History Literature / VillainessLevel99

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The anime changes the ending of the first light novel and the webnovel (which are also [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding adaptational alternate endings of each other]]. [[spoiler: Alicia does not lead Willain and Oswald in attacking Yumiella. Rather Alicia attacks Yumiella due to being compelled by some outside force, one that seems to be trying to enforce the plot of the visual novel. The group manages to win a IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight and all five of them return as heroes.]]

* FearInducedIdiocy: It's been spelled out that [[LightEmUp Alicia]]'s seemingly irrational fear against [[PowerOfTheVoid Yumiella]] is due to fear--due to their polar opposite elements as well as a large gap in [[RPGMechanicsVerse levels]], Alicia can only perceive Yumiella as a mass of black fog with a pair of GlowingEyes. It's to the point that, despite being repeatedly clarified that Yumiella is {{not evil|JustMisunderstood}}, Alicia and her cahoots [[spoiler:attempt to [[RemovingTheCrucialTeammate backstab Yumiella due to this paranoia]] when they're about to face [[MaouTheDemonKing the Demon Lord]].]]

* {{Railroading}}: Anime only. [[spoiler:It's implied the game's plot influences Alicia to take certain actions, such as accepting her enrollment into the academy or taking one of the capture targets to a romance event, despite Alicia being not comfortable doing any of these on her free will. Yumiella theorizes that this may be due to her being the heroine of the ''LMH'', so the game's story compels her to do these things to advance the plot.]]

** Alicia's harem plays this straight, to Ronald's chagrin. In their first field lesson, they rush ahead of everyone and slaughtered everything leaving few if any monsters for Alicia or the other students have a chance to kill. The students and Alicia, however, fail to realize this is a bad thing and celebrate the harem's skills.

** Every time Yumiella tries to befriend Alicia or the latter tries to approach her, the other love interests interfere, afraid that the former will try to attack the latter. This is even after proving the rumor about Yumiella being the Demon Lord is incorrect, one of the only misunderstandings that is (mostly) cleared up. The harem's constant coddling causes Alicia to be significantly underprepared to face the Demon Lord and lacking the confidence to try, even though her light magic is important. While Yumiella does try to help Alicia grow her level when she won't even try training on her own, her extreme level-grinding methods only make things worse, and eventually leads to [[spoiler:Alicia attempting to murder Yumiella when confronting the Demon Lord as she's never gotten a chance to recognize Yumiella as a person]].

* HardWorksHardlyWorks: Discussed. [[spoiler:In his discussion with Yumiella, Edwin admits a part of why he resented Yumiella was feeling his hard work and efforts were invalidated compared to her absurdly high level. Patrick gets him to realize Yumiella's level is the result of her spending years of level-grinding every day and not simply something she was born with, which gets him to be able to recognize Yumiella as a powerful and eccentric, but otherwise benign teenager.]]

* EncounterBait: Yumiella uses a monster-summoning flute to improve the efficiency of her LevelGrinding. Everyone else in the world considers this item cursed and [[YoureInsane completely insane]] to use at all.

* ConnectedAllAlong: [[spoiler:The new headmaster, Ronald, is the oldest son of Duke Hillrose, making him Eleonora’s older brother.]]

** In volume 2 of the light novels, [[spoiler:Eleonora mentions having an older brother who she can never tell what he’s thinking even though he smiles all the time. Later, Yumiella finds out that the new headmaster, PerpetualSmiler Ronald, is Eleonora’s older brother.]]

** Yumiella speculates that she, aka the original from the game, was not the "true" traditional villainess of the story. In the original game, Yumiella was something of a lackey to Eleanora who wished to court Prince Edwin. Yumiella carried out her requests to bully the heroine at the behest of her parents and Eleonora’s posse. This is pushed even further when it's ultimately revealed that Eleanora never had in mind wanting to bully the heroine either; she was instead pushed to by her followers.

** A preemptive moment happens when Roland, the principal of the school, asks Yumiella to help work with Alicia to level grind and become stronger and more independent. Yumiella immediately considers taking Alicia to a dark-magic dungeon where her light magic would be super-effective and do major damage. Yumiella imagines Alicia destroying the monsters with a prideful smile on her face. Roland, however, imagines Alicia being scared and overwhelmed by the monsters. He reconsiders asking Yumiella for help after that.

* DarkIsNotEvil: There is extreme discrimination against dark magic users and dark-haired people in Valschein. Yumiella hopes to use her powers to help eliminate this stigma.

** After she falls off Ryuu, Yumiella ponders where to safely crash. She comes up with the idea to propel off the sky multiple times like a pinball with her dark magic. It only occurs to her right before she lands that she could have used the same method to slow down her fall instead.

* KillSteal: {{Defied|Trope}}. Right before Yumiella's class goes on a "field lesson"--that is, a very controlled LevelGrinding that's hardly close to the intensity the current Yumiella went through--Ronald, the headmaster, asks Yumiella to be on the sidelines, owing to her overwhelming level. Yumiella agrees with his logic, especially since she's level 99. On the other hand, Alicia's harem plays this straight, to Ronald's chagrin.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When the harem boys try to provoke Yumiella right after the level test, she defuses the situation by telling them they should go check on Alicia, as she’s the new student with light magic. This brings them much closer to Alicia than they were in the game, becoming overprotective in the process, and leads to her being unable to level up as fast as she needs to in time to face the Demon Lord.

** Downplayed, but the nobility is divided into "central", those who hold a government position in the capital, "provincial", those who do not and spend their time ruling their estates, and "pseudo-metropolitans", provincials who [[IdleRich spend their time hanging around the capital]], socializing, and leave the managing of their estate to an appointed governor. Pseudo-metropolitans, like Yumiella's parents, are looked down upon as being good-for-nothing twits, which Yumiella herself is not.