History Webcomic / BewareTheVillainess

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: InUniverse. Melissa considers all the novel love interests to be rather contemptuous individuals and gets paired off with a character who probably died before the story began. However, her attitude towards the book love interests causes them to stop and reconsider their own behavior, leading them to start maturing. She even ends up becoming friends with two of them and forms a slightly odd sibling bond with a third. She considers to despise the fourth, but his behavior may have also improved by the end, though given his significantly lower starting position he doesn't improve nearly to the extent of being worth interacting with.

*** In general, the serious flaws of Melissa's suitors are what happens when real-world consequences are applied to poorly thought-out romance archetypes. A playboy in reality wouldn't know how to value true affection towards a woman, a man devoting himself to constantly swooping in to save the object of his affections would seen as a stalker, a man who only knows aggression would be too reckless to be trusted with protecting anyone, and an archetypical {{Yandere}} would be an active threat to whoever he had his eyes on.

* StylisticSuck: The romance novels that compose Melissa's world from the summaries alone are blatantly poorly written with paper-thin characters based around broad archetypes with no heed given to the implications they present. This naturally makes living through the events much less appealing to Melissa than when she was just passively reading them in her old life.

*** In general, the serious flaws of Melissa's suitors are what happens when real-world consequences are applied to poorly thought-out romance archetypes. A playboy in reality wouldn't know how to value true affection towards a woman, a man devoting himself to constantly swooping in to save the object of his affections would see seen as a stalker, a man who only knows aggression would be too reckless to be trusted with protecting anyone, and an archetypical {{Yandere}} would be an active threat to whoever he had his eyes on.

* PrinceCharmless: As a result of the perspective flip and actually picking apart the internal logic of the story. In the book, Ian was cheating on his arranged fiancee because he considered her behavior obsessive and wanted nothing to do with her, which was portrayed as justified. In practice, his fiancee was mostly just trying to spend time with him and be affectionate the way couples generally do, and never actually did anything to harm him. Because she was temperamental and less powerful, however, she would always wind up taking the blame for getting angry at his blatant cheating and disregard for her feelings. And since Melissa would never blame him for cheating, she would attack the women she catches him with instead while Ian would act like it had nothing to do with him, taking no blame in the matter he started while the women around him were being hurt. Making it worse? When Melissa seemingly gets tired of it all and tries to break the engagement outright, suddenly Ian isn't having any of it; he may dislike her, but he actually needs her family's political power.

* UnwantedHarem: Yuri has four suitors she could be paired off with, but they all start the novel pretty trashy once you look past their stock character facade. Prince Ian constantly engages in affairs simply to harass a girl that loves him, Jake is a rude stalker, Jack is a dumb brute and Peacock is a smug yandere. Thanks to Melissa's involvement in the plot, three of them improve significantly and none of them but Peacock are really that into her during the course of ''this'' story.

* WhatTheHellHero: While Melissa has cursed at her supposed fiancee before, the occasion that really stands out happens when they attend a festival together. She beats him in a contest and puts a toy tiara on his head as a joke, which he considers very humiliating. She blows up at him, pointing out that this condescending attitude is exactly what makes him so obnoxious in the first place. He considers being put in the role of a woman beneath him because he doesn't really respect women. [[spoiler:The point sinks in and he actually starts shaping up, much to Melissa's confusion.]]

* {{Bishonen}}: Nine and, by extension, Migen, are the prettiest characters in the story.

* FormulaWithATwist: Along the lines of ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' and ''Literature/ImInLoveWithTheVillainess''.

* GenericCuteness: Melissa is typically considered to be either plain or even somewhat ugly, but while she has a more angular face than the beautiful Yuri, it's far from bad looking. She's also quite fit, doesn't seem to have bad skin, decent fashion sense and a figure that is feminine without going to [[BuxomIsBetter extremes.]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe. Melissa is disgusted to realize that the festival in the supposed western fantasy kingdom is an identical match to a Korean festival. The author couldn't be bothered be creative enough.

* IdenticalStranger: [[spoiler:Chelsea, Ian's illegitimate niece from his deceased half-sister, looks a lot like a younger Melissa with a different hair color, to the point she could be mistaken for her daughter. The household, including the former duke, assume she truly is her daughter despite her attempts to correct the misunderstanding.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:In the extra stories, Melissa and Nine become Chelsea's legal guardians due to her growing attached to them both and even acknowledging the previous Duke as her grandfather.]]

** While Ian, Jake and Jack can be considered [[CharacterDevelopment recyclable]], Peacock's personality flaws are the kind that don't just get better somehow because he's a {{Yandere}} ControlFreak. Rather than being disrespectful, selfish or insensitive, his behavior coupled with his fortune makes him downright dangerous [[spoiler:and Melissa ultimately has to let herself get poisoned by him to secure his arrest to keep him away from Yuri for good. Not to mention no matter how wealthy he is, the fact he poisoned a duke's daughter in the view of multiple witnesses, including the servant he blackmailed into being an accomplish, is a serious crime he can't bribe his way out of.]]

* TrueBlueFemininity: Yuri has blue eyes and is often seen wearing blue. Averted with Cartena, who has short hair and dresses in a plain button-down and trousers.

* WeaponOfChoice: Jake and his gun.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Jack has dark skin and red hair.

* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:In the extra stories, Melissa and Nine end up becoming Chelsea's legal guardians due to her growing attached to them both.]]

* IdenticalStranger: [[spoiler:Chelsea, Ian's illegitimate niece from his deceased half-sister, looks a lot like a younger Melissa with a different hair color, to the point she could be mistaken for her daughter. Nine even remarks watching them squabble they look like mother and child.]]

* IdenticalStranger: [[spoiler:Chelsea, Ian's illegitimate niece from his deceased half-sister, looks a lot like a younger Melissa with a different hair color, to the point she could be mistaken for her daughter.]]

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Ian has black hair and pale skin, and is attractive enough to easily keep cheating on Mellisa with multiple women.

** Melissa points out the problems of someone like Ian showing such complete disregard for the people around him when he's going to rule said country. She also mentally notes because Ian's mother was a maid unlike his younger half-brothers being born from the current empress, the latter two have a good chance of being able to snatch the crown prince position away from him if he doesn't show he's capable of being the next ruler.

* MeaningfulName: It can't be a coincidence (could even be a lampshading of the series' inspiration) that the heroine's name is ''Yuri''.

* FantasticRacism: OG Melissa despised werewolves, though ''this'' story's Melissa doesn't share her sentiments. Later on it's actually shown that the previous Melissa may have had a point: They really do seem to be mostly assholes and their brand of magic is quite unpleasant.

** Ian Basillos is apparently portrayed as a PrinceCharming LadykillerInLove who treats Yuri like a princess but can't get rid of his annoying fiance. Melissa's quick to point out that its much harder to consider Ian TheCharmer when you remember he's cheating on a woman who loves him. Also he blames Melissa for not letting him break off their engagement when in reality she's been trying to do so since she arrived and he's the one holding on because of political reasons. It's heavily implied that he used the original Melissa's feelings in order to get engaged to her and win house Foddebrat's support, and only officially left her for Yuri once the latter had gained enough political clout in her own right that he could use.