YMMV / Surrogates

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Was Greer right to allow the surrogates to be destroyed, or has he caused more problems than he solved and brought about mass chaos?
• Fridge Horror: Anyone being driven by a Surrogate, anyone being operated on by a surrogate Surgeon, which would be common as Surrogate surgeons would have enhanced senses and capabilities. Anyone anywhere who is stuck in a building because their Surrogate had the keys or because they were just too careless to take paranoid safety precautions. Anyone who was paralyzed and in an unbearable state. Everyone who was killed, made to return to being handicapped. and to put a final topper on it, the fact that the entire economy is going to take a serious hit as VSI, probably the biggest company on the market was severely compromised and every company worldwide that had Surrogate employees, The ultimate work-from-home option, was just crippled. Not to mention that the person who killed a pregnant woman, and as a cult leader, likely killed more people essentially got exactly what he wanted, while the person who single-handedly stopped an instance of domestic abuse lost.
  • Surrogates were originally invented to help disabled people, for whom this was not just for fun (or even wanting to) but instead to provide support in their day to day lives. Now with it universally shut down, these people are all abruptly left without that. For those who may have been using surrogates to help maintain their flesh-and-blood bodies instead of relying on human caregivers, things could get messy. Some viewers consider the main character very unsympathetic for not giving this aspect any consideration at all.
• Fridge Logic: See the Headscratchers page.
• Hollywood Homely: The normal version of Willis' character. While many of the surrogate owners are overweight or lacking in much muscle mass, Willis is just out of shape, bald and unshaven.
• Inferred Holocaust: Somebody sets up a plot to destroy all the surrogates and kill the humans linked into them in the process. The hero manually engages the safety overrides on all the pods, but at the last minute, decides to have the weapon go off anyway, destroying the surrogates while leaving human beings intact. So one billion surrogates conducting business, operating machines, driving cars, etc, suddenly shut down and one billion atrophied shut-ins must now emerge to try to deal with the ensuing mayhem. In addition to people living lives via surrogate clearly suffering from sunlight deprivation, malnutrition, and the ill effects of sedentary lives, it's obvious that people have lost interest in having sex with their actual bodies or with actual people. Birthrates would have probably fallen to near extinction levels. The graphic novel at least plays the ending for ambiguity — sure, all the shut-ins are back out in the real world, but it's only a matter of time until someone redevelops the Surrogate technology. The main character's wife kills herself because she can't stand the idea of being seen as-is.
• Moral Event Horizon: Lionel Canter has Greer's partner, who is pregnant, murdered, so their plan can continue using her surrogate.