History YMMV / DanceInTheVampireBund

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Angel

** [[TheCaligula Duke Ivanovic]] is the most vicious and unhinged of the three Lords. After believing Mina's mother had married a commoner, Ivanovic and the other Lords had her murdered out of spite and jealousy and later committed a worldwide purge off all other vampires to put the world under their control. Ivanovic was once [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Grigori Rasputin]], and drove Russia into chaos and ruin, even later trying to enslave and rape [[UsefulNotes/AnastasiaNikolaevnaRomanova Duchess Anastasia]] till Mina saved her. In the present, Ivanovic plays a game with the other Lords where they hunt Mina's lover Akira for fun and repeatedly subject Mina to a degrading chastity test. Eventually Ivanovic launches a brutal attack on the Bund to capture Mina for his own pleasure. Once there, he deliberately targets civilians, and has the innocent fangless vampires executed to draw Mina out of hiding intending to eventually wipe them all out. He also uses as shock troops werewolves that he's tortured into feral beasts that have forgotten their own humanity. Ivanovic at points [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape Mina]] when he can and [[DirtyOldMan has a disturbing taste for young girls]], not caring that Mina is in her younger body as opposed to her adult form; even declaring he'll only enjoy her adult body after he's had his pleasure of the younger one.

* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: Alphonse is let off pretty easy considering that had he intervened when the fake Mina was first confronted, a lot less people would have died, but because he wanted to be with Mina and wanted to pretend Fake Mina was real, a ton of people died, many unwillingly turned and murdered by overzealous, rioting mobs and it nearly caused the collapse of the bund and turned many people against it and caused a number of the problems they're still dealing with years later. There's no guarantee his message he recorded to try stopping the absolute nightmare his boner caused would have worked at all.]]

* WhatAnIdiot:
** That shapeshifting weapon had Akira on the ropes, running him ragged and keeping him guessing on whose friend or foe. Then managing to mortally wound him when it cornered him. All seems lost, right? [[spoiler:Fortunately for Akira, the weapon tries to be sadistic and transforms into Mina to add insult to injury. This however has the effect of making Akira very angry that it would mock his love for her. He gains the strength to go wolf and bite the thing's head clean off.]]
** The students who barricade themselves in a chapel only to open the door when someone they are largely convinced had been kidnapped several days ago ''by the vampires they were hiding from'' [[GenreBlind asks to be let in]]. This is ''after'' Akira told them that vampires would play such tricks and Yuki reminding them when they were about to do it.

** [[spoiler:Sanin. First he was betrayed, brain-damaged, and nearly killed by the werewolf who was supposed to be his partner for life during their trial in Siberia with Akira and Angie. Then his half-dead body was found by Telomere, who forcibly injected him with chemicals designed to make him a psychotic killer. ''Then'', Angie manages to get through to him and restore what little humanity he has left after, you know, the brain damage and chemicals... and a ManchurianAgent injects him with berserker serum ''again'', forcing a traumatized Akira to put him down in self-defense. And of course, he's shown in flashbacks to generally be the nicest guy you could ever hope to meet. And to just twist the knife deeper, in a last remaining shreds of his sanity, puts Akira's gun under his own chin for him to do it. His final tear-filled words before Akira pulls the trigger? [[TearJerker "I... I'm sorry... A-Akira...".]]]]
** Akira himself. [[spoiler:How about having to kill your friend when you were just a kid, then have to live with the feeling you're an animal, just to find out out that another friend who was presumed dead, shows up, and then you have to kill him.]]