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1	!!YMMV tropes for [[Fanfic/BirdsOfAFeather the fanfic:]]
2	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Ken's encounter with the scientist responsible for making him a [[ArtificialHuman Coordinator]], [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor]] [[MadScientist Heinrich]] [[EvilutionaryBiologist Metzinger]]. [[spoiler: Metzinger turned up once, long enough to be [[DiagonalCut sliced in half]], and was scarcely mentioned again. In actual fact, this was part of a poorly-handled attempt by the author at a ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' ShoutOut, most of which was ultimately mostly abandoned. The author has vague plans of turning the botched plot into the basis for a further installment of the Falconverse, but for the moment, this sequence remains orphaned and seemingly inexplicable.]]
3	* CommonKnowledge: Thanks to the author naming the Neutron Stampede platform as the ''[[MeaningfulName Marie Curie]]''[[note]]the scientist who discovered Radium & died of radiation poisoning[[/note]], almost everyone now believes that to be the name of the ship, despite being officially unnamed.
4	* EnsembleDarkhorse: This fic spawned a trend of fanfics with a ZAFT-centric POV, as well as a greater awareness of SEED-MSV character Shiho Hahnenfuss.
5	** Also, OC [[ColonelBadAss Karen]] [[BadAssNormal Willet]] seems to have reached this status.
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8	!!YMMV tropes for [[Series/BirdsOfAFeather the series:]]
9	* FairForItsDay: Interracial relationships passed by largely unnoticed even in the programme's early years: in one episode Dorien ran off with Tracey's accountant Ranjith, while later episodes had both her and Sharon dating Black men without others commenting (except Tracey briefly in Sharon's case).
10	* RetroactiveRecognition:
11	** Pedro from "We'll Always Have Majorca" is played by Creator/JohnBluthal, who would later be best known for playing Frank Pickle in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.
12	** Duncan Carruthers from "On the Glass" is played by Creator/PeterBirch, who would later be best known for playing Jack Hathaway in ''Series/{{Casualty}}''.
13	* ValuesDissonance:
14	** The early series had recurring homophobia, even from the libertine Dorien. This included Tracey and Sharon getting angry when doctors or nurses thought they were a lesbian couple, Sharon calling Oscar Wilde a "woofter", Dorien suspecting that a hot personal trainer must be gay for not sleeping with her and Tracey and Dorien (though interestingly not Sharon) having a rant about how a pair of female plumbers must be "dykes". Even as late as 1998, Dorien emphasises rather too vigorously that she is "100% hetero", in contrast to her current boyfriend Richard's ex-wife who ran off with a female au pair.
15	*** In a surprising example of EveryoneHasStandards, Sharon and Tracey criticise Dorien for proposing to sack the aforementioned personal trainer for probably being gay, since he shows no sexual interest in her.
16	** Also, in one episode Dorien relates how at one point she and Marcus were so poor they nearly moved "upstairs from a saari shop in Whitechapel". Since the 00's, Whitechapel and several other formerly impoverished inner-city areas of London have become much more gentrified and affluent.
17	** In Series 9 episode "Nuptials", Sharon makes a joke in Garth's best man speech about him going through a 'transvestite stage'. Back then, transgenderism was still seen as a source of humour and ridicule in a way that would be seen as bigoted nowadays.
18	** In "We'll Always Have Majorca", Dorien refers to Spanish police officers as "foreign savages".
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Context YMMV / BirdsOfAFeather