YMMV / Ten Little Roosters

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • Just how did Adam get his beard trapped in a door once, let alone twice?
  • The "dick sucking" conversation.
  • Ryan fighting a hallucinated Creeper is both an example as well as a Shout-Out to a nigh identical BLAM in The Empire Strikes Back.
• Broken Base:
  • The combination of dark murder mystery drama and intrigue with typical Rooster Teeth-style comedy. Some think it works out well, and others think it renders the whole thing unrealistic (or just bad) due to everyone's reactions and conversations. Of those in the second camp, some wish it was taken completely seriously, others wish it was all comedic, and some just wish the balance between the two was done better.
  • The actual Audience Participation is either well-done or not fair; the clues tend to be vague in regards to what actually happens (for example, for "one ran out of air", the death was Adam being strangled by a computer mouse cord, which is quite a leap in logic; plus there was the whole "martyr" line not lining up with what actually happened). This annoyed many people, especially when Word of God made a post explaining the reasoning behind each line of poetry and the resulting death, with many people shocked they were expected to make those connections. Of course, it's up in the air whether these people are correct, or just not very attentive.
    • The fact that one of the guesses was to, after only the very first episode, determine both the killer and the eventual survivor, also annoyed people as time went on, due to it turning out there was only one clue for each that were both very vague: Barbara's photographed victim, Blaine, died of poison, the way Michael did in the first episode; and Chris quotes a line from a work of Tolkien for which the full quote (not given until the finale) ends in "the crownless again shall be king" to foreshadow Mad King Ryan's eventual survival. And there were loads of Red Herrings throughout that episode as well. Many fans saw this as just Rooster Teeth rewarding people who made lucky random guesses.
• Crosses the Line Twice: A lot of the deaths. The Gavins and Lindsay's being the ultimate examples.
• Fridge Brilliance: Why is the killer using Ryan's GTAV costume? It's one of the three outfits from the Achievement Hunter series of Let's Plays that has a mask that covers the whole face, and who would want to lug a heavy Spartan suit around or don biker apparel to murder people? Anonymity and convenience! As explained in the entry below, Barbara intended on framing Ryan to be the killer, and what better way to do so than dressing in a costume of a character well-known for being a video game sociopath?
  • Nearly everything Barbara does becomes this after it's revealed that she is the killer.
• Fridge Logic: The poem implies the killer is planning his or her own death. Explained in the finale. Barbara had intended to frame Ryan as 'the killer' and make it out as the supposed 'innocent survivor.'
• Harsher in Hindsight: The idea of Ryan being portrayed in a badass, heroic light as the ultimate victor and sole survivor of the series was considerably dampened after horrific allegations of predatory sexual behavior came out about him in 2020, creating a scandal that led to his disgraceful departure from Rooster Teeth.
• Signature Scene:
  • For many, Burnie's death. The Lock-and-Load Montage, the following Mood Whiplash when he's killed by a scorpion sting, and the Red vs. Blue music as the camera pans up from the scorpion to a picture of the scorpion tank from Halo, revealing exactly what just happened, all come together to make a memorable moment.
  • The sequence of Burnie narrating the poem in the first episode.
• Spoiled by the Format: Ryan starts losing oxygen whilst trapped in a hole in episode 6 and their framed picture appears on the wall to show that they have died...with a good two minutes left to go in the episode. Not surprisingly, the picture falls off the wall and Ryan is revealed to be alive, with someone else's picture replacing theirs on the wall at the end of the episode, this time hammered to the wall to make sure it stays up.
• The Un-Twist:
  • The Gavins being the second one(s) to die.
  • Ultimately the identity of the killer. By the end of the second-to-last episode, two of the remaining survivors were already eliminated from suspicion due to either being otherwise busy while there was a killing (Ryan) or was actually on screen alongside the killer (Miles), meaning Barbara, by logic, had to be the killer. The last episode seems to lampshade this, as she introduces herself as the killer matter-of-factly.
• The Woobie: Chris. Not only does everyone hate him, he blames himself for his parents divorce, and he died right after Burnie gave him a harsh speech about how he needed to stop fooling around.
  • Ryan fell into this as well. He believes he's somehow responsible for Michael and Gavin's deaths and is shown having a mental breakdown as a result. He's desperately trying to convince himself he's not the killer and even hallucinates someone in a Creeper suit attacking him. Many fans soon began hoping that he'll be the one who'll survive this ordeal after the episode with this scene. They got their wish.