YMMV / Xavier: Renegade Angel

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Xavier operating on a level beyond our understanding, or is he just some douche who doesn't have the slightest idea what he's even saying most of the time?
  • Is Xavier's desire to help people genuine or does he just do it to stroke his own ego? If the latter's the case, is he aware of it?
    • The fact that he literally masturbates to the thought of helping people at one point firmly points towards the latter.
  • Is Xavier a chaotic Anti-Hero who genuinely wants to do good but is too wacky, capricious, and dimwitted to be a competent hero or is he a chaotic Villain Protagonist who kills people on purpose rather than accidentally and only wants to make people believe he is a hero?
• Bizarro Episode: It might seem impossible considering how Mind Screw the show is even at its most normal, but "Damnesia Vu" and its Sequel Episode "Damnesia You" take the weirdness to a whole new level. It's hard to properly describe in words, but both forgo any kind of plot altogether and instead just having Xavier go through various doors into alternate universes, none of which make any sense at all, only to find himself back in the room where he started, with no explanation.
• Broken Base: Xavier picks up a notably wackier voice in-between the first and second seasons. Some people don't mind it, while others prefer Xavier's more sage-sounding, deadpan delivery in the first season.
  • The last episode is a source of debate in the fandom: Is Xavier really a normal human and the whole thing was an hallucination or is it just another example of the show's Negative Continuity?
• Crosses the Line Twice: The Series. Many extended gags and Hurricanes Of Puns even involve racial and sexual slurs.
  • The first episode has a guy mistake a jug of AIDS for a cure for the computer glitch, drink it, and as he dies he sees his dead grandmother as an angel… who he promptly makes out with.
  • In episode four, Xavier doesn't eat a baby. He eats seven, pulls out one of their skeletons, makes a herd of bloodhounds tear an eighth baby to shreds, turns into a fetus, gets electrocuted, transforms into an egg, hatches, promises to put babies in a stranger's butt and sticks his tongue down her throat. It's even weirder than it sounds.
  • In the episode before that, a kid's father is blown up, but the explosion is brought to life and becomes one with the kid's father. It's a little creepy. Then the kid stabs the explosion to death with a knife to keep his promise to his mother not to be another Einstein, and it's surprisingly poignant. Then Xavier rips the explosion's heart out and eats it, and it's hilarious.
  • Xavier seeing a child that (he thinks) is abandoned leads to him wondering what kind of horrible person would abandon their own child. Flashback to young Xavier's dad pushing him out of the car and saying there's a brand new bicycle just behind the nearest tree. The moment child Xavier's out of the car, his dad replies "So long, weirdo!", floors it, and instantly crashes into another car and violently explodes. Xavier lets out a Big "NO!", then notices that his dad wasn't lying and there really was a brand new bike behind the nearest tree, which instantly cheers him up. Child Xavier happily rides off on his new bike, crashes into a dog crossing his path and then he explodes. Then the flashback ends and adult Xavier mentions that if anything like that had ever happened to him, he would have been supremely traumatized.
  • The climax of the fifth episode is such a hurricane of racist stereotypes that it crosses over from "offensive" to "hilarious": Xavier uses a Giant Medical Syringe to extract blood from an Indian Burial Ground and inject it into a rich white Southerner oil baron, causing him to instantly start acting like a Native stereotype, opening up a Native American Casino and making an ad full of horribly insensitive comparisons ("Our slots are looser than the local squaw!") while moving his oil pumps to the aforementioned burial ground to keep a steady supply of blood to inject himself with to keep his levels above the legal minimum. The eruption of Native blood then forms into a horde of savage warriors who go on a rampage while hollering a war cry. To stop them, Xavier pumps blood from an ancient cowboy burial ground and has them "re-genocide those savages". However, the cemetery was "tainted with Arab blood", causing the cowboys to turn into Middle Eastern Terrorists who fight the Native Americans via suicide bombings. Xavier then goes Screw This, I'm Outta Here and runs off, leaving the oil baron's son alone to deal with all this.
  • In one episode a man brings tornados to life who he has work cotton fields, complete with a whip, his own term for them (Wiggers), and has one tornado hung from a tree for staring at his mistress. If they were any kind of humanoids it would still probably not be funny, but the fact that the enslaved minority are realistic cartoon funnel clouds and then the scene capping off with, of all things, a fart joke about "broken wind", pushes it beyond the offensive into complete absurdity.
  • Xavier has stolen a businessman's identity (by wearing the guy's skin as a mask) and is attending a boardroom meeting at a hot dogs company. Xavier tries to fit in with the trash talk by quipping that he had "his hot dog in Peterson's wife's buns" the previous night. Peterson replies, "My wife is dead." Instead of apologizing, Xavier doubles down by saying "I never said it was consensual" and follows that up with a Hurricane of Puns with horribly unfunny hot-dog themed Double Entendres, with canned sitcom laughter after each bad joke.
    • Earlier in that same scene, Xavier drops a completely uncensored N-bomb that escapes being offensive mostly by occurring in one of the most absolutely insane sentences ever, even by XRA standards.
    Xavier: Clutch the dark purple hairs of the galloping orangutan of normalcy, and RIDE, NIGGA, RIDE!
• Cult Classic: Has become one in The New '10s due to just how damn quotable it is.
• Fetish Retardant: The strip club with pregnant women in the Haunted Tonk episode.
• Fountain of Memes: Xavier's bizarre ramblings are extremely quotable.
• Heartwarming Moments: Though it doesn't last very long, the fact that Xavier briefly convinces a caveman to give up his violent ways, apologize to his wife for beating her and take up slam poetry in "World of Hurt, BC" is weirdly cute, especially since it's implied less than a minute later that he will continue beating her.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The scene where the camera zooms down the throat of Xavier's snake-hand to reveal a live baby has led many people to jokingly suggest that it was the inspiration for Death Stranding.
• Jerkass Woobie: Xavier is a Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist who can be interpreted most charitably as simply chaotic and most negatively as evil, and randomly causes mass death and destruction through his nonsensical attempts to fix things, but he's constantly mocked by people, is implied to be homeless and therefore forced to wander, had an incredibly fucked-up childhood and is implied to have been raped, and his entire family died in a house fire when he was a small child.
• Memetic Badass: A crossover example. Xavier is believed to be one of the only characters, if not the only, who can possibly withstand the the Darkness when all other fictional characters will fall,^note this includes powerhouses like Rick Sanchez, Black Hat, and Superman primarily thanks to how he seems to fuck with reality worse than even it.
• Memetic Mutation: The first 3 minutes of Xavier's feud with the other Xavier in the finale of season 1 had become a popular video around 2020 to use for memes, especially with a caption with something like "My last two brain cells".
• Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page.
• Quirky Work: The weirdest Adult Swim can ever give you. It makes other quirky works look tame in comparison. Seriously, this show plays in the same league as Cho Aniki in terms of surreality.
• Spiritual Successor: The show could be seen as the darker, more vulgar American version of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, another Surreal Humor Gag Series starring an eccentric Dumb Blond parodying Western-style Walking the Earth properties like Fist of the North Star.
• Squick: One episode involves Xavier repeatedly turning himself inside out.
• Ugly Cute: Despite being a creature with a beak, snake hand, six nipples and backward knees in the Deranged Animation sense, Xavier still has a decent following of people who find him appealing-looking (or at least in comparison to the other denizens of the world he inhabits). Just look at the fanart.
• Vindicated by History: It was acknowledged in a trivia bump during the History of Adult Swim event that the show was ahead of its time and is somehow more popular now than it was during the original run. Also, nowadays it's one of Adult Swim's go-to programs to schedule in the 4am-5am timeslot.

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