History YMMV / AfroSamurai

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The first ''Afro Samurai'' game is considered a decent or good use of the license for fans and most critics. The sequel...

* 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.

* 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]]. The story itself plays with this trope due to Ninja Ninja's lines, and contrast with Justice. I.E. the dissonance at the core of the trope is fuzzier than the standard.
* DesignatedVillain: Justice himself that he is only a villain from Afro's perspective due to the father killing, and that Afro has done worse than he himself. Thus, because this is Afro's revenge narrative, the story paints him as such.

* EvilIsSexy: Sio
* JerkassWoobie: Sio

* MoralEventHorizon - You may think that it doesn't get much worse than using a young boy as a human shield against a group of ninjas, until Afro uses the dead boy's crippled sister as a shield against a man toting a ''minigun''.

* {{Sequelitis}} ''Revenge of Kuma'', for the reasons listed above.

* DesignatedHero: Afro
* DesignatedVillain: Justice. Especially in the manga.
* JerkassWoobie: Afro
* TheScrappy: Ninja Ninja.
** 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.

* NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The first ''Afro Samurai'' game is considered a decent or good use of the license for fans and most critics. The sequel...

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

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: 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.]]

* FreudWasRight: In the anime, Afro Droid's ultimate weapon is a large, chest mounted WaveMotionGun that is very [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything suggestively shaped.]] The manga version is even worse since, though not as large, it is actually crotch-mounted and ''dangles'' when not in firing mode.
** In the anime, Afro Droid even screams out as he fires it.

* 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 rather not necessarily morally right 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.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The main character is a borderline sociopathic VillainProtagonist with little redeeming moral features who cares 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 rather not necessarily morally right]], 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.

* Narm: The whole thing with the ''teddy bear head''. Really, Kuma?

** EthnicScrappy: [=Ninja Ninja=] Is a likely an aversion of this. He is [[spoiler: the repressed side of Afro, also voiced by 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.

* * FreudWasRight: In the anime, Afro Droid's ultimate weapon is a large, chest mounted WaveMotionGun that is very [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything suggestively shaped.]] The manga version is even worse since, though not as large, it is actually crotch-mounted and ''dangles'' when not in firing mode.

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

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* MotiveDecay: How exactly Sio plans to avenge herself on Afro changes throughout the movie, alluding to her not fully being as evil as she thought she was when she [[StartOfDarkness started her revenge plot]].

* AlternateCharacterInterpretationL 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.]]

* DesignatedVillain: Justice. Especially in the manga.

* MotiveDecay: How exactly Sio plans to avenge herself on Afro changes throughout the movie, for no discernable reason.

* TheScrappy - Ninja Ninja.
** EthnicScrappy - [=Ninja Ninja=] Is a likely an aversion of this. He is [[spoiler: the repressed side of Afro, also voiced by 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.

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