History YMMV / DueSouth

* BaseBreaker: One phrase: '''"the Ray Wars."'''
* BittersweetEnding: The last few minutes of the final episode, when Fraser tells of what happened to those whom he considered as friends as he starts a happy ending with Ray Kowalski. Fraser's voiceover is hated by some fans, who think that all of the characters except for Fraser and Kowalski DIDN'T get happy endings

** [[{{CSI NY}} NYPD Detective Stella Bonasera]] is a bank robber! (Or Dr.Hansen from 'Providence').

* RetroactiveRecognition: Also HilariousInHindsight: Fraser's partner is replaced by a [[Series/BattleStarGalacticaReimagined cylon]], and [[OnlySaneMan he's the only one to notice]].

** At one point early in their partnership, RayK asks Fraser if he finds him attractive.
** [[spoiler: To say nothing of the fact that they run off to have an adventure in the frozen wastes of Canada at the end of the series.]]
** Fraser and Ray's partnership is compared to a marriage. To quote Bob "Partnership is like a marriage, son. Give and take, up and down, who left the empty butter dish in the fridge..."
*** From that same episode RayK: So… what. We still partners? Fraser: If you’ll have me.
**** And without a word of warning or explanation, the actors drop what they're doing and start miming sex. Paul Gross: "Brace yourself" Camillia Scott *suddenly walking in* "I think he likes you too Ray." It's on the blooper reel. Look it up.
** In Call of the Wild when [[spoiler: when it seems like Fraser is going to be transferred to Toronto]] Ray asks Thatcher "You ever feel like you don't know who you are? Like if you weren't around somebody, or that somebody wasn't around you, that you wouldn't be you, or at least not the "you" that you think you are? Do you ever feel like that?"
** From Seeing is Believing:
RayK: "I love you Fraser!"
Fraser: "And I you Ray."
RayK: "No, not literally, I mean symbolically or something."

**** And without a word of warning or explanation, the actors drop what they're doing and start miming sex. Paul Gross: "Brace yourself" Camillia Scott *suddenly walking in* "I think he likes you too Ray."
It's on the blooper reel. Look it up.

**** And without a word of warning or explanation, the actors drop what they're doing and start miming sex. It's on the blooper reel. Look it up.

**** At this point, the actors mimed anal sex. It's not in the episode, but it is in the gag reel.

* HoYay, which led to m/m fanfic with Fraser and both Rays. Not to mention the Rays with each other.

* BaseBreaker: the Ray Wars.

** [[{{CSI NY}} NYPD Detective Stella Bonasera]] is a bank robber! (Or Dr.Hansen from 'Providence').

* HollywoodHomely: Ray Vecchio is this, to some big-name fans.
* HoYay, which led to m/m fanfic with Fraser and both Rays.

* HollywoodHomely: Ray Vecchio is this, to some big-name fans. But some non-big-name fans believe he's more attractive than Kowalski.

** [[{{CSI NY}} NYPD Detective Stella Bonasera]] is a bank robber! (Or Dr.Hansen from 'Providence').
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Ray Vecchio, in the series finale. Many viewers wanted him to be with Fraser in Part 2, [[spoiler: not in Chicago and flirting with Stella.]]
* TheWoobie: Ray Kowalski's attractiveness tends to result in fangirls making him injured, sick, emotionally troubled or a victim of past child abuse, even though the series shows that both Fraser and Ray Vecchio had far worst childhoods, and both Fraser and Ray Vecchio were seriously injured and hospitalized during the show, while Kowalski was not.
* YaoiFangirl: Almost all of the fanfiction written today is Fraser/Kowalski, or has Fraser/Kowalski in the background. Fraser/Vecchio, and het and pure gen stories used to be more popular.
** And F/K fanfic is often GayAesop, with Ray Vecchio and others being the disapproving homophobe(s) who need to learn a lesson

** And also the series finale. Some fans (mostly those who ship Fraser/Kowalski) love the final scenes and Fraser's voiceover, but others (including probably many of those who don't ship Fraser/Kowalski) are saddened that Fraser seems to end his friendship with Ray Vecchio, and that RayV was paired with an unlikeable character - whom some fans see as his "consolation prize" for losing Fraser to Kowalski. See TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter below.
* CreatorsPet: Ray Kowalski, who is praised by Welsh and Fraser for his wonderful service record in the Chicago PD, and is told by Fraser that he would be "proud to be his friend" not long after he and Fraser met. The actor was even ''hand-picked '' by Paul Gross to be Kowalski because he was Paul Gross's friend in Canada! And during Season 3, Ray Vecchio, by contrast, was believed to be corrupt and a murderer, probably to make Kowalski look even better.
** In fan fiction, Kowalski is frequently a MartyStu. Fanfiction writers tend to make Fraser and Ray Vecchio not perfect and dwell on their faults.
** Rewatching the first season, Ray has a constant massive case backlog, seems universally hated by judges and public officials, has forged official documents (how he got Diefenbaker his "Wolf License"), has at least attempted to commit entrapment, and has made references to trying to blackmail judges with embarassing photos (to help Fraser, of course), and there was that time that he went to Canada and somehow got a hold of a large quantity of guns and hand grenades. Even the actor that played him thought Ray's only redeeming quality was his loyalty to his friends and family. Remember: Ray isn't supposed to be a terribly good cop (that's Fraser's job), Ray is the polar opposite and foil to Fraser, the incorruptibly good super cop.
*** Then how do you explain Kowalski being as good of a cop as Fraser? He's not a "polar opposite" and "foil," whatever that means. It's because Paul Gross liked the actor who played Kowalski better than the actor who played RayV, and so made Kowalski into a great cop, while trashing RayV's character. It was terrible for Paul Gross and the writers, to do that!
*** I see you're a RayV hater and a Kowalski worshipper, like so many others in the fandom. :-(. You forget that Ray did some of the things you mention because he IS loyal to his friends and family, including Fraser. Like the "Wolf License" - he did that because he cares about Fraser. And the entrapment thing can be explained by Ray wanting to do anything to solve the case, because of his case backlog. He may have felt that he had to resort to entrapment because he couldn't do anything else. I felt sorry for him because he was obviously lacking self confidence in his job. And where did you get that quote from the actor? I don't buy anything that fans say online because most of the time, they're not quoting accurately. And I wish you'd get over your RayV hate, because he is a wonderful character.
*** That's still no excuse for the writers of Season 3 to make him suspected of corruption and murder, when he wasn't there to defend himself. It was like "Let's pick on Ray Vecchio now that he's no longer on the show so he will be the bad Ray and Kowalski will be the good Ray." It was childish and unfair of the writers to do that!

** And also the series finale. Some fans (mostly those who ship Fraser/Kowalski) love the final scenes and Fraser's voiceover, but others (including probably many of those who don't ship Fraser/Kowalski) are saddened that Fraser seems to end his friendship with Ray Vecchio, and that RayV was paired with an unlikeable character - which some fans so as his "consolation prize" for losing Fraser to Kowalski. See TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter below.

** And also the series finale. Some fans (mostly those who ship Fraser/Kowalski) love the final scenes and Fraser's voiceover, but others (including probably many of those who don't ship Fraser/Kowalski) are saddened that Fraser seems to end his friendship with Ray Vecchio, and paired RayV with an unlikeable character. See TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter below.

*** I see you're a RayV hater and a Kowalski worshipper. That's not cool. And remember that Ray did some of the things you mention because he IS loyal to his friends and family, including Fraser. Like the "Wolf License" - he did that because he cares about Fraser. And the entrapment thing can be explained by Ray wanting to do anything to solve the case, because of his case backlog. He may have felt that he had to resort to entrapment because he couldn't do anything else. I felt sorry for him because he was obviously lacking self confidence in his job. And where did you get that quote from the actor? I don't buy anything that fans say online because most of the time, they're not quoting accurately.

*** I see you're a RayV hater and a Kowalski worshipper. That's not cool. And remember that Ray did some of the things you mention because he IS loyal to his friends and family, including Fraser. Like the "Wolf License" - he did that because he cares about Fraser. And the entrapment thing can be explained by Ray wanting to do anything to solve the case, because of his case backlog. He may have felt that he had to resort to entrapment because he couldn't do anything else. I felt sorry for him because he was obviously lacking self confidence in his job.

*** That's still no excuse for the writers of Season 3 to make him suspected of corruption and murderer, when he wasn't there to defend himself. It was like "Let's pick on Ray Vecchio now that he's no longer on the show so he will be the bad Ray and Kowalski will be the good Ray." It was childish and unfair of the writers to do that!

** Rewatching the first season, Ray has a constant massive case backlog, seems universally hated by judges and public officials, has forged official documents (how he got Diefenbaker his "Wolf License"), has at least attempted to commit entrapment, and has made references to trying to blackmail judges with embarassing photos (to help Fraser, of course). Even the actor that played him thought Ray's only redeeming quality was his loyalty to his friends. Remember: Ray isn't supposed to be a terribly good cop (that's Fraser's job), Ray is the polar opposite and foil to Fraser, the incorruptibly good super cop.