History YMMV / AfroSamurai

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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Justice is supposed to be sympathetic because [[spoiler: [[WellIntentionedExtremist he wants to bring order to the world]]]]. However, what little we see of him has him acting like a AxCrazy BloodKnight who gleefully [[YouKilledMyFather kills Afro's father in front of Afro]], then mock Afro being upset by this. Not helping is that he causes the entire plot [[spoiler: [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat by giving Afro the Number 2 headband he needs]], seemingly [[KickTheDog just to pour salt in the wound for Afro]]. However because of this, Justice needed to steal it back leading to a lot of avoidable death]].

* EvilIsSexy: Sio. Though the "Evil" part is debatable.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Justice is supposed to be sympathetic because [[spoiler: [[WellIntentionedExtremist he wants to bring order to the world]]]]. However, what little we see of him has him acting like a AxCrazy BloodKnight who gleefully kills Afro's father in front of him then mock Afro being upset by this. Not helping is that he causes the entire plot [[spoiler: [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat by giving Afro the Number 2 headband he needs]], seemingly [[KickTheDog just to pour salt in the wound for Afro]]. However because of this, Justice needed to steal it back leading to a lot of avoidable death]].

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Justice is supposed to be sympathetic because [[spoiler: he wants to bring order to the world]]. However, what little we see of him has him acting like a AxCrazy BloodKnight who gleefully kills Afro's father in front of him then mock Afro being upset by this. Not helping is that he causes the entire plot [[spoiler: [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat by giving Afro the Number 2 headband he needs]], seemingly [[KickTheDog just to pour salt in the wound for Afro]]. However because of this, Justice needed to steal it back leading to a lot of avoidable death]].

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Justice is supposed to be sympathetic because [[spoiler: he wants to bring order to the world]]. However, what little we see of him has him acting like a AxCrazy BloodKnight who gleefully kills Afro's father in front of him then mock Afro being upset by this. Not helping is that he causes the entire plot [[spoiler: by giving Afro the Number 2 headband he needs seemingly just to pour salt in the wound for Afro. However because of this, Justice needed to steal it back leading to a lot of avoidable death]].

* EthnicScrappy: [=Ninja Ninja=] is a likely an aversion of this. He is [[spoiler: the repressed side of Afro, also voiced by Creator/SamuelLJackson]] and thus is intentionally different. Also, he is often more help than harm, as in the anime it is hinted that Afro would be lacking sanity if not for him.

* ThatOneAchievement: The Kunoichi Suicide Queens, and good luck getting it.

* MagnificentBastard: [[SamuraiCowboy Justice]] is the former Number 2 headband-bearer and a man who wishes to use the Number 1 headband to change the world that he will rule as [[AGodAmI God himself]]. Challenging Afro's father years ago, Justice concealed his third arm so he might outwit and behead Afro's father, telling the traumatized boy to challenge him one day when he is ready. Converting the world as its new messiah in his philosophy of using "[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility absolute power to bring absolute peace]]", Justice acts through proxies against Afro before attempting to trap him as well, declaring the nobility of his purpose before Afro cuts him down. Even in the end, this is not enough to stop Justice permanently, who appears with a mysterious new scheme at the end of ''Resurrection''.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It can be very difficult to sympathize with Afro, considering how many innocents he's murdered.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The main character is a borderline sociopathic VillainProtagonist with little redeeming moral features who cares about nothing but killing the person who killed his father, resulting in him killing large amounts of people just to find his father's killer. The person who killed his father, Justice, while having [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning but not necessarily morally good intentions]], is very morally gray. The only reason the audience only sympathizes with Afro, in spite of his goals being identical to those he fights, is because we saw his back story, and didn't see theirs.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Afro and Justice are both enormous bait for this. Since it's a story about revenge, and it is only told from Afro's perspective, it gives a lot of interpretation over who the true villain is of the story. Afro wants to avenge his fathers death, and leaves a path of destruction on his way to do that. Jutice is completely power hungry, [[WellIntentionedExtremist but is using his power to bring order to an unruly world.]]

* DesignatedHero: The only thing that makes Afro even a little bit heroic is that he's avenging his father's death. The only reason he gets any sympathy from the audience is that [[TheProtagonist this is his story]] and so he gets the sympathetic point of view. The story itself plays with this trope due to Ninja Ninja's lines, and the contrast with Justice; I.E. the dissonance at the core of the trope is fuzzier than the standard.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: ''Afro Samurai 2: Revenge of Kuma'' is an example of a horribly broken action game. It landed on many worst-of video game lists for 2015, such as Angry Joe's. The release of Volume One had such poor reception that the publisher took responsibility for it and refunded willing purchasers of the game. They also canceled the other two planned volumes.

%%%* JerkassWoobie: Afro

* StoicWoobie: Afro

* EvilIsSexy: Sio.
* JerkassWoobie: Sio.