History YMMV / Blazblue

** [[SatanicArchetype Takehaya Susanoo-no-Mikoto]], better known as [[Characters/BlazblueYuukiTerumi Yūki Terumi]], rebelled against his "sister" Master Unit: Amaterasu and dedicated his entire life to spiting her and destroying all of her creations. Having created the apocalyptic [[EldritchAbomination Black Beast]], Terumi was brainwashed by Nine the Phantom to assist the fellow Six Heroes in the Dark War. When freed, he returned the favor by casting her and Trinity Glassfille to the Boundary to die. He would later murder the caretaker of Ragna, Jin, and Saya, burn down the church they called home, and compelled Jin to sever the young Ragna's arm. His myriad of other atrocities include, but aren't limited to, being responsible for Lotte Carmine's horrific condition as Arakune, {{mind rap|e}}ing Noel Vermillion into becoming Mu the Godslayer, breaking Tsubaki Yayoi's spirit, harvesting the souls of his own NOL personnel to power up Cauldrons, and assisting Relius Clover and Izanami in enacting "Doomsday". An arrogant, sadistic god who [[HopeCrusher sustains his wretched existence through others' hatred and despair]], Susanoo coveted the True Azure to destroy everything, create a single world to lord over, and fill it full of every living beings' suffering for eternity.
** [[SoftSpokenSadist Hades: Izanami]], despite the circumstances of her existence, ousts herself as the sinister "[[EverybodyHatesHades Goddess of Death]]" whose innermost desire is [[OmnicidalManiac a world of death and total nothingness]]. [[VideoGame/BlazBlueChronoPhantasma As Imperator Librarius]], she used her authority to help conspire with Terumi and Relius to destroy Amatersu and bring about Doomsday. Izanami placed Tsubaki under Ruby: Mind Eater and forced her to use the Izayoi's Immortal Breaker on Jin against her will. She later compelled Ragna to enter a berserk, Black Beast-like state also against his will, resulting in him crippling Jin. [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction Coldly betraying Terumi and Relius for her own devices]], Izanami tasks herself trying to bring about untold annihilation within a massive radius following Nine's failure. When confronted by Ragna and Noel, Izanami tries to tempt Ragna into killing Noel to gain the True Azure for himself. When Noel as Mu-12 tries to assimilate Izanami's soul into her own, Izanami reverses the process in an attempt to erase Noel's entire existence. A nihilistic, self-serving goddess, Hades: Izanami used all in her arsenal and disposed of anyone at any time to achieve her "dream".

* EvilIsSexy: Hazama and Terumi are this for some fans. Meanwhile, Nine's new outfit for ''Central Fiction'', and her turning bad, might be a way for invoking this trope. To a lesser extent Izanami who despite not being well endowed like Nine still fights in a revealing outfit that shows off her slim Figure.

* NightmareRetardant: As evil as Terumi is, the horror for his actions easily loses impact due to his inability to resist cracking a joke at almost every chance he can, even his sense of humor serves to further drive in how evil he is.

* ToyShip: There are viewers whom viewed many of Rachel's interactions with Carl as a potential ship, and while Ragna X Rachel gets more ship-tease in the series Carl X Rachel is not that far off. (However, this was mostly in ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger'' but there was a little bit of this in VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift though.)

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Outside of the KudzuPlot, the other element that the franchise is most (in)famous for is the sexualized character designs of majority of the female characters. Even compared to its sister-series, ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear''. This unforuntately also garnered ''[=BlazBlue=]'' vocal detractors who swore off playing the games solely due to the character designs.

* ShippingGoggles: A few people who read the ''Remix Heart'' manga toyed with the idea of [[TallDarkAndHandsome Jin Kisaragi]] and [[ShyBlueHairedGirl Mai Natsume]] together. One of the most likely reasons is that the appearance of Jin and Mai resembles that of [[OfficialCouple Ky x Dizzy]] in VideoGame/GuiltyGear.

** Azrael is the most well-received character out of all the ''Chronophantasma'' newcomers, due to possibly being even more RatedMForManly than Bang, and the fact that his [[Creator/HirokiYasumoto Japanese voice actor's]] previous role was a [[VideoGame/AsurasWrath certain six-armed god killer]] gives him even more popularity points.

* TheScrappy: While it's very hard to see anyone as Scrappies (aside from [[TierInducedScrappy Tier-wise]] at least), there aren't many fans of Luna (not Platinum as whole). She's considered to be incredibly loud-mouthed and obnoxious, insulting nearly everyone she came across in a worse scale that surpassed even Rachel's haughtiness (and outright calling Ragna a lolicon for NO REASON whatsoever). The two other souls found within Platinum however include Sena who's much less rude than Luna and Trinity, one of the Six Heroes.

** Not that he's not popular in Japan, but with American-exclusive memes like "REAL SOVIET DAMAGE" and "GIGANTIC TAGER", being a hulking, manly cyborg and possibly second-manliest man after Bang, and the voice of Creator/JamiesonPrice (a fan favorite for BadassBaritone voices in America)... anyone can see it coming. Azrael gets much of the same treatment for being a gleefully insane BloodKnight in the vein of American fan favorite [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Zaraki Kenpachi]].

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Outside of the KudzuPlot, the other element that the franchise is most (in)famous for is the sexualized character designs of majority of the female characters. Even compared to it's sister-series, ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear''. This unforuntately also garnered ''[=BlazBlue=]'' vocal detractors who swore off playing the games solely due to the character designs.

* CharacterPerceptionEvolution: In ''Continuum Shift'', Terumi was more so seen as obnoxious due to being utter overpowered InvincibleVillain and frequently made all of the heroes efforts for naught. After the series conclusion, and [[spoiler:with him finally getting his comeuppance]], fans are able to look back on his early days with more fondness.
* ClicheStorm: [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Gloriously so!]] Ragna alone could be considered the expy of a gazillion shounen or seinen heroes, and the story just fires off anime cliches one after the other, yet fans insist that it's part of it's charm.

* ContinuityLockout: Due to a LOT of things happening in each game, the story is pretty hard to follow if you don't start from the beginning, especially due to some details becoming more important later on. Not only that, the game has supplemental materials and spin-offs that adds to the lore, and the spin-off stories' inclusion to the main games tend to complicate matters. At least ''CSEX'' is kind enough to give you Calamity Trigger Reconstruction, and ''CPEX'' also gives you abridged versions of CT and CS, although they're trimmed down to their most plot-important details and might miss other details from other characters.

* {{Woolseyism}}: Many of the puns and jokes are suited entirely to Japanese, and don't translate over well into English, so naturally there's a lot of original writing in the English versions. Hence, all the [[MemeticMutation memes]]. For most games this would come across as incredibly corny and lazy, but for ''[=BlazBlue=]'', [[{{Troperiffic}} being the kind of game it is]], this actually works quite well.

-->'''Makoto''': "[[Anime/{{FLCL}} Those who conquer the left, conquer the world!]]"

** [[GodIsEvil Takehaya Susanoo-no-Mikoto]], better known as [[Characters/BlazblueYuukiTerumi Yūki Terumi]], rebelled against his "sister" Master Unit: Amaterasu and dedicated his entire life to spiting her and destroying all of her creations. Having created the apocalyptic [[EldritchAbomination Black Beast]], Terumi was brainwashed by Nine the Phantom to assist the fellow Six Heroes in the Dark War. When freed, he returned the favor by casting her and Trinity Glassfille to the Boundary to die. He would later murder the caretaker of Ragna, Jin, and Saya, burn down the church they called home, and compelled Jin to sever the young Ragna's arm. His myriad of other atrocities include, but aren't limited to, being responsible for Lotte Carmine's horrific condition as Arakune, {{mind rap|e}}ing Noel Vermillion into becoming Mu the Godslayer, breaking Tsubaki Yayoi's spirit, harvesting the souls of his own NOL personnel to power up Cauldrons, and assisting Relius Clover and Izanami in enacting "Doomsday". An arrogant, sadistic god who [[HopeCrusher sustains his wretched existence through others' hatred and despair]], Susanoo coveted the True Azure to destroy everything, create a single world to lord over, and fill it full of every living beings' suffering for eternity.

* VindicatedByHistory: In ''Continuum Shift'', Terumi was more so seen as obnoxious due to being utter overpowered InvincibleVillain and frequently made all of the heroes efforts for naught. After the series conclusion, and [[spoiler:with him finally getting his comeuppance]], fans are able to look back on his early days with more fondness.

** Arakune's teleport and bee-spam antics have [[TierInducedScrappy not made him any friends]] either.

** Taokata thanks to her love of gropping.

** Since Japan loves little girl characters and she's voiced by Creator/AoiYuki (AKA [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka Kaname]]), Platinum is ALSO wildly popular in Japan, ranking high in popularity polls. But in the west? She's pretty much one of the few characters whose Scrappydom are higher than her fanbase (majorly Luna's).

* {{Woolseyism}}: Many of the puns and jokes are suited entirely to Japanese, and don't translate over well into English, so naturally there's a lot of original writing in the English versions. Hence, all the [[MemeticMutation memes]]. For most games this would come across as incredibly corny and lazy, but for ''Blazblue'', [[{{Troperiffic}} being the kind of game it is]], this actually works quite well.

* FandomRivalry: Blazblue partly owes its existence to the fact that Creator/ArcSystemWorks at the time lost the rights to independently create ''Guilty Gear'', so ''[=BlazBlue=]'' got retooled as their new flagship fighting game. Naturally, this led to a beef between the two fanbases over which series was the superior one. Only doubly so after ASW finally got the rights to ''Guilty Gear'' back and seemingly started giving that franchise more priority.

* FandomRivalry: Blazblue partly owes its existence to the fact that Creator/ArcSystemWorks at the time lost the rights to independently create ''Guilty Gear'', so Blazblue got retooled as their new flagship fighting game. Naturally, this led to a beef between the two fanbases over which series was the superior one. Only doubly so after ASW finally got the rights to ''Guilty Gear'' bask and seemingly started giving that franchise more priority.

** Makoto seems to be really popular with both the fans and the producers, despite her limited screentime. When she got her screentime in ''Extend'', however...

** Every unlimited character. Essentially, these are alternate forms of the characters that take their advantages and crank them straight UpToEleven. For example, Ragna is in constant Blood Kain with a larger health bar (AND no life reduction), all of Jin's specials are the drive variant with no meter cost, Arakune can instantly curse you and his bees are almost the size of Carl, and Tager gains two spark bolts and a greater magnetism radius. But the real "fun" starts with Hazama, who has a perpetual green aura surrounding him. Should you touch this, you will lose health as long as you are in contact with it. And all of that health you lose? Yeah Hazama gains that much added to his own health meter. Oh, and guess what? Remember that short-ranged special that stuns the opponent? Well, now it automatically chains into the second part of his super autocombo. [[OhCrap For no heat cost]]. And it's unblockable. If he gets too close to you, consider a quarter of your life bar gone.

** And of course [[DepravedHomosexual Jin towards Ragna.]] There is almost no scene he shares with Ragna where he isn't being as creepy as possible in his desire to fight him; Arcsys themselves just run with it and turn it UpTo11 in the gag reels.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The fact that it has so much story for a fighting game makes it a turn-off to some people. It has a lot of terminology you have to understand, and it's easy to get trapped in ContinuityLockout if you can't follow it.