History YMMV / Outlander

!!Film
* NightmareFuel: Freya in the pit of corpses.
* OneSceneWonder: Creator/RonPerlman as Gunnar, the king of a rival tribe.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Kainan says the justification for wiping out the Moorwen was to tell themselves they were just animals, thereby implying that they weren't. But for pretty much the entire movie that's ''exactly'' what the Moorwen acts like and no more... a cunning but completely vicious animal. At best, the two are similar, as the Moorwen retaliates for the death of its species by slaughtering those who had nothing to do with it, including people on an ''entirely different planet''.

* InformedAttractiveness: Mrs. Fitzgibbons gushes over Claire, saying that she hasn't seen skin so clear and unblemished on anyone else over eight years old. Yes, Claire has beautiful skin, but we can see that nearly every ''other'' character has equally clear and unblemished skin.

* NamesTheSame: Geillis Duncan, a Scotswoman, shares her name with a real Scottish historical figure who was also accused of witchcraft. Her confession under torture in 1590 naming other women as accomplices helped usher in British witch trials.

* ActorShipping: Due to their famous chemistry, a lot people wanted Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe to become a couple, and a few even became upset that they were revealed to be just friends and dating other people.

* OfficialCouple: Jamie/Claire, [[spoiler: Brianna/Roger]], Jenny/Ian, [[spoiler: Fergus/Marsali]], Frank/Claire in the beginning of ''Outlander''.
** Then as of ''An Echo in the Bone'' there's also [[spoiler: Rachel Hunter/(Young) Ian and Dottie/Denzell]].
* ShipTease: William/Jane, in ''MOBY''.
** Brianna/Roger was teased a lot in ''Dragonfly in Amber'', with Roger and Bree being instantly attracted to one another and Claire even assuming that they would eventually start a relationship together. Her main comfort in leaving Bree to go back to Jamie was that she knew that Roger would be there to look after her. They were eventually upgraded to OfficialCouple status come ''Drums of Autumn''.

* BrokenBase: Some book fans were quite upset that Dougal makes an unambiguous AttemptedRape on Claire that she has to knock him out to get away from, followed by the entire aftermath of the equivalent and far less aggressive scene in the book being kept ''exactly'' the same. Especially since there's quite an overlap with the fans of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', which at the same time was also having issues of turning up the rape content of its source material.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Kainan says the justification for wiping out the Moorwen was to tell themselves they were just animals, thereby implying that they weren't. But for pretty much the entire movie that's ''exactly'' what the Moorwen acts like and no more... a cunning but completely vicious animal. At best, the two are NotSoDifferent, as the Moorwen retaliates for the death of its species by slaughtering those who had nothing to do with it, including people on an ''entirely different planet''.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Averted. While the show isn't ''disliked'' in Scotland, it is far less popular there than it is in other places (particularly North America). This is in large part because despite the fact that it is set in Scotland, most Scots still consider it to be an American show, and it isn't nearly as large a part of the modern Scottish cultural consciousness as shows such as ''Still Game'', ''Limmy's Show'', or ''Burnistoun''.

* FamilyUnFriendlyAesop: Showing compassion for your fellow men will ''always'' lead you into a shitload of trouble and heartbroken partings.