YMMV / Leftover Soup

• Crosses the Line Twice: In one story arc, Jamie and Ellie play a game based on cat hoarding, which makes Ellie sad. Jamie suggests a different game, and Ellie sarcastically proposes a game set in Auschwitz where you collect skeletons. Jamie's reaction?
  "You mean 'Hungry Hungry Hitler?'"
• Harsher in Hindsight: The plotline in which Jamie, acting in self-defense, is falsely accused of assaulting a black teenager bears uncomfortable similarities to George Zimmerman's side of the story in his shooting of Trayvon Martin, which took place months after this storyline began in the comic.
• The Scrappy: Lily has few fans, what with being a rabid man-hater who the audience is still expected to sympathise with. It doesn't help that her actual beliefs aren't entirely coherent, as she seems to despise Jamie for being a potential rapist and for not being man enough to be able to rape anyone. Oh, and despite sincerely wanting men to go extinct, she manages to be a Heteronormative Crusader who thinks lesbianism is a genetic illness to be eliminated (the solution is that everyone should have sex with robots, apparently). Also, while she averts Author Tract by being the "loser" in arguments...she never really hits major character growth in 1000 strips...and her growth is shown in a MONTAGE. She needed pot. She REALLY needed pot.
• The Woobie:
  • Poor Jamie. Gets into a car accident, his insurance company refuses to pay, his lawyer screws him out of his money, the clinic demands payment for not letting them take off his cast, gets mugged, the police charge him with assualt, and the newspaper calls him a racist monster.
  • Max is starting to shape up to be one, too. Information gleaned from various points at the comic tell us that Max was severely bullied in high school, had an older brother who was in the military and died in a training accident, and has such severe manic depression that she not only requires a cocktail of medications to keep it in check, but it caused her to attempt suicide four years prior to the comic's beginning. And finally, a note on that last part: when talking about it, Max refers to it as "the last time I tried to drown myself", implying that she made attempts before that.

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