History YMMV / Roboroach

* {{Alternative Character Interpretation}}: It's been outright stated many a time in the series that Reg is selfish and self-serving, but this behavior could likely stem from being poor and literally without food. Many episodes play out on the basis that Reg is insanely hungry and would do anything for food, and he was likely [[{{SanitySlippage}} driven into his gruff, greedy personality from all the famine getting to him.]]
** Rube could be seen as [[{{Innocently Insensitive}} incredibly inconsiderate]] to his brother as well, as he ''always'' denies any money or food as a reward for his (and occasionally Reg's) heroism, thus keeping his brother starving endlessly. Rube is never shown to be starving unlike Reg, which may either come from [[{{AchievementsInIgnorance}} ignorance]] or his super powers, so basically Rube never considers his brother's needs no matter how much he puts them forward and would prefer to practice {{Honor Before Reason}} instead.
* JerkassWoobie: Poor, poor Reg. He's selfish and short-tempered a lot of the time, but the sheer amount of terrible things that happen to him far overpower the bad things he does and turn him into this, as well as some episodes even playing with his emotions and having him make a sacrifice to prevent a lethal or dangerous tragedy from occurring only for it to turn out that said tragedy was actually something arbitrarily small. Even in the {{Christmas Special}} he doesn't catch a break at the end, despite [[{{ItMakesSenseinContext}} returning all the gifts to their rightful owners]]. In some episodes he's a full-on [[{{TheWoobie}} woobie.]]

* UglyCute: Reg and Rube themselves.

* UglyCute: Reg and Rubin themselves.

* JerkassWoobie: Poor, poor Reg. He's selfish and short-tempered a lot of the time, but the sheer amount of terrible things that happen to him far overpower the bad things he does and turn him into this, as well as some episodes even playing with his emotions and having him make a sacrifice to prevent a lethal or dangerous tragedy from occurring only for it to turn out that said tragedy was actually something arbitrarily small. Even in the {{Christmas Special}} he doesn't catch a break at the end, despite [[{{ItMakesSenseinContext}} returning all the gifts to their rightful owners]]. In some episodes he's a full-on [[{{TheWoobie}} woobie.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Poor, poor Reg. He's selfish and short-tempered a lot of the time, but the sheer amount of terrible things that happen to him far overpower the bad things he does and turn him into this, as well as some episodes even playing with his emotions and having him make a sacrifice to prevent a lethal or dangerous tragedy from occurring only for it to turn out that said tragedy was actually something arbitrarily small. Even in the {{Christmas Special}} he doesn't catch a break at the end, despite [[{{ItMakesSenseinContext}} returning all the gifts to their rightful owners]]. In some episodes he's a full-on [[{{TheWoobie}} woobie.]]
* UnfortunateImplications: Near the end of the episode "Youth Juice", Rube concocts a serum that will make him and Reg [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}} young again]], during which he says "drink this potion! It should return us to normal--''or transgender'', I forget which!" Doubles as HarsherInHindsight.

* JerkassWoobie: Poor, poor Reg. He's selfish and short-tempered a lot of the time, but the sheer amount of terrible things that happen to him far overpower the bad things he does and turn him into this. Even in the {{Christmas Special}} he doesn't catch a break at the end, despite [[{{ItMakesSenseinContext}} returning all the gifts to their rightful owners]]. In some episodes he's a full-on [[{{TheWoobie}} woobie.]]

* {{Darkness Induced Audience Apathy}}: Reg is often very grouchy and selfish due to his impoverish living situation and still comes off badly whenever he's being nice to someone, Rube is [[{{TheDitz}} really stupid]], and they're both always one-upped by CorruptCorporateExecutive Sterling Uberbucks.

* {{Darkness Induced Audience Apathy}}: Nearly every episode ends in [[{{FailureIstheOnlyOption}} failure]], the setting is a {{Crapsack World}} run by a {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}, etc.

* JerkassWoobie: Poor, poor Reg. He's selfish and short-tempered a lot of the time, but the sheer amount of terrible things that happen to him far overpower the bad things he does and turn him into this. Even in the {{Christmas Special}} he doesn't catch a break at the end, despite [[{{ItMakesSenseinContext}} returning all the gifts to their rightful owners]].

* {{Alternative Character Interpretation}}: It's been outright stated many a time in the series that Reg is selfish and self-serving, but this behavior could likely stem from being poor and literally without food. Many episodes play out on the basis that Reg is insanely hungry and would do anything for food, and he was likely driven into his gruff, greedy personality from all the famine getting to him.

* {{The Woobie}}: Poor, poor Reg. He's selfish some of the time, but the sheer amount of terrible things that happen to him far overpower the bad things he does and turn him into this. Even in the {{Christmas Special}} he doesn't catch a break at the end, despite [[{{ItMakesSenseinContext}} returning all the gifts to their rightful owners]].

{{TheWoobie}}: Poor, poor Reg. He's selfish some of the time, but the sheer amount of terrible things that happen to him far overpower the bad things he does and turn him into this.