YMMV / Ricky Rapper

• Adaptation Displacement: The movies are more well known than the original books, especially outside of Finland.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Wendy/Venla only appears in one of the movies, but is one of the most popular characters in the series.
• Les Yay: Nelly and Wendy in Ricky Rapper and Cool Wendy get really close, and Ricky even gets jealous of Wendy, which is easy to interpret as romantic.
• Memetic Mutation: "Mageet Sanat", the song about early 10s Finnish teen slang from Ricky Rapper and Cool Wendy, was a popular edit subject when the movie came out, and is often quoted whenever the Ricky Rapper franchise is brought up.
• Signature Song:
  • "Elämä ei ole hassumpaa" from the movie adaptations.
  • "Mageet sanat" from Ricky Rapper and Cool Wendy.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many people were put off by the new illustrations after Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen stopped illustrating the books.