History YMMV / FireForce

** The first opening theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfCcs0vLysk "Inferno" by Mrs. GREEN APPLE]], is an exciting yet slightly melancholic rock piece. It's followed up by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0WClcc-aVs MAYDAY]], from Music/{{Coldrain}}, featuring Ryo from Music/CrystalLake. A hard rock and death metal piece that shakes you to your core.

** Benimaru and Konro are intensely protective and loyal to each other. This ''could'' be a BloodBrothers thing since they are both fire soldiers from the same company, but Konro really likes taking pictures of Benimaru for the Fire Force's nude calendar.

** [[LightIsNotGood The Shadow Captain]] leads the Holy Sol's Shadow, a group of assassins sent to kill any who opposes [[CorruptChurch The Holy Sol Temple]]. His assassins consists of orphans whom the Captain would brainwash into serving him and would subjugate those who question him to [[WouldHurtAChild horrific abuse]], with his most prominent victim being Five-Two, who the Captain tortured and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]]. When Five-Two left the Holy Sol's Shadow and is taken in by a loving family, the Captain has the family murdered. This incident would [[StartOfDarkness cause]] Five-Two to become the cynical criminal, Joker; when the Captain faces him in the present he abandons his soldiers to Benimaru's mercy for a chance to kill his former subordinate.

* EvilIsSexy:
** Hibana before her HeelFaceTurn is a good example, possessing big breasts, a pretty face and being dominant with both her male subordinates and her enemies alike.
** Haumea, despicable she may be, has a well-endowed figure under her uniform and is a good-looking young woman, at least compensating her otherwise amoral personality.
** The First Pillar also deserves a mention, being a long-haired, naked, more deranged version [[spoiler: of the already cute Iris]], which makes her attractive as well as terrifying.

* AcceptableTargets: Organized religion does not get a good portrayal in ''Fire Force''. The followers of the Evangelist are [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalists]] who want nothing more than the destruction of the entire world, and the Church of the Holy Sol is a shady organization [[spoiler:that is ultimately hand in hand with the Evangelist]]. The morally failing, corrupt church is placed in stark contrast to the religious characters who are sincere in their beliefs, showing that the [[AnAesop main moral of the series]] is "It doesn't matter who or what you have faith in, so long as you use it to do the right thing instead of blindly following orders".

** [[LightIsNotGood The Captain]] leads the Holy Sol's Shadow, a group of assassins sent to kill any who opposes The Holy Sol Temple. His assassins consists of orphans whom the Captain would brainwash into serving him and would subjugate those who question him to [[WouldHurtAChild horrific abuse]], with his most prominent victim being Five-Two, who the Captain [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]]. When Five-Two left the Holy Sol's Shadow and is taken in by a loving family, the Captain has the family murdered. This incident would [[StartOfDarkness cause]] Five-Two to become the cynical criminal, Joker; when the Captain faces him in the present he abandons his soldiers to Benimaru's mercy for a chance to kill his former subordinate.

** [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Rekka Hoshimiya]], the seemingly cheerful and upbeat Company 1 lieutenant, is in truth a [[AxCrazy deranged member]] of the [[Characters/FireForceWhiteClad White-Clad]] who has been turning countless of innocent people into Infernals; most of whom are [[WouldHurtAChild children]] whom Rekka was experimenting on to find a suitable host for the Pilot's Light. Rekka would manipulate his subordinate, Tamaki Kotatsu, into bringing him a group of children and a mother to a building where he incinerates the mother before injecting her son, Nataku, with an Infernal Bug; when Nataku becomes a suitable host for the Pilot's Light, Rekka decides to experiment on the rest of the children anyway and [[FrameUp frame]] Tamaki for his crimes. When Tamaki tries to stop Rekka, he attempts to beat her to death. After Shinra Kusakabe saves Tamaki and battles Rekka, a frustrated Rekka uses his powers to burn down the building to kill Shinra, Tamaki and the children]].

* CriticalResearchFailure: Faerie's Adolla Burst explanation is cited by some readers as one of the worst misunderstandings on gravity. He explained that in order to reduce Earth's gravitational pull toward an object he increased the object's mass closer to that of Earth while Newton's Law of Gravitation states that gravitational force between two objects is directly proportional to said two objects's masses, thus what he should've done is reducing the object's mass. Even if the explanation turns out to be true in real life, [[spoiler:Faerie seemingly phasing through Sho's sword slash]] is not something that should happen to something with mass and density close to Earth's.

* FetishRetardant: The way the series' fanservice is handled has been a regular criticism of the series, especially since much of it tends to happen at inappropriate times and causes severe MoodWhiplash as a result. [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl Tamaki]] and her "Lucky Lecher Lure" curse is the main source of fanservice, and the laws of the universe seem to dictate that, through no one's fault, she ''will'' end up losing clothes, getting groped, or being sexualized in some manner. That's bog standard enough for shonen manga, but it's not only a gag that's run into the ground, it's also ''half-hearted''. It feels more like Atsushi Okubo is paying lip service to the fact that boobs and "ecchi"-style slapstick is indivisible from shonen manga these days. The fact that even guys ''in-universe'' either ignore it or get annoyed by it lends credence to this idea.

* LostInMediasRes: The first two arcs move really quickly, giving the sense that major plot moments are simply happening without the proper build-up or establishing of a current StatusQuo. For example, Infernals were introduced as people who are mindless shells of their former selves in the first episode... only for the idea of Infernals capable of conscious thought to be quickly introduced in the second episode. Before the audience can begin to digest that knowledge, they're hit by the appearance of a fully cognizant one in episode four.

* FanPreferredCouple: There are fans who like to ship Iris and Hibana together due to the history that they share, preferring to see their relationship as that of lovers instead of surrogate sisters.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Tamaki's fight against [[spoiler:Doppelganger Assault]] carries a heavy-handed message about SlutShaming, especially the full-on AuthorFilibuster in Chapter 281 that is prompted by Tamaki stripping in front of a child and not-so-subtly implies that Ohkubo thinks of Tamaki's real life detractors as slut-shamers. As with most everything else involving Tamaki, opinions are divided on whether this is an awesome, well-needed takedown of one of the series' most recurring criticisms or three chapters wasted fighting a blatant [[TheWarOnStraw strawman argument]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Inca casually murders her friend Panda without any regret simply because the opportunity presents itself. For context, this happens [[spoiler: after she decides to join the White Clad ''and'' after watching the White Clad kill her other friend.]] It's like she really wants to make clear to everyone where her morality lies.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Chapter 281 is pretty much Ohkubo getting on his soap box against Tamaki's detractors by having a mother act as a StrawCritic to her getting undressed, and her son goes on a large spiel calling her a hypocrite.

* BrokenBase: Tamaki's "Lucky Lecher Lure" curse. Some find it amusing, especially given the improbable situations she can end up in. Others, however, consider it to be unnecessary fanservice that occurs so often, it turns her into an one-dimensional character.

** [[spoiler: [[BitchInSheepsClothing Rekka Hoshimiya]], the seemingly cheerful and upbeat Company 1 lieutenant, is in truth a [[AxCrazy deranged member]] of the [[Characters/FireForceWhiteClad White-Clad]] who has been turning countless of innocent people into Infernals; most of whom are [[WouldHurtAChild children]] whom Rekka was experimenting on to find a suitable host for the Pilot's Light. Rekka would manipulate his subordinate, Tamaki Kotatsu, into bringing him a group of children and a mother to a building where he incinerates the mother before injecting her son, Nataku, with an Infernal Bug; when Nataku becomes a suitable host for the Pilot's Light, Rekka decides to experiment on the rest of the children anyway and [[FrameUp frame]] Tamaki for his crimes. When Tamaki tries to stop Rekka, he attempts to beat her to death. After Shinra Kusakabe saves Tamaki and battles Rekka, a frustrated Rekka uses his powers to burn down the building to kill Shinra, Tamaki and the children]].

** [[spoiler: The [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly cheerful and upbeat]] Company 1 lieutenant, Rekka Hoshimiya, is in truth a [[AxCrazy deranged member]] of the [[Characters/FireForceWhiteClad White-Clad]] who has been turning countless of innocent people into Infernals; most of whom are [[WouldHurtAChild children]] whom Rekka was experimenting on to find a suitable host for the Pilot's Light. Rekka would manipulate his subordinate, Tamaki Kotatsu, into bringing him a group of children and a mother to a building where he incinerates the mother before injecting her son, Nataku, with an Infernal Bug; when Nataku becomes a suitable host for the Pilot's Light, Rekka decides to experiment on the rest of the children anyway and [[FrameUp frame]] Tamaki for his crimes. When Tamaki tries to stop Rekka, he attempts to beat her to death. After Shinra Kusakabe saves Tamaki and battles Rekka, a frustrated Rekka uses his powers to burn down the building to kill Shinra, Tamaki and the children]].

* StrawmanHasAPoint: The mother from chapter 281 is supposed to be seen as an irrational prude for chewing Tamaki out after she got undressed in public, which is not only indecent exposure, but also child molestation since she did it in front of a five-year-old boy.