karolina.
** [[spoiler:Leslie]] crosses it in the eyes of many with her murder of [[spoiler: Molly's parents]].
** Jonah crossed it when he revealed that [[spoiler: he killed Amy Minoru because he was worried she found out about the PRIDE's plans]]. This prompts the rest of the PRIDE to consider [[spoiler: turning on him]].
** Tina sails right over the line in Season 2 when she [[spoiler: cruelly chokes Graciela to death, despite being able to easily dispatch her non-lethally.]] If ''that'' wasn't enough, then attacking her own daughter and her friends and [[spoiler: nearly drowning Molly in frozen water]] surely is. Even Nico can't tolerate her anymore after this.
** Catherine crosses it when she [[spoiler: murders Darius and frames him for the murder of Destiny Gonzales]]. Worse than that is her absolutely unapologetic attitude afterward. Even her husband is appalled. Later she even [[spoiler: orders a hit on Darius' kid cousin Livvie when she comes close to uncover everything.]]

** Nico's bizarre quasi-Victorian gown (a replica of [[https://terrigen-cdn-dev.marvel.com/content/prod/1x/068nmi_com_inl_01.jpg one of her outfits]] from the comics) in "Last Rites," especially with her thinking it's what she should wear to what seems to be their final battle.

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** After ''Series/{{Inhumans}}'' being very averse to having a scene where Lockjaw is touched due to SpecialEffectFailure, it's ''very'' satisfying to see Gert and Molly touch Old Lace in several scenes, '''on-screen''', thanks to Old Lace actually being portrayed by animatronic for close-up scenes.
** Many fans were just plain confused about how Season 1 doesn't feature a single reference to the rest of the MCU, and even seems to go out of its way to distance itself from the franchise by its take on Tina Minoru having nothing to do with the character as she appeared in ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'', raising the question of why they even insisted that it's part of the franchise. The announcement of the release date for Season 2 then came with a promise that it would be tied in more tightly. This comes through in both small ways (an offhand reference to [[Film/BlackPanther2018 Wakanda]]) and large ([[spoiler:Nico using the Staff of One starts giving her the same eye effect as [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Kaecilius and his followers]]]]).
** Fans generally weren't happy about the Staff of One being technology rather than magic, seeing it as nonsensical and overly complicated since magic had already been confirmed to exist in the MCU. The Season 2 trailer shows that the Staff is explicitly magical after all (and apparently connected with the Dark Dimension), with the previous ClarkesThirdLaw explanation being a lie to cover up its true nature.
** Overall, the second season seems to be dedicated to winning over those turned away by the first, being much more in-line with the comics by featuring action, fantastic elements, and the teens ''actually'' being on the run.
** The entire portrayal of Xavin was widely hailed as a welcome reinvention of a character who fell hard into ValuesDissonance in record time. The comics version is a shapeshifting alien who's technically genderless but prefers male bodies for being more intimidating, and torpedoes the fan-preferred pairing of Karolina/Nico simply by telling her they're betrothed. The show gets rid of the potential CureYourGays undertones by having Xavin also be a woman, plus Karolina isn't moved at all by this interloper who suddenly thrusts herself into the group and insists they need to hook up.

* LGBTFanbase: Loads of gay and bisexual women watching the show primarily for Karolina [[spoiler: and Nico.]]

* WhatAnIdiot:
** At one point the dinosaur goes missing; Dale and Stacey find it only after Gert had calmed it down. Do they add extra security to the dinosaur's pen or put a tracker on it? No. This allows Gert to take Old Lace for the confrontation at the construction site.
*** Slightly subverted as the dinosaur's tracker, her nose ring, is seen to have been activated after she's back, but is turned back off by the time the confrontation at the dig site takes place.
** You'd think that an organization like the Pride would have at least one mob doctor on their payroll, instead of having to rely on clumsy medical improvising from the Yorkes. This is lampshaded by Tina in the second season.
** When the kids prep for the sabotage of the construction site, each of them brings their weapon of choice (Chase - fistagons, Nico - staff, Gert - the dinosaur, Karolina and Molly - their own powers), but Alex chooses to ignore the gun he could have easily taken from his dad's study and instead brings a keycard, which ends up being useless.
** Chase organised a meeting with the Runaways after returning to his family. Hiding from them that the Pride is aware that their meeting or that it was their idea. After he fails to convince them to return back home, the Pride ambush and split up the group. [[spoiler: Leading to the capture of Karolina and Gert.]] After a whole year trying to bring the kids in, including developing technology that he has seen first hand to do it. Why did Chase assume that the Pride would just accept the failure and not take immediate action? Especially seeing that he placed his former friends in the perfect ambush spot and unaware that their parents knew where they were thanks to Chase.

* ArcFatigue: Jonah acted as an OverarchingVillain, with the Runaway's primary goal being to stop his EvilPlan and try to make their parents pay for their crimes. Having this be the plot for the first season is fine. Two seasons maybe. Two seasons and nearly half of the third and it's exhausting. By the time Morgan Le Fay takes over as the BigBad five episodes into Season 3, the sudden shift from ScienceFiction to DarkFantasy makes it feel like a different show. The fact that the final battle between Jonah's evil family and Morgan's rise to power happens before and after a time skip certainly doesn't help.

** In this series, Tina Minoru has a sister named Judith. In ''ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways'', it was retconned that Nico's maternal grandmother was named Judy.

* Sugarwiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Reviewers praised both Old Lace, for creating a mostly convincing dinosaur (especially the animatronic that physically interacts with the actors) on a TV-sized budget, and Karolina's iridescent form.

* ShipMates: Karolina/Nico and Gert/Chase.

** The entire portrayal of Xavin was widely hailed as a welcome reinvention of a character who fell hard into ValuesDissonance in record time. The comics version is a shapeshifting alien who's technically genderless but prefers male bodies for being more intimidating, who manages to very quickly woo Karolina away from her highly popular romance with Nico simply by telling her they're betrothed. The show gets rid of the potential CureYourGays undertones by having Xavin also be a woman, plus Karolina isn't moved at all by this interloper who suddenly thrusts herself into the group and insists they need to hook up.