YMMV / Wynonna Earp

The TV Series

• Adorkable:
  • When Waverly gets really excited she has a tendency to get a bit stumbling in her words. Taken up to eleven once she realizes her attraction to Haught and becomes a complete mess.
    "When I think about what I want to do most in this world, it's you. Oh god, that sounded so much more romantic in my head."
  • Robin happily joins Jeremy in making tree-related puns when reporting supernatural occurrences in the forest.
• Broken Base: Season Three's overall quality, particularly Dolls's death (a result of Shamier Anderson choosing to leave to pursue other projects and wanting Dolls to die heroically), is one of the few topics that can cause genuine arguments within an otherwise fairly reasonable fanbase.
  • Many fans also have argued about Season 2, Episode 9, when Waverly, after learning that Nicole hid her DNA papers in the previous episode, let out all her frustration this episode: She lashed out at Nicole, sent her an awful text, and kissed Rosita at a spa. Many fans were conflicted over Waverly's and Nicole's handling of the events.
• Cargo Ship: Wynonna really, really loves her motorcycle.
• Complete Monster: "Walking After Midnight" & "Two-Faced Jack": Jack of Blades is the last of the Seven and the nastiest Revenant in the series. A Serial Killer who killed multiple women before being put down by Wyatt Earp, Jack celebrates his return by murdering a woman on the side of the road, then promptly sets about killing whoever he can while corrupting a young doctor by convincing him that rearranging patients' organs can cure them of diseases, while Jack sits back and watches the carnage. Disposing of his erstwhile student, Jack attempts to vivisect Wynonna herself before being defeated. At the end, Jack proceeds to gloat she had succeeded where all of Scotland Yard failed: defeating Jack the Ripper himself.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Blacksmith (a white magic user who appears in two episodes before dying) and Chrissy Nedley (the only friend of Waverly's who seems to actually be worth the label).
  • Officer Haught qualifies as well, appearing in nine of the thirteen season one episodes but only having anything resembling significant screentime in three of them (7, 9, and 12). She even became a Canon Immigrant to the IDW comics.
• Friendly Fandoms: With One Day at a Time (2017), in addition to having lesbian characters in the main cast and thus a huge following of queer women, when both shows were in danger of cancellation in 2019 fans and creators of both showed their support for each other online. Each show has given a Shout-Out to the other at different points as well.
• Ho Yay: Henry and Wyatt. Probably not a reading intended by the writers, but the Stone Witch ruined their relationship and tortured Henry for over a hundred years by throwing him down a well simply because he was what Wyatt "loved most". And the first thing Henry himself says regarding Wyatt is that the fact that "Doc Holiday" once had Peacemaker engraved with Wyatt's initials as a gift must mean that "he was soft on Wyatt". Plus, Henry is remarkably cool with an old acquaintance of his having a boyfriend, considering the time period he comes from and that he hasn't yet had time to adapt to the 21st century. And that little story he told about once happily bedding a prostitute despite her having a "tail that wasn't wagging" could be interpreted in several ways...
  • As of season 3, even Doc's old flame and wife Kate says about Waverly that she's "fiery, just like Wyatt", clearly implying that she thinks Doc is attracted to Waverly for that reason^note  She's got the wrong Earp sister, but otherwise..., and using a rather catty tone, as if she thinks Doc left her for Wyatt. Later, she tells Doc that Wyatt spent his retirement hiring people to search for him and that "it broke his heart" that he never found Doc. Which, given the broken tone of voice that Doc had when he asked Constance Clootie if Wyatt ever relented and came looking for him, it must have meant a lot to Doc to get this information, and Kate knew that without him even needing to ask. So even if it was accidental Ho Yay at first, it's probably safe to say the writers are doing this intentionally by this point. At least in an If It's You, It's Okay sort of way.
  • And then, near the end of season 3, the writers have another character who was around back in the day outright call Doc "Wyatt Earp's boyfriend". Even if she was just taunting him, Doc's reaction (no protestations, but instead he gives the surprised Nicole an embarrassed, 'caught' sort of look, and then he decides to just humor the taunting character with "Yeah. Fine.") suggests the taunt hit home, alright.
  • In season 4, Doc finds an old video of Wyatt talking about him. Wyatt didn't have much of anything nice to say, and Doc was obviously heartbroken.
• Les Yay: There actually is some between Nicole and Wynonna, due to their scenes in Walking After Midnight.
  Nicole (half drunk): Your ass is top shelf, man. Top shelf!
• Memetic Mutation: Officer Haught's online Affectionate Nickname, "Officer Dimples", because of the dimples in her cheeks.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The Revenants. The fact that they take on an outwardly human appearance until they reveal just how much Hell has changed them.
  • Bethany's surgery in "Two Faced Jack". Her entire body is cut open, revealing all of her organs as they're removed. The sequence, though short, is skin-crawling, admittedly helped by an amazing practical effect.
  • The woman ripping off part of her face in "House of Memories" after being dosed with Bobo's gas, then another man is subjected to it and promptly brutally stabs himself to death while Doc watches in horror.
• Narm: A lot of the drama in the two flashback scenes involving Wyatt and Doc's last two meetings gets shot down by the actor playing Wyatt's incredibly thick Canadian accent. For the record, the real Wyatt was born and raised in the American Midwest.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: The fandom has two; Wayhaught for Waverly and Nicole, and Wynaught for Wynonna and Nicole.
• Retroactive Recognition: Apparently Dolls went to Crowley High, recovered from his rather... interesting wounds, and it all ended in him knowing the supernatural existed and joining Black Badge.
• Romantic Plot Tumor: Doc and Wynonna's relationship in season three, with the two of them getting into at least two different love triangles, and their storyline getting more prominence than the war against Bulshar.
• Special Effects Failure: Tucker Gardner's frostbite looks incredibly fake, as if it was just painted on.

The Comic book

• Anti-Climax Boss: At the end of the "Home on the Strange" arc, Wynonna is confronted by the "him" who even the other immortal Cowboys are afraid of — Johnny Ringo. It's set up to be an epic fight, but then Wyatt's ghost distracts Ringo, giving Wynonna a chance to shoot him in the back.

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