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** And then there's Javi. No older than twelve or thirteen, and he has to deal with his father's death on top of the trauma that comes with the accident. He miraculously survives on his own in the wilderness, even [[spoiler: attempting to save Natalie from being hunted down and cannibalised by the other girls, and is then left to drown so that they can eat him]].

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** And then there's Javi. No older than twelve or thirteen, and he has to deal with his father's death on top of the trauma that comes with the accident. He miraculously survives on his own in the wilderness, even [[spoiler: attempting to save Natalie from being hunted down and cannibalised by the other girls, and is then left to drown so that they can eat him]].him]].
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Ironic for a show where half of it is an intention period piece but during the adult timeline, which takes place in 2021, Misty makes a reference to shopping at Tuesday Morning. Two years later Tuesday Morning would close down all their stores.
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** [[spoiler: "Javioli"]] for Javi following [[spoiler: he becomes the next person cannibalized by the group after falling through the ice on a hunt.]]
** Unnamed Yellowjackets that only exist in the background get dubbed "Breakfast", "Lunch", and "Dinner".

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* SophomoreSlump: Season 2 is very unpopular. Common complaints include splitting up the present-day survivors for far too long, the descent into cannibalism and cult madness not being well-thought-out and seeming to go from zero to one hundred in a couple of episodes, Lottie's character being entirely retconned, dropped plot threads that lead nowhere, and the universally-despised plot line where [[spoiler:Matt Saracusa seduces Callie]] is perhaps the most hated of all.



** Natalie is pretty clearly wearing a wig in 1996.

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** Natalie is pretty clearly wearing a wig in 1996.1996, as her dyed blonde hair never regrows to brunette past a certain point.


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** Young Taissa is not very present throughout Season 2. Likely due to filming conflicts, but it still leaves her as little more than an AdvertisedExtra without any of the driving force or character focuses that she showed in Season 1.


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* TrappedByMountainLions:
** Natalie's plot in Charlotte's hippie commune. It's built up as ominous and Natalie hates and distrusts it, but it turns out that it really wasn't sinister at all...until it is, just in time for the finale. While there are some nice moments such as Natalie bonding with Lisa (a new character), it separates her entirely from all of the preexisting characters. This only finally stops being the case right at the end of Season 2, when all the other surviving Yellowjackets come back to join her.
** Adult Misty's plot in Season 2 involves following Natalie around for a solid chunk of episodes only to be rebuffed, ditched, and told nothing is wrong almost immediately, rendering the whole thing (except meeting Walter) as total {{Filler}}.
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* ActorShipping: Creator/EllaPurnell (Jackie) and Creator/SophieNelisse (Shauna) have been shipped by some parts of the fanbase on sites like Tumblr and Twitter due to their on-screen chemistry and real life friendship, despite both being straight and the fact that Sophie is dating Clovis Henrard. One particular thing that shippers have latched onto is the fact that Sophie loves to take pictures of Ella (with both admitting that Ella's Instagram account is mostly pictures Sophie took of her), and Sophie has admitted to being "obsessed with Ella's face" at one point. At one point, Sophie even described Ella like a painting. It's also not just limited to fans, as Ella once revealed that when she got home from filming the first season, that everyone there was convinced that she and Sophie were dating, and Sophie has revealed that she gets how some people would assume that they have "gay energy" as well.

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* ActorShipping: Creator/EllaPurnell (Jackie) and Creator/SophieNelisse (Shauna) have been shipped by some parts of the fanbase on sites like Tumblr and Twitter due to their on-screen chemistry and real life friendship, despite both being straight and the fact that Sophie Ella is dating Clovis Henrard.Max Bennett Kelly. One particular thing that shippers have latched onto is the fact that Sophie loves to take pictures of Ella (with both admitting that Ella's Instagram account is mostly pictures Sophie took of her), and Sophie has admitted to being "obsessed with Ella's face" at one point. At one point, Sophie even described Ella like a painting. It's also not just limited to fans, as Ella once revealed that when she got home from filming the first season, that everyone there was convinced that she and Sophie were dating, and Sophie has revealed that she gets how some people would assume that they have "gay energy" as well.
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience:
** Misty's BlueAndOrangeMorality, EstablishingCharacterMoment of watching a rat drown, habit of picking up bits of other people's personalities such as Crystal, and ease to resort to brutal and violent solutions suggests she's a clinical sociopath. Her parents are conspicuously absent in both timelines, and a key factor in a lot of sociopaths is parental neglect.
** Shauna's habit of [[ItsAllAboutMe making everything all about her]], high sense of self importance, willingness to hurt those who she believes have hurt her in revenge, and manipulative qualities point to a case of narcissistic personality disorder.
** Taissa having a second personality in "the bad one" indicates Dissociative Identity Disorder, albeit a very stereotypical depiction if there's nothing supernatural going on.
** Lottie does have general anti psychotics medication, but her actual condition isn't specified, and chances are she actually is psychic. But if she isn't, then her visions read as schizophrenia.


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** Kevyn as a teenager was the uncool nerd, with Natalie being one of his only friends, and as an adult he's going through a divorce with a young son to raise. Natalie ends up using him, and he's [[spoiler: killed by Walter, and framed for several crimes he didn't commit]].

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** Are Shauna's actions a result of the trauma she suffered, or was she already a budding sociopath? Even before the accident, she's sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend, and when she's caught out for it, her response is that of a textbook emotional manipulator; blaming ''Jackie'' for her own insecurities and being [[NeverMyFault completely shameless]]. She emotionally abuses her daughter who, for all her brattiness, is still a ''child'' (and it's likely Shauna Callie picked up those habits from), and is particularly crafty when revealing her [[spoiler: murder of Adam to Jeff; again blaming him for her affair as opposed to taking responsibility]].
*** Shauna bludgeoning to death the rabbits destroying her garden: A sign of BadPeopleAbuseAnimals (there are plenty of non-violent ways to deal with garden pests), the result of her survival experience, or a pragmatic if unorthodox approach (she butchers and cooks the rabbit she kills)?

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** Are Shauna's actions a result of the trauma she suffered, or was she already a budding sociopath? Even before the accident, she's sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend, and when she's caught out for it, her response is that of a textbook emotional manipulator; blaming ''Jackie'' for her own insecurities and being [[NeverMyFault completely shameless]]. She emotionally abuses her daughter who, for all her brattiness, is still a ''child'' (and it's likely Shauna Callie picked up those habits from), and is particularly crafty when revealing her [[spoiler: murder of Adam to Jeff; again blaming him for her affair as opposed to taking responsibility]].
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responsibility]]. Shauna bludgeoning to death the rabbits destroying her garden: A sign of BadPeopleAbuseAnimals (there are plenty of non-violent ways to deal with garden pests), the result of her survival experience, or a pragmatic if unorthodox approach (she butchers and cooks the rabbit she kills)?



** Jackie's [[spoiler: DyingDream in the Season 1 finale]] shows Shauna being the one to reach out to her and invite her back into the cabin. Taking that as a reflection of her subconscious, does that mean that Jackie's anger at Shauna's betrayal was not so much about Jeff, and more about the lying and going behind her back? And does the dream indicate that Jackie would have been willing to forgive Shauna had she accepted responsibility? And does that mean Jackie doesn't go back into the cabin because she thinks she's been completely shunned by the others?
** Shauna claims that she's always in Jackie's shadow, and that she feels invisible, and indeed her parents seem to think this is the case. Except, Jackie's boyfriend was interested in her, and in fact declares Shauna's brilliance to the parents, stating how he likes the life they've built together. Outside of that, Randy was also interested in her, suggesting that Shauna was considered beautiful and desirable in school. Was she once the 'ugly duckling' who then blossomed and [[IAmNotPretty didn't realise it]]? Or has she always been driven by envy and just convinced herself of this to justify her worse actions?



** Travis doesn't appear to have any issues with the girls, even though they tied him up, sexually assaulted him, and almost killed him on Doomcoming (except Natalie). He's distracted by Javi's disappearance, but even so.

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** Travis doesn't appear to have any issues with the girls, even though they tied him up, sexually assaulted him, and almost killed him on Doomcoming (except Natalie). He's distracted by Javi's disappearance, but even so. Given that he's DrivenToSuicide in 2021 and spent years as an addict, it seems everything did catch up to him after all.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments:
** Natalie's absolutely badass reveal in Episode 2, where she's in Misty's living room pointing a shotgun with "Hello, Misty, you crazy fucking bitch".
** Pretty much any time someone sasses Mari.
*** The cabin's previous occupant had a PornStash. She teases Travis with his EmbarrassingNickname (Flex) when she notices a man in the porn magazine looks a little like him (let us remind ourselves that his father died saving her three days ago). His response?
--->'''Travis:''' If only any of you looked like her [the woman in the magazine].
*** Later, as they scavenge for food, Lottie brings up that some animals live off their own vomit. Mari mocks Lottie for getting possessed the other night during the séance.
---> '''Mari:''' Did dead Cabin Guy tell you that or do you guys just chat about blood and stuff?\\
'''Lottie:''' No, we mostly talk about how Danny Myers dumped you for his own cousin.
** Lottie killing a bear by herself single-handedly.
** While it turns sour for her afterwards, it's very satisfying when Jackie [[spoiler: finally lets Shauna have it for sleeping with Jeff and getting pregnant by him when they were supposed to be best friends]].
** The winter has made everyone resort to [[spoiler: drawing cards to see who will be killed for the others to eat. Natalie draws the card, and Shauna prepares to slit her throat from behind, but Natalie tells Shauna to "[[DefiantToTheEnd look me in the fucking eye]]" when she does it. Travis, deciding that this is wrong, tackles Shauna to the ground and allows Natalie to escape. And when the remaining girls hold a knife threateningly to his throat, he just smirks.]]


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** Natalie's absolutely badass reveal in Episode 2, where she's in Misty's living room pointing a shotgun with "Hello, Misty, you crazy fucking bitch".
** Pretty much any time someone sasses Mari.
*** The cabin's previous occupant had a PornStash. She teases Travis with his EmbarrassingNickname (Flex) when she notices a man in the porn magazine looks a little like him (let us remind ourselves that his father died saving her three days ago). His response?
--->'''Travis:''' If only any of you looked like her [the woman in the magazine].
*** Later, as they scavenge for food, Lottie brings up that some animals live off their own vomit. Mari mocks Lottie for getting possessed the other night during the séance.
---> '''Mari:''' Did dead Cabin Guy tell you that or do you guys just chat about blood and stuff?\\
'''Lottie:''' No, we mostly talk about how Danny Myers dumped you for his own cousin.
** Lottie killing a bear by herself single-handedly.
** While it turns sour for her afterwards, it's very satisfying when Jackie [[spoiler: finally lets Shauna have it for sleeping with Jeff and getting pregnant by him when they were supposed to be best friends]].
** The winter has made everyone resort to [[spoiler: drawing cards to see who will be killed for the others to eat. Natalie draws the card, and Shauna prepares to slit her throat from behind, but Natalie tells Shauna to "[[DefiantToTheEnd look me in the fucking eye]]" when she does it. Travis, deciding that this is wrong, tackles Shauna to the ground and allows Natalie to escape. And when the remaining girls hold a knife threateningly to his throat, he just smirks.]]
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* After Akilah discovers that [[spoiler: the mouse she found in the pantry and kept as a pet is nothing [[DeadAllAlong but a dried-out carcass]]]], she comes very close to ''popping'' it in her mouth.

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I don't think this counts. I'm pretty sure the writers intend Shauna to be at least somewhat sympathetic. That aside, the Moral Event Horizon and Unintentionally Unsympathetic entries cover this same ground pretty well.


* DracoInLeatherPants: Shauna is sometimes viewed far more sympathetically in the fandom, emphasising her AlwaysSomeoneBetter status to Jackie, her guilt at [[spoiler: Jackie freezing to death after their argument]] and her lonely housewife status in the present. This ignores that she was happily carrying on an affair with Jackie's boyfriend, her guilt at the latter rings hollow because she kicked Jackie out of the cabin after the latter called her on the affair and refused to take responsibility for it. In fact, most of her problems are brought on by her own actions that she still refuses to take responsibility for.
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* After Akilah discovers that [[spoiler: the mouse she found in the pantry and kept as a pet is nothing [[DeadAllAlong but a dried-out carcass]], she comes very close to ''popping'' it in her mouth.

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** The cops in the second season. [spoiler: Matt Saracusa seduces the underage daughter of his suspect (though he is careful not to cross any lines) just because she could serve as a character witness.]]

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* After Akilah discovers that [[spoiler: the mouse she found in the pantry and kept as a pet is nothing [[DeadAllAlong but a dried-out carcass]], she comes very close to ''popping'' it in her mouth.
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I can't tell who this about. It seems to be about the show but the show can't cross something about characters.


** The ending of the second season has turned many critics and fans off the show. [[spoiler: After all the trauma they've been through and the emotional growth some of them have put in moving past their sins, they spontaneously decide that one of them needs to sacrifice their lives to the supernatural force that led to them crashing.]]
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** The cops in the second season. [spoiler: Matt Saracusa seduces the underage daughter of his suspect (though he is careful not to cross any lines) just because she could serve as a character witness. He also searches a motel without a warrant, and goes so far as to smell a condom just to ensure that the two never had an affair.]]

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** The cops in the second season. [spoiler: Matt Saracusa seduces the underage daughter of his suspect (though he is careful not to cross any lines) just because she could serve as a character witness. He also searches a motel without a warrant, and goes so far as to smell a condom just to ensure that the two never had an affair.]]
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** The cops in the second season. [spoiler: Matt Saracusa seduces the underage daughter of his suspect (though he is careful not to cross any lines) just because she could serve as a character witness. He also searches a motel without a warrant, and goes so far as to smell a condom just to ensure that the two never had an affair.]]
** The ending of the second season has turned many critics and fans off the show. [[spoiler: After all the trauma they've been through and the emotional growth some of them have put in moving past their sins, they spontaneously decide that one of them needs to sacrifice their lives to the supernatural force that led to them crashing.]]
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You can only cross the Moral Event Horizon once, by definition. It means going from redeemable to irredeemable. There's no such thing as crossing it multiple times.


** Just when you think Misty has done something to cross it (molesting Coach Scott in his sleep or poisoning him, destroying the emergency signal transmitter, setting a spy camera on Natalie's hotel room) she finds a new way to cross it again and again. Take your pick: abducting Jessica Roberts and keeping her captive in her basement, allowing the whole group to be poisoned without their knowledge...

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** Just when you think Misty has done something to cross it (molesting is well and truly on the other side of this line, having committed many deeds that render her irredeemable. Take your pick: molesting Coach Scott in his sleep or sleep, poisoning him, destroying the emergency signal transmitter, setting a spy camera on Natalie's hotel room) she finds a new way to cross it again and again. Take your pick: room, abducting Jessica Roberts and keeping her captive in her basement, allowing the whole group to be poisoned without their knowledge...
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** The winter has made everyone resort to [[spoiler: drawing cards to see who will be killed for the others to eat. Natalie draws the card, and Shauna prepares to slit her throat from behind, but Natalie tells Shauna to "look me in the fucking eye" when she does it. Travis, deciding that this is wrong, tackles Shauna to the ground and allows Natalie to escape. And when the remaining girls hold a knife threateningly to his throat, he just smirks.]]

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** The winter has made everyone resort to [[spoiler: drawing cards to see who will be killed for the others to eat. Natalie draws the card, and Shauna prepares to slit her throat from behind, but Natalie tells Shauna to "look "[[DefiantToTheEnd look me in the fucking eye" eye]]" when she does it. Travis, deciding that this is wrong, tackles Shauna to the ground and allows Natalie to escape. And when the remaining girls hold a knife threateningly to his throat, he just smirks.]]

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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Opinions seem to be split down the middle on Coach Scott. Some fans view him as a funny, likable character with some good comedic relief moments, and an endearing TragicBackstory. Others find him irritating and useless. His actions at the end of the Season Two finale, [[spoiler: in which he burns down the Yellowjackets’ cottage]], have only further divided fans’ stances on him.

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Opinions seem to be split down the middle on Coach Scott. Some fans view him as a funny, likable character with some good comedic relief moments, and an endearing TragicBackstory. Others find him irritating and useless. His actions at the end of the Season Two finale, [[spoiler: in which he burns down the Yellowjackets’ cottage]], have only further divided fans’ stances on him.him.
** The jury is out on Mari too. After two seasons, her characterization boils down to 'mean girl with occasional humanizing moment'. Half the fandom finds her too underdeveloped to bother getting invested in, while the rest enjoy her as an enjoyably mean {{Troll}}.


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* DracoInLeatherPants: Shauna is sometimes viewed far more sympathetically in the fandom, emphasising her AlwaysSomeoneBetter status to Jackie, her guilt at [[spoiler: Jackie freezing to death after their argument]] and her lonely housewife status in the present. This ignores that she was happily carrying on an affair with Jackie's boyfriend, her guilt at the latter rings hollow because she kicked Jackie out of the cabin after the latter called her on the affair and refused to take responsibility for it. In fact, most of her problems are brought on by her own actions that she still refuses to take responsibility for.


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* RonTheDeathEater:
** Jackie is often painted as an outright AlphaBitch and AssholeVictim, particularly by the pro-Shauna or Natalie side of the fandom. This camp paints her as a controlling busybody who micromanages Shauna's life and thus justifies Shauna sleeping with her boyfriend - when pre-crash, she's never more than a little superficial, and she actually tries to keep her teammates together in the initial days. About the only outright mean thing she does is slut shame Natalie, but that hardly sets her apart from the others - Taissa trying to freeze Allie out, Shauna accusing the latter of deliberately injuring her, Lottie complaining about Travis when they literally just buried his father, everything out of [[{{Jerkass}} Mari's]] mouth and the metric tonne of horrible things Misty has done.
** Coach Ben got painted as crossing the MoralEventHorizon in the Season 2 finale for [[spoiler: apparently trying to burn down the cabin with the girls inside it]]. Since all the girls, except Lottie had taken part in [[spoiler: allowing Javi, who can't be older than thirteen, to drown and then carved him up for food, and Misty had effectively killed Crystal]], as well as attempting to molest ''him'' and forced him to depend on her, and he'd also seen Shauna deliver a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Lottie after having also forced Jackie out of the cabin - it's safe to say that had it been successful, it would have been a KarmicDeath for sure.
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** The Season 2 finale, "Storytelling " has a new crosser in [[spoiler: the Coach]] after [[spoiler:he sets the cabin on fire while the teens are asleep, having first barricaded the windows and doors and turned it into a death trap.]] Although given that he had witnessed all of them [[spoiler: cannibalising Javi]] in addition to all the other examples, one could be forgiven for calling this an attempt at a MercyKill.

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** Opinions seem to be split down the middle on Coach Scott. Some fans view him as a funny, likable character with some good comedic relief moments, and an endearing TragicBackstory. Others find him irritating and useless. His actions at the end of the Season Two finale, [[spoiler: in which he burns down the Yellowjackets’ cottage]], have only further divided fans’ stances on him.

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** Opinions seem to be split down the middle on Coach Scott. Some fans view him as a funny, likable character with some good comedic relief moments, and an endearing TragicBackstory. Others find him irritating and useless. His actions at the end of the Season Two finale, [[spoiler: in which he burns down the Yellowjackets’ cottage]], have only further divided fans’ stances on him.

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