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* EvilIsCool: Most of the Chess Pieces are well-regarded by the fandom due to their CoolMasks, their creepy powers and their shameless love of being evil anarchists. Phantom, Ian, Candice, Rolan, [[spoiler: Galian]], Peta, Magical Ro, Diana and [[spoiler: even Chimera once you get past the NightmareFace of her ExtraEyes on the right side of her face]] count as EvilIsSexy to some fans as well.

* TheUntwist: Quite a few "plot twists" in this series are fairly obvious, mainly because the foreshadowing is a little too thick. Some of these include [[spoiler: Ginta's dad being Danna, obvious because his father had gone missing six years ago... exactly when the last War Game happened. Koyuki and Snow being connected in some way, granted the exact nature of the connection differs between the manga and anime but nobody is pretending that the fact they were connected was in any way some kind of surprise. The Queen being Diana, and Diana being Dorothy's sister... I mean just look at her! They looked too similar for the revelation of them being related to be a surprise. The only plot twists that aren't untwists are ones that border on AssPull, such as Babbo being the spirit of the previous Caldean Elder... because nothing hinted at that earlier]].

* FanonDiscontinuity: Most MAR fans, do not acknowledge MAR Omega as part of the canon-or a sequel. Mostly because, it was done by a completely differently mangaka, Ginta isn't even the main character, and the original main team characters are now basically support cast-or background characters.
** Lots of people also consider the anime ending superior to the original manga's, which was anti-climactic, rushed and little bittersweet.

* TheScrappy:
** Edward and Belle are considered annoying, clingy mascots. Edward is only there to be a handicap for Alan before the curse was undone and once that happened, Edward had no character of his own, aside from commentary and being a SatelliteCharacter to either Alan or Snow. Belle in comparison reminds too many people of a certain fairy from a [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime certain video game]] due to her annoying voice and clingy attachment to Alviss, mainly for [[DieForOurShip shippers who rather have her gone so Alviss can be closer to preferred ships like Ginta, Rolan or Phantom]].
** On the villain's side, Girom is thoroughly despised for being an obnoxious, sadistic SerialKiller that specifically targets women, and for being a coward every time he's cornered, which occurs every time he fights. This hate increased once he crossed the MoralEventHorizon by [[spoiler: killing Aqua, a Chess Piece beloved by the fans, in a cruel KickTheDog moment]]. Made even worse by the fact that [[KarmaHoudini he's spared and remains alive to the end of the series in spite of his actions]] and [[UngratefulBastard continuing to cause hardships for the heroes even after Ginta spares him time and again.]] He also lacks the EvilIsCool and LoveToHate factor by having no redeeming qualities aside for his love for his equally repulsive sister, Rapunzel.
** Rapunzel, much like her brother, is not liked by the fandom and one of the few Knights to avert the EvilIsCool and LoveToHate aesthetic of the group. She's [[NoIndoorVoice a perpetually screaming]], [[SmallNameBigEgo narcissist who belittles everyone else for being ugly in spite of being very hideous]], obnoxious and incredibly StupidEvil for her short-sighted BadBoss antics that resulted in her entire team being killed almost entirely by her own hands, overall coming across as a violent irritation to everyone around her than a truly disturbing psychopath to not tread lightly. Her one redeeming quality of caring for Girom feels shallow as he's just as unsympathetic as her, and even with her FreudianExcuse, it rings hollow as she and Girom are all too happy to be proud, arrogant, remorseless murderers, especially in comparison to Phantom and [[spoiler: Chimera]]'s [[DarkAndTroubledPast who've suffered far worse in comparison to put it lightly]]. Her antics eventually got on Phantom's nerves and has [[spoiler: Ian kill her to replace her amongst the Knight Ranks. And aside from Girom, no one in-universe or out-universe felt any remorse or pity for her passing.]]

* CompleteMonster: The manga version of [[TheSocialDarwinist Halloween]] is one of the most sadistic and brutal members of the Chess Pieces. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a homeless and bullied boy]] by the name of Pamp, he had a firm belief that the weak become sacrifices for the strong, [[AmbitionIsEvil and promised to become strong so he could kill everybody in the village]]. He started off by [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing neighborhood pets]] before going on to stab five kids to death and fleeing the village. During the first War Games, [[SoreLoser because he and Alan tied]], [[EvilIsPetty he cursed Alan and Edward to be forcibly merged together out of spite]]. Six years later when Phantom resurrects, Halloween and Chimera launch an attack on the country of Acalupa, destroying it and wiping out the majority of its population, recounting to Ian how fun it was. To punish Ian for not taking part in the attack on Märhaven, Halloween has Chimera transorm Ian's best friend, Gido, [[BalefulPolymorph into a grotesque mixture of human and monster]], knowing it would cause more pain to Ian if his best friend was punished instead. During his fight against Alan in the second War Games, [[CombatPragmatist Halloween distracts Alan by setting several innocent spectators on fire]] while telling Alan how sickened he is by Alan's sense of protecting those in need.

* TheUntwist: Quite a few "plot twists" in this series are fairly obvious, mainly because the foreshadowing is a little too thick. Some of these include [[spoiler: Ginta's dad being Danna, obvious because his father had gone missing six years ago... exactly when the last War Game happened. Koyuki and Snow being connected in some way, granted the exact nature of the connection differs between the manga and anime but nobody is pretending that the fact they were connected was in any way some kind of surprise. The Queen being Diana, and Diana being Dorothy's sister... I mean just look at her! They looked too similar for the revelation of them being related to be a surprise. The only plot twists that aren't untwists are ones that border on ShockingSwerve, such as Babbo being the spirit of the previous Caldean Elder... because nothing hinted at that earlier]].

** On the HoYay[=/=]FoeYay side, you have Ginta/Alviss, Phantom/Alviss and Rolan/Alviss with the first two being nearly tied.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Phantom, and for [[{{Bishonen}} very]] [[YaoiGuys good]] [[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds reasons]].

* AmericansHateTingle: While Snow is shown in the MAR manga to be listed as the top 10 most popular character in the franchise based on Japan, if you were to go on any forum, the reaction is the exact opposite of people stating their complaints of her being a DamselScrappy or her getting in the way of someone else for Ginta.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Snow is a very divisive character to say the least. There are many who see her as a scrappy for getting in the way of Ginta and whoever they ship him with and for getting captured on screen at least twice (four times in the anime), but she does have her fans.

* TheScrappy: People who watch the series tend to dislike Snow greatly whether it’s for [[DieforOurShip shipping reasons]] or because [[DamselInDistress she often needs to be rescued]].
** Also Edward and Belle are annoying, clingy mascots. Edward is only there to be a handicap for Alan before the curse was undone and once that happened, Edward had no character of his own, aside from commentary and being a SatelliteCharacter to either Alan or Snow. Belle in comparison reminds too many people of a certain fairy from a [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime certain video game]] due to her annoying voice and clingy attachment to Alviss, mainly for [[DieForOurShip shippers who rather have her gone so Alviss can be closer to preferred ships like Ginta, Rolan or Phantom]].
** On the villain's side, Girom is thoroughly despised for being an obnoxious, sadistic SerialKiller that specifically targets women, and for being a coward every time he's cornered, which occurs every time he fights. This hate increased once he crossed the MoralEventHorizon by [[spoiler: killing Aqua, a Chess Piece beloved by the fans, in a cruel KickTheDog moment]]. Made even worse by the fact that [[KarmaHoudini he's spared and remains alive to the end of the series in spite of his actions]] and [[UngratefulBastard containing to cause hardships for the heroes even after Ginta spares him time and again.]] He also lacks the EvilIsCool and LoveToHate factor by having no redeeming qualities aside for his love for his equally repulsive sister, Rapunzel.
** Rapunzel, much like her brother, Girom is not liked by the fandom and one of the few Knights to avert the EvilIsCool and LoveToHate aesthetic of the group. She's [[NoIndoorVoice a perpetually screaming]], [[SmallNameBigEgo narcissist who belittles everyone else for being ugly in spite of being very hideous]], obnoxious and incredibly StupidEvil for her short-sighted BadBoss antics that resulted in her entire team being killed almost entirely by her own hands, overall coming across as a violent irritation to everyone around her than a truly disturbing psychopath to not tread lightly. Even her one redeeming quality for Girom rings shallow as he's just as unsympathetic as her. Even with her FreudianExcuse, it rings shallow as she and Girom are proud, arrogant murderers anyway, especially in comparison to Phantom and [[spoiler: Chimera]]'s [[DarkAndTroubledPast who've suffered far worse in comparison to put it lightly]]. Her antics eventually got on Phantom's nerves and has [[spoiler: Ian kill her to replace her amongst the Knight Ranks. And aside from Girom, no one in-universe or out-universe felt any remorse for her.]]

** The anime iteration of King/ [[spoiler: Caldia's Orb]] is seen as a major [[AdaptationalBadass improvement over his manga depiction]] having a CoolMask, a NoNonsenseNemesis who [[spoiler: [[HeroKiller manages to kill almost all of Team Mär with ease]]]], avoids the VillainBall and has a cool set of Ärms including a {{BFS}}. [[spoiler: Inhabiting the body of badass former captain of the Cross Guard played a part in this as well.]] giving a

* TooCoolToLive: Played with both Alan and [[spoiler: Danna]], the former is much stronger than the main cast, but a flaw in order to not make him too cool and [[spoiler: the latter was possessed by the BigBad, only to be revived at the end of the series]], Chimera plays this straight though, only losing because Dorothy is [[ManipulativeBastard too witty about disrupting her concentration]].

** Also Edward and Belle are annoying, clingy mascots. Edward is only there to be a handicap for Alan before the curse was undone and once that happened, Edward had no character of his own. Belle in comparison reminds too many people of a certain fairy from a [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime certain video game]] due to her annoying voice.
** On the villain's side, Girom is thoroughly despised for being an obnoxious, sadistic SerialKiller that specifically targets women and being a coward every time he's cornered. This hate increased once he crossed the MoralEventHorizon by [[spoiler: killing Aqua, a Chess Piece beloved by the fans, in a cruel KickTheDog moment.]] Made even worse by the fact that [[KarmaHoudini he's spared and remains alive to the end of the series in spite of his actions]] and [[UngratefulBastard containing to cause hardships for the heroes even after Ginta spares him time and again.]] He also lacks the EvilIsCool and LoveToHate factor by having no redeeming qualities aside for his love for his equally repulsive sister.

* CompleteMonster: The manga version of [[TheSocialDarwinist Halloween]] is one of the most sadistic and brutal members of the Chess Pieces. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a homeless and bullied boy]] by the name of Pamp, he had a firm belief that the weak become sacrifices for the strong, and promised to become strong so [[AmbitionIsEvil he could kill everybody in the village]]. He started off by [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing neighborhood pets]] before going on to stab five kids to death and fleeing the village. During the first War Games, because he and Alan tied, [[EvilIsPetty he cursed Alan and Edward to be forcibly merged together out of spite]]. Six years later when Phantom resurrects, Halloween and Chimera launch an attack on the country of Acalupa, destroying it and wiping out the majority of its population, recounting to Ian how fun it was. To punish Ian for not taking part in the attack on Märhaven, Halloween has Chimera transform Ian's best friend, Gido, [[BalefulPolymorph into a grotesque mixture of human and monster]], knowing it would cause more pain to Ian if his best friend was punished instead. During his fight against Alan in the second War Games, [[CombatPragmatist Halloween distracts Alan by setting several innocent spectators on fire]] while telling Alan how sickened he is by Alan's sense of protecting those in need.

* CompleteMonster: The manga version of [[TheSocialDarwinist Halloween]] is one of the most sadistic and brutal members of the Chess Pieces. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a homeless and bullied boy]] by the name of Pamp, he had a firm belief that the weak become sacrifices for the strong, [[AmbitionIsEvil and promised to become strong so he could kill everybody in the village]]. He started off by [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing neighborhood pets]] before going on to stab five kids to death and fleeing the village. During the first War Games, [[SoreLoser because he and Alan tied]], [[EvilIsPetty he cursed Alan and Edward to be forcibly merged together out of spite]]. Six years later when Phantom resurrects, Halloween and Chimera launch an attack on the country Acalupa, destroying it and wiping out the majority of its population, recounting to Ian how fun it was. To punish Ian for not taking part in the attack on Märhaven, Halloween has Chimera transorm Ian's best friend, Gido, [[BalefulPolymorph into a grotesque mixture of human and monster]], knowing it would cause more pain to Ian if his best friend was punished instead. During his fight against Alan in the second War Games, [[CombatPragmatist Halloween distracts Alan by setting several innocent spectators on fire]] while telling Alan how sickened he is by Alan's sense of protecting those in need.

* MoralEventHorizon: Halloween killing the bystanders, Peta killing the Luberian Thief Guild, [[spoiler: Chimera turning Gido into a TorturedMonster]], and [[spoiler: Galian betraying the Thief Guild to Peta]].

* King mass murdering several chess pieces, such as Pano's father and brother.

* CompleteMonster: The manga version of [[TheSocialDarwinist Halloween]] is one of the most {{sadist}}ic and brutal members of the Chess Pieces. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a homeless and bullied boy]] by the name of Pamp, he had a firm belief that the weak become sacrifices for the strong, [[AmbitionIsEvil and promised to become strong so he could kill everybody in the village]]. He started off by [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing neighborhood pets]] before going on to stab five kids to death and fleeing the village. During the first War Games, [[SoreLoser because he and Alan tied]], [[EvilIsPetty he cursed Alan and Edward to be forcibly merged together out of spite]]. Six years later when Phantom resurrects, Halloween and Chimera launch an attack on the country Acalupa, destroying it and wiping out the majority of its population, recounting to Ian how fun it was. To punish Ian for not taking part in the attack on Märhaven, Halloween has Chimera transorm Ian's best friend, Gido, [[BalefulPolymorph into a grotesque mixture of human and monster]], knowing it would cause more pain to Ian if his best friend was punished instead. During his fight against Alan in the second War Games, [[CombatPragmatist Halloween distracts Alan by setting several innocent spectators on fire]] while telling Alan how sickened he is by Alan's sense of protecting those in need.

* CompleteMonster: The manga version of [[TheSocialDarwinist Halloween]] is one of the most {{sadist}}ic and brutal members of the Chess Pieces. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a homeless and bullied boy]] by the name of Pamp, he had a firm belief that the weak become sacrifices for the strong, [[AmbitionIsEvil and promised to become strong so he could kill everybody in the village]]. He started off by [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing neighborhood pets]] before going on to stab five kids to death and fleeing the village. During the first War Games, [[SoreLoser because he and Alan tied]], [[EvilIsPetty he cursed Alan and Edward to be forcibly merged together out of spite]]. Six years later when Phantom resurrects, Halloween and Chimera launch an attack on the country of Acalupa, destroying it and wiping out the majority of its population, recounting to Ian how fun it was. To punish Ian for not taking part in the attack on Märhaven, Halloween has Chimera transorm Ian's best friend, Gido, [[BalefulPolymorph into a grotesque mixture of human and monster]], knowing it would cause more pain to Ian if his best friend was punished instead. During his fight against Alan in the second War Games, [[CombatPragmatist Halloween distracts Alan by setting several innocent spectators on fire]] while telling Alan how sickened he is by Alan's sense of protecting those in need.

* [[AmericansHateTingle Americans Hate Snow]]: While Snow is shown in the MAR manga to be listed as the top 10 most popular character in the franchise based on Japan, if you were to go on any forum, the reaction is the exact opposite of people stating their complaints of her being a DamselScrappy or her getting in the way of someone else for Ginta.

* TheUntwist: Quite a few "plot twists" in this series are fairly obvious if you're GenreSavvy, mainly because the foreshadowing is a little too thick. Some of these include [[spoiler: Ginta's dad being Danna, obvious because his father had gone missing six years ago... exactly when the last War Game happened. Koyuki and Snow being connected in some way, granted the exact nature of the connection differs between the manga and anime but nobody is pretending that the fact they were connected was in any way some kind of surprise. The Queen being Diana, and Diana being Dorothy's sister... I mean just look at her! They looked too similar for the revelation of them being related to be a surprise. The only plot twists that aren't untwists are ones that border on ShockingSwerve, such as Babbo being the spirit of the previous Caldean Elder... because nothing hinted at that earlier]].
* VillainDecay: When they were first introduced, the Chess Pieces were not only viewed as very powerful, but very menacing as well, having all kinds of people join them, [[BloodKnight battle seekers]], [[{{Greed}} greedy Arm collectors]] and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil even rapists]]. But after volume 3, they succumb to TheWorfEffect to show how powerful Team Mar is, and the members are significantly qurker and/or losers who angst too much about their problems.

* CompleteMonster: The manga version of [[TheSocialDarwinist Halloween]] is one of the most {{sadist}}ic and brutal members of the Chess Pieces. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a homeless and bullied boy]] by the name of Pamp, he had a firm belief that the weak become sacrifices for the strong, [[AmbitionIsEvil and promised to become strong so he could kill everybody in the village]]. He started off by [[KickTheDog killing neighborhood pets]] before going on to stab five kids to death and fleeing the village. During the first War Games, [[SoreLoser because he and Alan tied]], [[EvilIsPetty he cursed Alan and Edward to be forcibly merged together out of spite]]. Six years later when Phantom resurrects, Halloween and Chimera launch an attack on the country of Acalupa, destroying it and wiping out the majority of its population, recounting to Ian how fun it was. To punish Ian for not taking part in the attack on Märhaven, Halloween has Chimera transorm Ian's best friend, Gido, [[BalefulPolymorph into a grotesque mixture of human and monster]], knowing it would cause more pain to Ian if his best friend was punished instead. During his fight against Alan in the second War Games, [[CombatPragmatist Halloween distracts Alan by setting several innocent spectators on fire]] while telling Alan how sickened he is by Alan's sense of protecting those in need.

* BaseBreaker: Snow is a very divisive character to say the least. There are many who see her as a scrappy for getting in the way of Ginta and whoever they ship him with and for getting captured on screen at least twice (four times in the anime), but she does have her fans.

* CompleteMonster: The manga version of [[TheSocialDarwinist Halloween]] is one of the most {{sadist}}ic and brutal members of the Chess Pieces. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a homeless and bullied boy]] by the name of Pamp, he had a firm belief that the weak become sacrifices for the strong, [[AmbitionIsEvil and promised to become strong so he could kill everybody in the village]]. He started off by [[KickTheDog killing neighborhood]] pets before going on to stab five kids to death and fleeing the village. During the first War Games, [[SoreLoser because he and Alan tied]], [[EvilIsPetty he cursed Alan and Edward to be forcibly merged together out of spite]]. Six years later when Phantom resurrects, Halloween and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Chimera]] launch an attack on the country of Acalupa, destroying it and wiping out the majority of its population, recounting to Ian how fun it was. To punish Ian for not taking part in the attack on Märhaven, Halloween has Chimera transorm Ian's best friend, Gido, [[BalefulPolymorph into a grotesque mixture of human and monster]], knowing it would cause more pain to Ian if his best friend was punished instead. During his fight against Alan in the second War Games, [[CombatPragmatist Halloween distracts Alan by setting several innocent spectators on fire]] while telling Alan how sickened he is by Alan's sense of protecting those in need.

* CompleteMonster: The manga version of [[TheSocialDarwinist Halloween]] is one of the most {{sadist}}ic and brutal members of the Chess Pieces. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a homeless and bullied boy]] by the name of Pamp, he had a firm belief that the weak become sacrifices for the strong, [[AmbitionIsEvil and promised to become strong so he could kill everybody in the village]]. He started off by [[KickTheDog killing neighborhood]] pets before going on to stab five kids to death and fleeing the village. During the first war games, because he and Alan tied, [[EvilIsPetty he cursed Alan and Edward to be forcibly merged together out of spite]]. Six years later when Phantom resurrects, Halloween and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Chimera]] launch an attack on the country of Acalupa, destroying it and wiping out the majority of its population, recounting to Ian how fun it was. To punish Ian for not taking part in the attack on Märhaven, Halloween has Chimera transorm Ian's best friend, Gido, [[BalefulPolymorph into a grotesque mixture of human and monster]], knowing it would cause more pain to Ian if his best friend was punished instead. During his fight against Alan in the second War Games, [[CombatPragmatist Halloween distracts Alan by setting several innocent spectators on fire]] while telling Alan how sickened he is by Alan's sense of protecting those in need.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The series started out as a perfectly respectable adventure series, and was setting up for an epic journey across the country. Then the next episode cuts to them already at their destination and the majority of the series is spent on a fighting tournament. This wouldn't be so bad if the battles weren't such a step down from those of FlameOfRecca. Fortunately, the anime fixes some of these things by adding filler arcs that don't have to do with the tournament and the aftermath which included the Ghost Chest arc and the final arc which had a much more satisfying ending than the original manga.

* AngstWhatAngst - Rather than complain about their problems, characters on both sides use their angst as motivation to beat the crap out of their opponents.

* Moe: Snow/Koyuki can be this at times, but there's also Aqua and Loco.