History YMMV / AliceGirlFromTheFuture

** ''A Girl From Earth'': [[spoiler:The Third Captain]] is continuously tortured for ''four years'', and if it hadn’t been for Alice [[spoiler:hearing his groans and realizing someone else was imprisoned in the dungeon]], he would have been left for dead.

* FridgeBrilliance: The numerous cases of CanonDiscontinuity are actually justified, since the stories simply take place in several highly similar parallel worlds. The existence of such worlds is confirmed as canon in the short stories ''Is It You, Alice?'' (where the crew of the ''Pegasus'' meet themselves from another world) and ''Alice and Alicia'' (where Alice and Pashka are forced to have several trips between parallel worlds, thanks to Alicia – Alice’s counterpart from one of them – wishing for a butterfly from a species extinct in her universe).

* CanonImmigrant: Werther the robot was a CanonForeigner in ''Series/GuestFromTheFuture'' whom the fans immediately adored. After that, he made small cameos in several later-written books.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Even many of the most devoted fans admit that the plot and writing in the last stories seem forced in comparison to the earlier ones. Understandable, since the utopian future by itself has stopped being interesting (especially with real-life technology's rapid development in the 1990s and the 2000s) and the space pirates have essentially ceased to be a threat to Alice, making it difficult for the author to rely on the setting and one of the major plot lines, so that he turned to including fantasy and/or historical fiction elements. However, the point when the decline begins and the extent to which it goes (some fans outright refuse to read the later books, some think them good, just not as brilliant as the earlier ones) are the source of debate (see BrokenBase above).

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Alice’s 20th-century classmates only appear in ''One Hundred Years Ahead'', and except for Kolya [[spoiler:Naumov]], only in the second part. They are among the most beloved characters of the franchise. Justified, since, first, there is the wildly popular [[Series/GuestFromTheFuture adaptation]], second, unlike the multitalented, superheroic kids of Alice's own time, the 6A class is more suitable as an AudienceSurrogate for the readers.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Even many of the most devoted fans admit that the plot and writing in the last stories seem forced in comparison to the earlier ones. Understandable, since the utopian future by itself has stopped being interesting (especially with real-life technology's rapid development in the 1990s and the 2000s) amd the space pirates have essentially ceased to be a threat to Alice, making it difficult for the author to rely on the setting and one of the major plot lines, so that he turned to including fantasy and/or historical fiction elements. However, the point when the decline begins and the extent to which it goes (some fans outright refuse to read the later books, some think them good, just not as brilliant as the earlier ones) are the source of debate (see BrokenBase above).

** For all that ''The War With Lilliputians'' is one of the most cheerful books of the series, it also happens to include the Panchenga clan. Old Panchenga [[spoiler:keeps prominent academics captive and blackmails them with their loved ones’ lives to make them work for him]]. Panchenga Skuliti is a pirate. Panchenga Muliti keeps the children of his relatives’ captives as slaves on his plantation and treats them horribly (it’s implied the elder girls are subjected to sexual abuse), and if they manage to get away (by being handed over to unsuspecting patrons), they are frightened into silence and never speak of Panchenga’s crimes. The Panchengas’ crimes disgust [[EvenEvilHasStandards Rat and Jolly U]] (the same ones responsible for the FridgeHorror entry from ''A Girl From Earth'' above).

** For all that ''The War With Lilliputians'' is one of the most cheerful books of the series, it also happens to include the Panchenga clan. Old Panchenga [[spoiler:keeps prominent academics captive and blackmails them with their loved ones’ lives to make them work for him]]. Panchenga Skuliti is a pirate. Panchenga Muliti keeps the children of his relatives’ captives as slaves on his plantation and treats them horribly (it’s implied the elder girls are subjected to sexual abuse), and if they manage to get away (by being handed over to unsuspecting patrons), they are frightened into silence and never speak of Panchenga’s crimes. The Panchengas’ crimes disgust Rat and Jolly U, which is ''something''.

* FridgeHorror: ''Secret Of the Black Stone'', the fate of other children: [[spoiler: hundreds if not thousands of them were killed in the war already, but Alice doesn't dwell on it...]].
** Also the children in ''The Star Dog''. The BigBad kidnaps juvenile delinquents and puts them into a school where he intends to raise them into professional criminals. The subjects in that "school" include not only pickpocketing and fighting, but also, for example, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals torture of animals]]. Moreover, at some point all children are brainwashed into blindly worshipping their "teachers".

* AngstWhatAngst: Alice has many many close calls with death and/or AFateWorseThanDeath, but she rarely shows any trauma from this.
* FridgeHorror: ''Secret Of the Black Stone'', the fate of other children: [[spoiler: hundreds if not thousands of them were killed in the war already, but Alice doesn't dwell on it...]]

* AngstWhatAngst: Alice has many many close calls with death and/or AFateWorseThanDeath, but she never shows any trauma from this.

* UnfortunateImplications: It might be that or even GettingCrapPastTheRadar. In ''The War with Liliputs'', there is rather a bit of FoeYay between Rat and Alice, justified as they have a case of EnemyMine. It wouldn't be a problem but for the fact that he's (in his true form) a scorpion-like creature and she's ''twelve'' (or thirteen, according to the fans' research – not that it makes it less squicky). Also, he used to shapeshift into her on at least one occasion.
-->'''Rat''': See you in the palace, kitten!
-->(Laughs out loud as if Alice were his best friend).
** Alice is attracted to his new form of a golden-haired young man, and muses a bit too often that the pirates aren't really that bad and that she's quite used to them. She ends up offering to bandage Rat when he's hit by a blaster shot, but he refuses. Whether all this is intentional buildup on Bulychev's part is doubtful, but in the first half of the book Alice's maturing into a teenager was explicitly mentioned and discussed by her family, and awkwardness ensued in her relations with her best friends Pavel and Arkasha.

** Also the children in ''The Star Dog''.
*** What happened to them?
** In ''The Star Dog'', the BigBad kidnaps juvenile delinquents and puts them into a school where he intends to raise them into professional criminals. The subjects in that "school" include not only pickpocketing and fighting, but also, for example, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals torture of animals]]. Moreover, at some point all children are brainwashed into blindly worshipping their "teachers".

* UnfortunateImplications: It might be that or even GettingCrapPastTheRadar. In ''The War with Liliputs'', there is rather a bit of FoeYay between Rat and Alice, justified as they have a case of EnemyMine. It wouldn't be a problem but for the fact that he's (in his true form) a scorpion-like creature and she's ''twelve''. Also, he used to shapeshift into her on at least one occasion.

* UnfortunateImplications: It might be that or even GettingCrapPastTheRadar. In ''The War with Liliputs'', there is rather a bit of FoeYay between Rat and Alice, justified as they have a case of EnemyMine. It wouldn't be a problem but for the fact that he's (in his true form) a scorpion-like creature and she's ''twelve''.

: Alice, on her side, is attracted to his new form of a golden-haired young man, and muses a bit too often that the pirates aren't really that bad and that she's quite used to them. She ends up offering to bandage Rat when he's hit by a blaster shot, but he refuses. Whether all this is intentional buildup on Bulychev's part is doubtful, but in the first half of the book Alice's maturing into a teenager was explicitly mentioned and discussed by her family, and awkwardness ensues in her relations with her best friends Pavel and Arkasha.

* UnfortunateImplications: In ''The War with Liliputs'', there is a bit of FoeYay between Rat and Alice. It wouldn't be a problem but for the fact that he's (in his true form) a scorpion-like creature and she's ''twelve''.

* {{Moe}}: Alice.

** Also the children in ''The Star Dog''.

* CompleteMonster: Jolly U and Rat are actually diagnosed with total atrophy of conscience. Apparently, this is the one mental disease that is still incurable.

* CompleteMonster: Jolly U and Rat are actually diagnosed with total atrophy of conscience. Apparently, this is the one mental disease which is still incurable.

* CompleteMonster: Jolly U and Rat are actually diagnosed with total atrophy of conscience. Apparently, this is the one mental disease which is still incurable.