YMMV / Futurama M 2 The Beast With A Billion Backs

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • This movie canonically takes place only one month after the end of the previous movie and its massive Ship Tease between Fry and Leela, making Fry's intense fast-paced relationship with Colleen come across as quite odd. Fry/Leela shippers tend to interpret Fry's actions with Colleen and Yivo as a desperate rebound after the situation with Lars in the previous movie made things awkward between Fry and Leela (though what exactly could have happened is up for fan interpretation), with Leela's own emotionally distant behavior and reluctance being a result of her recent loss. It doesn't hurt that Yivo is a cyclops with a purple-tinged color palette and that tentacles run in Leela's family.
  • When the Robot Devil expresses shock at Bender for killing his firstborn son so casually, is he horrified or impressed? Or both?
  • Perhaps overlapping Alternative Joke Interpretation, Miss Vega Four claims "Yivo makes me feel sexy, and I'm asexual". Does she mean she has No Biological Sex (because she's a member of a race of aliens that resemble large paramecia) or does she mean she is Asexual in the sexuality sense, and Yivo is a case of If It's You, It's Okay?
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Before the Planet Express crew leave to make first-contact with the Negative Space Wedgie, the crew receives coffee enemas from an Enema-bot. Coffee enemas actually do exist in real life. It is considered a form of "alternative medicine".
• Angst? What Angst?: The fact Yivo essentially raped everybody in the universe is quickly glossed over, and nobody seems really upset by it after the initial reveal, instead quickly embracing Yivo's body as an eternal paradise.
• Catharsis Factor: Kif finally punches Zapp in the gut.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Many fans would like to pretend that this movie doesn't exist, per the amount of Fridge Horror and Double Standard that comes with Yivo mating with the entire universe, Fry suddenly falling for a different girl named Colleen, which went against the last two seasons and the first movie of him pining for Leela, and Amy sleeping with Zapp after Kif's assumed death, since it interfered with the much loved Kif and Amy story.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Yivo being referred to with the "Shkler/Shklee" pronouns, not having a specific gender identity, seems like an anticipation of the discourse about gendered pronouns becoming more prominent from the late 2010s on.
  • Leela being the only one to resist a tentacle monster is more amusing after "Leela and the Genestalk" had her become a tentacle monster herself.
• Informed Wrongness: Leela's reluctance to trust Yivo and shkler heavenly universe is treated like her being overly pessimistic and distant, but given how the rest of the universe quickly forgets that Yivo started this relationship by essentially raping and brainwashing everybody, Leela's attitude actually makes the most sense.
• Memetic Mutation: "Wow. That was pretty brutal, even by my standards."^note Spoken by the Robot Devil after he sees Bender kick his first-born son into a vat of flaming liquid with no remorse whatsoever as part of a Deal with the Devil to gain the robot army necessary to take down Yivo. In context, the Devil is horrified by Bender's willingness to do this, but of course it can easily be applied to anything out of context.
• The Scrappy: Yivo, despite being the main antagonist of the movie, is not really villainous or evil, but shklee is hated for forcing almost everyone in the universe into a relationship with shkler, meaning that shklee forcibly put shkler tentacles into people's necks and was revealed to be "mating" with those people through those tentacles, meaning that Yivo was technically raping them. Despite how serious shkler crimes were, shklee got away with everything and was Easily Forgiven for it, and was also an Invincible Villain due to being entirely composed of electromatter.
• Signature Scene: Bender reuniting with his estranged first-born son only to casually sacrifice him to Hell as part of a deal with the Robot Devil is easily the most well known scene of the special, for how darkly hilarious it is.
• Sophomore Slump: Out of the Futurama movies, this one tends to get the worst reception because of how the antagonist Yivo was Easily Forgiven for using tentacles to unwittingly mate with everyone in the universe.
• Strangled by the Red String: Before the events of this movie, Fry gets paired up off-screen with Colleen, a woman he met on the street one day and had casual sex with, followed by a relationship. Within a month, this relationship is apparently strong enough that Fry is conflicted about whether to move in with her because of the relationship he was getting into turning out to be polyamorous, and is so devastated after walking away he feels the need to leave the universe entirely. This is as opposed to his long-standing attempts to romance Leela, something that gets pointed out at the very end of the film. Making this all the more egregious is that the previous film had the Fry-Leela romance as one of the main plot points, yet it doesn't even get a mention in the supposed follow-up except indirectly in Colleen's intro scene and in the last two minutes.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Watching Bender drag Yivo's "Heaven" down to Earth with the Legions of (Robot) Hell and verbally deconstruct skhler's idea of love was extremely satisfying to many fans, even if it was meant to show Bender being at his most selfish.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: When Fry first introduces Colleen, Bender ribs on the idea of Colleen and Leela (referring to them as "Fry's two bimbos") interacting. Despite some hints at an arc for Leela overcoming loneliness in this movie (such as how she overcomes her fear of Yivo by mentioning she was "afraid" after loving and losing so many times — a realization she seems to have offscreen which was never given prior focus in this movie) and Leela calling Fry out for "forgetting" her at the end, the rest of of the movie completely sidelines Fry and Leela's relationship and doesn't really explore any of the negative feelings she's implied to have about Fry and Colleen. This sticks out as the previous movie focused strongly on Fry and Leela, as does the later fourth movie.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: While Yivo's obviously the main antagonist of movie, shkle's portrayed as not actually villainous or evil and just wants a relationship after being alone for eons in shkler universe. This portrayal ends up going against shkler actions in the movie, where shkle forced almost everyone in the universe into a relationship with shklim by forcibly put shkler tentacles into people's necks. And then shkle was revealed to explicitly be "mating" with those people through those tentacles, but was only treated like someone moving through a relationship too fast. All the characters (except for the robots) eventually accept shkler as a valid relationship despite this, with going to live with shkler being called Heaven, even. The only reason shkle breaks things off is because it turns out Fry was still communicating with Bender, which many fans saw as shkler being psychopathically jealous and too immature for the relationship shkle pushed onto the main characters^note it's implied it's because Yivo doesn't want to risk the electromatter from shkler universe being used against shklim as Bender ended up doing, but shklee doesn't mention this until after the attack, so shkler true intentions are unclear, with rape and brainwashing no less.

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