Peter Is the Wolf/YMMV

Warning: Spoilers abound below.

• Broken Base: The comic alternating between treating issues as comedy, deconstruction, and straight, can cause this. It's basically an Indecisive Parody, only it's an indecisive deconstruction of Ranma 1/2 style hijinks.
  • Jean's "cunning plan" to get Peter and Sarah back together has been met with mixed reaction, mainly because it took quite a while to understand just how Jean's plan was supposed to work.
• Complete Monster: Gus. Lets count how many ways he goes over the Moral Event Horizon: He's apparently attempted repeatedly to take over the pack by murdering the cool old dude; it's heavily insinuated that he killed his wife; he has been beating, molesting and raping his daughter for years; he keeps said daughter in his house as a naked sex slave and when he's not busy raping her, he makes her do all the housework; she only leaves as much as she does cause the Pack found out about her when she should have been starting high school -- she literally was never allowed to leave the house before then; it's highly insinuated he plans on taking Werewolf!Sarah as his new wife; his ideas on human-werewolf interaction are less "lets hide" and more "lets eat"... It's so bad that the pack held a vote on if he should be killed for their own safety, he only survived by two votes, both of which have later mentioned they wish they had voted differently.
  • Cue Fridge Logic as to why they don't just vote again.
    • They did vote again - to remove him from the elder council. They can't kill him because rubbing out a sheriff's deputy would potentially cast unwanted light on the operation.
• Ensemble Darkhorse - Hal the werebear is quickly gaining steam in the fanbase for his no-nonsense and aloof nature, not to mention his penchant for humanist philosophy.
• Fridge Brilliance: Although Butch began the comic as the antagonist to Peter, later developments put her predicament in a whole new light. She's interested in fashion design because Gus makes her walk around the house naked, she wants to hook up with Peter so she'd have an excuse to leave, Peter specifically turns her on because as a runt he's a completely nonthreatening and a genuinely nice boy, she's a Jerkass cause that's all she's ever known...
  • It's not so profound an example, but Daniel's "You couldn't have me" act towards Ashley at the Howl is an obvious ruse if you paid attention while they were introduced. Ashley is playing along because getting some from Daniel means she's less likely to be hounded during the Howl once it starts.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: Jean teasing Butch about Peter "getting away" isn't the least bit funny once we learn about Butch's backstory. Also borderlines on Harsher in Hindsight if you thought Jean was being a bit too barbed with her comments.
  • Jean was being mean to Butch. Jean actually gets called on it at least once too.
• Moral Event Horizon: Butch attempting to rape Peter came close, but then she backed out (see Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest, on the main page), making her start to dance the line on this trope. Then we discover she was going this route due to her father raping her, repeatedly, after making her live as his own naked slavegirl for YEARS, putting her in some sorta weird and very dark Woobie status, and throwing her father (who was already a huge Jerkass) way past the horizon. Also, Sarah to the fanbase, due to her reactions to the first part of this entry.
• Values Dissonance: Peter's parents - namely Walt - don't seem to understand why his near-rape is such a big deal.
• What an Idiot!: So wait, your girlfriend's just upset cause she misunderstood your near-rape as some sort of kinky sex game? Oh good, it means you can still get back with her. Oh hey, idea! You and your best friend (who you've already been cheating on Sarah with) should totally have consensual sex so she'll calm down. Wait, what?
  • Averted - It was all in Jean's head. Peter actually denies Jean rather emphatically in reality.
• The Woobie: Peter clearly gets the gold medal in this comic for the role, but Sarah, Jean, and even Butch show some Woobie traits over the course of the comic.